Tango is deeply rooted into the history of Buenos Aires and its immigrants. So to truly understand tango and its origins, one needs to look at the city's fascinating history. How much do you know about Buenos Aires? Let's time travel and see how it all started....
Let me guess and say that you are addicted to tango and to milongas, these evenings where everything comes together like magic. Well, do you know how a milonga evening is structured?
Dimension: Size - Theme: Steps for crowded dancefloors
In this class, we focused on small, playful steps that can be used for slightly more rhythmical tango pieces or on crowded dancefloors. We started with the versatile and pretty step we call promenade before moving on to one of our old time favourites - a double cross with rebounds.
Caminito is a small alley in La Boca, Buenos Aires' industrial and commercial harbor. It also is a famous and very poetic tango song. Humming along already?
Here’s a fascinating account on how men traditionally learnt to dance Tango in Argentina, the difference between practicas and milongas, and the importance of changing roles by Christine Denniston.
