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A milonga is a club for dancing tango, and there’s pretty much at least one happening every night of the week from early evening to early into the following morning. Some have cover fees; some are free to enter, and a great resource for finding them is hoy-milonga.com.
You don’t have to know how to dance tango to attend a milonga. They are set up with tables surrounding a dance floor, so it’s possible to just watch the dancers dance while enjoying a drink or some food. 另外, a lot of milongas offer lessons before the dancing officially starts for the evening, so newbies can pick up the basic steps before hitting the dance floor.
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| My mom hits the dance floor showing after a lesson. |
I’ve now visited three different milongas and taken five different lessons, and I can confidently say that I don’t like dancing tango. 我不是一个好的追随者, and I don’t have a good enough grasp of the musicality to do a good job leading. I get too caught up in my own steps to feel the movement and the music. Plus, the tango embrace, which is essentially a hug, is stifling for me. But I am still glad that I went to multiple milongas and tried out the dance multiple times.
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| A class at the milonga La Catedral Club, which is in a building from 1880 that used to be a grain silo, dairy factory and refrigeration warehouse. |
As a field trip for my History of Tango class, we attended 探戈酷儿, a milonga that fights some of the “machoness” inherit in tango by having everyone learn both to lead and to follow. I’d highly recommend it as a first-time venue because understanding the mechanics of leading and following help you become a better leader and a better follower. 在经历了领导的挣扎之后, I was better able to pick up on some of the cues given to me as a follower.
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| Dancers at La Viruta de Solanas dancing the chacarera, an Argentine folk dance. |
我最喜欢的米隆加是 La Viruta, a milonga that not only offers tango classes, but classes in rock, swing, folk dancing and more. I like La Viruta because it’s not all tango. It’s still a milonga, but you can experience multiple styles of dance. It’s perfect for people like me who like to dance and don’t like to tango.
If you’re in 布宜诺斯艾利斯 make sure to check out a milonga, because what have you got to lose? 如果你不喜欢的话, 你可以去睡觉了, 又名俱乐部, or watch a show the next night and still be able to go home saying you’ve experienced something authentically Argentine.
奎因K. is the Fall 2017 东航 MOJO 博客ger in 布宜诺斯艾利斯, 阿根廷. She is currently a Junior studying 专业写作 at Champlain College.
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