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- PractiMilonguero presents Facundo Posadas
- PractiMilonguero presents Oscar “Cacho” Dante
- “La Milonga” magazine N˚72, February 2012
- PractiMilonguero presents The Origin of Tango by Osvaldo Natucci
- PractiMilonguero Presents Pedro “Toto” Faraldo
- PractiMilonguero on the Road
- PractiMilonguero Presents Jorge Manganelli
- Interview with Natucci Part 2 for Germany (without music)
- PractiMilonguero Presents Osvaldo Natucci Part 2
- Social Tango Classes @ PractiMilonguero
- PractiMilonguero presents Osvaldo Natucci Part 1
- PractiMilonguero @ El Beso
- PractiMilonguero is moving to El Beso August 30th, 6:30 to 8:00PM. Riobamba 416
- PractiMilonguero presents Ricardo Maceiras “El Pibe Sarandí”
- PractiMilonguero presents Walter Domínguez
- What is PractiMilonguero about?
- PractiMilonguero presents Alberto Dassieu
- PractiMilonguero presents Osvaldo Centeno “El Oso”
- PractiMilonguero presents Amanda Lucero
This is wonderful.
I am so grateful to the people that use the codes. The moment of exchanging consent through the air, because we were both touched by the music, is beautiful and to be enjoyed as part of the dance also.
We need more knowledgeable/responsible organizers and instructors to have true milongas.
And yes, a local Practimilonguero in every city!
“We need more knowledgeable/responsible … instructors to have true milongas.”
For as long as anyone can remember, dancers leaned etiquiette from dancers, not instructors. All we need more of is responsible dancers.
Well, I learned from instructors who are also dancers. Maybe someone that doesn’t know any etiquette is not even qualified to be an instructor. Anyway, the functional role doensn’t matter, as long as there is respect for the etiquette so when it is transmitted it can be passed down.
“We need more knowledgeable/responsible organizers and instructors to have true milongas.”
“the functional role doensn’t matter”
Thanks for the correction, Kaiyu.
“as long as there is respect for the etiquette”
On that we agree.
Thanks again for the interviews and insights, Monica.
Here in Adelaide, we too, are promoting the benefits of the codes. Some people argue that the codes only belong in traditional milongas of Buenos Aires. But in my view, regardless of which part of the globe you are dancing tango, use of the codes shows respect for your fellow dancers.
Thanks for the interview. I know Elisabetta from visiting her Milonga in Rovigo, a very traditional place.
I am nevertheless surprised about what she says about the beginning of her dance in 1999 or 2000. She points out that everyone in Europe was dancing Tango Escenario during that period and that she only discovered social Tango in 2004 visiting Buenos Aires.
My experience was totally different: When I re-started dancing Tango in 2000 (afer a pause of 4 years), I was able to learn a social dance in a close embrace right from the start. One of our main teachers lived in a city very close by and organized a Milonga “como en Buenos Aires”, with invitation by Cabeceo, Tandas (Cortinas came a little later), close embrace, no steps, walking… He had been visiting BA for many years and succeeded in implementing what he had learned in our home region in Germany.
Now I know, that we were lucky and many others still did the big moves back then. But I also know that there were quite a few other places like our in Europe right at the beginning of the century.
But I guess the situation was different in Italy, where – even now in 2012 – there are still lots of places where the people learn a ridiculous imitation of Tango Escenario. Unfortunatly very often taught by argentine stars. 😦
But I am glad that the tide has changed in most places! 🙂
Thanks for your great work, Monica!
Melina