Our first milonga experience
Saturday, March 10, 2007
We had a slight delay with our first milonga experience as I wasn't feeling the best on our first night in Buenos Aires (however we had a great Spanish tapas meal at a place called ¨TanCat¨ that night), we finally went to a very popular club called ¨La Viruta¨which is at the Armenian Club in Buenos Aires. It was crazy there are two floors with about 5 areas they utilised on the night to teach beginners (these guys were definitely beginners) some basic steps. We were lucky to secure a table and when the beginners cleared we were treated to a demonstration of how some of the younger people here dance. The quality isn´t too bad, but I get the impression that a lot of them are doing set steps and not necessarily improvising on the spot. I only had two dances (one each with Kellie and Imogen) as I was trying to adjust to the floor which was so very busy (easily about 50+ couples in the space of the Eastwood community centre). Kellie and Imogen were getting a lot of cabaceo action though which is where people ask a potential partner to dance with a gesture from the eyebrow or a tilt of the head and they both were asked to dance about 5 or more times. I think they had some hits and some misses with the quality of the experience... but all up it was a great introduction.
Andrew.... out! =) Until next time.
Posted byAndrew at 11:30 pm