Posts tagged tango

Because: It’s Buenos Aires, it’s tango, but unless you’re a professional dancer or just a very impassioned hobbyist, you’re probably not aware of this. (I wasn’t.)

It’s like this: The tango Buenos Aires tourists never see, BBC Travel

And like this: TKGO supporting information blog posts on tango

And no, I can’t nor don’t dance tango. I was dancing salsa weekly for about three months, though. That was more to my ability level — as in I have rhythm but really no formal dance training to speak of aside from the U.S. suburban childhood requisite year or two of ballet and tap. But tango in the milongas is intoxicating to watch. It really is such a parallel universe, that of the milongas, and everything about tango is a cultural offering this city has entangled in its history that no other city can claim. I left every milonga more in love with this city, loving it to its guts.