Monday (November 10)
Yoga 1 (@ DNI, the price is the same as the tango classes – 15 pesos if you go the single class, 100 pesos if you buy the pass for the 10 classes)
– the class is taught by the mum of Dana Frigoli (whole DNI is a family business) who’s emanating with warmth and calmness. The moment you enter the class, you already feel relaxed ;) Yoga 1 is a yoga for everyone – the number indicates the level, the highest is 4. There were lots of exercises for the feet, the core muscules, keeping the right posture and breathing.
Tecnica corporal with Santiago Dorkas (@ Tango brujo)
–another great class, which felt almost like a private – 3 couples alltogether. Normally the class is taught both by Santiago Dorkas and Cecilia Garcia, however, she’s in Europe so he was teaching the class with the help of another girl. We started with finding the right sensation for the upper body (partner helping with certain moves), and then the lower body – hips and feet. We continued with walking and changing the direction by two different techniques- with the chest first or with the hip first. The next step was to understand the spirals (or how a woman works) so we did lots of exercises for the spirals to finish practicing the sequence of apertura, sacada for a man, then the spiral in one direction, after 3 steps in the other direction to finish with a sacada backward for a woman to a man, part of giro, sacada for a man combined with small volcada… sounds long and complicated, but in reality it was pretty simple and perfect for practicing the disasociation, the groundness of supporting leg and relaxation of the embrace.
El motivo (the tango school in which only women are teaching) practica (@ Villa Malcolm, Av. Cordoba 5064, 8 pesos)
–much less crowded than the Friday practica in the same place, friendly atmosphere. A place to dance tango nuevo rather than traditional salon or milonguero.
Parakultural milonga (@ Salon Canning, Scalabrini Ortiz 1331, 15 pesos)
–the milonga starts to warm up around midnight and then only becomes more and more crowded. Almost everyone is here on Monday. There’s no division for men and women, tables are mixed. Traditionally cabaceo works, however if you see your friends or you know someone well you can walk up to the table as well.
take it, it's free