Saturday – Sunday (November 15-16)


November 17th, 2008

There’s not so much happening in terms of classes during the weekend, so we took it easy and did only two classes on Saturday.

Tango 5 Abrazo cerrado with Carolina Lafata & Christian Duarte @ DNI
–another great class with these teachers. We started with leading with quality ochos and ochitos with different speed finishing with small volcada and gancho. All in close embrace :)

Milonga class with Carolina Bonaventura & Francisco Forquera (Mariposita, Carlos Calvo 948/950, 1 class – 15 pesos, cheaper if you buy a pass)
– taught in a very traditional way – id est: watch and repeat. without any explanation when it comes to the technique. It was nice to see them doing the things with excellent precision and quality of the movement, however, the learning was much less efective than for example @DNI or Tango brujo where you get the explanation so detailed that you know which muscle you should use to lead/follow certain movement.

The rest of the weekend we spent walking around San Telmo – one of the oldest barrios and Recoleta – enjoying the local handicraft products’ fair. On Saturday there was muesums’ night (La noche de los museos) – we took the opportunity and went to see the puppets’ museum (Museo Argentino del Titere, Piedras 905) and the tango one (Museo Mundial del Tango de La Academia Nacional del Tango, Rivadavia 830, 1st floor), plus we visited famous Cafe Tortoni :) I hope to upload the pictures with commentaries soon! :)