Misia & Peter – tango blog

Thursday (November 27)

Despite the heatwave and sultry weather, we made it to three classes, two of them in a place without air conditioning! ;)

Tango 3 with Christian Duarte & Carolina Lafata (@DNI)
–We started with a rebote focusing on separating the pendulum movement of the hips versus chest staying forward with the partner. Then we played with a cute combination of gancho and following enganchada, focusing a lot again on the hip movement (down down down & a little bit backward!), using the adductors of the inner thigh plus keeping the chest forward with the ribcage closed and using the latissimus dorsi. Great class!

Tecnica with Carolina Lafata (@DNI)
– we continued working on the enganchada. After the regular warm-up exercises, we did an exercise in which we were projecting the leg without the weight, keeping the hip down, stretching the area around the hip and maintaining the chest forward and connection in the embrace.

Tango intermedio y avanzado with Mariela Sametband & Martin Gutierrez (@Tango brujo)
–the last class in the series of classes devoted to giro. This time we were working on the giro structure applied to the line and different variations – with suspension, double time, gancho and boleo etc.

Though terribly tired (partly because of dancing, but mostly due to the 40 degree (that’s Centigrade) heat and 70% humidity) we managed to find some energy and headed off to Salon Canning (Scalabrini Ortiz 1331, 18 pesos) for a milonga. Orquesta Sans Souci was supposed to play and Fabian Peralta and Virginia Pandolfi were to dance. To our disappointment, there was no electricity in Salon Canning (the power grid went down in several parts of the city due to overload from the air conditioners) and a storm was about to begin. We were directed by El Chino to the nearby La Viruta (Armenia 1366) (and warned that ‘the kids’ in the neigbourhood have guns + on the way there was no light and the storm was hanging in the air), where the classes were still going on at a quarter past midnight. We thought for a minute about staying, but seeing that the practica after the classes was scheduled only until 2 AM and that it was mostly local beginners we headed home. A few minutes after getting back to the apartment we realized that Practica Rara was supposed to be going on just a few blocks from us at J. D. Perón 1785, so we headed over there. The lights were on in the third floor windows, but we could not hear any music and no one answered the doorbell, so after several rings we finally called it a night. You can’t say we didn’t try.

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