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Mi ultima noche en Buenos Aires…

The time really flies here and so i find myself packing as tomorrow i’m leaving Buenos Aires… Totally off topic: Buenos aires means “good air” – yet one could say that the city has no air at all. The air is heavy and dirty and the noise level is beyond all limits. I’ll be double happy to spend Christmas in the countryside and then the New Year party just by the seaside. And sea in winter is so so beautiful… and empty :) I always recall the amazing scene from Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind with Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey when i think of the sea in winter…

Anyway, back to Buenos Aires and the temperature oscillating between 30 and 35 degrees…
I spent my last weekend here taking part in the previously mentioned Festival Cambalache – I watched alltogether 6 theatre performances during the weekend with my impressions varying from “wow, that’s amazing!” to “someone wake me up when it’s over”. In any event, it was worth seeing all of them. I have two favourites:
1) Living by Pablo Inza & Mariela Samtband – because of the sense of humour, wit and excellent acting
2) Sintonias by Milena Plebs with Cecilia Garcia, John Galindo, Claudia Jakobsen, Ezequiel Farfaro, Silvia & Alfredo Alonso dancing – seeing them dancing was like a magnet for me, i was sitting there hypnotized and couldn’t believe the quality of the movement and excellence of the dancers.

On Monday I took a class with Cecilia Garcia @Tango brujo – Entrenamiento corporal. I used to take this class two times a week last year and i must say it has changed a little bit since then – of course, for better. Around 2/3 of the class were the stretching and core strengthening exercises from yoga and pilates and my favourite – rolling on the floor :) Another 1/3 of the class was contemporary dance sequence – which looked really simple, but when it came to doing it with faster music and proper technique and quality of the movement – no one really could master with Cecilia. Excellent class, i wish i few took more classes with her… well, next year then i guess!

My last class in Buenos Aires was with Martin Gutierrez – technique of course! In the first part of the class we were working on our coordination, balance in boleos backward and forward and on turns. Leitmotiv: ‘use your upper body please!’ or ‘don’t move in one block please!’ ;) The second part of the class was devoted to barridas. I took part in the class as a leader so i had lots of fun finding the right position for barrida (triangle of course ;), what else?) and drawing a beautiful croissant with my foot as i was doing barrida. We played with some more advanced variations, but as my leading skills are much more at the intermediate than advanced level, i tried to polish the basic version of the proposed sequence. Ech… i will really miss these classes and Martin’s sense of humour.

The rest of the day i spent running around and saying goodbye to all the teachers and friends. As a goodbye present i got a recipe for empandas con pollo / with chicken which are served in DNI. If i have some energy left after the workshops on Saturday and Sunday, i’ll try to make them for the Sunday ‘Buenos Aires milonga’ in Feszek. We’ll have all the ingredients necessary for a good fiesta then! :) (along with mate and alfajores)

Now i’m packing and listening to Adios Buenos Aires by Orquesta Tipica Victor with Angel Vargas singing… (for sure, I’ll play it on Friday milonga :) ) Hopefully, next time we can come back here for longer … 3 months? half a year…? who knows :)

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