It only stopped raining for a few hours yesterday but we had a wonderful day. On Saturday evening we had stumbled across a brilliant tango show at the Centro Cultural Jorge Luis Borges (try saying that after a couple of beers). It was really small-scale and not touristy at all. Five different couples dancing and the band was fantastic - a violin, bandoneon, double bass and piano. Alan took some great pictures, like this one.
So yesterday evening we decided to go for it and went to a dance hall around the corner from the hotel. It was in the basement of a local cultural association and there were loads of locals plus a few tourists. They did classes for beginners, intermediates and advanced, all dancing to the same music, with the three groups split across the massive dance floor. It was a laugh - especially trying to translate what I could for Alan and dance at the same time. Totally different to tango classes here as the men outnumbered the women. Everybody was taking it quite seriously but it was great fun. Except when the dance teachers did a little show and started pulling people out of the audience. We hid!
The mysterious case of the missing 's'
I'm having trouble with the accents here. It's definitely Spanish but sounds like all the 's's have been removed from the words, so 'adios' is 'adio' and 'dos' is 'do'. Hopefully I will tune in soon.
So yesterday evening we decided to go for it and went to a dance hall around the corner from the hotel. It was in the basement of a local cultural association and there were loads of locals plus a few tourists. They did classes for beginners, intermediates and advanced, all dancing to the same music, with the three groups split across the massive dance floor. It was a laugh - especially trying to translate what I could for Alan and dance at the same time. Totally different to tango classes here as the men outnumbered the women. Everybody was taking it quite seriously but it was great fun. Except when the dance teachers did a little show and started pulling people out of the audience. We hid!
The mysterious case of the missing 's'
I'm having trouble with the accents here. It's definitely Spanish but sounds like all the 's's have been removed from the words, so 'adios' is 'adio' and 'dos' is 'do'. Hopefully I will tune in soon.
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