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Milongueando with Susan at Lafayette milonga. Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.

Milongueando in Lafayette

The milonga is where Tango lives, where Tango is kept alive.

When you are at the milonga, whether a well known milonguero/a or a new good student, you are making possible that Tango lives. You bring Tango to life, in your body, in everything you do with your body, not by dancing only, but by everything you do.

Lafayette classes and milonga are the most similar to a Buenos Aires neighborhood class and milonga. The friendly and committed to learn crowd of regulars makes the experience of this class and milonga to feel very welcoming and rewarding.
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Dancing with Miranda at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires

Walking

Walking, in Tango, is more than basic: it is what we are.

For some time now we have stopped walking, instead sitting all day long in front of screens, steering wheels, and other people.

That’s why we feel so at home dancing Tango, in good company, creating something with our body that is real and objective, something that ceases to exist immediately after dancing, leaving us in a state of relaxed pleasure and untranslatable wisdom.

Learn to dance Argentine Tango and make your life a work of art.

“Fea” by José García y su Orquesta Típica with Alfredo Rojas in vocals, 1942.

Horacio Pettorossi

Guitarist, composer and leader
(21 October 1896 – 25 December 1960)

He was an excellent guitarist that as such placed his qualities as composer in a second level because of the acclaim of his appearances. Such is the case of “Fea” that with lyrics by Alfredo Navarrine was firstly recorded by Ignacio Corsini in 1924 and by Carlos Gardel in the following year. Also with lyrics by Navarrine he composed “Galleguita” and “Torcacita”. They were recorded by Corsini in 1923 and 1924 and by Gardel one year later. Continue reading.

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“La milonga de Buenos Aires” by Francisco Canaro y su Orquesta Típica with Ernesto Famá in vocals, 1939.

Ivo Pelay

Lyricist, theatral writer and journalist
(5 May 1893 – 28 August 1959)

He achieved his big hits with Francisco Canaro, nearly all of them made known through his musical comedies: “El tango de la mula”, “La muchachada del centro”, “Yo no sé por qué te quiero”, “Casas viejas”, “Todo te nombra”, “Adiós, Pampa mía”, “No hay que hacerse mala sangre”, “Niebla”, tangos; “El jardín del amor”, “Un jardín de ilusión”, “Dos corazones”, “Soñar y nada más”, “Viviré con tu recuerdo”, “Bajo el cielo azul”, waltzes; the famous “Tangón”; the rancheras: “Me enamoré una vez”, “¿Dónde hay un mango?”, “Los amores con la crisis”; the marches “La ribera” and “La canción de los barrios”; “La milonga de Buenos Aires”, “Ya vendrán tiempos mejores”, “Se dice de mí” and many others. Continue reading.

“Tu casa ya no está” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Chanel in vocals, 1944.

Virgilio Expósito

Pianist and composer
(3 May 1924 – 25 October 1997)

His most outstanding compositions, according to my taste, are: “Vete de mí”, his most popular bolero with a great number of renditions, the waltzes “Absurdo” and “Tu casa ya no está”, the tangos “Farol”, “Afiches”, “Oro falso”, “Siempre París”, “Chau, no va más”, all them with lyrics by Homero, and the instrumentals, “Chau Piazzolla” and “Parisien”, in collaboration with Héctor Stamponi. Also he and his elder brother finished the posthumous work by Enrique Discépolo: “Fangal”.
He was a composer with remarkable melodies and he made a great number of his hits, either recognized by the artistic quality of his oeuvre or by the commercial acclaim. But he was a polemic character. Continue reading.