[Tango-L] milonga-milongueros

[El Mundo del Tango]

<<When I mentioned that someone insisted Ernesto and Julio Balmaceda and 
Facundo were milongueros, he laughed out loud.  Ernesto was his student. >>

That someone are Ernesto, Julio and Facundo themselves.
And both Balmaceda brothers claim that their only teacher was their father, 
Miguel Balmaceda.

Gabriel


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deby Novitz" <dnovitz at lavidacondeby.com>
To: <tango-l at mit.edu>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 10:11 AM
Subject: [Tango-L] milonga-milongueros


> Last night when Roberto, Chris, and I came home from the milonga in
> Avellneda, Chris went right to his computer.  We decided to translate
> some of the recent posts to Tango-L for Roberto.  (OK, I translated)
> When I translated the ongoing discussion where Gabriel insists that the
> word "milonguero" is used throughout Latin America and his comments,
> Roberto screwed up his face and went "Who is saying this"  Milonga comes
> from Lunfardo and it would be unlikely that other countries other than
> Uruguay would adopt it.  I asked him "How long have people been dancing
> close?" "All of their lives" he answered.  I read the posts from the
> several people on the list about people not dancing close.  He screwed
> up his face again and asked "Who are these people?"  "Pepito and Miguel
> were my teachers."  he told us.  "Maybe a little bit of separation, but
> not open."  When I mentioned that someone insisted Ernesto and Julio
> Balmaceda and Facundo were milongueros, he laughed out loud.  Ernesto
> was his student.
>
> Roberto Dentone started to learn to dance tango when he was 10 years
> old. His cousin made him learn to follow so he could practice leading.
> At 17 he was tired of being the "girl" and demanded to learn to lead.
> He started his professional career when he was 30.  Before then he
> danced tango from when he was 18 until he decided to make it his life.
> He is well respected here in Buenos Aires not only by milongueros, but
> by show dancers, folkloric dancers, and pretty much anyone who has
> contact with him.  His whole life is tango except for when I force him
> into new experiences.  If you know milongueros they speak of the tango
> as if it were a person.  Their whole life is the dance, the music.
> Movies, TV, and pretty much everything else other than food do not
> exist.  They do not care about money.  As long as they have a way to get
> to the milonga, buy a bottle of wine for when they go to someone else's
> house to eat, and buy shoes, they are happy. The majority have never
> been out of Buenos Aires and/or Argentina.  You do not have to take my
> word for anything, but when I speak with Roberto, Mimi Santapa, Carina
> Moriyuen, the late Ricardo Vidort, Gavito, Gachito, and many many
> others, I tend to take their word and view of things over anything I
> read on Tango-L.
>
>
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