[Tango-L] Milongueros for Hire

[TERBALCA RUBEN TERBALCA]

 I am the organizer of the called in TANGO-L ³MILONGUEROS FOR HIRE². -
 In reality my program is called ³TRIP TO THE ROOTS². -
I want to mention another milonguero missing in the list: Juan Manuel
Loureiro ­³Cacho²-.
 
Buenos Aires
Ruben Terbalca

aptobsas at yahoo.com.ar

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COORDINATION IN EUROPE
 
SWITZERLAND: 
Leo Flumini
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GERMANY:
Susanne Monkenmöller & Amir Helalat
helalat at event-kassel.com
 



On 14/10/07 21:27, "Janis Kenyon" <Jantango at feedback.net.ar> wrote:

> Sunday night I went to dance at my favorite club de barrio.  I was
> pleasantly surprised to see several men arrive who I know from the downtown
> milongas.   It's unusual to see any tourists at this club, but a group of
> eight women and two men showed up and were seated at tables near them.  When
> the first tanda began, all of the milongueros were dancing with the foreign
> women.  The two foreign men had two local women for dance partners.  It was
> obvious that arrangements had been made for the group to have some of the
> best dancers in Buenos Aires for the night.  I knew I wasn't going to get
> one tanda with any of the men.  They danced nonstop with the group of women.
> During my eight years in Buenos Aires, I have never seen six milongueros
> dancing four hours with a group of tourists.  The women were delighted.
> 
> I met one of the women in the ladies' room.  She told me that this is her
> first visit to Buenos Aires for two weeks.  She lives in Switzerland.
> Others in the group were from other countries.  Two teachers made
> arrangements for the women to have regular tandas on two weekends
> (Fri/Sat/Sun) with these men.  I told her if she was here alone, she could
> wait hours to be invited to dance, and none of the men in the group would
> dance with her.  She had tandas with all six of the men and danced as much
> as she wanted.
> 
> It goes without saying that the milongueros were being paid for their
> services.  If this kind of arrangement is made more often for tourists, it
> will give the young, inexperienced taxi dancers some competition.  The
> quarterly guide on everything to do with tango that accompanies the magazine
> B.A. Tango, Buenos Aires Tango, edited by Tito Palumbo, added taxi dancers
> one year ago with five listings; now there are three times that number of
> listings.  However, they don't include any milongueros.
> 
> The milongueras/os hired were Adela Galeazzi, Elba Biscay, Antonio (placed
> 9th in the Campeonato Metropolitano 2006), Abel Peralta, Jorge Uzunian,
> Ricardo Suarez, Jorge Orellana, and Alberto Dassieu.
> 
> 
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