[Tango-L] Translation Milonga Codes IV

[Sergio Vandekier]

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 Los  códigos  milongueros  forman parte de la cultura tanguera. Y  si continúa el proceso de licuación de las  convenciones  que dan encanto y marco al baile, estaremos  mutilando un legado del cual muchos argentinos estamos  orgullosos .
 
(The Milonga Codes are part of the Tango Culture. Should the process of dilution of the conventions that frame and give charm to the dance continue,
we will be mutilating a legacy of which many Argentines are proud of). 
 
 
The Milonga Codes have a function of identification and filtration or screening between the inside and the outside of the tango scene.
 
They are markers for those that know them, and mysterious for those from the outside world (that would have a lot to do before it could find any logic).
 
It comes to mind the scene in the movie "Eyes wide shut" in which Tom Cruise enters a mansion where a clandestine orgy is taking place, he is unaware that he provided the wrong password at the entrance and that this has marked him from the beginning.
 
The transgressor ignores that he was identified as an intruder from the start.
 
Certain rules are never explained, they become true codes in the sense that only a very attentive observation of customs in force at the milongas can allow elucidation.
 
Milonga codes are then at the same time elements of clarity for the inside and
of opacity for the outside, they create the certitude of the "otherness" of tango and make the tango community something totally separated and different from the rest of society.
 
Best regards, Sergio
 

 
    
Le  Code  des  milongas  e   son  é ude  posen   égalemen   la  ques ion  des  rappor s  du  collec if  au 
par iculier  e   inversemen .  En  réali é,  on  peu   souligner  une  cer aine  priori é  on ologique  e  
a iologique du général sur le par iculier, du collec if sur le couple, e  du couple sur l’individu. Le 
social précède le couple, au sens où le  ango n’a jamais e is é e  ne pourrai  e is er au remen  que 
socialemen ,  de  la  même  manière  que  le  couple  domine  l’individuel,  au  sens  où  il  es   presque 
absurde d’imaginer un  ango dansé seul. En  ermes norma ifs, l’on peu  faire  ou  ce que l’on veu   		 	   		  
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