Past Event
Milonga
18th Sep 2013 - 17th Oct 2017
Presenter: Melbourne Practica Group Inc
Website: http://melbournepractica.org/
Event Duration: 180 minutes
A very special mid-week milonga right on at the edge of the city.
DOORS OPEN @ 8.00PM
Just in case you didn't know ...
Milonga (Argentinian Tango) originated towards the end of the 19th century in the suburbs of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, Uruguay, and it quickly grew in popularity and spread internationally. To this day, milongas are held in cities all around the world on almost every day of the week.
"The milonga is so universal in the environs of the city that it is an obligatory piece at all the lower-class dances (bailecitos de medio pelo), and it is now heard on guitars, on paper-combs, and from the itinerant musicians with their flutes, harps and violins. It has also been taken up by the organ-grinders, who have arranged it so as to sound like the habanera dance. It is danced too in the low life clubs around...[main] markets, and also at the dances and wakes of cart-drivers, the soldiery and compadres and compadritos." - Ventura Lynch, 1883
Milonga dance incorporates the same core elements as Tango but permits a greater relaxation of legs and body. Movement is normally faster, and pauses are less common. It is usually a kind of rhythmic walking without complicated figures, with a more humorous and rustic style in contrast with the serious and dramatic Tango.