A medium length google search ensued, and finally I settled upon Tango Porteño. This is because it looked to me that the show was going to be about porteño (a nickname for a resident of Buenos Aires) life, and that that should be interesting.
In general, my investigations revealed, in some districts of the city such as San Telmo on a sunday you can go and watch large gatherings of people improvising tango - these are called Milongas, and are free (if a little...ahem...elderly)
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Well, back to the show - it was excellent. Normally, my perfect idea of 90 minutes (the length of the show) is watching football either at the ground or on TV - but this was a great (if perhaps infrequent) substitute. Whilst the words in spanish are difficult to make out to a non-native speaker (my friend told me the lyrics were about everyone cheating on one another), the dancing and lighting looked very modern and skilled. Unfortunately I can't really give deep analysis into the meanings behind the specific routines - the people sitting near us were talking about the emotion of the dance in tandem with the rythmn of the music - but as a night out it is essentially a must if you plan to visit Buenos Aires, the home of tango.
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| Birthday girl |
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| A dark shot of one of the ´figuras´ |
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