My Canning injection

Monday, a mere 12 hours after I arrived in BsAs, I spent no less than 7 hours in Canning, mixed between classes with Javier and Andrea and milonga Parakultural. On tuesday another 7 hours of Canning. This is actually more time than I spent sleeping since I arrived, mind you.

Canning is a very special place. Huge room with a square dancefloor, nice soundsystem, nice people and usually, nice DJs...

The classes with Javier and Andrea were very nice. They focused on the essentials, as I like, and they seased the opportunity to make some people "wake up and smell the coffee". Tango is very nice and complicated, addictive and self fulfilling but one shan't forget that tango is a dance from Buenos Aires and that it makes most sense in the spirit of Buenos Aires. I think JyA were not very bothered with styles (neo, salon, fantasia) but rather with the attitude. They were blunt and I think they may have offended some people. I am used to surgeons' comments so I am immune to offensive comments...

The milongas were both busy, bustling and with a lot of good dancers. I started with a few cringy dances (I hadn't danced in such a crowded floor since El Corte in November) but they gradually got better and by the end of tuesday some people were asking me for repeat tandas... I saw a lot of tourists and less locals than I would have wished for. Entries to the milongas have sky-rocketted recently and with entrances of 20 pesos (£4) the locals can't afford it, especially when the future looks grim - the inflation rate in Argentina for this year is predicted to be 35%!

The performance by Javier and Andrea was very good. Apart from a number where they tried to go a bit over the top, the dancing was clean, fluid and sharp. So sharp that Andrea stabbed herself in the shin at the end of the last dance and walked off with a blood stained leg...

By the end of the second day Canning was like a dreamy place where tango happened. And it is all that and more.