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Someone once said that “…tango is a philosophy of life…”, and as porteños (porteños are residents of Buenos Aires) we’re lucky enough to live this philosophy.
Anyone who decides that they want to live it too must choose how to go about immersing themselves in tango. Some try the tango workshops on offer in their local club, or in the adult education centre round the corner from where they live, where they’re likely to find group classes made up of other people living nearby.
Others might decide to take classes in a tango academy or in one of the many Buenos Aires milongas.
Then there are those who want to progress more quickly and have the means to pay for personalised classes so they begin taking private classes (as individuals, in couples or in small groups).
Whichever route gets chosen, they are all valid ways of starting out and without doubt, those who get past the first stage will soon see that something which began with a simple class evolves into a quest for perfection. There’ll be lists of technique classes, of tango seminars and goodness knows how many hours of practising tango. All this will go hand in hand with a change in self-image, while the closet will be full of new shoes and tango clothes.
The record collection will grow with new CDs of tango music. The range of orchestras will expand and a huge effort will be made to seek out recordings of the singer that best interprets whichever tango’s lyrics.
Somehow, time is found to go to a milonga (some people go everyday) and there one finds oneself dancing even a tango waltz, that was a real discovery since we’d only ever danced waltzes at weddings before.
And so, we start out believing that we take up tango, but then we realise that tango is invading us and we actually never know if we are incorporating it or it is incorporating us. …Still, does it matter…?
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