Pure Milonguero Milonga in Holland Park, Queensland, Australia | Specialty School

Pure Milonguero Milonga

Locality: Holland Park, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 404 842 104

Address: 49 Abbotsleigh Street Holland Park, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.thetangolesson.com.au

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24.01.2022 Upcoming milonguero get-togethers in Nort America.

23.01.2022 One of the best classic milongas....

22.01.2022 Nice example (for a movie) of social dancing. Killer song too

21.01.2022 Seems to be a bigger selection of excellent Tango bands these days. Nice.

21.01.2022 2020 Continues with our regular monthly milonga on the 3rd Saturday of the month.

21.01.2022 Learning tango is approached by many as a dance to master, no matter how long it takes. Those who become obsessed take classes with every teacher they can find (whether or not they are qualified to teach), attend marathon weekends of seminars and milongas, and work tirelessly on perfecting every detail of their dance until it no longer resembles tango. They look to the so-called experts for criticism on how they can improve. A simple social dance has become a world-wide ma...rket for anyone with the guts to hang out a shingle and call themselves a tango teacher. My thoughts: I'm about 90% with this post. I get the idea of learning the entire dance in 8 classes; but we don't practice on the street corner with our mates so much and, in my experience, some people take much longer than others. Again, whilst the basics can be understood quickly, the technique, nuances and subtlety take years. My experience was that we (Cheryl & I) absorbed the finer points, including NO-lead-follow and dancing to the music, reaching plateaus (the AH-HA moments) over about 12 years. Whilst I agree we did listen to the music obsessionally, I found that understanding the structure of the music (courtesy of Joaquin Amenabar) improved my interpretation of the music significantly. Read the rest here......

20.01.2022 Great milonga, great venue.

18.01.2022 Tango originated a street dance. Boys practiced together to dance well enough to invite girls at the dances. Tango was danced in its purest form. Watch the milongueros viejos in the milongas, and what you’ll see is pure feeling and simplicity. They created their personal styles at an early age and then danced every night of the week in the downtown confiterias, cabarets and salons. Today, the younger generation of dancers is studying tango, perfecting their technique and preparing choreographies to perform for exhibition and stage. They are trained, but they lack the essence of tango. They practice choreography hours each day for performance. Their goal is technical perfection, but they have no feeling. What will the milongas be like when all the milongueros viejos are gone?

14.01.2022 Classic Tango festivals in the US.

13.01.2022 Easy to say....but takes plenty of practice.

13.01.2022 Many of these traditions have passed, but still plenty of good advice here: Ten commandments of the milongueros 1. Thou shalt always dress well. A milonguero bathes and shaves before the milonga. A pressed suit, clean shirt and tie are his uniform. Trimmed hair, shined shoes, and scent of cologne complete his attire for the milonga.... 2. Thou shalt dance ones own style. A milonguero is a self-taught dancer with his own style, who can dance elegantly with any woman and make her happy. A milonguero has learned by observing others, but he never copied them. 3. Thou shalt dance well or not at all. If there is no woman with whom he can dance his best, a milonguero is content to listen to the music and observe the dancing. 4. Thou shalt dance for yourself and your partner. A milonguero dances what he feels and transmits that feeling to his partner. He doesn’t dance to perform or for applause. 5. Thou shalt treat women with respect. A milonguero never approaches a woman at her table or greets women while entering the milonga. 6. Thou shalt invite a woman to dance from the table. A milonguero uses either a tilt of the head or movement of the lips to invite a woman to dance. The invitation is subtle and not obvious to others in the salon. Once a woman refuses his invitation, he will not invite her again. 7. Thou shalt not dance with another man’s partner. A milonguero takes time to watch the floor for several tandas so that he knows if a woman he wants to invite has a commitment with another man. This is not always obvious since they sit separately, but dance only with one another. A milonguero learned patience. 8. Thou shalt dance in the floor space available. A milonguero dances compactly without interfering with others dancing. If he touches other dancers, he quickly acknowledges it by raising his hand. 9. Thou shalt not dance consecutive tandas. A milonguero dances only when the music inspires him. He can wait hours to hear his favorite orchestra or a certain tanda that inspires him to dance. A milonguero prefers quality over quantity of dances. 10. Thou shalt not be seen leaving the milonga with a woman. A milonguero arranges to meet a woman on the street. He always leaves the milonga alone, just as he enters it. _______________________ The codes are like the commandments which were born with the tango. Ricardo Vidort Full post here

12.01.2022 We are sorry to say that open milongas are a little way off. We are aware that there are a few organisers taking the risk, but when I check the government advice, social dancing, except for limited numbers at weddings and school formals, are still banned. If it goes wrong, the fines are high. Dance classes are allowed, but social distancing must be observed (how do you do that with Tango?). Let's stay positive and look forward to sunnier days ahead.

11.01.2022 A wonderful collaboration with Martin Pablo Aguilera

11.01.2022 Just advised that our hall is filled with trestles and planks for painting. Sorry for any disappointment - See you on 18 May.

10.01.2022 Real social Tango.

09.01.2022 A quick reminder - Pure Milonguero, Holland Park is on Summer break, so no milonga this month. We'll be back with lots of classics (and our legendary supper) on 15 February.

09.01.2022 Classic Social Tango events in North America

07.01.2022 It was a pleasure to see so many Tango friends from Sunshine Coast to the NSW border and beyond dancing beautifully at Pure Milonguero Milonga - Only Classic Tango on Saturday. Thank you all for continuing to support the work of Milonga Para Los Niños, still the 1st and only Tango for Argentina charity, proudly founded by local dancers 18 years ago.

07.01.2022 I'm not 100% tuned into this post, but there is a lot of truth and wisdom here. For me, many people who seemingly struggle with the music is that they are "hearing", but not "listening". As Jan notes, getting past the learning technique and figures stage is a big step in listening and interpreting the music in the dance.

07.01.2022 Thanks to everyone for a bright and happy start to 2020 Pure Milonguero milongas. The hot and steamy right did not deter dancers from staying to the end. The club is promising airconditioning in the next few weeks - let's hope by March.

06.01.2022 Want more classic Tango...Holland Park Milonga this Saturday from 7:30pm. Holland Park Bowls Club, Abbotsleign St., Holland Park. Classic music, classic dance, classic Tango (and even Judy's classic supper). See you there. (All proceeds go to Milonga Para Los Niños - currently completing a much needed education support project in Vila Atamisque, Santiago del Estero).

06.01.2022 Mshedgehog on Teaching Tango Top-down: Learn some steps by heart, do them, and then work out how to lead and follow them. Break them up into simpler parts and recombine them. Repeat this without limit, looking at technique wherever it comes up, and then at some point later maybe go on to how to actually dance if you are interested or have talent. Very common in my experience. Bottom-up: Learn how to move to the music and connect with your partner, start dancing in response to... the music in a very basic way more or less immediately, and grow the steps from there. Work on technique as necessary. Get better at it over time. Add more complex skills if and only if they appeal to you. I've seen this only rarely around here, but it does happen. Practical advantages of bottom-up include that it's (in my limited experience) about 1,000% more efficient at producing people who dance well, both more of them and much faster. Another advantage is that leader and follower can get something much closer to equal time, because of the attention paid to creating and keeping connection, and to musical movement. That means the women can be more challenged and contributing more equally right from the start, which makes for less stress and soul-searching for everybody, as well as a better dance. It doesn't always happen, but it's much more possible. However, it's demanding on the communication skills and curiosity of teacher and student. It also requires a much smaller number of lessons; the dancer can continue to improve at his or her own pace with relatively little help, a lot of it in the form of mentoring from peers and/or professionals, and just personal discovery, rather than actual teaching. Lessons will be fewer, more interesting, and more focused. So it only makes sense where the goals of both teacher and student are primarily to do with social dancing, rather than lessons as such. Read the rest here -

06.01.2022 The University Residential College @ Vila Atamisque, Argentina is complete (find it on Google Maps) with furniture and fit-out next week, the first student intake interviewed and selected and the grand opening on 4 April. An enormous hug to everyone involved.

03.01.2022 Where did 2019 go. Come and enjoy the second-last Milonga for the year.