A friend of mine was visiting Buenos Aires for 2 weeks on the latter half of August. We had a short chat about her visit, in a milonga on Sunday in Tulsa.
She had a better balance, more composed embrace and sense of "gaze" in her Tango. I guess these were a part of what she got in her Buenos Aires vacation.
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Airfare was about $1100 (not bad). Use airbnb, and total cost would be around $3000. Not bad for a Tango vacation in Buenos Aires for 2 weeks.
It was Tango festival season. Many Tango events (contests, shows, workshops, milongas) were there.
They had a Tango school with seven different levels (1 for beginners, 7 for advanced). You can pick the level and the class theme,.... it exactly was a school.
Each class was cheap...about $3. Together with current economic turmoil in Argentina, no wonder many Tango instructors want to travel abroad for teaching, for a better deal.
There were "private" milongas that you can attend if you know the password. You get the password from "friend" (in fact from your instructor or other people you dance with). It seems to be another trick to have a milonga without making it a commercial setting (for which you need to pay for license or some sort of tax/regulatory compliance fee [?? I'm just guessing]).
You need to speak Spanish, or have a translator friend.
My guess is its somewhat like in Japan. People may know English, but they don't always speak well... language is a reason I am not very eager to visit Argentina at this time. I am more a scientist than a linguist. I have many other things to study right now, and I find learning another language on top of it to be taxing. Probably I should find a translator/friend rather than trying to pick up third language (enough about me).
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My graduate research assistant who just graduated, got a job offer last Wednesday. I was very happy to hear that. He will be working in New Mexico as a clinical administrator assistant (not sure about exact job title). Good luck.
We had a Sushi dinner with colleagues in Gogosushi in Moore, OK, last Saturday. Good times.
