Adelante dance studio has been in Moore and based in Old School building.
A local landmark, the Old School building literally was a school building. Originally built in 1899 and rebuilt in 1928 after a fire. There is a theater inside, and the room housed many Latin social dance parties.
There were Argentine Tango classes and milongas in the building in 2022-2023. That helped to rebuild Argentine Tango community after covid.
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Early 2024, this building was sold to new management. For this past a few months, Adelante has been searching for a new place (that they've found, they said).
To my knowledge, the Latin social party on 3/2/2024 was the last party at the building. Indeed, some of the interior items in the corridor had been removed, and it looked like the building is going through a renovation already.
Party is not necessarily about place, but about people who gather.
As Moore is close to Norman, where University of Oklahoma main campus locates and younger students are, monthly Adelante social parties attracted many newcomer dancers.
I hope the party goes on well after their moving.
Speaking of party, OKC is going to have extra milonga on 2nd and 4th Fridays at idance.
Idance/Hazel has been hosting 1st and 3rd Friday milonga. Starting March, Richard's group is going to host the 2nd and 4th Friday milonga.
As Gustavo's group at Adelante has gone to a hiatus due to the studio moving, their milonga is out for a while. But it will be nice to have more milonga overall.
We'll see how it works out.
This past Friday milonga (3/1/2024), we had people from Tulsa after many years. Tulsa Tango community too shrank during covid, but there have been some who kept Tango going. Glad to have them.
