Last Saturday I went for the first time to the new Nosotros milonga in Cité Culture, Laeken. The venue is in the middle of a residential area with large apartment blocks, and when we arrived, we walked through a small park with tango music in the background and the smell of argentinian meat (cook: “El Walter”). Inside it’s very much a cultural centre with a stage and plenty of place for dancing. The special guest for the evening was Fernando Galera, who was in Belgium to give a series of workshops with Eugenia. They did a demo with a stylish tango, a dynamic milonga and to close off, a chacarera that seemed like a lot of fun. Fernando looks very serious when he’s dancing, but in his workshops he turned out to be a very witty guy with a healthy dose of machismo. This is, after all, tango.
The same evening there were more argentinians present: Jorge Dispari and La Turca, and their daughter Samantha Dispari, who had been giving workshops with Octavio Fernandez. The Villa Urquiza style was well represented, in other words. And we all joined in, dancing to Diego’s music, trying to avoid stepping on the metal bar on the ground.
All pictures can be found here: Nosotros milongas album
