El Porteño
2 conversations
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Carlos Rivarola · 4 min · 0 chapters
In this first part of an interview from Academia de Tango el Porteño (Kobe), dancer Carlos Rivarola recalls his childhood in a Buenos Aires neighborhood, where a folk-dance academy kept him off the street, and his path from studying architecture to becoming a professional tango dancer at sixteen, despite his father's offer of a brand-new car to make him quit. He also draws a distinction between the trained stage dancer and the social milonguero, and remembers Copes, the couple Gloria and Eduardo, and Hugo del Carril.
Ariel Yanovsky · 3 min · 0 chapters
Ariel Yanovsky talks with an old tango friend, whom he affectionately calls 'Florcita', whom he met in Buenos Aires in 1997 or 1998, at the corner of Sarmiento and Acuña de Figueroa, studying under the teacher Damián. They reminisce about those practicas and compare it to how students today learn from the internet instead of practicing together in person. Ariel then runs through his travels teaching tango across Africa, Asia and Latin America, including the first class ever given there by an Argentine couple in Swaziland (Eswatini), and recounts how the Egyptian police deleted almost all the footage they filmed in front of the pyramids.
