”Cultural”

A friend from Australia who likes tango very much wanted to buy my course to give it to his daughter and sister. He told me that he offered it to them and that they would discuss it with their respective husbands and then respond to him.

While I waited for his response, I thought that the husbands would be jealous and perhaps they did not like the idea that their wives learned to dance tango and in the future go to the milongas alone.

But the reason these two couples had to argue over whether or not women would learn to tango is that the decision would also involve their husbands. If women danced, they should dance too!

It is that both couples live in small towns where the only possibility to dance would be with their own partners. I found out about this later when my friend told me about it.

I had never thought of that possibility! I only thought of jealous husbands 🙂

I remember that when I started going to the milongas, here in Buenos Aires, I was one of the few married women who went alone to dance.

The milongueros assumed that I went dancing without my husband knowing. They couldn’t believe that I was alone at the milonga and that my husband agreed with that!

I remember they even told me: “If I were your husband, I would not let you go dancing alone.” To which after hearing the same thing from many milongueros, I began to answer them: “Well, that’s one of the reasons why I married him and not you.” 🙂

At the time when milongueros grew up in Buenos Aires, tango was practically the only social activity that young people, girls and boys, shared. In those dances, in which the mothers accompanied their daughters, many young couples met and over time they began a sentimental relationship that many times was formalized in marriages.

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