La Academia del Tango of Agustin Garcia offers well organised , regular tango classes , practicas , milongas and , whenever possible , hosts professional dancers and instructors from Buenos Aires who are visiting for performing and teaching . There are several other smaller organizations that hold regylat milongas .
The Milonguita is organized by Emma Barreras with the support of the embassy of the Republic of Argentina in Cuba . It holds a milonga on the first and third Friday of each month in the Jerusalem Room of the La Union Arabe on the Paseo del Prado in Old Havana , near the Hotel Sevilla . There is an hour of free class , before the milonga .. During the evening , it is customary to take a pause and enjoy a guest singer or a tango performance .
Milonga La Annunciata , organized by Saul Seijo and Olivia San Roman . With the support of the Jesuit Fathers , it is held on the first Saturday of each month at the Pedro Arrupe Theater of the parish of the Corazon de Jesus y San Ignacio de Loyola . The Theater is located at the bottom of the La Inglesia de Reina , with an entrance on La Annuncita .
Milonga La Racha is organized by Leo D ’ Lazaro , an important plastic artist in Cuba . The milonga takes place once a month , the fourth Saturday , in El Ojo de Ciclon , his own gallery-studio located in Old Havana
It is the only milonga that can be extended until the very early morning hours but the space is small . El Ojo de Ciclon is very most important . It is the glue that holds tango in Havana because it is always at the disposal of the milongueros . Tango classes are taught here three times a week , Monday , Wednesday and Friday .
When speaking about tango in Havana , there is worth mentioning La Compagnia Neotango , a professional group organized in February 2007 . It is composed of eight dancers and one singer and claims to be the oldest tango group in the city . The company is under the general direction of professor Rosa Elena Alvarez Fernandez , the artistic direction of her daughter Carolina Balmaseda and theatrical advice of her husband , the renowned actor Mario Balmaseda . It is mainly a group formed by well-trained young Cuban dancers and teachers . They are mostly performers but they could provide private , tailor-made t Plaza de Armas utoring .
While they maintain the tango tradition and defend gaucho dance presence in Cuba , they also try to modernize it through merger with various other types of dance , such as : habanera , son , bolero , popular Cuban rhythms , jazz , flamenco , classical ballet , contemporary dance as well as theatre , with tango rhythm as predominant in song and dance . In 2014 they staged their more recent presentation at the Mella Theatre .
In December 2008 , La Compagnia Neotango was invited to participate in the Cambalache Festival , one of the most important in Buenos Aires , where they presented the performance Life is a Dream . The following year they produced their Barrio Tango Show , the first of its kind in the Cuban theatre . Since then , there have been others like Tanguendo , Miradas , Todo Tango that have followed in their path . Their milongas are held in the Paseo del Prado every Sunday . They meet in the park to dance tango , and local people and , foreign visitors often go by and start dancing !
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