Milonga Chique Evgeny Morozow
Milonga Chique provided first alternative dance floor in Moscow. On February 20, 2017, it celebrated its first anniversary. Milonga Chique is the only milonga in Moscow, where the dancers have a choice of two dance floors— one for the traditional music and a second floor for alternative music. The alternative dance floor is located on the second floor, for the tangueros, who prefer tango nuevo, neotango, alternative, tango rarities, non-Argentinian tango, or orquestas moderna. The design of the milonga also has its differences. For example, there is a light projections and a smoke machine.
The second floor in Milonga Chique is visited by a as many as twenty-five couples, simultaneously on the dance floor. The most popular time is from 22:00 to 01:30 in the morning. During the evening, dancers freely change between the dance floors. Dancers always have the opportunity to go to the first floor for a traditional dance to one of the famous and beloved tangos of La Guardia Nueva. The choice of music and atmosphere is very important! Dancers can always refresh their memories.
It should be noted that the Moscow tango community has been and remains quite conservative in terms of music. Mostly milongas are traditional Argentine tango of the Golden Age( La Guardia Nueva), from time period between 1935 and 1955. Some DJs insert in the one or two unusual or modern tandas into their playlests, usually near the end of the milongas.
Audio recordings of classical tango are now widely available to Moscow DJs. The efforts of many Russian and foreign enthusiasts have created a catalog of classical tango music. Moscow DJs freely exchange information about records. They each have large collection of tangos. There are many new faces, with a healthy competition among DJs and motivation to improve the quality of their work. The dancers have several choices of traditional milongas where you can hear many good tandas..
In Europe, milongas of different formats existed, giving more freedom to DJs. For example, at one of the milongas in Budapest, apart from tango-waltz-milonga sequence of tandas, a fourth tanda was introduced with non-traditional music. The classics successfully went together with nuevo, electronics, ambience, latin, blues, French waltzes and completely different music.
All this was absolutely easy to dance with the use of biomechanics of tango. It was well and skillfully arranged. The milonga usually had about a hundred of participants, which is quite a lot for such a format. It was clear that such a format could work in Moscow also. Therefore, I began to try to promote this idea among the organizers.
— 12—
TO SUBSCRIBE, CLICK HERE