I hope all of you will join me at Las Naifas tomorrow for an Argentine folk dance class before the milonga. Tango is not the main dance in Argentina: in the countryside, folk dances have a big following, much like country music and Texas Two-Step have in middle America.
5:30 Chacarera class
6:30-9:30 Milonga with Ariel Marsh DJing (and one set of chacarera in the middle of the evening)
Norse Hall, 111 NE 11th, Portland, Oregon
$15 at the door
Please bring your vaccination proof IF you are not already on the list from prior milongas
Masking is optional
Chacarera is only one of Argentina’s folk dances, but if you are old enough to have had to dance the Virginia Reel in elementary school in the USA, that’s the place chacarera has in Argentina. You don’t trade partners like the Virginia Reel, but lines of dancers face their partners and dance called patterns facing and circling the partner.
If you still have trauma from grade school, do not worry! I will be calling the dance at the milonga, as well as teaching it at 5:30. It is not rocket science and it’s fun! Think long swishy skirts and booted cowboys showing off :-)
Hope to see you there, and I will also be teaching a fast and dirty review Thursday night after my regular class (that’s today) at 8:30 PM. It’s free if you are in the 7-8:30 PM tango class!