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Venue

Club Almagro

Opening and closing

Our venue records; each note says what the year counts

Closed
2000milonga closed 19 December 2000 when the club wanted the space for gym equipment

By decade

Dated moments, each with its source, and what we filmed

  1. 1950s

    1. 1956Osvaldo Centeno: Through the 1950s dances from 7 pm to 3 am every night in the downtown confiterías, cabarets and clubs; Club Almagro becomes his favourite.

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  2. 1990s

    1. 1994Ernesto Balmaceda: His brother (Julio Balmaceda, per his own family's documented history) is invited to teach at Club Almagro.

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    2. 1995Ernesto Balmaceda: His brother asks him to help teach beginner and intermediate classes at Club Almagro; Ernesto's professional teaching path begins here.

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    3. 1996Stella Baez: Becomes Ernesto Balmaceda's partner in dance and, by their own accounts, in life, around a year after he began teaching at Club Almagro.

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    4. 1996Ernesto Balmaceda: Stella Báez becomes his partner in dance and, by his account, his wife, about a year after he started teaching at Club Almagro.

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Dancers filmed here

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Filmed here

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Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues1

External id Club Almagro (osm:way/483701911)

Single source

Medrano club milonga where the top dancers of the 1990s gathered, until it closed in 2000 and Niño Bien inherited its role.

Where
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