Term
Práctica
A práctica is an informal event for practising Argentine tango.† Práctica: The main focus of a práctica is practising the dance, techniques and improvisation. and A trainer present who corrects form makes it a guided práctica; combined with a milonga it is a práctilonga.†
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- 13:38Says her first milonga, around 1986, was La Verdulería, on the corner across from where El Beso is today (Riobamba); it began as a practice ('la práctica') and grew into a packed milonga. Danced there first with a partner remembered as Juancito, then with an Osvaldo whose hand she wouldn't let go of.ALEJANDRA MANTIÑAN Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
- 7:34Her first tango class was at 'la casa del tango' in La Plata; she could not learn the eight-step basic and nearly quit, but gave herself one more práctica as an ultimatum and finally got it.GUILLERMINA QUIROGA Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
- 10:01At her second práctica an older man, a taxi driver, asked her to dance and led her through boleos and giros she had never learned, and she followed by intuition alone.GUILLERMINA QUIROGA Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
- 30:03Guillermina Quiroga met Pablo Verón at Miguel Balmaceda's classes/práctica in Buenos Aires, before Verón joined Tango Argentino.GUILLERMINA QUIROGA Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
- 1:00:17Reflects that the practica has lost its true role as a place to train before facing the milonga, and that today's milongas -- flooded with newer dancers with little floor experience -- no longer function as the near-sacred, code-governed spaces he learned in.FABIÁN SALAS Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
- 18:41The Parakultural and the Cochabamba practicaFABIÁN SALAS Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
- 32:38Describes forming a teaching trio in a gallery studio with Gustavo Naveira and Chicho Frúmboli: he taught Mondays, Naveira Wednesdays (with a practica at Cochabamba on Fridays), Chicho joined in on Mondays and later took over that day when Salas traveled, and Thursdays the three taught together, then all went to the Cochabamba practica on Fridays. Says he still has the flyers from those classes.FABIÁN SALAS Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
- 18:41Describes the mid-1980s to early-90s milonga scene as still recovering from a long dark period for tango (from the fall of Perón's government through 1985's Tango Argentino); says El Parakultural was a lifeline for young dancers, and that the Cochabamba practica was where they went to prepare before being allowed onto an actual milonga floor -- Almagro's floor was still tile, not yet the wood floor of the milonga it later became.FABIÁN SALAS Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
- 24:49Memories of the old milongas and practicas"MARIA NIEVES REGO... ... Tengo una pregunta para vos" por Pepa Palazon 2/3
- 5:50As a student attended the práctica organised by Gustavo Naveira and Olga Besio on Mondays and Fridays on Cochabamba street (9pm-midnight), and Mingo Pugliese and Esther's on Tuesdays and Thursdays; describes it as a real práctica, not a class or milonga.LORENA ERMOCIDA Tengo una pregunta para vos.. with ENGLISH subtitles / Русские субтитры
- 6:26The práctica at CochabambaLORENA ERMOCIDA Tengo una pregunta para vos.. with ENGLISH subtitles / Русские субтитры
- 7:53At the time was dancing with Alejandro Aquino and already working with Pugliese; Lorena describes her (with Aquino) as representing the 'young generation' at the Cochabamba práctica.LORENA ERMOCIDA Tengo una pregunta para vos.. with ENGLISH subtitles / Русские субтитры
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Glossary meaning A práctica is an informal event for practising Argentine tango.
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The main focus of a práctica is practising the dance, techniques and improvisation.
Single sourceA trainer present who corrects form makes it a guided práctica; combined with a milonga it is a práctilonga.
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