From New York City:
NEW YORK, NY May 04, 2007 —While most of the city sleeps, a growing number of New Yorkers get together late at night to dance tango. The tango parties are known as milongas , the Argentinean slang name for social tango dances born in Buenos Aires in the late 1800s. Two decades ago, only a couple of milongas existed in Queens. But today New York hosts up to five milongas any night of the week....
So, how did this all start? In 1985 the show Tango Argentino came to town for what was supposed to be one week. The show turned out to be what the New York Times called The Season's Improbable Hit. During its run on Broadway, it was seen by Madonna, Sinatra, Kissinger and Baryshnikov....
Every time I go to the dance, with all my pain and all the tragedies in life and all the disappointments, for two, three, four hours, however long we're there: La vida es una milonga. The whole life is a ball.
read the full article by Diego Graglia here: Some Sleep, Others Tango.
Dancing tango to replace sleep, huh. This pretty much intensifies Frank Sinatra's song about New York being the city that never sleeps. I wonder how awesome this show is that would make the New Yorkers dance instead of going to sleep. Haha!
Posted by: Tyson Sieger | July 05, 2011 at 08:06 AM