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Published: February 5th 2007
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Tanguera
Our delicious drinks and the program for the show - I guess the nudity should have tipped us off on the explicity of the show! This is another blog to make up for the lack of pictures on the last few entries I put in. Thankfully we were able to find a fast internet place here in B.A. (short for Buenos Aires)...
We have been enjoying ourselves (wait a minute, I think I write that EVERY time I put in a blog) here in the capital - our first day we spent wandering around an antiques market and an artensania fair. As we´ve decided to send a massive box home with some gifts and things we don´t need to carry around, we ended up spending a little more money that originally planned. I got some AMAZING crafts, all original and each with a unique story - I´m going to have troubles parting with them to give to family and friends... ooo, I mean, I bought absolutely NOTHING. Sorry guys!! hehe. The antiques market was incredible, Mom you would have been in your element there!!! There were about 3 blocks plus an entire square jam-packed with little stalls selling everything from coins, jewlery and weaponry, to clothes, linens, appliances and random goo-gawgs (as Gramps would say) of all sorts.
I was walking down the street and
Encore!!!
The only picture we have of the show - we weren´t allowed cameras... this is the encore after they danced 2 extra times for us! What a bang for our buck saw a familiar face... did a double-take and then realized that it was a girl from Smithers who I had graduated highschool with, Alison Fuhr. What a small small world! We caught up for a little bit and then decided to meet up the next day (today) to go and see some horseraces... hopefully we find her there!
Last night we saw a live professional Tango show, Tanguero. WOWWWWW. What a sensual and emotional dance. It was more of a musical, but one with only 2 or 3 songs that had words. The rest of the story was expressed through the dancer´s movements. Yikes, we were entranced - the power that they have on the stage is incredible! It told a story of a immigrant woman who arrived on the docks of Buenos Aires, fell in love with a dock worker, but was sold to a madame, who in turn sold her to a pimp who made her dance for money and work as a prostitute. Throughout the story the dock worker and the pimp would have dancing duels and she would often be caught between the 2 of them - creating a tango trio that had me on
the edge of my seat. Some of the more memorable scenes (they all were, but I can´t really describe the whooole play right now!) were the ones with the group dances where the pimp´s men manhandled the women... and then the dockhand´s friends took them, comforted them and then danced a pure and sweet and lively dance. Another was when the 2 lovers were finally able to find some time alone and pretty much made love on the stage - until the bad guys came and beat him up, tango style. There were other scenes where behind 3 translucent curtains there were men having their way with ´prostitute´ women, all visible and quite graphic - I didn´t know you could show that kind of stuff on a stage!
In the end our dockhand died at the hands of the pimp (a dramatic stab wound in repayment for killing the pimp´s favoured bodyguard), and the woman did a sad goodbye dance with his ´spirit´... I was on the verge of crying for our poor lovers!
What a beautiful night it was though and we are definitely going to see another show this coming week - can´t wait!
Now Im going
Bodega - Wine Tour
the ´tiny´ family winery we visited... I loved how it was so traditional and tried to stick to its roots to add some pictures of the last few weeks that I wasn´t able to put up before - some of the winery tour, some of the Iguazú Falls and other random events. I´ll try and keep them in order so as not to confuse anyone!
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gratz!
great pictures Callie!