Tango All Night

I attended a performance at the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas Concert Hall last night with my sister, her daughter Aliah and a few of my sister’s office friends. “Tango Fire” was a dancing and singing performance of by the group – Estampas Portenas.

The performance was accompanied by a four all guys band – QUATROTANGO. There was GABRIEL the piano player, HUGO the Bandoneon player, GERARDO the double bass player and MARCELO the violinist.

The show started with the Milonga. By the way, what is the Milonga??

According to Wikipedia, Milonga is an Argentinian and Uruguan form of music or dance. The term milonga comes from a similar expression that means lyrics. Milonga is also the term given to a tango party.

The dancers, so tall, so slim and pretty too, performed to various tango dances. There were splits and jumps and turns and surely looked somewhat acrobatic to me. They must have had hours and hours of practice to have their dancing so prefect.

At the end of the show, the audience showed their appreciation with a loud round of applause for the group for their overwhelming performance.

For me…well, who knows I’ll start up tango soon. But before doing so…I do need to shed off the extra pounds around the waist and perhaps grow a few inches taller..hah..hah…dream on huh!!!