Emilia Vexler
02/27/2020 - 14:21
- Clarín.com
- Society
The outbreak of coronavirus in certain cities of the world did not touch Buenos Aires for now. But it concerns the cultural environment of the City that is in direct contact with tourists, especially Chinese and Italian.
Alerts are on. Even so, without fear or prejudice, tango dancers and tango dance with "paranoia" and dominate it. The Buenos Aires tango, for now, is danced without chinstrap.
"The drops reach up to a person who coughs or sneezes. When people infected with coronavirus cough or sneeze, the virus is expelled 1 meter away. To protect yourself avoid close contact with anyone who has a fever and cough, and wash your hands frequently with an alcohol-based disinfectant or with soap and water. "
There are no mouths closer than those of tango. The kiss is one centimeter away. Therefore, it is not crazy to think that tourists and locals who love the rhythm of Argentina will move their bodies away. But tango always has a twist.
The Chip Tango Club is the largest and most recognized milonga in Argentina. Horacio Godoy, its creator, tells Clarín that it is still full.
Horacio Godoy, owner of La Viruta Tango Club
"It is that having no cases in the country can not measure the incidence of something that is not yet ." I am not a sociologist or doctor nor am I in Argentina to know the impact of the issue. But in Italy the same thing happened and overnight all the public activities in the region were closed, including the milongas, "he says.
In fact, already on Italian soil he was forced to suspend the master classes he was going to teach in Mantova. "In 24 hours they went from day to night. They had no intermediate colors," he says. Before the brake, he traveled from Rome to Moscow, Russia, suspended the European tour and returns to Buenos Aires on Tuesday.
Mora Godoy, his sister and the top representative of tango in the world, tells Clarín that he did not have to reschedule any tour of China (where he traveled 15 times) because the shows had previously been rescheduled outside the Asian giant. But, he says, his dance partner could not finish the workshop he was going to teach in that country. "He had to go back for the coronavirus."
In Argentina he proposes that he go to the milonga until "if it happens, in some case" it is advised to stop all kinds of cultural activities. "My company (which is in Tango Porteño) is from Monday to Monday full room. No tourist stopped coming," he reinforces. The majority of its audience is Asian and European.
"To the Chinese, who wear chinstrap everywhere, I never saw them dancing with chinstrap. I don't rule out having a blurry image of that and that seems odd to me," he says. Perhaps, he says, it is the only area in which they forget of its already cultural oral prevention against viruses.
Mauricio Diaz and Mia Maestro
"The tanguero does not despise or give much thread to hug an Asian (in the sense that Chinese people are not friends of physical contact, and less are women). The 'tanguero tanguero' does not have that pruritus. Dance tango as it should, regardless of the customs of whoever has in his arms, "says Mauricio Diaz to Clarin .
This Thursday night will tour with some Chinese in the Canning Hall of Palermo. As he has been doing without pause. There last week he also danced with Hollywood actress Mia Argento, who has just released End of the Century . All without chinstrap.
Díaz has been dancing since 1999 and until recently he had his own milonga in Lomas de Zamora. That is why he knows well about "outbreaks" that did not pause fanaticized Asians with a rhythm that captivated them since Al Pacino danced For a head in Women's Perfume.
"The Flu A (which 10 years ago threatened the world) could not with the 2x4. Today you will not see anyone dancing with a chin either," he stops. He is 44, but he talks to the old guard's tune. As if he were having a wine with Pugliese.
This time, with this outbreak of the coronavirus in the world, notice a change. Only from "that Buenos Aires humor". That which also has a lot to do with tango.
"I have a friend who a few days ago returned from playing in China with the jazz quartet and yesterday (on Wednesday) in a milonga one told me that I did not want to see it. Or also others fuck with 'guard with that I think which is tana '. It doesn't happen from there, it dances the same, "he says, and laughs.
"I don't know what will happen later if the outbreak grows in the world. Because we danced with tourists who are already here a few days ago. Now there is no 'contempt' for Asians when dancing. There is no paranoia in tango as there is in society in general, "he closes. Tonight there is milonga. And it will be full.
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