The lockdown means milongas, traditional dance clubs that dot the Buenos Aires cityscape, are closed indefinitely. | AFP
It leaves practitioners of the passionate dance experiencing a unique artistic anguish, tango was never meant to be danced alone.
Chairs are suggested as an imaginary dance partner, and he himself often uses a broomstick to help with posture. Andohanin says she is lucky because she lives with a “milonguero,” another frequenter of the city’s milongas, which allows her to dance despite the quarantine, but it doesn’t compare with going to an actual milonga venue.
“The only hope is that the coronavirus vaccine will appear. Without that there is no room for tango, because tango is the embrace. It is being body-to-body and face-to-face with a stranger.”
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