These are our teachers, Maxi and Maricel.
Maxi and Maricel are professional tango dancers. They were one of the seven couples in the fancy tango dinner show we attended.
We took three private lessons from Maxi and Maricel, as well as attending two group lessons taught by Maricel. These pictures were taken in the small apartment they used as a studio.
Carlos Gardel is Argentina's most famous tango singer. This statue is in the neighborhood where we had our lessons. Maricel tells us that people go to his grave (in the Recoleta cemetery) to ask for his help with their tango challenges.
This is Enrique, an extremely friendly porteño we met at a tango lesson. He's a computer science grad student (a rare thing in Argentina) and was kind enough to show us around his school, the University of Buenos Aires.
This is a milonga, the traditional venue for tango dancing. Milongas rarely start before 10 PM, and many don't get really full until after midnight.
This could is doing a tango dancing demonstration for the crowd.
