Milonga Weekend
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| Characteristics: Milonga Weekend | ||
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| Purpose(s) | Social Dancing | |
| Target group(s) | Regionally Traveling Dancers, Local Dancers | |
| Exclusivity | open event | |
| Role-Balance | not role-balanced event | |
| Event Duration | 2-3 days; usually Friday to Sunday | |
| Pre-Registration | No Pre-Registration | |
| Number of dancers | ||
| Entrance Fee | from to |
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The most prominent Milonga Weekend is El Corte’s Chained Salon: basically it’s an event where multiple milongas (i.e. tango dance events with beginning and end, which means often different people, too) are aligned in a way that enables many dancing hours during a weekend; usually many more than regular milongas would offer in a city or region.
Milonga Weekends are open events: there is no required pre-registration, and thus there is no planned gender or role balance.
In some analogy, Buenos Aires could be called a Permanent Milonga Series.
History
The first milonga weekend we know of is El Corte's Chained Salon.