What is the meaning of the word milonga?
PUPI We call milonga the place where we go dancing. When a guy is a very good dancer, we say that he is a good milonguero. Now they’ve come up with a “milonguero style”, that I don’t know what it is… Question for Pupi: Was it your parents and friends who encouraged you to dance Tango? PUPI No, no. It was like it happened here. There was a time when all you could hear was rock and roll music so you grew up dancing rock and roll. Same there, we listened to Tango everywhere and when we wanted to meet girls we decided to learn the Tango. It wasn’t like somebody was trying to convert you. I started dancing when I was 15. NITO Where, at the milonga or on the street, in your neighborhood? PUPI I started at a practica then I began to go to the milonga, but the practicas were really like a milonga. That’s why there is sometimes confusion about the methods in my era. Practically everybody had the ability to teach, but there were no teachers. Somebody would teach you something, you would then t
