Earlier, I was considering dropping the Tuesday milonga from my schedule.

I hasten to add that’s not because there’s anything remotely wrong with it. Rather that, just as I did with my classes, I was wondering whether it was time to take a saner approach to my milonga schedule. I currently do three milongas a week, and was contemplating reducing it to two …

When I moved to central London, I vowed I was going to make the most of the opportunities that afforded, and boy have I done it! Milongas, classes, theatre, gigs, entertaining at home, visiting neighbours, out with friends … I typically have only one evening a week of downtime, and as an introvert, that’s a pretty dramatic change from the more sedate life I used to live.

After my initial period of doing four or five classes a week, sometimes more, I decided to rein back the lessons. I now generally just do one group class a week, and one private a fortnight.

However, while that was a significantly more sane schedule, I have somewhat ended up swapping a crazy number of lessons for a crazy number of milongas. My regular three:

• Tuesdays: Tango Space
• Thursdays: Tango Terra
• Sundays: Los Angelitos or Tango Terra (alternating).

Plus others here and there.

If I was going to give up one of my regulars, it would be Tango Space. When I think of the percentage of music I want to dance to, at Tango Terra it’s close to 100%; at Los Angelitos, 75%; at Tango Space, typically, around 50%.

But sometimes it’s much higher, and tonight was one of those sometimes. The music was absolutely fantastic from start to finish. I sat out a few tandas, but not many – and that was more about needing a rest than about the music.

There were fewer of my regular followers than usual, but there were enough to keep me busy. I also got to dance with a couple of friends I haven’t danced with for a while, and a couple of new followers too.

One friend has developed a real talent for collaborative dance since my last tanda with her! I complimented her on her dancing, and she seemed a little uncertain about actively suggesting things, but I assured her I loved it.

All in all, I had a wonderful time. So my plan to cut back on the milongas is at least in doubt.

Let’s see how it is next week …

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