It is time to meet the maestros! Our teacher and friend Omar Ocampo organized a folklore festival Encuentro con los maestros here in Buenos Aires this weekend with classes and performances. We went to see their show last night: all the numbers were prepared in the classes during three days!!! Incredible!!! Chacarera, zamba, malambo, zapateo... different styles and different approaches. Beautiful dancers, amazing energy and a lot of noise!!! And also women dancing malambo! It used to be a dance just for men. The cutest thing was 8 year old boy Nazareno, who played drums with the legendary Juan Saavedra and danced malambo in sneakers and a bunny T-shirt! Pasi is trying to decide if he needs to practice more or just buy a cuter T-shirt.
AND then el maestro Saavedra danced with bolas. OMG. Just search on YouTube and you get many many incredible performances.
Here is a video of boleadoras, not from yesterday but still amazing, and here is a video of malambo, also not from yesterday but quite similar to some of the performances we saw yesterday.
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