SATURDAY 05/29/10
I attended my first peña at Peña La Resentida – a dance hall where popular folkloric music and dance are performed. It was an absolute blast!! It was in an old train station in a rather remote area of the city, and the character was just perfect. At the entrance, there were folding tables set up with freshly baked empanadas and tortas (cakes) and locro (heavy stew) being scooped in the back.
I attended my first peña at Peña La Resentida – a dance hall where popular folkloric music and dance are performed. It was an absolute blast!! It was in an old train station in a rather remote area of the city, and the character was just perfect. At the entrance, there were folding tables set up with freshly baked empanadas and tortas (cakes) and locro (heavy stew) being scooped in the back.
The station also seems to be used for circus practice.
I got there too late for the class, but joined in when the social dancing started – the folkloric music is from the northern region of Argentina and was primarily chacarera, but also spanned to zamba and carnavalito.
There were times when everyone formed a line two-by-two and transversed the entire train station doing ponies, swerving in and out of each other and other times when all men were in one line and all women were facing them dancing chacarera with arms in the air and spinning past one another. You could note the regular dancers by the pañuelo (scarf) that they brought to use when dancing the sultry zamba. It was an exhilarating event, and I will definitely start to take up folkloric dance! (We even got to dance with a few guys who are in a company, Che Malambo - performance 1; performance 2)
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