Participation in the opening milonga, like all of the festival's events, is free of charge.
If tango tops your must-do list, start by seeing a tango show or stopping by a milonga.
The free milonga La Glorieta, gets started around 7 pm, much earlier than most other milongas in the city.
As opposed to a dinner show, which costs hundreds of Argentinean pesos, entrance to a milonga ranges between 15 and 30 pesos.
The vast majority of milonga attendees are serious about learning or perfecting the tango, though no skill level is required to attend.
Its highlight is a massive open-air milonga, which will see over ten thousand tangueros pirouetting across the cobbled streets of central Buenos Aires.
One of the most unexpected milonga spots in Buenos Aires is in a sizable, lit gazebo in the sloping park facing the Belgrano C train station.
Follow the accordion music to a milonga (tango venue or event) to learn moves including the giro (turn) and ocho (figure eight traced with the feet).
Two noteworthy examples are the milonga at Confiteria La Ideal on Thursday nights and that at Salon Canning on Tuesday and Friday nights after 11 pm.
Bajofondo is a studio Frankenstein in which electronic dance music is fused with Latin alternative rock, with echoes of Argentina's and Uruguay's local traditions of tango and milonga in undeniably contemporary music.
Walk past the Sunday night milonga in San Telmo's Plaza Dorrego and you will see eager young travellers putting their first tango lessons to the test, dancing cheek-to-cheek with distinguished-looking partners three times their age.
The milonga -- essentially any place or event where people gather to dance tango -- is where the history of the dance meets its future, where the nostalgic sounds of accordions blend with the rejuvenating energy of youth, and where the most seasoned dancers share the dance floor with novices.
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