Stefan, Nijmegen NLClick here for more stories
My first time in El Corte was a total secret too - nobody registered the arrival of a deeply impressed tango nerd from the deep south of Germany :)
It was the end of the International Week 1998 (which I didn't realise at all) and it was crowded like hell - you can imagine how frightened I was entering this paradise with fantastic dancers from all over the world. I couldn't believe my eyes!!! Such an amount of energy, emotion and movements - this intensity paralysed me on the one hand and on the other hand I got really stuck to this tango feeling.
I felt like in heaven and after 3 hours of mostly looking and carefully dancing with my dance partner ( she brought me to El Corte - thanks forever Edeltraud ) I finally dared to ask one of the 'local heroes' - what an energetic explosion !!! I was nearly hyperventilating - a feeling which accompanied me for the next few months ;-)
From this day on I was really found to El Corte - this is the place where the tango lives (for me at least) and where I can live the tango! And still after travelling every month to El Corte for over 1 year and then moving to Nijmegen and finally finding my love there it remains the MAGIC PLACE from the very first moment ...
It was the end of the International Week 1998 (which I didn't realise at all) and it was crowded like hell - you can imagine how frightened I was entering this paradise with fantastic dancers from all over the world. I couldn't believe my eyes!!! Such an amount of energy, emotion and movements - this intensity paralysed me on the one hand and on the other hand I got really stuck to this tango feeling.
I felt like in heaven and after 3 hours of mostly looking and carefully dancing with my dance partner ( she brought me to El Corte - thanks forever Edeltraud ) I finally dared to ask one of the 'local heroes' - what an energetic explosion !!! I was nearly hyperventilating - a feeling which accompanied me for the next few months ;-)
From this day on I was really found to El Corte - this is the place where the tango lives (for me at least) and where I can live the tango! And still after travelling every month to El Corte for over 1 year and then moving to Nijmegen and finally finding my love there it remains the MAGIC PLACE from the very first moment ...