The Silent Milonga – How it works

What does it mean?

This means that we will turn off the loudspeakers and switch to a Milonga where all of the music is transmitted to you wirelessly to dance to using headphones. You can absolutely talk, laugh, giggle and generally get totally confused – but the whole external world will be silent.

We hope you know how to cabaceo.

The Plan

Please note – we will NOT be having a silent milonga in the opening April event – but we will have a silent milonga as part of our traditional milongas in the future.

The last traditional tanda will be finishing at 11:00pm – there will then be a short break while people get their headphones on.

There will then be a ‘silent’ milonga until 12:00pm which is DJ lead with tandas and cortinas where people wear comfortable headphones dancing to the same music. Normal ronda and cabaceo conventions apply.

The DJ will guide you through it.

Equipment Needed

This is important! We are providing small, elegant wireless clip on transmitters for you to wear – so please make sure that we know you are attending! If we do not have a wireless transmitter for you you will be incredibly frustrated sitting in a completely silent milonga – and so will we!

What do you need to bring?

Headphones! Nothing else. These should be :

Perfectly normal headphones with which you can listen to music on your phone  – the jack is exactly the same.

However you are going to be dancing tango – with someone else wearing headphones. We strongly suggest that you give this some thought! We recommend comfortable, simple, small headphones – ideally with a simple over the ear loop that can allow you to relax. The kind that runners wear would be ideal.

 

 

These cost less than 10 pounds. You can buy them on Amazon here.

For hygiene reasons we cannot supply these.