Metamorphosis
October 9th, 2013
It is with mixed feelings that I make this announcement. Our Wednesday night Milonga will be leaving Casa Vicente after October 16th. It has been a wonderful run, of over eight years, but after working the numbers time and again it has become apparent that there isn’t room for enough dancers to make a Milonga bring in the revenue needed.
The Wednesday night Milonga will go on, and for those of us old enough to remember we have survived worse. I am scouting new locations over the next two weeks, and hope to have no break in our continuity. I would like to invite you to come and share a bittersweet moment tonight, or next week, on the dance floor. The ambiance at Casa Vicente will be hard to match.
I think Chaucer said it best in The Knight’s Tale:
| Lo now, the oak, that has long nourishing |
| Even from the time that it begins to spring, |
| And has so long a life, as we may see, |
| Yet at the last all wasted is the tree. |
| Consider, too, how even the hard stone |
| Under our feet we tread each day upon |
| Yet wastes it, as it lies beside the way. |
| And the broad river will be dry some day. |
| And great towns wane; we see them vanishing. |
| Thus may we see the end to everything. |