Tango in the Terminal

Posted on March 28, 2011

About 40 tango dancers took the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to dance to live music at Heathrow’s Terminal Five check-in area. This celebration of British Airways’ first direct flight to Buenos Aires included a free tasting of Argentine wines, courtesy of Gaucho, and a live band, Tango Tres.

The event was well received by those passing through Terminal 5, many of whom spent a while tasting the wines while watching the dancers. Rita Flindell, tango enthusiast and passenger service representative, said: “I’ve always dreamed of dancing at Terminal 5. Look at this space: it’s made for a milonga.”

One of the members of British Airways staff, who volunteered for this special shift, went straight from dancing with us to take passengers’ tickets at the departure gate.

Photograph © Carole Edrich

Nicola Rayner

Nicola Rayner was editor of Dance Today from 2010 to 2015. She has written for a number of publications including The Guardian, The Independent and Time Out Buenos Aires, where she cut her teeth as a dance journalist working on the tango section. Today she continues to dance everything from ballroom to breakdance, with varying degrees of success. Her debut novel, The Girl Before You, was published last year in paperback, ebook and audiobook.