Cabarets porteños, nostalgia for Buenos Aires

The word cabaret It is taken from French, which means "tavern“. However, our history is traversed by particularities of Buenos Aires that have nothing to envy to distant Europe. This is how we will take a walk through the singularities of the cabarets in the Buenos Aires nights.

How were the cabarets porteños?

The cabarets They used to be large rooms with lots of lighting thanks to luxurious chandeliers of caireles, with a long dance floor surrounded by tables, and that famous inevitable bar, support of countless stories and drinks. 

Sometimes attended by couples, mostly men attended alone or in groups. They were going to dance with alternating machines, or also called in a real way “cups“, who with their long “satin” dresses and their silky shine and glamorousThey encouraged customers to invite them to sit at their table, of course, to have a drink, and another. They were trying to seduce the man into continuing to consume and, of course, persisting in inviting her. If they “hooked” someone, they couldn't get out of the cabaret before the place closed its doors. Drinking has been, and always was, a formidable business.

While some used to attend to listen to their favorite jazz band, others insisted on conquering their alternator favorite. However the cups they were one more element of the greatness of the show that took place there. 

About the shows Variety

After the jazz orchestra, at midnight, a classic "varieté" show was presented, which featured different artistic numbers enlivening the midnight. The “varieté” of bohemian roots, a distant relative of the taverns medieval, and close to the cabaret of the XIX century, it has been the artistic expression that crosses the romantic and the alcohol. It is a genre whose development in the twentieth century is favored in large cities, characterized by greater flexibility than traditional theater, as it is more challenging and risky, with greater complicity with the public. The researcher Raquel Prestigiá as He defines it as "a light show, without a continuous argument, with a preferably musical character, not theatrical but street or tavern representation, with circus numbers such as illusionists, contortionists and acrobats and exotic attractions, such as ventriloquists and men-orchestra". It has three fundamental elements: the singable number, the danceable number and the comic.

Cabaret Buenos Aires category

What element demonstrated the high status of a Cabaret, if it was such? Of course the importance and recognition of the jazz orchestra that animated the festive ears with music ... 

A cap with the name of the cabaret crowned the doorman with golden buttons, who did not move from the entrance, despite a sign that, as in the case of the Marabou invited passersby. Its inscription read:  “Everyone to the Marabú/ The highest ranking boîte/ where Pichuco and his orchestra/ will make you dance good tangos”

El Marabú cabaret born as the historian tells us Gabriel Luna, in the basement of an Italian palace, it is dated to the same time that the Obelisk was born, it is about the year ´35.  

If we pay attention to the name Marabiu, we trace in its origin a trait deeply erotic.

Its name accounts for the silky feathers of a exotic African bird, used at that time to make the lingerie of the stars and those pompous colored boas whose sensual extravagance is associated with charleston women and brave dolls of tango. 

If we speak of luxury and prestige, we must mention the Armenonville, between the years ´10 and the crazy years ´20, whose construction model was based on its French version from which it took its inspiration.

Cabaret Buenos Aires and culture

Located on Avenida Alvear, which is now baptized under the name of Avenida del Libertador General San Martín, in the neighborhood of the Recoleta, cabaret acquired its great prestige when the great Carlos Gardel performed his first major duet performance with Jose Razzano in the new year of 1914. With a tango in his name, and mentioned in several themes, and even in a novel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, "The sueño de los heroes“, we have his memory impregnated in the culture of Buenos Aires. 

The cabarets in general they are the memory of a young and alive Buenos Aires whose memories refer to the sensuality and glamor of an era of which little remains, but from which perhaps we inherited a lot. 

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