This is an excellent opportunity for you to take your first steps on your Argentine Tango journey. This is a workshop designed to provide you with a background on Argentine Tango and to give you the beginnings of a solid foundation to have you moving on the dance floor with the music and your partner.
We look forward to meeting you and supporting you on your tango adventure!
Tango can change your world!
My world hasn’t changed because I teach tango,
I teach tango because tango changed my world…
…body, mind and spirit!
Class Topics
1:00-2:30 PM
Walking, Musical weight changes, and turns – Frame, posture, connection and positions. Tango walking, connection and movement technique. Introduction to Tango beats and rhythms.
2:30-3:00 PM – Refreshments & Break/Practice
3:00- 4:30 PM
Turns and Rock Steps – Building on what you learned in the first session. Improving and adding variety to turns. Using rock steps in all directions and syncing them to the beats. The fine art of changing your mind!
4:30-5:00 PM – Refreshments, Practice Time
Registration
Space is limited and a lead/follow balance will be maintained – please pre-register!
If you are bringing a partner you can change quantities on next page.
Tango Forever is coming to Tucson. The local tango community is all welcomed to join us dancing social tango from 7:10 to 7:50 in front of Centennial Hall on the U of A campus.
We have organized a mini-milonga with UA Presents to demonstrate for the attendees what social tango looks like. so… Calling all Tango Dancers and Voyers!!!
The entire tango community is invited to a dance tango to demonstrate the social side of tango at:
Tango Forever
Centennial Hall
7-7:50 PM on the 27th of January
All fun and all invited!!! Let’s show the attendees what social tango looks like. Every instructor/organizer in Tucson has been notified so they can tell their friends and students as well… Help us spread the word in your favorite classes and at milongas!
UA Presents is providing a table for fliers and such. All organizers and insttructors are encouraged and invited to bring tango class or event materials to distribute.
See you then if not sooner!
Even though the show tango is not what is danced social at milongas – including Buenos Aires – we do owe our roots to this type of show, especially “Tango Forever”. It was a stage show that brought tango back to life in the 1980s (the first show actually came from Paris after a couple of decades of tango darkness in Buenos Aires). Due to the political upheavals in Buenos Aires tango had all but died in its city of origin. Then after the political climate stabilized and tango made its come back -thanks to traveling shows like this one- the world began wanting to dance the tango.
There is quite literally no ‘room’ for the acrobatics, kicks and flamboyance of a stage show on the floor of a social milonga, (milonga is what a gathering of tango dancers is called) still shows like Tango Forever have been the spring board for tango inspiration all over the planet.
Thanks to the preserved music of that time, we can and do carrying on the traditions of the milongas of Buenos Aires. And Thanks to the hard work of all who have taught and organized tango in Tucson we have a thriving Argentine tango community in Tucson, Arizona. The local community has been invited to come out and demonstrate what the social side of tango looks like. We will be dancing in front of Centennial Hall from 7-7:50 PM on the night of the show January 27th.
Tucson has weekly milongas, classes and practicas and occasional workshops where anyone from any walk of life can learn tango. Tango is all about the walk and we are all about tango! Tucson sports it’s very own Argentine tango festival where upwards of 500 people gather just to dance to the beautiful music recorded at the middle of the past century. No competitions, no shows, no stage… just social dancing and a celebration of everything tango Argentino at the Tucson Tango Festival March 14-19, 2012.
Come watch or join the Tucson Tango Community as we move in rhythm and harmony to this beautiful music. We will be in front of Centennial Hall Friday January 27th, 20-12 from 7-7:50 PM dancing the Argentine Tango!
We met this special couple last year at the Tucson Tango Festival where they impressed us with their dance and their passion for the dance. Since then we have spent time with them both on and off the dance floor. Brian and Yuliana's teaching philosophy is intelligent and skillfully applied. Come and join us in Tucson to meet this couple. You will be just as impressed as we were!
Brian and Yuliana 3rd Place Mundial Buenos Aires
Third place winners at the 2011 Mundial, Buenos Aires! 2011 U.S. Tango Champions in Tango Salon!
Brian and Yuliana crossed paths at a milonga in 2007. Together they travel to Argentina a few times a year to continue their tango education with maestros. They've taught and performed in several festivals and milongas such as El Congreso in Toronto, Valentango in Portland, and La Nacional and Nocturne Milonga in NYC. They are the 2011 U.S. Tango Champions in Tango Salon, and they’ve recently won Third place in the 2011 Tango Mundial World Competition, Salon category. You can find them at Oxygen tango school in Los Angeles where they teach group classes on a weekly basis.
PRIVATE LESSONS
Contact us at 520-468-5536 or use the Contact Form to schedule your private lessons with these champions.
Private Lesson Rates:
Brian: $100, $90/hr with package of 5
Yuliana: $80/hr
Both: $120/hr
Workshop Program
Friday, January 20, 2012
7:00-8:00pm Class 1: Technique in the Embrace
8:00-11:00pm Milonguita
Saturday, January 21, 2012
1:00-2:30pm Class 2: Different Ways To Walk
3:00-4:30pm Class 3: Technique for Giros
Solar Culture Gallery Milonga
8pm to late -- not included in Workshop.
Hosted by Kate Rosalik, Music by Jo Canalli, Performances by Brian and Yuliana
31 East Toole Ave., Tucson, AZ 85701
Sunday, January 22, 2012
1:00-2:30pm: Class 4: Figures in Tango Salon
3:00-4:30pm: Class 5: Change in Dynamics for Social Dancing
6:30pm-8:30pm: Practica
Location: The Home Studio, 3305 N. Pebble Rapids Place, Tucson, AZ 85712 (please park outside the No Parking Zone - look for the signs) -- please let us know in advance so we know numbers and gender balance. Thank you.
Registration
Please contact us at 520-468-5536 if you are interested but are unable to do the entire weekend. This is a Progressive Workshop, meaning Sunday classes require Saturday foundations or a proficiency level determined by the instructors.
All 5 Classes, Milonguita and Practica for only $160 - This is a limited offering so hurry!
A La Carte -- at the door -- please let us know in advance so we know numbers and gender balance.
Friday $30 includes class and milonguita
Saturday $80 includes Milonguita and Practica
Sunday $80 includes Milonguita and Practica
Inna Rohr and Rusty Cline do a demo at Tucson Meet Yourself Festival 2011
Inna has been dancing only 14 months as of this performance, it is her public debut and she did spectacular! Good Job Inna!!
Kate Rosalik and Rusty Cline do a demo at Tucson Meet Yourself Festival 2011
Tango is a fun way to challenge your body mind connection!
Friday, October 14, 2011
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Tucson Meet Yourself – Introduction to Argentine Tango Seminar and Demo
Leo Rich Theatre
260 S Church Ave
Tucson, AZ
Announcing a monthly advanced class beginning May the 21st 1:PM – 4:30 PM
Advanced Learning Skills and Paradigms
Seeking training is more difficult for advanced dancers since they usually have full repertoires and have already dismissed certain patterns and steps from their vocabulary due to the social complexities that arise in leading or following complicated steps at . . . → Read More: Announcing a Monthly Advanced Argentine Tango Class
$75 each – 1 workshop with a 1 hour private
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