About
We are: Joanne Canalli & Rusty Cline
What the students and other instructors say…”
Rusty and Joanne are serious and fun hard working instructors with one thing in mind: ‘Spreading the joys, traditions and culture that is tango!’ We inform, exemplify, demonstrate and teach the technique that will become your tango foundation. What you get from us is yours forever. What you get from tango will last you a life time. Tango is satisfying and rewarding, yet like all worthy endeavors it does require discipline and a proper foundation.
Rusty has a body-wise, spiritually and psychologically sound approach to his instruction. Rusty is the only local teacher with enough confidence to demonstrate and video what he teaches and post it on this web site. He knows you won’t be able to get the fine points of tango in a video, but it is a handy tool for reminding the student what they learned in class. This has put an edge on his teaching and it has helped his students improve dramatically.
Rusty has a certificate from Pima College in Exercise Design, Aerobics and Weight Training which gives him spot on body mechanics. Having been a musician since 1974 years gives Rusty a sense of timing and style that he conveys to his students. He spent his youth as an athlete in martial arts and boxing, so his body awareness is sharp and clear. He combines these skills to apply a grounded and balanced approach to the “Walking dance of Tango”. He can get inside of your movements and help you see the natural body mechanics necessary for fluid dancing. He will show you from the inside out the elements that make a step flow and work with your partner as you build your tango foundation.
Joanne’s passion and love for tango has motivated her to rise above the challenges of learning to dance while battling the stiffness resulting from scoliosis surgery at a young age. She brings the experiences and epiphanies of the struggles and breakthroughs to her students enabling them to realize that they too can attain higher levels of tango through awareness of what their body can do. Together, Joanne and Rusty are giving their students body awareness, elements, technique and musicality!
About: Rusty Cline
Rusty’s parents were avid country two steppers and country swing dancers. So of course Rusty’s was taught to partner dance in his teens. Then in 2001 he spent a year with ballroom dancing, but the allure and mystic of this sensuous dance called the Argentine Tango kept calling to him as he became further and further seduced by the movements of this flashy dance
“There is a foundation that needs to underlie all of the styles of tango and if it is missing, it is readily apparent. A good tango foundation was missing from my early local training and it appeared every time I danced outside of Tucson.
“I began seeking training else where at festivals learning from instructors like: Murat Erdemsel, Julio Balmaceda, Cecilia Gonzales, Luis Bianchii and Daniela Pucci (just to name some that changed me forever, the list is huge!!) and another very influential factor has been the immersion techniques as taught by Susanna Miller in 2009. I found out the hard way that most of our local Tucson tango instructors were teaching from videos, and/or from a ballroom-method-pattern-oriented-syllabus that is frowned upon by the greats. I knew from all of my other training that video instruction would not suffice as a tool of higher learning. And I wanted the real thing from a real person that really dances tango.
Tango isn’t mysterious or so complicated you can’t grasp it, in the end tango is all about information, but there is specific information that without the application there of you will fail in any attempt to dance with strangers like at our festival or when they visit from out of town at our local milongas, which happens frequently. We teach the necessary foundation to learn to dance real and authentic Argentine tango!
We can help you find your style in tango. I will give you the skills to let the music and your partner’s ability mandate what happens next. Tango is not a dance where we force patterns on one another. I lead and then I follow what I lead inspiring movement that open doors for new steps for both followers and leaders. The attributes you will learn studying Tango are sure to enhance your life, your dance and your love of this beautiful music.”
My job as an instructor is to teach you to find your own style by providing you the proper tango foundation. Good leading and following in tango has common ground with room to be yourself. My words can only be a small slice of the alluring scrumptious recipe that makes tango so special and so popular.
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About: Joanne Canalli
Joanne started her dance life at Arizona Ballroom Company as a student, falling in love with ballroom during her first introductory lesson. She soon became an avid and intense learner, taking lessons almost every day of the week. ABC very quickly became her home away from home and Joanne realized the next step in her dance journey was to become an instructor. It was during this period that Joanne was introduced to Argentine Tango by Rusty Cline and her passion was fully realized.
AArgentine Tango instantly became her primary focus. Joanne has invested a great deal of floor time on lessons and practice. It wasn’t long before she began attending Tango Festivals around the US. Her first major festival was the Portland TangoFest and it was her first adventure in dancing outside of her own community and the impact of the experience opened her eyes to what Tango is to the world outside of her home community. From Portland, Joanne has since danced in various cities around the US and in Australia. Joanne ventured down to Buenos Aires in 2005 to study and learn from the masters of the dance. Joanne is passionate about learning and takes every opportunity to develop her skills and techniques from the many experienced and insightful teachers around the globe.
During her dance journey, Joanne struggled with an inherent stiffness generated by a scoliosis surgery rod implant in her spine at a young age. She has always felt that this would be an impediment to her reaching an advanced level of dance. To her surprise she is now doing moves with her body that she thought would never be part of her repertoire. Her strength and flexibility have both improved due to the intense work she has put into learning tango. The lesson Joanne has learned from this personal experience is that dance is a possibility in most anyone’s life, regardless of age or physical abilities.
Joanne would love nothing more then to introduce Argentine Tango into the lives of as many people as possible. Her philosophy towards teaching is that it should be fun and the student should leave at the end of each lesson with a wonderful feeling in their heart, a big smile on their face and the certainty of having learned something new while eagerly looking forward to more.
What they are saying about Joanne and Rusty…
Thanks you for all of your advise and critique. I am paying for critique, not compliments. Having taught university for 40 years, all my best students would concur. Unlike the first year learning steps, we do not get tired in your classes even though I play tennis 8-10 a.m. on Thursdays.
We really appreciate both of your instructional efforts very much. You both are making tango a joy, which will make us return to Buenos Aires to dance instead of being tourists in a lovely city. Thank you. Richard
Richard Maerker
Probably one of the most important of the many epiphanies that come from leading Tango is this. It is not about putting right foot there and left foot here while twisting your body thusly! It is about having the correct posture with a soft, comfortable and stable embrace, the most intense sense of connection that you can imagine and the ability to maintain that connection and embrace while moving your partner and yourself gracefully from point A to point B in compass with the music and the other couples on the floor. Your reward for doing this will be that dreamy little smile on her face as you slowly let the embrace melt away at the end of the tanda.
Really good instruction embraces (pun intended) and facilitates this mindset. I think that as more of our instructors realize this and begin to emphases learning/teaching from a deconstructed point of reference as Rusty and Jo have. We will see less of leaders trying to do their moves just so, while obstructing the line of dance. And, we will see more emphasis on connection, posture, embrace and walk.
All of the “Moves” are just marketing…. After you’ve spent a ton of money forgetting them you realize that Tango lives in a network of connection, connection to the music, with your partner, with the other couples on the floor, the energy of the milonga and most of all, in that little smile at the end of the tanda
Richard M. Maerker 2009.
Murat & Michelle Erdemsel
“Rusty and Jo are rare personalities in the tango scene. Their philosophy of teaching and dancing is inspirationally caring and generous. Tucson is lucky to have such a wonderful couple.”
- Michelle and Murat Erdemsel – M&M
Jack Kennedy:
“What you’re [doing] here is what has attracted me to your classes. In spite of the fact that I have been in tango for more than ten years, I feel that I need to totally rebuild my dancing from scratch, in order to attain the objective you lay out. My intention is to do that, and I occasionally have moments when I realize that I will be able to do so. But, for the time being, I will continue only flailing at the effort.
“I have also been wanting to tell you that I am really impressed by what you have accomplished in just a few short years. I do recall when you started in Michael’s classes a few years ago. I hope you’re not offended when I say that I thought you were a total clutz on the dance floor then. I simply don’t know how you have done it. But, with every class I attend, I realize that you have penetrated deeply into both the physics and the feeling of the dance, to a level that is well beyond anything I have been able to achieve. I look forward to studying with your considered guidance for a very long time. And I hope you will continue to put up with this “drop-in” student.
Thanks very much for being a part of our tango community. I hope you and Joanne will stay here forever.
- Jack Kennedy
Gato y Andrea (Hugo Valdez y Andrea Monti)
Rusty & Joanne are excellent people. They are very involved in the tango world and culture. They are tireless in their study every time we see them they have dramatically improved their dancing. They are always learning more and more about the dance, the music, the different orchestras and the culture. They have a solid understanding of the tango and its codigos.
These are the things that make them good instructors. Thank you for passing this information along to your students. We look forward to working with them again next year.
- Gato y Andrea
Joanne Canalli – Rusty’s foremost tango student:
“Rusty Cline was my first Tango teacher and to this day is still my primary Tango teacher. Without Rusty’s love and dedication to tango and his knowledge of body awareness I most likely would not have reached the level of dance that I am currently at.
I have taken many lessons with various Master’s of Tango, and what I hear in their lessons is what Rusty has already been passing on to me. His continued awareness of himself as being a lifelong student of tango has enriched my personal learning experience as he is always ready to gain new knowledge and pass that on to his students. He does not cloak himself in mystery or restrict himself to that frequently erroneous belief of “this is tango that is not tango”. His willingness to acknowledge the beauty and intricacy of all styles of tango has lead me down a path of openness and acceptance in my tango lifestyle. This openness enables me to strive towards being a participating and active follower for any leader.
Thank you Rusty Cline for being such a shining catalyst in my life adventure!”
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rusty (17.12.2009 20:47h): John Francis Didn’t Speak for 17 Years
rusty (15.12.2009 23:13h): Junkyard Genius
rusty (12.12.2009 21:31h): Women Can Save The Human Race!
rusty (02.12.2009 05:58h): Chelsea Hotel – Tribute to Leonard Cohen
rusty (01.12.2009 14:03h): Lounging Around in the Coals
rusty (12.11.2009 20:33h): Reflections on a Passing Year
rusty (20.10.2009 22:08h): Buying Your Own Excuses
rusty (15.10.2009 22:43h): Life, Liberty and Gratitude
rusty (27.09.2009 18:15h): Rusty & Jo’s @ Jeremy’s
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