5 week Tango Beginners course

5 week beginners tango course on Monday nights

Starts 23 May  - 20 June inclusive

Encourage your friends to have a taste of tango

$80 for the course, no casuals please for this course - we need commitment!

arrive 7.30 for a 7.45 - 8.45 class

St John's Hall, Hardy St

Students will learn the basics of tango, walking, the embrace, la salida, ochos and musicality.  

Enough to get them moving around the milonga floor and signing up for the next course ;-)

A lean

Tecnique Class - continuing colgadas

Technique Class this Sunday starts at 4pm till 5.30 followed by the Verdict Milonga (5.30 - 8pm)

We will be continuing to look at colgadas and adding in a few little extras to help get that "wooshka" feeling!  

Sonny from Melbourne

Hope you can make it.

Tango in Golden Bay 28-29 May

In two weeks we are heading over to Golden Bay for a weekend of dancing... workshops and a milonga.  Thanks to all who have enrolled for the workshops - it is shaping up to be a fantastic weekend.
Here are the details again in case you missed them the first time around.


Workshops
Saturday 28/5/2011 

Takaka Primary School Hall   

2 - 3.30pm 

Theme: Changes of Direction 

suitable for all levels

Sunday 29/5/2011 

Takaka Primary School Hall

10.30 – 12am 

Theme: Boleo Combinations

suitable for all levels

Milonga at the Wholemeal Cafe 

Saturday 28 May 2011 

Commercial Street Takaka

The Milonga will start from 7 pm until late.  

The Wholemeal Café is open for this event and not for the general public. 

They will provide us with their famous curries and of course drinks. 

Please book with the Wholemeal Café (Phone: 03 525 9426)

Anne-Maree will be the DJ for the night with her eclectic mix of traditional and nuevo tandas.

Accommodation 

We have a range of private accommodation (free) or at the Sans Souci Inn ( $15 per person) available. 

Please book it early.

Cost 

We have kept the price low as we know most of you will be travelling from afar!

2 Workshops and Milonga cost $50.00 per person 

or single Workshop $25.00 and Milonga $10.00

Bookings 

Please book with Reto or Vera

Ph (03)525 8663

email: reto@sanssouciinn.co.nz

The Sans Souci Inn where many of us are staying

The Tango Psychologist

HAPPY EASTER!

THERE WILL BE NO EASTER SUNDAY OR EASTER MONDAY CLASS.

PRIVATES RESUME AS USUAL ON TUES.

 We will kick off the Sunday classes again on May 1st....

Hope to see you then!

How many tango shoes does a woman need?

Federico and Ines - coming to the NZ Tango Festival

Beautiful Musicality

These two young dancers will be teaching at the festival.  Check out this performance they did at La Viruta in BsAs... gorgeous!

Tango Styles

Tango Styles

Some people might find that talking about styles of Tango is a bit of a controversial subject. Whilst some tangueros will happily say they dance in a certain style, others like to say that the only Tango style there is is Tango. So, we will let you make your mind up with this and digest of some of the various flavours of Tango.  These are in chronological order! 

Canyengue

The Tango Cayengue is the earliest form of Tango. It is danced "bien pegado" (glued to each other) and very much into the ground. Definitely a fun style to try and not many teachers left to continue on the legacy.

Milonguero

The Tango Milonguero is characterised by a close embrace with the two partners leaning slightly towards each other. This posture reflects the limited space available on the crowded floor. It is the style you will come across in the busy Milongas of Buenos Aires.

Salon

The Tango Salon is one of the most popular. It is danced in a flexible sliding  embrace, staying close and opening as and when required. This is arguably the style taught and danced most widely around the world and if you were to rock up to a milonga in St Petersburg, Copenhagen, Sydney, Hong Kong, Auckland, Oslo, London... you get the picture? 

Escenario

The Tango Escenario - sometimes also called Tango for Export - is what you are likely to see in a stage show. It is characterised by an open embrace, flamboyent move with large sweeps and numerous ganchos, and foreign choreographic elements (often from ballet).

Nuevo

As Tango music keeps evolving, so does the dance. The nuevo style is characterised by a very flexible, elastic embrace, (changing between open and closed) counteracting movements and out-of-axis steps (colgadas and volcadas for example).  Nuevo though is a particularly tricky subject.  Tango masters like Gustavo Naviera and Fabian Salas for example would say that Nuevo is a period of time not a style of dance.  Anything after the 1980s in terms of composition and dance is nuevo.  Astor Pizzolla opitomises the nuevo style of composition.

My friend Klaus leading a dangerous nuevo move!

         

New Monday Class start time

Below is a link for a tango in a very small place we all know so well... your morning ritual will never be the same.

But first,

MONDAY CLASSES

NEW START TIME

6.30pm at St John's Hall

$15

All welcome, please note this class has progressed ..... 

we are doing giros at the moment so feel free to come along and brush up on your circles.

SUNDAY CLASS

This Sunday

4.30 start at St John's Hall

have fun and enjoy the following

the short and the live performance