From: Ron & Susana Weigel (TangoSociety@AOL.COM)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2005 - 19:54:48 CST
We are pleased to announce our next session of tango courses starting at the
end of January at the Phillips Recreation Center (505 W Stoughton, Urbana). We
are offering 2 courses:
For those with [ no / very limited / distant past ] prior tango experience:
(1) Foundations of Tango ($24 for 4 weeks, 6 hrs of instruction)
Wednesdays Jan 26 - Feb 16 8:30 - 10 PM
- Our starter course, which emphasizes partner connection, musicality, and
basic navigation skills.
For those who had at least one course with us in our Fall 2004 program:
(2) Intermediate Tango (Topic: Intermediate Musicality; Improvisation in Time)
Mondays Jan 24 - Feb 14 8:30 - 10 PM
- This course will explore improvisation in playing with numerous ways of
dividing up the rhythmic structure of tango, milonga, and vals.
- For those in between:
We are continuing our program of teaching the authentic rhythmic close
embrace 'milonguero style' tango that is danced in the social dance clubs of Buenos
Aires.
If you are comfortable dancing the open embrace 'salon style' tango, we
recommend you take our transition workshop:
(3) Introduction to Tango & its Musicality ($7)
Wed Jan 19 8:30 - 10 PM
- This workshop introduces you to the most basic concepts of close embrace
connection, musicality, and navigation characteristic of the milonguero style
tango.
- If you find this workshop easy, then you will fit right into the
progression of the Intermediate Tango course. Your prior tango experience will
facilitate learning the new material in that course.
- If you find that would like a slower pace, take the Foundations of Tango
course.
Our new curriculum was well received by those who took the classes in the
Fall. The milonguero style is both easier to learn in the beginning and more
rewarding in the challenges it provides to advanced dancers (due to the endless
opportunities for improvisation). It also provides a more satisfying partner
connection and thus a better tango experience. Many tango students in numerous
communities across the US are discovering and staying with this authentic social
style of tango as danced in Argentina, happy victims of this epidemic that is
spreading rapidly across the US.
We look forward to seeing you in our classes. They are a lot of fun.
Ron Weigel & Susana Vazquez Weigel
Instructors / Organizers
Tango Society of Central Illinois
Home: Phillips Recreation Center, 505 W Stoughton, Urbana, IL 61801
Mail: PO Box 1054, Urbana, IL 61803-1054
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