Get ready for another set of excellent tango workshops by highly regarded
visiting tango instructors from Chicago - Fred and Yermen Romero. Come and
see why so many people are raising their voices in praise at their excellent
instruction. Their no-nonsense teaching approach is designed so that you will
learn. So come and take home some material you can really use in your
dancing.
The next session of workshops by Fred and Yermen Romero is next Saturday
March 8. This session will be in the AFTERNOON (note departure from usual
time) and will be located at the Illinois Disciples Foundation (note
departure from usual location). The schedule is as follows:
1:00 - 2:30 PM Salon style tango
2:45 - 4:15 PM Milonguero style tango
Location:
Wilcoxen Room (2nd floor)
Illinois Disciples Foundation
Springfield & Wright, Champaign.
There is parking in the lot adjacent to the building. Enter the lot from
Stoughton Street (one block north of Springfield). Use the spaces on the
south end of the lot (next to Springfield).
Cost: $25 for 1 workshop, $40 for 2.
Workshop Descriptions:
Salon Style Tango
This is the popular elegant style of tango that arose in Buenos Aires during
the 1940s, the Golden Age of Tango, and is the foundation from which stage
tango evolved. This workshop will concentrate on building patterns within the
context of navigation around the dance floor, stressing techniques of leading
and following, as well as showing opportunities for building an improvised
dance while providing expression to the music.
Milonguero Style Tango [ NEW!! NEW!!! NEW!!! }
Milonguero style tango evolved during the 1950s in Buenos Aires and is
becoming increasingly popular in North America today. It is a style of tango
usually danced to the syncopated rhythms of tango music played by orchestras
such as D'arienzo, Biagi, and Rodriguez. Thus, it is the preferred style of
dancing for a different type of music than that for which salon style tango
is preferred. Milonguero style tango plays within the rhythm, structuring a
dance that uses mostly familiar tango steps (but some new adaptations as
well) with variable but mostly predictable rhythmic changes in improvised
sequences to progress around the dance floor. Milonguero style tango is also
characterized by compact use of space, and adaptations in leading and
following needed for moving with rhythmic variability in a compact space.
Ron & Susana
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Society of Central Illinois, visit our website:
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