Argentine Tango in Gainesville, Florida

Tuesday Nights:

David Chayes, Argentine Tango Class Tailored to Blind People

Time: 6pm-8pm
Place: Tango y Te’
601 S Main St.
Gainesville, FL 32601
Free parking in back

Download flyer: http://www.tangoyte.com/tango for blind.doc

Wednesday Nights:

Event: Andrea Pham -  Wednesday Group Tango Class
http://www.treasurecoasttango.com/id70.html
pham.andrea@gmail.com

WEDNESDAYS September 2 – October 7, 2009
Absolute Beginners: 7:10 – 8:10 p.m.
Tango Exploration: 8:10 pm – 9:15 pm with a 45′ practice time after that.
Fee: $48 for a 6 week session, or $10 for drop-in.
Location: 7916 NW 35 Place

Everybody is welcome, no partner needed. Tango Exploration is for people with over 8 months and a lot of travels to dance outside the local communities. For learners without or with very little experience, please email me NOW for a space in the next session when we start a class for beginners: pham.andrea@gmail.com.

Location: 7916 NW 35 Place, Gainesville, FL 32606
Andrea is also available for private lessons.
Free parking on street.

Be sure to take lessons with this great teacher.

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Thursday Nights:

6:00 PM: UF Argentine Tango Club Practicalonga

TANGO at HILLEL
Time: 6-8pm on Thursdays
Location: 2020 W University Ave (2nd floor usually)
Cost: free
Open to all

Event: UF Argentine Tango Club on Thursday Nights
“Come Dance Under the Stars”

Time:  10:00 p.m – 2:00 a.m.

Location:  Shooting Star Restaurant – Tango Night
Open to all. No partner needed.
(outside patio – no cover charge)

Street:  203 SW 2nd Avenue, downtown Gainesville

Join UF Argentine Tango Club Facebook and be notified of all events http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=18880286024

Friday Nights:

UF Argentine Tango Club

(Note*: Student Rec Center activities are restricted to UF Students with ID. But Off-campus events (like “Tango at Hillel” and “Tango Under the Stars” as noted above) are open to the community – so sign up to be notified of weekly events.)
8:00 – 10:00 p.m.  (Not open during University breaks and finals week, but yes they are open during the summer semesters.)
Free lesson at 8:00 p.m. – 8:30. No partner needed – Free Practica 8:30 till 10:00 p.m.
Teachers: Alper & Irene usually.
Student Recreation and Fitness Center,
Second Floor, Room 2
265 Fletcher Drive, UF Campus

Use the map below – don’t count on Google Maps or your GPS to get you here accurately.

Map to Student Recreation & Fitness Center on UF Campus and Parking

PARKING: On Friday nights when there is a home football game the next day (in 2009: Sept 4, 11, 18, Oct 16, Nov 6, 20, 27), come a bit early and park in O’Connell Center or Reitz Union parking lots or wherever you can find and walk to the Student Recreation and Fitness Center (SRFC.) Otherwise park free in any Orange Decal parking lot close to the SRFC after 5:00 p.m.

Join UF Argentine Tango Club Facebook and be notified of events  http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=18880286024

http://campusmap.ufl.edu/details.php?bldg=0265

Or  subscribe to the UF Tango Club email list to get email notices.
Send a message to LISTSERV@lists.ufl.edu In the message body write: “subscribe TANGO-L”

Saturday Nights:

Tango y Te’ Milonga

Usual Time and Location:
7:30 p.m. – Midnight
$10.00 (includes free lesson 7:30 – 8:30)
All ages welcome, no partner needed
Coffee, Tea, fruit, desserts served
This milonga is in traditional Buenos Aries Porteno style.
90% classical Tango from the Golden Age played, excellent for social dancing. Large, open wood floor.
http://www.tangoyte.com/
Sign up for email notices:
http://groups.google.com/group/tango-y-te
601 S. Main Street
Gainesville, FL 32601
Free parking in back.

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Tango & Milonga workshops in Gainesville with Victoria & Federico

Date:	Saturday, December 5, 2009
Time:	1:00pm – 6:00pm
Location:	Unified Training Center
Street:	809 West University Avenue
City/Town:	Gainesville, FL

We are delighted to have our friends from Tampa returning to Gainesville for another set of workshops to help you improve your Argentine Tango. Please join us and feel free to invite your friends!

Schedule:

1:00pm – 2:30pm: Tango – Weight Changes and Playing with the beat
In this workshop we will focus on traditional steps practicing changes of weight while playing with the beat. This workshop will be used as a building block for the next two workshops.
Level: All Levels

2:45pm – 4:15pm: Tango Canyengue
In this workshop we will focus on “Cortes & Quebradas” (dissociation of upper & lower body with sharp moves). Tango Canyengue uses all traditional steps of traditional tango bringing musicality and playfulness to the steps. Tango Canyengue is a lot of fun!

Note: We will not teach the canyengue style, but use its musicality as a tool for fun steps that can be used in tango and in milonga.
Level: All Levels

4:30pm – 6:00pm: Milonga Lisa & Traspie
This class will focus on the basics of Milonga Lisa & Milonga Traspie. Whether you are a new or experienced Milonga dancer, you will learn how to play with the rhythm variations of the Milonga music.
Level: All Levels

NOTE: All of the workshops are inter-related. The steps, concepts and technique of each workshop are building blocks for the following one eventually applying all of what was learned to the rhythm of Milonga.

1 workshop: $20
2 workshops: $35
3 workshops: $50 ($45 for students with valid ID)

Pre-registration is encouraged!

Contact/Registration/Questions/More Info:
Victoria Sarquisse & Federico Jorquera
(813) 920-3330
info@TampaTangoArgentino.com
http://www.tampatangoargentino.com/

Tango Workshop Friday 11-27-09 Gainesville

Dubravko Kakarigi from Tallahassee is going to be here giving a Tango workshop Friday night from 9:00 p.m. -11:00 p.m. at Tango y Te’ 606 S. Main Street. Subject will be Musicality: 1 hour on Vals and 1 hour on Milonga. Cost will be $5.00.

Workshops in Gainesville, FL on Saturday October 3rd, 2009 with Victoria & Federico

Workshops in Gainesville, FL on Saturday October 3^rd, 2009

with Victoria & Federico

www.TampaTangoArgentino.com

Musicality and Essential Basics: Theory and practice.

This workshop will focus on the basics of tango musicality focusing on ‘musical cues’ on how to move with the rhythm and melody. Federico and Victoria will center the attention on the art of ‘creative’ walking and dancing to the music, reminiscent of drawing music with your feet and always embracing the music.  Understanding tango musicality is what makes a good dancer, a GREAT one!

This is a course for all levels of tango dancers.

Time: 1 pm to 2:30 pm

Molinete and its variations – including sacadas and barridas-

This workshop will focus on the possibilities of the molinete including elements of improvisation allowing the dancers to create their own figures in the line of dance.  This workshop is great for beginners but also recommended for more advanced dancers who feel locked into dancing only set patterns and would like to dance more creatively.

This workshop will be a multilevel workshop; however it is required to know the basic concept of molinete (grapevine).

Time: 2:45 pm to 4:15 pm

Dissociation: Voleos and Ganchos

This workshop will focus on the dissociation technique and the complexities of dissociation through contra body movements, maintaining frame and axis.  Voleos and Ganchos will be the focal point of this workshop using the right posture of the body, the right lead, and the correct placement of the lady’s leg.

This workshop will be for the intermediate or advanced tango dancer.

Time: 4:30 pm to 6 pm

The workshops are 90 minutes each.  We recommend bringing high heels and lower heels for the ladies and comfortable clothing.

Prices:

1 workshop $ 20

2 workshops $ 35

3 workshops $ 50

* Students discount (with a valid student ID) 3 workshops $ 45

Schedule:

1 pm to 2:30 pm: Musicality and Essential Basics: Theory and practice.

2:45 to 4:15 pm: Molinete and its variations – including sacadas and barridas-

4:30 pm to 6 pm :  Dissociation: Voleos and Ganchos

LOCATION: 601 S Main Street, Gainesville, FL 32601

REGISTRATION:  info@TampaTangoArgentino.com or 813 920 3330 – www.TampaTangoArgentino.com

Mimi Santapa Workshops

Mimi Santapa Workshop coming  June 19-21, 2009 – Tallahassee; June 26-28, 2009 – Gainesville

Watch for Updates

by David Chayes

Thanks to Gordon Erlebacher, Mimi Santapa will be in Florida from June 19 through June 28, to teach…US!!!

Mimi’s depth of understanding of tango is inexhaustible and profound. So much, that she is in Argentina a legend, and so was her father (“el Marioneto”) who taught her.

This year, like last year, we expect that the best dancers of various towns will come to participate in her workshops and to take private lessons with her. Only, due to word of mouth spreading of Mimi’s reputation, we expect 1000% OR SO MORE of them to come. Gordon and I are working on improving the framework for her teachings to be more easily received, BEFORE she arrives. The necessity of preparation was impressed on many, including myself: I found myself, over time, on many occasions as I was studying, discovering, and integrating concpepts of tango technique, saying to myself: “Aha! THAT’S what Mimi was talking about!”

The idea is this: Mimi has created, in her own person, priceless values. We are working hard to help prepare the way so she can deliver those values to as many people as possible.

Mimi Santapa grew up as a girl, observing her father, Mariano Leotera, teaching the tango dancers of his generation. Mr. Leotera, nicknamed “el Marioneta” was himself a famous dancer of the golden age of tango. His lasting achievement is his development of an integrated understanding of tango, and a methodical way of teaching it (his collection of 30 patterns still serve as the basis for many tango teachers’ methods today.)

Mimi witnessed many great dancers pass trough the hands of her father, among them the late Carlos Gavito and Juan Carlos Copes, who were in the same class together!

When Mimi teaches, she reminds us often: “these are just the things my father taught me, with a few things I added through my own understanding of the body.” Mimi is, like her father, an integrator. Her knowledge of tango is related seamlessly with her understanding of the body, which she practices as a podiatrist in Buenos Aires, where she also runs her tango academie.

Today, many of the great tango performers know about “Mimi’s secrets” about posture and balance. Her power is, in the words of Gordon Erlebacher, in “making the invisible, visible.” Gordon, who met Mimi in France, is responsible for introducing Mimi to North Florida in 2008, first in Tallahasse, and then with our cooperation in Gainesville.

There will be 6 days of workshops between Tallahassee and Gainesville. The cost will be $20 workshop. If you participate in 2 cities, the second series will cost $15 per workshop.

(Clarification: Friday’s workshops are $20, and the rest of the workshops are $25 individually but $80 for 4.

For example: All 12 workshops would be $120 + $90.
8 would be $120 + $30. (i.e. 6 in Gainesville, 2 in Tallahassee.)

TALLAHASSEE:

http://www.tangotallahassee.com

Friday June 19:
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm: men technique (walking, balance, posture)
(more experienced women can attend if interested)

8:45 pm – 10:15 pm : woman technique (walking, adornos, giros)
(more experienced men can attend if interested)

10:15 pm – midnight : practilonga

Saturday June 20:
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm : (Tango) Contrafrente and variations
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm  : (Vals) giros and rythmic variations

8 pm : Milonga at Arthur Murray Dance Studio

Sunday June 21:
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm : (Tango) Enrosques
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm : (Milonga) Use of rythm, double time

GAINESVILLE:

http://www.tangoyte.com

http://www.tangoyte.com/mimi2009.php

Friday June 26:
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm: men technique (walking, balance, posture)
(more experienced women can attend if interested)

8:45 pm – 10:15 pm : woman technique (walking, adornos, giros)
(more experienced men can attend if interested)

Saturday June 27:
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm : (Tango) caminatas and variations
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm  : (Vals) giros and rythmic variations

8:00 pm : Milonga at Tango y Te’

Sunday June 28:
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm : (Tango) (giros, sacadas, double time)
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm : (Milonga) In and out of traspie

NOTE: There are only 1 or 2 more hours of Private Lesson slots available in Gainesville.

Contact David Chayes david.chayes@gmail.com for more information.