Interested in consolidating your basic techniques in tango? Janett Jackson will share some of what she has learnt in the two following workshops:

1) Sunday 27th May at 4.30pm to 5.40pm in the Don Pyatt Room at Norwood Town Hall, and
2) Sunday the 3rd June at 5.30pm to 6.40pm in the Chandelier Room at the Druid Hall, 2 Cassie Street, Collinswood.

Please bring socks and your tango shoes to the sessions. Cost is $15 (or $10 concession) per session.

Warm up your winter with three different series of tango workshops in July and August.

1) July 13th to 15th: Pedro Alvarez & Fanou Filali from Patio de Tango
2) August 10th to 12th: Anibal Montenegro & Hosanna Heinrich
3) August 25th & 26th: Carlos Costes & Amanda Michels

Remember to keep these weekends free for tango.

Hi ladies, are you looking to improve your tango technique?

A series of two women’s technique workshops with Kellie Spooner will be held on April 1 and April 15, 2012 at Eastwood Community Centre, 95 Glen Osmond Road, Eastwood (map | streetview).

These workshops will include a series of exercises designed to improve your technique in walking, connection, ochos, turns and musical adornments. The focus will be on improving your following skills, consistent posture, dissociation and musicality.

Workshop 1: Sunday, April 1 2012 (5.15pm–6.15pm)
Workshop 2: Sunday, April 15 2012 (2.00pm–3.00pm)

Skill level is Open. $15 per workshop.

To enrol in one or both workshops, please email design@siempretango.net.au or enrol in person at practica or class. Enrolments essential.

Please wear comfortable trousers and bring both socks and heels.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the workshop starts in order to warm up and organise payments.

Due to the unavailability of our regular venue due to the Fringe we are holding this week’s thursday 8th March Practica at a Warehouse rehearsal studio which also features a mirror for those interested in how their tango is looking! The location is still very central and is at the corner of James St and Light Tce, Thebarton click for map We are going from 8-10pm and cost is still $5!!
Big thanks to Ding Production’s Jo Casson for use of the hall.
See you there!

Tango music and dancing on the 17th February from 8.30pm till late. Performance by Ruth Roshan and Tango Noir will start the evening, followed by a milonga.

Tickets are $25 or $20 concession. Book in advance by phoning Coriole on 8323 8305.

Please bring a plate of food to share, Coriole wine can be bought at the venue.

‘Troilo is considered to be the greatest bandoneonist of all time. … The Buenos Aires restaurant Pichuco is named after Troilo and its walls are covered with pictures showing him at every stage of his career. At the Pichuco a pianist plays tangoes every night.’

Ref: Collier, Simon, Artemis Cooper, Maria Susana Azzi, and Richard Martin. 1995. Tango: the dance, the song, the story. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 148

Anibal Carmelo Troilo (1914-1975) was known as ‘Pichuco, el Gordo’ (The Fat Man). Hs staus in tango music is second only to Carlos Gardel’s.

Ref: Collier, Simon, Artemis Cooper, Maria Susana Azzi, and Richard Martin. 1995. Tango: the dance, the song, the story. London: Thames and Hudson. p.148

Did you know that the words ‘milonga’ and ‘bailongo’ both refer to a place where people dance? Bailar is the Spanish verb meaning to dance. Bailongo is a lunfardo word.

Lunfardo is an argot (ie a secret language/slang in French, Spanish & Catalan). It was developed at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century by people from the various less wealthy socio-economic groups in and around Buenos Aires and Montevideo possibly to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.

Refs:

http://www.planet-tango.com/lyrics/elchoclo.htm & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunfardo