Hi Tangueros

I am excited to announce that Libertango will be hosting an tango teacher from Buenos Aires from 20 to 26 October. Cape Town tangueros will enjoy a range of workshops, milonga and performances. Fernando Gabriel Romero (Chucky) hails from Rosario (the home town of Che Guevara!) and has taught at the DNI school of Buenos Aires (http://dni-tango.com) . Since leaving DNI almost two years ago he has been developing his dancing and teaching independently. Currently based in Europe, Chucky has been teaching in Ireland and recently performed at the Tango en Punta Festival in Bregenz, Austria. This is a wonderful opportunity for Capetonian tangueros to take your dancing one step further- to deepen your technique, and appreciation of the dance and to improve your movement. Let's celebrate the beauty of the dance and dive into this expansive art form. Chucky has been invited to South Africa by Erik Peers in Johannesburg and will be assisted by Gail Walters in the workshops. Watch a recent video of Chucky dancing with Sayaka Higuchi. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_zT5hW3CBA&noredirect=1)

Libertango aims to expose Capetonian tangueros to as many good tango teachers as possible so that we can develop as dancers and enjoy the infinite richness of tango. I have taken lessons with Chucky in Buenos Aires and can vouch for his good teaching methods. Chucky will also offer private lessons at R450 per hour. Please book with me.

Please see the programme below.

** Programme for Chucky's visit

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Sunday 20 October - 3:30 - 5:00 pm (all levels) Fundamental Technique for Dancing Tango -  Body awareness, building the presence in the dance and connecting in one embrace - R130

Monday 21 October - Milonga 1-  7:00- 8:30 pm (All Levels) Why you don't need to leave the floor in milonga, tools to dance with confidence exploring the different directions in milonga - R130

Wednesday 23 October - 6:30 - 8:00 pm (post-beginners) Introduction to Giros - Different movement from a single step, how to develop the giro from the element of a step - R130

Wednesday 23 October - Milonga 2 -  8:15 - 9:45 pm (intermediate -advanced) How to transmit and receive clearly the little movements in milonga. Displacing circular and lineal movements - R130

Thursday 24 October - 7:00- 8:30 pm (intermediate - advanced) Unlocking the Giro and finding it's graceful centre;  developing your fluid embrace to free you and your partner to move naturally - R130

Saturday 26th October: 7:00 - 8:30 pm Premilonga Workshop - Dancing with Musicality: Walk in the rhythm, starting to discover the melody and the possibility it provides to dancers. The voice as an instrument for dancing to the tango song - Workshop only R110

8:30 to midnight- Milonga - Tango Demos by Fernando Romero and Rachael Glaser; and Erik Peers and Gail Walters - Milonga Only R40 (Workshop and Millonga R150)

If you are unsure which workshops are suitable for you, please ask me.

Tango Abrazos

Rachael

082 255 7829

Exciting news for tango lovers. February is going to be packed full of tango from exotic Istanbul. Murat Elmadagli and Elif Burcu Celik are some of Turkey's top tango dancers. Murat is the owner of IstanbulTANGO and is organiser of Istanbul's Premier tango event, the TangotoIstanbul Festival (www.tangotoistanbul.com) where the cream of Buenos Aires' teachers come to teach and perform.

They will be in Cape Town for a whistlestop visit. Take advantage of these wonderful learning opportunities. Here is a video of Murat and Elif dancing in Ankara just two weeks ago.

Tuesday 5 February: Milonga - Tango Rhapsody with performance by Murat and Elif -  7 - 10 pm  R60

Venue: Rhapsody's Greenpoint, 83 Somerset Road

Wednesday 6 February :
1. Workshop 1. Ganchos for Men and Women: the technique , the mentality and putting them into a combination at the end -  7:15 - 8:30 pm -  R130   INTERMEDIATE - ADVANCED (NA room upstairs)
2. Workshop 2: Musicality! What every tango dancer has to know . Working with Rhythmn and beat and how to play with them 8:45 - 10pm -  R130  ALL LEVELS (NA room upstairs)

Venue: Observatory Community Centre*

Thursday 7 February
1. Workshop 3: Learn sacadas for men and women in the sacada game:
6:45 - 8:00pm - R130 ALL LEVELS (Room 2)
2. Workshop 4: The art of walking in close embrace, what does a woman and man want from the embrace? Hints to make a space between during the dance of close embrace.
8:15 - 9:30 pm  ALL LEVELS R130 (Hall downstairs)

Venue: Observatory Community Centre*

Saturday 9 February

1. Workshop 5: Close embrace colgadas that you can do on the dance floor without disturbing anyone
2- 3:15pm R130 INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED (NA ROOM)

Venue:  Observatory Community Centre*

2.  Premilonga Workshop: Volcada Fundamentals - making a comfortable, beautiful volcada for the woman 7:15 - 8:30 pm R150 (Lesson and milonga included)
3.  MIlonga and Performance:8:30 - midnight (R60) for milonga only (please arrive 8:30pm)

Venue: iKhaya Lodge, Dunkley Square, Gardens (off Wandel Street)
See map

*Corner Rawson and Collingwood Roads Observatory, FREE SECURE PARKING
See map

Pay R700 instead of R800 for ALL 6 workshop and milonga with performance at iKhaya Lodge

Pay  R480 instead of R540 for all 4 ALL LEVELS workshops and milonga with performance at iKhaya Lodge

Dancers must pay for all lessons and milonga upfront at the first lesson.

(Christmas vouchers are redeemable for the Deal)

iKhaya Lodge is offering 10% off room prices for programme participants. You will pay only R765 per room per night instead of R850 (sleeps two)

www.ikhayalodge.co.za

Tango dancers are very fortunate to have Rocio Lequio in South Africa in June 2012 as part of the DNI tango school's World Tour. Rocio is a gorgeous dancer and teacher, a leader and follower. Rocio is begin sponsored by Erik Peers of Tango La Plata in Johannesburg.

Rocio is a senior teacher of the DNI school (www.dni-tango.com). Founded by Dana Frigoli and Pablo Villaraza, the school is one of the most popular in Buenos Aires, and known for its very acessible interpretation of tango technique called "Concetual Tango Technique" or TTC. Rocio will be giving three lessons in Cape Town which incorporate the thinking of TTC. She will also perform with Erik Peers at the Gran Milonga Africana on Friday 22 June.

 What is Conceptual Tango Technique?

1. It is a tango teaching methodology
2. The methodology can be applied to the closed ,open or flexible embrace
3. It provides dancers with a  vocabulary which allows them to analyse their own dancing with the aim of achieving greater fluidity.
4. It relates natural body movements with the movements of the tango. It is accessible for dancers of all levels.
5. It is a very broad technique and offers an analytical tool to investigate all areas of the tango, from classic elements like the giro , to newer elements like colgadas.

I have studied TTC quite extensively while living in Buenos Aires. It has helped me to understand how the whole body moves when dancing a figure, not just the steps or the embrace. For example, in teaching a sacada, the teacher will explain position of the hips, connection with the floor, posiitioning of the elbow, the embrace etc. In this way we learn to understand how our body works when we dance tango and open ourselves to the infinite opportunities the dance offers.

Dancers! Take up the challenge to learn someting new! Even if your technical background is different, a new perspective makes your dancing stronger and your perspective wider. Expanding your encounters is a way to grow your tango and develop your own style.

Programme:

Thursday 21 June 18:30 20:00,: Introduction to Conceptual Tango Technique and how it applies to common tango movements (
Venue: To be confirmed
Cost: R150

Thursday 21 June 20:15 - 21:45: How to use sacadas when dancing tango
Cost R150

Friday 22 June 19:30 - 21:00 Premilonga lesson with Rocio "Rhythmic structures for dancing tango (Introducing elements to dance with more musicality
21:00 - midnight Gran Milonga Africana with performance with Rocio Lequio and Erik Peers (Tango La Plata)
Cost: R150 for lesson and milonga or R70 for milonga with performance

Lesson, milonga and performance is great value for R150!