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Argentine Tango in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, CA, USA, Since 2003
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Regularly scheduled events in Santa Barbara and nearby
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Classes
Tuesdays 8-9:30pm Fridays 8:30-10:30pm Saturdays 3pm-6pm Classes include Fundamentals for Beginners Technique and Tango Fitness Exercises class for all levels Material beyond the fundamentals for experienced dancers Musicality for all dancers For details, locations and complete calendar of events Click here |
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"La Milonga De Santa Barbara"
Every Friday Night
usually starts 10:30pm - and we dance as long as we like! Our weekly social dance offers a musical journey that repeatedly wins unsolicited compliments, in a beautiful ballroom. Friends, laughs, and all that's good in tango in Santa Barbara Light refreshments provided; bring your favorites. Milonga admission usually $15. For class attendees $3. For details and complete calendar of events Click here |
FOR LOCATIONS PLEASE VISIT CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Discount Packages Available.
Come dance with us; we're waiting for you!
Upcoming Special Programs
Small-group Beginner's Fundamental Workshop Weekend. Six men and six women only. Sept 18, 19. Click here for details.
Volcadas 1, 2. Ten couples. September 24, 25, 26. Click here for detail.
updates and schedule on calendar of events
| Small-group Workshop with Fardad Michael Serry A Beginner’s Fundamentals Workshop in Argentine Tango Enrollment limit 6 men and 6 women subject to gender balance 5.5 hours of closely-supervised instruction and practice in a small group designed to ensure plenty of one-on-one teacher-student interaction and rapid progress up the initial learning curve 18-19 September 2010 Santa Barbara, CA (Downtown Location) Saturday Sept 18th 4pm-5:15pm Class 1 5:15pm-5:45pm practice with supervision 6pm-6:45pm Class 2 6:45pm-7pm practice with supervision Sunday Sept 19th 4pm-5:15pm Class 3 5:15pm-5:45pm practice with supervision 6pm-6:45pm Class 4 6:45pm-7pm practice with supervision $85 per dancer ENROLLMENT LIMITED TO 6 MEN and 6 WOMEN REGISTRATION First-come, first served. email us now to receive instruction for registration (if you need a partner, way may be able to match you up with other single dancers. email us.) |
Tango Turns, Inc. Short Seminar Series
Volcadas
Sept 24, 25, 26, 2010
10 couples only
Early-bird registration through September 5, 2010
Fardad Michael Serry assisted by Lucia Ma*
* Lucia Ma & Fardad Michael Serry, winners of Argentine Tango Competition and Grand Prize ($500) at Tango Mundo Festival, Palm Springs, 2010.
About Volcadas
Volcadas are among the most dramatic and beautiful identifying figures of Argentine tango. But, have you noticed that sometimes volcadas don't look very good? That they look watered-down and insipid? Have you noticed how sometimes the volcada does not feel comfortable in the embrace? Have you seen some dancers dance only one particular version of a volcada, the same exact way, every time, in the same combination? Like a script of which you know the middle and the end as soon as you see the beginning? Have you seen a volcada with no connection to the music? Have the women ever had lower back problems after dancing some volcadas, with the same partner, or with different partners? Have you seen volcadas sometimes just fall apart? Have the men noticed sometimes the woman will surprise them with a volcada? ...
Teaching volcadas requires an understanding of what a volcada is. Similarly, learning to dance volcadas well requires an understanding of what a volcada is (not what it looks like). A volcada is conceptually, artistically, musically, more interesting and much richer than what it looks like: the woman off axis, leaning forward into the man. I approach the teaching of volcadas after years of studying them with the intention of understanding them. I experimented with them and asked questions about them for several years. I asked some of these questions from very famous teachers, and with two exceptions (Gustavo Naveira, Giselle Anne; and Alberto Paz, Valorie Hart) received incomplete, illogical, and as I found out later, even wrong answers. It is possible you have some of the same questions and you are receiving the same kind of answers now. Or perhaps the questions never occurred to you. The questions are important, and the correct answers will help you understand and dance good volcadas.
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In order to create volcadas that carry the look of the tango, the
meaning of the tango, the essence of the tango, and that are musically
meaningful, comfortable to dance, and that do not risk lower back
injury, ...About this seminar
perhaps most importantly, we first teach (and show the logic behind it) that the way the volcada looks, and the way it actually is are different, and that dancers should not try to duplicate what the volcada looks like.
Then, we teach the role of the man and the role of the woman, in the context of the structure of the dance rooted in the system of turns. We teach the leading and the expected answer to the lead. We teach the coordination of the two. We teach the proper form for the bodies of the man and the woman and the embrace before, during, and at the end of the volcada. We realize that volcadas come in a few fundamental forms, all derived from the structure of the dance rooted in the system of turns. We see that two of these fundamental forms are rarely danced as a starting point, but that they can be, and that in fact that's when these two forms are most beautiful and powerful in their projection of a meaning within the context of the dance that has a masculine and a feminine.
We will teach not only the correct technique for volcadas, but also the origin of this technique and the connection to the system of turns, to the embrace, and to fundamental musicality in tango. Then you will execute the technique with logically sound instructions and understanding. And with time, your volcadas will be musical, they will look and feel good, better, and ... maybe the best!
Volcadas are taught everywhere, but if you want to understand them really well so your volcadas look good, feel good, and carry the essence of the tango, then you will not find a more comprehensive, artistically and intellectually satisfying approach to it than the one we offer in this short seminar.
| Tentative Schedule Friday 24 Sept. 8:30-10:30pm Volcadas Class 1 10:30pm-2am La Milonga De Santa Barbara Saturday 25 Sept. 4-5:30pm Volcadas Class 2 6-7:30pm Volcadas Class 3 Sunday 26 Sept. 4-5:30pm Volcadas Class 4 6-7:30pm Volcadas Class 5 |
| Location 222 West Carrillo Street Downtown Santa Barbara |
| Seminar Tuition Early-bird rate through September 5, 2010 $120 per dancer for the full program of classes and milonga Enrollment limit is 10 couples, first come first served. Click here to register for two dancers when you have a partner (We can suggest a partner for you if you like. Email us.) Regular rate, after September 5, 2010 $150 per dancer for the full program of classes and milonga __________________________ Fees Milonga-only $15 at the door Refund Policy: A refund is given for an event only when we cancel that event. |