Workshops for TangoFest 2010

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Sign up for the pre-Festival Workshop being offered in Surry Hills this year!!

For the first time in TangoFest's history, we are offering a pre-Festival preparation workshop to brush up on your tango skills or learn new ones!! The course is designed for tango dancers of all levels and will be held by two of this years TangoFest Teachers, Belen Silva and Diego Gonzalez. Click here for more details.

Mudgee Workshops

A. Como bailar en un campeonato

Rules, counsels, and sequences

B. Movement combinations dancing in the Milonga

C. You Can Dance

Sydney Workshops

1. Techniques for Ladies

Posture, equilibrium, and giros (turns)

2. Rebotes: Diferentes direcciones y tiempos musicales

Combinations of rebounds and blocks in different timing of the music

3. Body Control – Breathing in key movements

4. Alteraciones en caminata paralela y cruzada

Changes in the line of dance, alterations in the space of dance, rhythmic accentuation

5. Techniques for Men

Posture, equilibrium, and giros (turns)

6. Cambios de direccion en el pivot de la mujer

Options at different times in the women pivot

7. Vals – Circular movements keeping the techniques and posture

8. Giros: Bloqueos y doble tiempo dentro del mismo

Exploration of the elements of the turn and it's dynamics. Coordination in music.

9. Complex Sequences with closed embrace

10. Marca, Giros, Giros y Sacadas

11. Barridas: Variantes con diferents resoluciones

Sweeps combined: technique, leading and dynamics

12. Combinations of Giros for both sides with sacadas and ganchos

13. Milonga - Lisa y Traspie

Musicality, steps and markings

14. Ejes compartido y fueras de eje en abrazo cerrado

How to understand the lead of a step in off-axis, or how to share one axis. Resources for a safe dance, working in close embrace.

15. Planeos - Agujas y enrosques

Adornments

16. Como bailar en la Milonga

Codes of the Milonga and hjow do dance in a crowded space

17. Combinations of sacadas, ganchos and boleos

18. Postura, elegancia, y musicalidad

Posture, elegance and musicality with both men and women working together

19. Vals – Complex Movements in small places

20. Tango Villa Urquiza

Basic concepts and sequences

21. Milonga Lisa y Traspie – How to combine them

22. Giros combinados

Turns and counter turns, techniques