YVONNE MEISSNER & EDUARDO AGUIRRE TANGO WORKSHOPS IN NYC June 20-25 Fri 6/22, 6-8pm: Tango de Salon Apilado: The Close Hold: Start right with correct posture and quickly have fun. For all who wish to explore close styles like de Salon or Milonguero or who want to improve their technique. Open level.
Sat 6/23, 2-4pm: Characteristics of Tango de Salon: How to Maneuver in a Busy Salon: Movement Schemes and Floorcraft for a Well-Working Ronda in a Social Setting: Open Level. Sat 6/23, 4:30-6:30pm: How to Keep the Attention of Your Partner at All Times Open level. Sun, 6/24, 2-4pm: Seduce Your Partner with Rhythm Int and Adv. Sun 6/24, 4:30-6:30pm: Dance as a Three Dimensional Image of the Music Part I: Tango Valses de Canaro y D'Arienzo: Music interpretation, letting movement figures serve the music. Int/Adv or previous workshop with Yvonne and Eduardo required. Mon 6/25, 7-9pm: How Dance Becomes a Three Dimensional Image of the Music Part II: Tango Valses de Canaro y D'Arienzo. Adv only or for those who attended Part I. DOOR: $35/workshop; $30/workshop if taking more than one; $165/full series (6 workshops) BEFORE 6/22: $30/workshop; $25/workshop if taking more than one; $150/full series (6 workshops) Fri, Sat & Sun @ La Estacion @ You Should Be Dancing, 412 8th Ave @ 31st St, 4th Fl Mon @ Champions, 300 W 43rd St, 3rd Fl To register call (212) 244-0011 YVONNE MEISSNER has been dancing tango since 1987. She has studied Tango de Salon with Pepito Avellaneda, Susanna Miller and Tete and Maria, Canyengue with Pocho Pizarro and Tango Fantasia with Vanina Billois and Gustavo Naveira. From 1993 she brought the first milongueros like Cacho Dante to Holland and later Europe. She has been teaching Tango de Salon apilado since 1993 (milonguero style) and performing in dance schools and festivals in Europe since 1994. Yvonne first taught in the U.S. at the 2000 Ithaca Festival, partnering Eduardo Aguirre, next to Miguel Angel Zotto and Angeles. Body technique for tango is her specialty, using her background in Contact Improv, Modern Dance and Alexander Technique. She teaches the use of the torso and torsion, synchronization of the movement of the couple and interaction between lead and follow. The goal: a dialogue of the bodies, one heart and four legs... EDUARDO AGUIRRE is one of the most interesting and authentic milongueros of the older generation of Buenos Aires, where he is honored in the most traditional milongas. From 1991-1996 he taught in Salon Almagro. During 1998 and 1999 he taught at several milongas including Niño Bien. The TV Channel Solo Tango has featured Eduardo in a series of interviews as well as several didactic lessons on Tango de Salon. He has performed in different milongas and in Teatro Alvear. His 1999-2001 tours with Yvonne took him to Turkey, Austria, Germany, England, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, France and the U.S. His dance is extremely vivid and is characterized by staccato, unexpected changes of direction that in the next second turn into incredibly soft movements, always playing with quick and slow tempi. Musicality and rhythmical studies will be a focus of their teaching, aiming at their speciality of Canaro or D'Arienzo Valses. Visit www.xs4all.nl/~disegno/tango/yvonne/
