Reba Perez Presents Graciela Gonzalez: Tango 'Workshops that Will Change the Way NY Dances':
Sat, Nov 3 12-2PM: WOMEN'S TECHNIQUE, GENERAL OPEN LEVEL This workshop is designed to perfect the women's technique in terms of posture, balance, attitude of the body, forward and backward ochos and giros (turns). 2:15-4:15PM: WOMEN'S TECHNIQUE, ADORNOS Int/Adv/Professional A workshop dedicated to perfecting the technique, posture and balance needed to dissociate the leg free of weight from the rest of the body and to integrate it through embellishments into the structure of the dance lead by the man, in tango, waltz and milonga. Further, it has the objective to develop the role of the woman through sensuality, musicality and attitude, so that the embellishment will become an expression of a necessity fully integrated in the dance. 4:30-6:30PM: ADORNOS, CONTINUED Int/Adv/Professional Sun, Nov 4 12-2PM: MEN'S TECHNIQUE, REFINEMENT OF THE LEAD, Int/Adv/Professional. Directed to those who want to perfect their body lead, posture, balance and walk. It is also meant for those women who want to correct the man lead (in its way, intensity and intention) from the point of view of the female interpretation of the dance. Practice is done dancing in both roles to understand the lead and how to receive it. The work uses a logical structure of steps through which participants acquire the basic elements that will allow them to master improvisation and gain freedom in the dance. 2:15-4:15PM: THE MEETING OF THE LEAD AND FOLLOW: 2 hrs of Women's or Men's Technique REQUIRED 4:30-6:30: STRUCTURE, COMMUNICATION & BEHAVIOR ON THE DANCE FLOOR OPEN LEVEL Biography Graciela Gonzales is known all over the world, particularly among the most traditional tangueros in Buenos Aires for her skill in integrating new ideas to the traditional elegant salon tango. She started dancing in 1988. Her teachers, myths of the argentine tango, were Pupy Castello, Pepito Avellaneda, Antonio Todaro, Gustavo Naveira, Juan Bruno, Tete' Nito and Elba among many others. Her teaching is completely innovative, the result of years of work dedicated to the study and understanding of the body language combined with thorough analysis of what she felt while dancing with the great milongueros. Her objective: bring the body to assume natural postures through feelings and body memory, then through rational understanding transform them into more technical postures. In this way the student can characterize the dance with his or her own personality creating a unique personal style. One of the most important of the new tango generation, her research gave birth to the first SEMINARIOS DE TECNICA PARA MUJERES (1994) and MARCACION PARA HOMBRES (1995) known all over the world. In 1997 she created her first group of tango teachers with schools in different countries (Argentina, Israel, Brazil, Germany and Italy) to promote the investigation and diffusion of the Argentine tango all over the world through her method. She taught in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Israel, United States and Chile. She was a guest artist at "Stanford Tango Week 95", "Nora's Tango Week 98", CITA 99, "Tangomagia 2000" (Amsterdam) and "Tango en Flor 2000" (Zurich) REGISTRATION $30/Single Workshop, $25/Workshop if taking more than one @ 37 W 26 St (bet 6th Ave & B'way), 9th Fl (Stepping Out) Call (212) 252-3753 or e-mail [email protected] Those taking the Women's Technique workshops are strongly urged to take the full series; it is important to be exposed to the material in Women's General Technique workshop before advancing to the Adornos workshops. To guarantee your place ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS ADVISED: please send check to Reba Perez at 90 La Salle St, #4D, NY, NY 10027; please include your phone number or e-mail address, and list the names of the workshops you are registering in.
