GRACIELA GONZALES will be in New York City for two Days of Workshops, Sat & Sun, Oct 26 & 27
Saturday, October 26 3-5pm: Workshop 1: Women's Technique, General 5:30-7:30pm: Workshop 2: Women's Technique, Adornos Sunday, October 27 1-3pm: Workshop 1: Refinement of the lead - for Men 3-5pm: Workshop 2: Refinement of the lead - for Men 5:30-7:30pm: The Women Meet the Men (FULL WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION, BELOW) Graciela Gonzales is world known as a tango teacher and dancer. She is well known 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 Argentine tango, were Pupy Castello, Pepito Avellaneda, Antonio Todaro, Gustavo Naveira, Juan Bruno, Tete, Nito and Elba, among others. Her teaching method is innovative, the result of years dedicated to the study of body language combined with a thorough analysis of what she felt dancing with the great milongueros. The following objective synthesizes her work: 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. She is among the most important personalities of the new tango generation. Her research work gave birth to the first SEMINARIOS DE TECNICA PARA MUJERES, workshop on women's technique in tango (1994) and MARCACION PARA HOMBRES, a workshop on leading technique for men in tango (1995), which are 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) with the aim to promote the investigation and diffusion of Argentine tango all over the world through her method and group of teachers. She taught in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Israel, United States and Chile. She was invited to teach at many tango festivals, such as Stanford Tango Week '95, Nora's Tango Week '98, CITA ;99, Tangomagia 2000 (Amsterdam) and Tango en Flor 2000 (Zurich). Saturday, October 26 3-5pm: Workshop 1: Women's Technique, General LEVEL: Beginners, advanced & professional OBJECTIVE: Development of the perception the woman has for the man's lead. This workshop is designed to perfect the women's technique in terms of posture, balance, attitude of the body, forward and back ochos and giros. 5:30-7:30pm: Workshop 2: Women's Technique, Adornos LEVEL: intermediate, advanced & professional OBJECTIVE: Dedicated to perfecting the technique, posture and balance needed to be able 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 in tango, waltz and milonga. It has the further objective to develop the role of the woman through sensuality, musicality and attitude, so that the embellishment becomes an expression of a necessity fully integrated in the dance. Sunday, October 27 1-3pm: Workshop 1: Refinement of the lead - for men LEVEL: intermediate, advanced and professional 3-5pm: Workshop 2: Refinement of the lead - for men LEVEL: intermediate, advanced and professional OBJECTIVE: This workshop is 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; for this reason the practice is done dancing in both roles to gain a better understanding of how strong the lead has to be and how to receive it. The work is developed over a logical structure of movements (steps) through which participants can acquire the basic elements that will allow them to muster improvisation and gain freedom in the dance. 5:30-7:30pm: The Women Meet the Men LEVEL: intermediate, advanced and professional OBJECTIVE: The culmination of all of the two days of workshops. Price: $40 / Workshop $35 / Workshop if payment is made before Oct 18 Requirements: Women' s Workshop 1 is required in order to take Women's Workshop 2. Women's Workshops 1 & 2 are both required in order to take "Women Meet the Men." Men' s Workshop 1 is required in order to take Men's Workshop 2. Men's Workshops 1 & 2 are required in order to take "Women Meet the Men." All workshops will be held at Empire Dance Please make checks payable to Empire Dance, Inc. 127 West 25th Street, 11th Floor New York, NY 10001 (212) 645-2441 www.EmpireDance.com
