Dear Tango-L readers!
Give yourself the ultimate New Year's gift - join us with Luciana Valle in
Buenos Aires for a fantastic week of unique and intensive tango training in
the midst of Buenos Aires4 largest tango festival!!
Are you longing to improve your tango in a permanent and powerful way? Are
you tired of not being able to dance with "the good dancers?" Do you want
to focus your tango training with one world-class instructor for an
intensive period of instruction? Do you want to move beyond simple step
vocabulary into an "integral exploration" of the many facets of the tango
dance experience? Do you want to share with an exciting group of new
partners "the milonga experience" of Buenos Aires, a group who also shares a
common orientation towards improving their tango? AND...do you want to
experience tango in Buenos Aires during the city's largest tango festival,
nine days of festival performances, events and milongas in the capital of
tango? LUCIANA VALLE and Dance of the Heart (Brian Dunn & Deborah Sclar) are
inviting you on a very special tango experience in Buenos Aires in 2005!
We are looking for a special group of "intermediate/advanced" dancers who
want to pursue tango mastery in a new and different way. Join us for six
days of intensive study in Buenos Aires, set in the midst of the Seventh
Annual Buenos Aires Tango Festival. Work intensively on your tango with a
gender-balanced group of fellow students under the guidance and direction of
world-class tango teacher LUCIANA VALLE, one of the most talented,
insightful and energetic tango teachers Buenos Aires has produced. We think
you will enjoy meeting and dancing with other tango aficionados from around
the world who value Luciana's powerful and engaging approach to exploring
the tango.
Dates: Monday, February 28 - Saturday March 5, 2005
Duration: 20 hours of classes, four hours a day, five days a week, with
additional daily warm-ups. One hour of additional
structured practice time per day on class days. On the sixth and final day,
three hours of structured review of all material, with opportunity to secure
video records of your learning. A total of 28 hours! And, of course, we'll
be your guides to the 7th Annual Buenos Aires Tango Festival, with its
incredible array of tango treasures available for us to explore!
Group Structure: You will have a partner (bring one, find one, or we ll get
you one!)
Material: Rediscover your tango potential with an "integral approach" to all
facets of the tango: structural vocabulary, musical richness of expression,
and heart-to-heart improvisational communication and connection in the
moving embrace with your partner, with the music, with observers, and with
others on the social dance floor.
Learning Structure: Continual structured review during guided practicas
insures that you will rapidly integrate the material into your dancing.
"Personalized" Group classes: Your "tango diagnostic test" integrates into
practicas to identify, address and minimize the effects of your current
tango "bad habits."
Cost: $450 due by February 21, 2005 ($200 deposit due by Jan. 31)
$395 Advance registration discount price (paid in full by Jan. 31)
Credit Card payments available through PayPal contact us for
details.
COUPLES ONLY (But we can help you find a partner!)
Come with your partner, find a partner through our partner matching service,
or let us arrange for you a "taxi dancer" partner to accompany you during
the workshops from among the many talented young Argentine dancers working
with Luciana in Buenos Aires. Luciana is one of the partners in the
acclaimed "El Motivo" practica (Cordoba 5064) on Monday evenings, whose low
admission price, spacious accommodations, and high dancing level draws a
hundred or more of the most talented young dancers in Buenos Aires every
week.
Luciana Valle is justly famous around the world for teaching tango in a
clear, powerful and energetic style. Many very experienced tango dancers
with years of study from many professional teachers rank their
private-lesson training with Luciana as the best they can get from anyone.
Skilled as both a leader and a follower, and widely experienced in the
milongas of Buenos Aires, she was an early participant in the "Cochabamba
444" training sessions with Gustavo Naveira and Fabian Salas that produced
the "Nuevo Tango" language now in common usage to teach tango. As a
brilliant and inspired interpreter of these core ideas, Luciana has gained
intercontinental fame for her fantastic high-energy classes, as well as for
her impressive and memorable tango performances with Alex Krebs of Portland,
Oregon.
Brian Dunn and Deborah Sclar have been working closely with Luciana since
1998. They have sponsored her visits to Colorado for the last three years,
and have performed with her on several occasions in Colorado. Deb and Brian
have traveled the world of tango, teaching and performing this past year
throughout the United States and Europe. They have been training students in
Colorado full-time for the last two years, sponsoring hundreds of classes,
events and performances for thousands of participants since 1999. They
share a devotion to teaching tango in an integral fashion, focusing first on
the intimate connection between partners, and the full possibilities of
tango dancing as a "collaborative work of art" in a heart-to-heart embrace.
Together, they have amassed more than one hundred hours of advanced group
and private training with Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne, and are also
Certified Trainers in Mauricio Castro's innovative Tango Discovery
methodology. Most recently they toured Colorado and New Mexico as guest
artists with the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet in eleven performances of their
tango-influenced production of The Nutcracker. With Cathy Gauch of Aircat
Aerial Arts, they produced and starred in "AIResTANGO", an original tango
production combining tango dance, live music and aerial art, and were
recently invited to perform with Narcotango creator Carlos Libedinsky in
Buenos Aires.
More details will be available once Luciana returns from Europe in early
January. Please e-mail us to secure your place in class, to be kept
informed of details, and to arrange payment by credit card if necessary. We
can provide assistance with your airfare and housing choices as well.
Updated information is available on our website at www.danceoftheheart.com,
or call us at 303-938-0716.
Abrazos,
Brian Dunn, Dance of the Heart
www.danceoftheheart.com
