Tango From The Heart Close-Embrace Lead-Follow Intensive Limited to: Twelve Tango Students Throughout The Country March 12th-13th Host Instructors: Teo and Marsha Bartek
*************************************** These semi-private master classes are strictly limited to 12 people- six men and six women who come from all over the country. This allows for a lot of one-on-one instruction. The goal of this tango intensive is to help you learn how to dance close-embrace tango, freely, creatively and spontaneously. Men, feel confident that you can give every woman a satisfying tango experience. Women, feel comfortable that you can hold your own with any man and create a wonderful experience for the both of you. *************************************** Success in Close-Embrace Tango: Mastery of the Emotional As Well as the Physical Intensive Schedule: Saturday, March 12th, 2005 Tango From The Heart Close-Embrace Lead Follow Intensive -------------------------------------------------------- A. 9:00AM 10:30AM Success in Close-Embrace Tango: Adjusting to Close-Embrace Style. Instructors work personally with each student to access individual needs, design a plan of instruction. Adapt open embrace figures to close embrace. Not merely teaching steps, using steps to teach you how to dance in close embrace. B. 10:45AM 12:15PM Close-embrace Lead-Follow Technique: Physical Skills- Level 1. Lead-follow individualized training. Instructors work to improve your physical skill level. Focus on problem areas. Includes: How to: embrace, hold your body, move your weight, forward lean technique. How to achieve powerful focus, establish and maintain connection. Why connection comes first and movement comes second. For more details see: www.gainesvilletango.org/intensive.htm. C. 1:30PM - 3:00PM Close-embrace Lead-Follow Technique: Physical Skills- Level 2. Refine your physical skills. Men learn to: place the woman exactly where he wants her, lead using the power of feet, legs and torso-not the arms! Take the woman with you at all times, feel the womans weight and know how to move her smoothly and easily. How to incorporate both female and male qualities into his leading. Woman learn how to: dance silently, staying in the moment with the manFive rules that help you know what to do under any circumstances. Taking the initiative to express yourselfSecrets of a powerful backward walk. How to maintain balanceHow to do ochos and molinetes in close-embraceHow to adjust to the many different styles of the men that you dance with. D. 3:15PM - 4:45PM Exciting New Close Embrace Steps. Introduction to some of the most exciting new milonguero-style steps seen on the dance floors at the milongas in Buenos Aires. They are done in close-embrace, bust because of the strong connection between the man and woman and the masterful lead of the man the man simultaneously leads the woman, while doing some fancy footwork of his own! Sunday, Feb. 13th, 2005 - Tango From The Heart Close-Embrace Lead Follow Intensive ------------------------------------------------------ A. 9:00AM 10:30AM Close-embrace Lead-Follow Technique: Opening To Expression-Level 1. The movements in close-embrace are subtle and elusive. Learning this is not purely physical. Moving effectively and beautifully requires and emotional as well as a physical component. Instructors you teach how to: Overcome areas emotional unconsciousness, so that you can express physically the way that you want. Establish an emotional connection with your partner, and use that connection to add spontaneity and passion to your dancing. B. 10:45AM 12:15PM Close-embrace Lead-Follow Technique: Opening To Expression-Level 2. Learn to incorporate the emotional into the danceProject your male or female energy through your demeanor and your tango movementsStay in the moment and feel your partners energy and respond to it. Dance with a playful attitudeLearn how the art of opening can transform each step to a new dimension. F. 1:00PM - 2:30PM Close-embrace Lead-Follow Technique: Opening To Expression-Level 2. Integration of the emotional and the physical into the dance. How your body position and posture has an emotional effect on your relationship with your partner. Developing an aura and a body language that attracts. Feeling the music and letting the feeling move you, instead of your mind. Men, how to project confidence to the women you dance with, and how to build the womens level of trust in you a step at a time. G. 3:00PM - 4:30PM Close-embrace Lead-Follow Practica: Consolidating What You Have Learned. This is an opportunity to practice and review so that you can integrate your new skills into your tango dancing when you go to milongas and practice at home. *************************************** For detailed description of the event see our website: http://gainesvilletango.org/intensive.htm This is a dynamic process. Every intensive is different. Anything can happen!Tango Organizers: We are open to traveling to your city to teach a Tango From The Heart Close-Embrace Lead-Follow Intensive. Please contact us to determine a time schedule that would work. [email protected] Tango From The Heart Close Embrace Lead Follow Intensive Location: 2224 NW 102 Way, Gainesville, FL 32606, Telephone: 352-331-8192, Email: [email protected] Tuition: $195 for the entire weekend intensive, including two full days of semi-private master instruction in close-embrace lead follow technique. Registration: Please contact Teo Bartek at 352-331-8192 or register by email at [email protected]. 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