Buenos Aires "Tango Intensivo" with Luciana Valle October 24-29, 2005
Are you longing to improve your tango in a permanent and powerful way? Do you want to find a group of new partners to dance with from around the world? Have you had enough of "cafeteria-festivals" where every new day brought you four new teachers, each teaching in a new and different way? Are you tired of being stuck with partners in classes who don't match your level? Are you tired of not being able to dance with "the good dancers"? DO you want to share "the milonga experience" of late-night Buenos Aires with a group of new friends who share a common orientation towards improving their tango? Luciana Valle and Dance of the Heart (Brian Dunn and Deborah Sclar) are inviting you on a very special tango experience in Buenos Aires this fall! Dates: Monday, October 24 - Saturday October 29 (Save your dates!) Duration: 20 hours of classes, up to four hours a day, for six days Structure: You will have a partner for the entire class series Material: Rediscover your tango potential in a systematic way Learning Structure: Continual review insures that you will master the material Cost: To be announced shortly We are looking for a special group of intermediate to advanced dancers who want to train their tango in a different way. Join us for six days of intensive study in Buenos Aires with Luciana Valle and her handpicked team of Argentine assistants. Work intensively on your tango with a gender-balanced group of fellow students under the guidance and direction of Luciana Valle, one of the most talented, insightful and energetic tango teachers in the world. Come with your partner, find a partner through our partner matching service, or let us arrange for you a 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 founding partners in the acclaimed "El Motivo" practica 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. In our previous "Tango Intensivo" in Buenos Aires in March 2005, respondents were overwhelmingly positive in their response. One said, "I've been taking high-level tango training at festivals and workshops for years. This was absolutely the best experience I've ever had." At the same time, the unique structure of the Intensivos allows for tremendous progress for students of widely varying experience levels - one of our happiest students last time had only been dancing tango for six months beforehand! We've enhanced and expanded many aspects of the experience based on feedback from the March inaugural session, as well as additional discoveries from our European "Tango Intensivo" in Sweden this summer. 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 training with Luciana as the best they can get from anyone. Highly 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 dynamic interpreter of these ideas, Luciana has gained intercontinental fame for her fantastic classes, as well as impressive and memorable tango performances with Alex Krebs of Portland, Oregon. Brian Dunn and Deborah Sclar have been working closely with Luciana since 1998, when they began their own tango partnership. They have sponsored her visits to Colorado for the last four years, and have performed with her on several occasions in Colorado. As a couple who responded to the "call" of tango with committed devotion, they have traveled the world of tango, teaching and performing this past year throughout the United States and Europe. Teaching partners since 1999, they have been training students in Colorado full-time for the last three years, sponsoring hundreds of classes, events and performances for thousands of participants. With Cathy Gauch of Aircat Aerial Arts, they produced and starred in "Aires Tango", an original tango production combining tango dance, live music and aerial art, now in its third year, with five shows scheduled in 2005 in August and September to coincide with the Denver Labor Day Tango festival. They continue to obsess about how to give students a feeling for the power of the Argentine Tango social dance connection in the shortest possible time. With "Tango Intensivo" events like this one with Luciana Valle, they continue to "push the edges" of providing tango training experiences for newcomers and experienced dancers alike. If this sounds like something you'd find exciting, please respond by e-mail so we can keep you informed. Many of last spring's participants have assured us of their interest in joining us again in October. Many of you have contacted us in recent months after hearing from others about our March inaugural session, asking about our next session and our "waiting list". While we have not yet established a size limit cutoff (thus no "waiting list" yet), we'll be giving priority at various cutoff points to those who contacted us earliest. So contact us as soon as possible - and we look forward to potentially dancing and training with you in Buenos Aires this fall! Brian Dunn and Deborah Sclar Dance of the Heart Boulder, Colorado USA 303-938-0716 www.danceoftheheart.com
