================================================= "Tango Zen: Walking Dance Meditation" Now available at TangoZen.com and Amazon.com ========================================= 1. Workshop with Jackie Wong in Washington, DC August 6th, 2005 August 6th, 2005 The dynamics of lead and follow - An intensive workshop on the relationship between you and your partner and how movement, body mechanics, placement, focus, and resistance can dramatically improve your dance. Purely for those who want to improve their technique - not learn steps. All levels welcome.
Date and Time: Saturday, August 6, 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM Place: DC JCC, 1529 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20036 Fee: $20 per person and $35 per couple Jackie will do DJ that evening at the milonga following the workshop. (See below.) To register for Jackie's workshop, please call 202-256-6288 or email to [email protected]. Jackie's bio Jackie is an Argentine Tango Teacher, Performer and DJ whose dance and movement background and love for Tango has enabled her to become one of the region's best tango technicians for leaders and followers. She has taught in the Berkshires Area, at Canyon Ranch in Lenox, MA, at the Lorraine Michaels Studio in Albany, for BrATTS in Brattleboro Vermont, at the Dance Flurry in Saratoga Springs NY, for Albany Tango, for Northampton Tango, in Sherbrooke Canada, Circle of Life in East Hartford, Chicago and Champaign Urbana Illinois, Washington D.C. and in Beijing China. Jackie is also the Founder of Tango Pulse, a popular Argentine tango website and host for milongas and workshops. http://www.tangopulse.net As a DJ, Jackie focuses on connection and musicality, taking dancers on a musical journey, with selections that invariably becomes everyone's favorite music. Her love of the music and sense of adventure is what makes her milongas so distinctive! She has the innate ability to read the room and choose what's right for the moment, so that dancers seem to never want to leave the floor! Jackie is very responsive to the needs of each individual community, programming music to reflect the community's taste. Her selections "speak to the heart". They range from the most beautiful traditional tango classics to exciting nuevo and alternative tango which leads tangueros/as to discover a whole new dimension in their dance. Jackie has gained a reputation throughout the country as an in-demand DJ attuned to dancers needs. She has DJ'd at Triangulo in NYC and across the East Coast, including Albany, Woodstock and Saratoga Springs NY; in Hartford CT; Boston, Lenox and Northampton MA; Brattleboro VT; Sherbrooke Canada; Durham NC; in Chicago and Champaign IL; Washington DC; St. Louis MI: and in Buenos Aires! ==================================================== 2. 1st Saturday Milonga at Jewish Community Center (DC JCC) This Saturday, August 6, 2005 8:30 PM TO 12 AM Guest DJ: Jackie Wong DC Jewish Community Center 1529 16th Street, NW (corner of Q Street) Fee: $10 Contact Chan, [email protected] for more information. ========================================= Tango Here Now, Chan and Eugenia Tango Zen House http://www.TangoZen.com ======================================= "Tango Zen: Walking Dance Meditation," ISBN 0-9759630-0-7 For more information, visit http://www.TangoZen.com
