Mark your calendar [Fri Sept 30 - Sun Oct 2] for the Second Annual Close Embrace Tango Weekend in Urbana, IL, a friendly college town that is the home of the University of Illinois. This year we have invited 2 guest instructors - Tom Stermitz from Denver CO, and Ramu Pyreddy from Ann Arbor, MI - with workshops at all levels, and milongas on Friday and Saturday evenings with Tom and Ramu as DJs. Details are listed at the end of this message. ______________________________________________________________________________ _______
Our first 'Central Illinois Close Embrace Tango Weekend' in September 2004 was a successful event with over 100 participants from 5 states (IL, MO, IA, WI, IN). As guest instructor Tom Stermitz generated an enthusiasm for milonguero style tango that started in the workshops and spread out over the dance floor at the milongas. New dancers found a system of partner connection, musicality and navigation they could work with and this provided the foundation for further growth. Experienced dancers in other styles were transformed, gaining an immediate confidence in the style of tango that is danced in the milongas in Buenos Aires. Experienced milonguero style dancers found refreshment, consolidation, and expansion of their milonguero base. As a result of this weekend, many new tango friendships were formed and we have met each other and danced with each other again and again in many larger and smaller tango communities across the Midwest, as well as in Denver and at other national tango festivals focusing on dancing tango in close embrace. As a result of these successes, we have invited Tom Stermitz to return as instructor and DJ for the Second Annual Close Embrace Tango Weekend, to be held in Urbana IL Fri Sept 3 - Sun Oct 2. Tom is well known for organizing the Denver Milonguero Tango festivals on Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends for the last 5 years, as well as a successful tango instructor in Denver who has been invited to teach highly acclaimed workshops in various cities in the US and in Europe. We have also invited Ramu Pyreddy from Ann Arbor MI, to also teach workshops and DJ. Ramu is in high demand as DJ for tango festivals and tango weekends around the US. He is also an experienced member of the core teaching staff of the University of Michigan tango club, which has trained many dancers skilled in dancing tango in close embrace. Ramu is now also branching out to teach at various cities around the US, and has received very positive reviews. With this expansion in our offerings, we expect this year's Close Embrace Tango Weekend to be even more successful than last year. Urbana, IL is located in Central Illinois, almost equidistant from Chicago, Indianapolis, and St Louis. Our tango community started in 1998, and thus we have a large tango community with many skilled and experienced dancers. Our tango weekends have draw many dancers from around the Midwest and many of our tangueros are well known as frequent attendees at tango festivals around the US. Join us for a fun weekend of dancing tango in close embrace, with excellent instruction and the best music for dancing. A tentative schedule is listed below. This and updates will be posted on our web page: http://www.centraltango.com/TangoInstruction/2005CloseEmbraceWeekendHomePage.h tm Check out the photos from last year's Close Embrace Tango weekend. Complete details will be available in a few weeks. ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ 2nd Annual Close Embrace Tango Weekend Fri Sept 30 – Sun Oct 2, 2005 Phillips Recreation Center 505 west Stoughton Urbana, IL 61801 Guest Instructors & DJs: Tom Stermitz (Denver, CO) Ramu Pyreddy (Ann Arbor, MI) Tentative Schedule: Friday Sept 30: 7:30 – 9:30 PM: Workshop (Tom): "Introduction to Tango: Simple Vocabulary, Advanced Musicality" 8:00 – 9:30 PM: Workshop (Ramu): "FUNdamentals of Milonga with Introduction to Traspie" 9:30 – 1:30 AM: MILONGA (Tom Stermitz, DJ) Saturday Oct 1: 1:30 – 2:45 PM: Workshop (Tom): "101 Ocho Cortados" 2:00 – 4:00 PM: Beginner's Practica (Ramu) 3:00 – 4:15 PM: Workshop (Tom): "Crossed-feet systems: Turning ochos / Preparing for turns" 8:00 – 9:15 PM: Workshop (Tom): "Suspensions, dramatic pauses & the world's most compact ochos" 8:00 – 9:15 PM: Workshop (Ramu): Topic TBA 9:30 – 1:30 AM: MILONGA (Ramu Pyreddy, DJ) Sunday Oct 2: 1:30 – 3:00 PM: Workshop (Tom): "Turns to the Left" 1:30 – 3:00 PM: Workshop (Ramu): Topic TBA 3:15 – 4:45 PM: Workshop (Tom): "Turns to the Right" 3:15 – 4:45 PM: Workshop (Ramu): Topic TBA 5:00 – 6:30 PM: Buffet Dinner with Discussion on Community Building led by Tom Stermitz 6:30 – 8:00 PM: Presentation / Workshop (Ramu): "Musicality & Dancing to different orquestras" ______________________________________________________________________________ ________ Ron Weigel & Susana Vazquez Weigel Instructors / Organizers Tango Society of Central Illinois Home: Phillips Recreation Center, 505 W Stoughton, Urbana, IL 61801 Mail: PO Box 1054, Urbana, IL 61803-1054 Tango Society Website with Community Calendar: http://www.centraltango.com/ Join CentralTango, the e-mail list for announcements of tango activities in the Midwest: http://groups.yahoo.yahoo.com/group/CentralTango/ or send a blank message to: [email protected]
