In our two previous "Tango Intensivo" seminars in Buenos Aires in March and October 2005, respondents were overwhelmingly positive in evaluating their experience. 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." Another said, "What an AWESOME intensivo. what the three of you put together was just incredible.the meticulous care and timing with which all the classes were designed, and the quality of the material offered.astounding!"
We've enhanced and expanded many aspects of the experience based on feedback from the first two sessions, as well as additional discoveries from our European "Tango Intensivo" in Sweden this past summer. Those of you who have attended both previous sessions know how we are constantly enhancing and improving the structure of our offerings, based on your feedback. In each of the Intensivos with Luciana, she designs a brilliantly structured approach to bring in exciting new elements (advanced sacadas, off-axis work, subtleties of lead/follow dialogue), while also drilling deeper into Luciana's exacting perspective on the fundamentals common to all tango dance. In other words, if you like Luciana's teaching, if you enjoy the method of inquiry into tango sometimes called "Nuevo Tango" - come explore it with someone who was there when it started! Let it transform ALL your dancing in ways you probably can't imagine. Luciana Valle is justly famous around the world for teaching tango in a clear, powerful and energetic style. Many tango teachers credit her unabashedly as a major influence and inspiration in their teaching approach. Highly skilled as both a leader and a follower, and widely experienced in the milongas of Buenos Aires, she was an early core 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 core ideas, Luciana has gained intercontinental fame for extending the reach of these methods to a new generation of dancers and teachers all over the world - through her fantastic classes, her peerless private lessons, as well as impressive and memorable tango performances with Alex Krebs of Portland, Oregon. Brian Dunn and Deborah Sclar of Dance of the Heart 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 tango and life partners 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, delivering hundreds of lessons, classes, events and performances for thousands of participants. They continue to obsess about how to give students a feeling for the awesome power of the Argentine Tango social dance connection in the absolutely 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 participants from previous sessions have assured us of their interest in joining us again in February 2006. Many of you have contacted us in recent months after hearing from others about our first two sessions, asking about our next session and concerned about not being on the "waiting list". So let us know of your interest as soon as possible - and we look forward to dancing and training with you in Buenos Aires in the New Year! Abrazos, Brian Dunn and Deborah Sclar Dance of the Heart 775 Pleasant Street Boulder, Colorado 80302 USA 1(303)938-0716 www.danceoftheheart.com <http://www.danceoftheheart.com/>
