The Tango Society of Central Illinois is please to announce that we will be hosting workshops and milongas with Alex Krebs from Portland, OR as guest instructor and DJ, during the weekend of March 10-12, 2006. All activities will be at the Phillips Recreation Center, 505 West Stoughton, Urbana. Alex's workshops will focus on the musicality of tango, milonga, and vals. There will also be an introduction to tango in close embrace workshop. Details will be available soon.
Champaign-Urbana IL is becoming known as a focal point for close embrace tango in the Midwest. In the last year we have had the following visiting instructors - Robert Hauk, Tom Stermitz, Ramu Pyreddy, and Brigitta Winkler. We teach milonguero style tango locally, so there are many dancers to mingle with at the milongas. As the home of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana is a diverse friendly town, and this is reflected in our large tango community. Lodging and restaurants are inexpensive, making this a desirable travel destination. Traffic is light and free parking is plentiful. Our tango weekends attract numerous dancers from around the Midwest and sometimes beyond. If you haven't visited us, you should and you will enjoy a positive tango experience. A weekend with Alex Krebs is guaranteed to be exciting. Alex is well known as an excellent and fun instructor. In case you haven't met Alex previously, here's some info on him: ABOUT ALEX Alex teaches tango for the social dance floor. He emphasizes the improvisational nature of tango, developed through clear communication between leader and follower. His speciality is musical interpretation of the dance, and he is well known for his creativity in this area. His knowledge of tango as a dance and musical art form has been developed through numerous extended visits to Buenos Aires. Alex's workshops are a delightful mixture of fun and learning. Dancers go away with a new musical bag of tricks to spice up their dance, built upon a solid framework of connection with the musical core of tango. Alex is a regular instructor at the annual milonguero tango festivals in Denver, as well as at other festivals and tango weekends throughout the US. He is unique among American tango instructors in having taught extensively in Europe. In fact, Alex has taught, performed, and DJed in over 40 cities in 9 countries. He often teaches and performs with native Argentines Luciana Valle and Florencia Taccetti. In addition to dancing and teaching tango, he plays the bandoneon, and with his tango group "Conjunto Berretin", has performed throughout the West Coast and has released several tango CDs. Tango Berretin, Alex's studio in Portland, Oregon, is renowned for both its classes and its milongas, and is a popular destination for dancers from Alaska to the east coast. Ron Weigel & Susana Vazquez Weigel Instructors & Organizers Tango Society of Central Illinois Urbana IL www.centraltango.com
