Dear Friends, We are deeply honored to have Robert Hauk from Portland, Oregon come to Northern Florida to teach close embrace tango.
Robert has many years of experience teaching tango. He has been dancing tango for 11 years and has spent a great amount of time in the milongas in Buenos Aires. He is recognized and respected by the milogueros. His main influence is Susanna Miller, having studied with her for 9 years. Because of his expertise, he is recognized as one of the leading American instructors of the close embrace milonguero-style tango. He has taught at many festivals and in many cities throughout the US. He is in great demand as a teacher. We are very fortunate that his busy schedule allows him to join us this year! Robert's philosophy of teaching is to not overload students with too many steps to quickly. He does teach with steps, using the situations to work on common problems for leaders and followers. He likes to make sure students can do what he teaches. He will tailor his classes to the people in the workshop. He wants his students to do something well, rather than a lot of things poorly. Now he is coming to North Florida to share his deep insights and understanding of tango with tango dancers in the Southeast. We welcome tango dancers from Gainesville and all around the area: Tampa, Orlando, Melbourne, Sarasota, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, and St. Augustine, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm, as well as Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. This is a great opportunity to learn the close embrace apilado-style of tango that will enable you to dance effectively in close spaces like the salons in Buenos Aires. If you have had some workshops with Susanna Miller this workshop will help you continue to develop and expand upon what you learned with Susanna. We talked to Robert last weekend when we were in Portland to perform and teach a weekend intensive. He gave us a description of the classes he is planning to teach here. Class Descriptions for the April 2006 North Florida Mini-Festival with Robert Hauk. *********************************************************************************************** The classes are composed of two tracks of progressive classes, one track for beginners and one for intermediates/advanced dancers. There is some overlap between the two tracks. Both tracks will develop similar movements. However, the intermediate track will go farther. The last two classes of the intermediate series are musicality oriented. We will look at the music of many orchestras, in order to give dancers more ideas for dancing musically, and freely. Classes Friday Evening-April 14: ************************************* Beginners Class 1: 6:30-7:45PM, Apilado Embrace Tango Foundations We will develop the posture end the embrace. We will explore walking in this embrace, and discover the foundation mechanics of dancing in the apilado embrace. Intermediate/Advanced Class 1: 8:00-9:15PM Tango is Walking We will explore walking in the apilado embrace. We will develop the mechanics of walking in parallel and crossed feet. Classes Saturday Afternoon-April 15: ******************************************* Beginners Class 2: 12:00-1:15PM Simple Rhythmic Steps We will develop a small but very useful vocabulary of rhythmic steps to spice up the dance and begin the exploration of the music. Intermediate/Advanced Class 2: 1:30-2:45PMTurning to the left We will explore three left turning movements that are fundamental to this style of tango. Beginners Class 3: 3:00-4:15PM Check Step Turns We will develop the check step turns and from them we will develop the ocho cortado, a classic step of the Apilado embrace. Intermediate/Advanced Class 3: 4:30-5:45PM Turning to the Right We will develop right turning movements in this class. In this embrace it is common that the leader walks backward to turn to the right. We will develop this situation, and consider a few variations. Classes Sunday Morning/ Afternoon-April 16: **************************************************** Beginners Class 4: 10:00-11:15AM Walking in Crossed Feet We will develop the mechanics of walking in crossed feet, and introduce the back ocho. We will learn to comfortably change the orientation of the feet from parallel feet to crossed feet. Intermediate/Advanced Class 4: 11:30AM-12:45PM Putting Things Together 1, Rhythm We will begin combining the movements we have studied so far. We will develop a rhythmic style that is fun and energetic. We will explore the music of many orchestras. Beginners Class 5: 1:00-2:15PM Putting Things Together We will combine the movements developed so far. This will give students ideas of how they can improvise and invent their own combinations. Intermediate/Advanced Class 5: 2:30-3:45PM Putting Things Together 2, Slowing Down In this class we will explore using the spaces in the music for pauses. We will explore different music than in the last class, and expand the horizons into the music of the later golden age. Please RSPV. We need to know, in advance if you are planning to attend the April 14-16 Mini-Festival featuring Robert Hauk and Tango Sur. Many people have already registered for this event. People are coming from Tampa, Melbourne, South Carolina, Tallahassee, St. Augustine and Gainesville. If you have not yet made your reservation please do so now by replying to this email.We look forward to hearing from you! Wishing you many heartfelt tangos Teo and Marsha Tango From The Heart: http://www.gainesvilletango.org _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee. Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
