MONTHLY CANYENGUE WORKSHOPS Taught by Ernest Williams and Linda Sutton of EmotionL Dance International
WHEN: The second Saturday of every month (the same day as La Milonga Emocional) STARTING DATE: Saturday, August 12, 2006 LOCATION: Tango House, 1900 Rock Lake Loop, Virginia Beach, VA. Canyengue I Noon - 1:30 p.m. $15 Canyengue II 1:45 - 3:15 p.m. $15 Private lessons will be available on the Sunday following the workshops These workshops are aimed to expose tango dancers to the wonders of Canyengue and to help them develop their skill in this Tango style. We will learn specific staples of the dance and how to improvise our own steps as well as how to navigate amongst those who do not yet know how to dance it. You will turn heads as you break out your new style on the dance floor to music that we all hear at the milongas but until now never knew quite how to dance to it. Soon there will be tandas of Tango, Milonga, Vals and Canyengue in milongas around the world, which is already the case at La Milonga Emocional in Virginia Beach. Out-of-town tangueros are encouraged to come to learn and take it back to your tango community. Email us at [email protected] with any questions or info on accommodations if you plan to visit us in Virginia Beach. PAYMENT: Checks payable to Linda Sutton or Ernest Williams. To find out more about Ernest Williams and Linda Sutton please visit www.emotionldance.com A LITTLE ABOUT CANYENGUE: Canyengue is considered the precursor to the tango that we know today. Its rise dates around the last decade of the 19th century and remained popular until the 1920's. The word itself means "to melt [into one another or into the dance] or "to be tired" according to Robert Farris Thompson. It can be a very jovial dance. The style of dress of the era was mainly long dresses for the ladies that made for short somewhat flat-footed steps. The canyengue is the child of milonga which is a faster rhythmic dance mainly attributed to the Afro-Argentines and Afro-Uruguayans of the 1800's. Canyengue is also considered a dance of the blacks, which caught on amongst non-blacks as did milonga and candombe before that. Canyengue music is very rhythmic and appears to sound like a slow milonga. The musicians most noted for this style in this era was and still is Francisco Canaro, Roberto Firpo, Juan de Dios Filiberto y Juan D'Arienzo. Watch out because canyengue is starting to make a come back in Buenos Aires, and after the appearance of Robert Farris Thompson's new book on tango that dedicates a whole chapter to Canyengue, it's going to grow even faster. You can get a jump on the masses that will start getting into it in the next few years. We look forward to seeing you all in class!!!
