Join us for part one of a year-long celebration of our 10th anniversary! The Tango Club of Albuquerque Presents:
Avik & Yelena with Trio Folias Registration form is now online at: http://www.abqtango.org/special.html Seven workshop classes and 2 live music milongas: February 29-March 2, 2008 Lloyd Shaw Dance Center, 5506 Coal Ave. SE Albuquerque, New Mexico Friday February 29 7:30 9:00 pm: What color is your tango? (All Levels, Avik & Yelena) 9:00 11:00 pm: Live Music Milonga with Trio Folias Saturday, March 1 1:30 2:45 pm: Instant Musicality (All Levels, Avik & Yelena) 3:00 4:15 pm: Secret Ochos from Buenos Aires (Intermediate) 4:30 5:30 pm: Interesting Rhythms in Tango (Trio Folias/Musicality) Saturday night live music milonga at the Old Mission Church in Corrales with Trio Folias, 8:00pm-midnight. ($20 at the door / $15 with weekend package) Sunday, March 2 1:30 2:45 pm: Milonga! (Intermediate/Advanced, Avik & Yelena) 3:00 4:15 pm: Volcadas for the Social Dance Floor (Advanced) 4:30 5:30 pm: Rhythmic Options for Vals (Trio Folias/Musicality) Sunday night milonga at Kelly's Brew Pub, 7:30-11:00pm (FREE) Guest DJ: Avik Basu Full weekend package price only $125 (save $40!) For a-la-carte class prices and more information, visit our web site at: http://www.abqtango.org/special.html Or e-mail: [email protected] Lodging with local dancers may be available. Yelena Sinelnikova and Avik Basu are two of several instructors who have helped to develop the Ann Arbor tango community. They specialize in close embrace social tango emphasizing connection, musicality, and navigation, all of which inspire improvisation. Their classes are designed to help you enjoy the process of finding your own tango while respecting the traditions of this century old dance. In addition to their regular classes in Ann Arbor, they have also been featured instructors in Denver (at the Denver Labor Day Milonguero Tango Festival), Cleveland, Pittsburgh, New York, and most recently Mumbai, India. Despite this considerable experience, they continue to have a vivid memory of what it was like to start learning this dance and this aids their teaching in a profound way. More than anything else, they wish to infect their students with their passion for this dance. Many talented teachers have helped Yelena and Avik in the quest for their tango, including Cacho Dante, Robert Hauk, Alex Krebs, Hsueh-Tze Lee, Susana Miller, Christopher Nassopoulos & Caroline Peattie, Tom Stermitz, Robin Thomas, and Brigitta Winkler. And in great measure, these two instructors have been guided by their experiences with their many talented students. Avik, who is bandoneonist for Trio Folios, is also nationally known as a tango DJ. Carmen Maret and Andrew Bergeron are founding community organizers & teachers in the Grand Rapids Tango community. Together with Avik Basu, they have performed as Tango Folias throughout the US over the past four years. Carmen (flute) began dancing tango and performing tango with the Kansas City, Missouri based group, Tango Lorca in 2001. Later, she studied tango as an ethnomusicology Masters student at Michigan State University, and produced a Master's thesis in 2005 that looked at tango in the Michigan Argentine Tango club based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Carmen Maret is a co-founder of the Grand Rapids Tango Community where she works as a tango teacher and tango musician. She has been performing live tango music for dancers since 2003 when she joined with her husband guitarist Andrew Bergeron to form their duo called Folias. Andrew (guitar) has performed tango music for dancers since 2003 when he joined with Carmen Maret to form their duo called Folias. Originally from Holland, Michigan, Andrew Bergeron splits his creative efforts between composition and performance. During his Master's degree in composition at Michigan State University, Andrew Bergeron composed music for a variety of ensembles including, solo guitar, guitar and flute, electro-acoustic music, chamber music, and tango. He has taught tango in the Grand Rapids tango community since co-founding it in 2005.
