Tango Downtown Events
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Tango Downtown is honored to host Susana Miller in Albuquerque, November 1-3, 2008, for her 5th set of workshop classes with us! Details in early Fall.
More info on Susana.
Caroline Peattie & Christopher Nassopoulos returned to Albuquerque, November 3-5, 2007 for a Tango Downtown workshop at the Harwood Art Center. It was another amazing weekend of deep & subtle insights, infused by the music!
Hsueh-tze Lee visited the Harwood Art Center in January 2007 for a special workshop — Surges, Suspension and Lilt in Tango Vals: Vals dynamics that charm. Thanks to Hsueh-tze for an insightful class about the possibilities invited by the music of Tango Vals!
Robert
Hauk returned November 4-6, 2006 for his 3rd Tango Downtown workshop. Robert, based in Portland, Oregon, is a respected U.S. teacher of the apilado style,
as well as a popular tango DJ and dancer & instructor on the social-tango festival circuit. More on Robert.
Tango Downtown's 4th workshop hosting Susana Miller, this time with Diego Yepes,
June 10-12, 2006 was incredible! Susana is the foremost teacher of the Milonguero (Apilado)
Style, a rich and complex form of subtle body signals that profoundly
respects tango's rhythms, while emphasizing musicality, the connection
between partners, and a compact choreography that creatively employs the
limited space of the social dance floor — Tango Argentino as danced
in the crowded clubs of central Buenos Aires. Diego
Yepes, Susana's son, is also a teacher,
dancer, and DJ. Diego is General Manager of El Beso, one of the most famous
milongas in Buenos Aires, and a director of El Tanguata, the premier magazine
of all-things-tango. Diego assisted Susana, and taught the best Milonga class
many of us have ever had. More information on Susana & Diego.
Tango Downtown's special May 1, 2006 class with Caroline Peattie & Christopher Nassopoulos, Musicality and Phrasing was one of the most profoundly effective classes we've experienced. Truly an all levels class, they provided great insights on the essence of tango to each one of us. The class was following Tango Club of Albuquerque's fabulous weekend workshop.
Tango Downtown's 4th workshop with Alicia Pons on March 4-6, 2006 was a popular success, Alicia's elegant apilado style is a hit with students in the U.S., as well as in her classes in Buenos Aires. More on Alicia.
Tango Downtown has participated in Tango! Flamenco! Tropical! in support of Pablo Rodarte's Dance España. Parties, held in the Harwood Art Center Theater Studio, include flamenco and Argentine tango dance demos, and a social dance party featuring salsa & other "tropical" dances. Previous dates: Sept. 2003 & March 2004, Nov., 2004.
Tango Downtown presented our 3rd workshop with Cacho Dante in November 2003. We previously hosted Cacho Dante & Tango No. 9, in November 2001 & 2002, with events at the Outpost Performance Space and The Harwood Art Center. Tango No. 9 was presented in partnership with Outpost Productions, Inc.
Tango Downtown hosted a dance party in June 2003 to raise funds for the new tile floor in the Harwood Theater Studio. Our special guests included Ricardo Guillermo and the Albuquerque Samba School, Pablo Rodarte's Dance España, pianist Fred Sturm, visual artists, Kris Hotvedt and Diane Orchard, and Basement Films.
Our very first workshop, Ramiro Gigliotti's A Seminar for Dancers on Musicality was held at Lloyd Shaw Dance Center in August 2001.
Tango Downtown is coordinated by Jenny DeBouzek and Karen Reck, with DJ, Tomás Alberto García.