Tango On the Town's Fast Track Novice workshops
Have you been tempted by tango, but too nervous to begin?
Take the Fast Track to Tango at our Tango On the Town's Fast Track Novice at Old Town School of Folk Music, taught by American Tango Institute and Old Town School instructor, Netza Roldan. This special course has been designed to have you dancing in three days of intensive dance workshops specifically for people who have never danced tango! We make your introduction to tango a positive experience in a friendly and encouraging environment.
Argentine tango is about interpreting the music as you walk fluidly with a partner. Take your first steps to tango and learn the secrets of this sensuous dance and how to use your body, balance and projection to create your own tango style.
Three rigorous workshops per day will focus on tango basics & fundamentals that all tango dancers need to move with confidence and grace. No partner is needed. Students will rotate partners during workshops.
Even if you think you have two left feet, the Fast Track Novice Series will prove that tango can also be a walk in the park.
Let Tango On The Town's Fast Track Novice Series fly you swiftly to Argentine tango!
Our teaching principles and methodology are based on the belief that working with body/ mind development in dance requires an orderly system that will lead students through the learning process and to a better understanding of their body/mind connection. We consider tango a vehicle through which you can learn to connect with the music, connect your mind with your body to move with grace and clarity and connect with your dance partner. In this way you will be able to interpret the music and express yourself, both inwardly and to the person with whom you’re dancing, leading to joy and the freedom to move with confidence and emotion on the dance floor.
Fast Track Novice Series teaches tango students to dance, rather than to imitate steps and sequences. We do not teach mechanical repetition of steps, but teach how to control the body, balance and projection in order to connect with a partner and share a conversation. We emphasize the importance of improvisation and musical interpretation. Once you have mastered the basics of tango embrace, walking, changing direction and projection you will be able to go where ever your spirit takes you.
Fast Track Novice Series will show you how to move and dance, lead and follow, propose and accept. You tango!
In six 1.25 hour workshops over three days we will cover:
- Introduction to history and culture of Argentine tango
- Emphasis on fundamental elements and basic concepts of tango
- 3 Basic Elements: Musicality, balance and direction, connection
- Value of proper walking and footstep technique
- Understanding the axis, control of one’s axis and its dynamics
- Perfect tango posture
- The Embrace -3 points of connection in the open embrace
- Disassociation of upper and lower body
- Elemental change of weight and change of direction
- Improvisation and the importance in tango
- Basic Pattern-Count of eight: Salida, codification and de-codification of the “cross” step, resolution of step
- Walking in parallel & cross systems
- Dynamics and variations of the count of eight movements
- Strengthening musicality in the eight count with variations in rhythm
- Introduction to new elements of the embrace
- Build up technique for changes of direction
FAST TRACK NOVICE SERIES PACKAGE OF 6 WORKSHOPS: $160
