Milonga Brava
09 Saturday Jun 2012
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Practice! Practice! Practice!
07 Thursday Jun 2012
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If only you’d followed that advice when your mother first told you, think where you’d be now. Well, here’s another chance.
We’re having a practica tonight from 8 to 11:45 at SPC. If you’d like a little guidance while practicing your tango, feel free to ask one of the Vivas.
Good food, good fun, good music, an all around good time. Admission $10 and $5 for students with ID.
Don’t forget, our next milonga is Saturday, June 30 at All Saints. We’ll have the spectacular live music of Maurizio Najt. Mark your calendars.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
04 Monday Jun 2012
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Oh, you didn’t fall for that old chestnut, did you? Well the answer, of course, is practice, practice, practice!
That’s what we’ll be doing this Thursday at 8 at the Suzanne Patterson Center – a practica only, with no lesson. We’ve got a milonga coming up on June 30th and we want you all to be dancing like finalists on Dancing With The Stars. As you can see from this week’s pictures, some of you are there already.
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Join us Thursday. Admission $10 or $5 for students with ID.
Where to tango this weekend
01 Friday Jun 2012
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FRIDAY_________________________________________
Buttonwood, Lesley and Kelly’s lesson and milonga, Philadelphia, PA info
SATURDAY_______________________________________
La Pausa Milonga, Philadelphia, PA info
Milonga Fernet, lesson and milonga, East Brunswick, NJ info
SUNDAY________________________________________
Atrium Milonga, brunch, Pennsauken, NJ info
Collegeville Milonga, workshop and milonga, Wayne, PA info
ChuLo will sweep you away
31 Thursday May 2012
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Right after he puts you on the merry-go-round. Tonight’s lesson is about calesitas and planeos, two moves that will let the beautiful tanguera in your arms shine. And Marcelo ChuLo Manfredi will provide the polish. It’s 8 o’clock tonight at SPC. Admission is $12 or $5 for students with ID.
We’ve added several more pictures to the album from Monday.
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| May 24, 2012 |
If you didn’t see yourself there before, you’re there now.
Mark your calendars for our next milonga – Saturday, June 30 at All Saints. That’s the night Viva will sweep you away. We’re into this sweeping thing, but rest assured, there’s no housework involved.
We’re commemorating everything
28 Monday May 2012
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We’ve got birthday pictures from last week, merry-go-rounds and pivoting sweeps for this week and a milonga coming up on June 30th. Summer’s off to a good start.
Join us Thursday at 8 for ChuLo‘s lesson on calesitas and planeos, two very flashy moves that will make your tango look ready for prime time. That’s at SPC. Admission $12 or $5 for students with ID.
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| May 24, 2012 |
If you would like to have a birthday dance at a practica, please let us know. On the other hand, if you’d like one of your friends to have a birthday dance, it’s probably a good idea to let them know, or you may be in for an unanticipated planeo or two. One way or another someone will be memorialized.
Oh, you know where this is leading…We wish you a Happy Memorial Day!
Fly in 3/4 time
24 Thursday May 2012
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No, this isn’t an airline advertisement. It’s ChuLo’s description of the joys of doing the Argentine vals – flying with a dreamy feeling. To make it dreamier still, Marcelo ChuLo Manfredi will be teaching some nice flowing
combinations tonight, including turns and sacadas, all in 3/4 time, of course. If your vals is anything less than airborne, you need to take this class. That’s tonight at 8 o’clock at the Suzanne Patterson Center.
We’ll also have a birthday dance (shhh…it’s a secret) but we won’t be divulging how many frequent flyer miles the birthday person has accumulated.
If you haven’t done so already, mark your calendar for Viva Tango’s next milonga, Saturday June 30th at All Saints.
That completes our flight plan for today.
Waltz away dreaming
21 Monday May 2012
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No, not with George Michael. We’ve got someone better – ChuLo. Marcelo Manfredi will teach vals turns and sacadas Thursday at 8, thereby inducing a dreamy feeling in all.
We’ve also got some dreamy photos (OK, maybe nightmarish) from last week and a few stragglers from prior weeks. Very impressionistic. Or not. Several of them are action photos shot in the dark by our (umm, how shall we say?) sight-challenged photographers. See them here.
Finally, we’re dreaming of our next milonga. It will be Saturday, June 30 at All Saints.
Start practicing with us this Thursday, May 24 at SPC. Until then, sweet dreams to you.
Getcha ganchos here
17 Thursday May 2012
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Special this week ChuLo is offering mini ones for $12 – small, easy and ready to use on the crowded dance floor.
Join us at 8 o’clock tonight at SPC when Marcelo “ChuLo” Manfredi will demonstrate how to make those ganchos sharp, clean and effective. If you’re not getting that satisfying knee lock thunk when you or your partner kicks, your ganchos probably need some guidance.
Once you’ve worked on your kicks, you can kick back and enjoy some tasty snacks, some good music, and lots of nice people who want to tango with you and will probably let you practice those ganchos!
That was one good party
14 Monday May 2012
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We had a great time. Spectacular live music, great food, lots of very good dancers (foremost among them Pennsylvanians Edilia, Fanny and Ted), great energy. It’s starting to feel like a real Buenos Aires milonga. When 50 or 60 people are swirling around the dance floor, you can start to believe for a moment that you’ve been transported to Argentina.
Special thanks to Pablo Mosteiro Romero for a wonderful performance and to Central Jersey Dance Society for their help and support.
We were having so much fun we forgot to take pictures. These three are it. But there is a video of Pablo’s performance on Facebook which you can see here.
Join us this Thursday at 8 o’clock for a lesson by Marcelo ChuLo Manfredi. ChuLo is going to do his best to make you think you’re always at a milonga in Buenos Aires. And it’s definitely time to start practicing for our next milonga.
Viva Tango Inc. 