Milonga Magnolia Tonight at 8
14 Saturday Apr 2012
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Viva at 9:15 tonight, no fooling
12 Thursday Apr 2012
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All Saints, Argentine tango, dance lessons, live music, Meetup, milonga, practica, Princeton, VivaTango
We’ve straightened out our heads, our calendars and our Popsicle stick collection. Viva is tonight at 9:15 at SPC.
Lesley Mitchell wraps up her milonga series with a review of the material covered so far. To that she will add some variations and show us how to make sequences of the steps we already know. We told you that you’d be doing a milonga if you stuck with it. There’s just one thing left to do. Boogie on down to SPC tonight and learn how to do a milonga with finesse.
Speaking of finesse, we’ve definitely got some in store for you on Saturday at our Milonga Magnolia. It starts with award winning Bandoneonist, Emmanuel Trifilio, from the legendary Cafe Tortoni in Buenos Aires. 
It includes a Raw Beginners’ Lesson by Lou Becerra of CJDS. And then there’s food by Nelly. You know it’s going to be good. That’s 8 o’clock Saturday at All Saints Church.
Bonus round Thursday
09 Monday Apr 2012
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Lesley Mitchell is back THURSDAY with a bonus fourth milonga lesson. Review. Catch up. Cram. It’s all still possible. See for yourself. Those pictures aren’t just blurry because our photographer is so bad. They’re blurry because everyone is moving fast. They’re all doing a milonga!
We start THURSDAY at 9:15pm at SPC. Join us for an evening of great music, good food, good fun.
And please join us this Saturday, April 14 at 8 pm for our Milonga Magnolia at All Saints Church. Live music by acclaimed Bandoneonist Emmanuel Trifilio. Free parking. No partner required. Party Dress. A Meetup at 7:20 for Meetup members. A Raw Beginners Lesson at 7:30 by Lou Becerra of CJDS for people who have never danced tango. You’ll like it.
No downward dogs tonight, come at 8
05 Thursday Apr 2012
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Argentine tango, dance lessons, live music, Meetup, milonga, Philadelphia, practica, Princeton, Viva Tango
The yoga class which precedes Viva Tango in the winter is taking a break tonight, so we get an extra hour of dancing! Practica starts at 8:00pm at the Suzanne Patterson Center.
Lesley Mitchell will teach a milonga class at 9:00 and she’ll be back next week for the final installment in our milonga series. That’s two more opportunities to learn how to milonga, people!
If you’ve been paying attention and you attend all four milonga classes, you will posilutely, absotively be doing a milonga before it’s over. If not, Lesley will take you home with her and make you do remedial asanas until you’re enlightened. (That’s your moment of Zen for the day.)
Nine days from now, April 14th, is our Milonga Magnolia at All Saints. We’ll have live music by acclaimed Bandoneonist Emmanuel Trifilio and yes, there will definitely be milonga tandas. if you didn’t have a good reason to learn to milonga before, you’ve got one now.
Wonders never cease and we start at 8 this week
02 Monday Apr 2012
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Lesley Mitchell‘s magic is working. There is a man (who shall remain nameless, but he’s closely associated with Viva) who did a milonga for the first time. Successfully! You had to see it to believe it. Lesley will be back at SPC this Thursday to continue transforming the left-footed into the fleet-footed. Practica starts at 8, lesson at 9. This is working so well that we’ve asked Lesley to come back next week too, when we return to the 9:15 start time for another three weeks.
We’ve been hoarding pictures all month. We could say the dog ate them, but… Only a few are slightly pre-chewed. See the Picasa album here.
Don’t forget our first Saturday milonga is coming up April 14th at All Saints Church. It will include a Meetup for members of the Tango Meetup Group and a Beginners Lesson by Lou Becerra of Central Jersey Dance Society for people who have not taken tango lessons before.
Milonga Magnolia Tonight at 8
31 Saturday Mar 2012
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You’ll do a milonga to a milonga at a milonga
29 Thursday Mar 2012
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If you understand that sentence, you’ve already passed the entrance requirements for Milonga University. Distinguished Professor Lesley Mitchell will be on hand tonight – 9:15 at the Suzanne Paterson Center – to conduct a further symposium in the uses, abuses, derivations and applications of milonga steps, milonga music and navigating your way around a crowded milonga dance floor.
If all your teachers had been this good, you’d have multiple PhD’s by now.
Join us for an evening of fun with tango, great snacks and nice people. By the time we pass out the Blue Books, you’ll be ready to ace the whole milonga thing.
And speaking of milongas, we’re going to have one! Our Milonga Magnolia will be on Saturday, April 14th with the live music of Emmanuel Trifilio on bandoneon. Save the date.
You’re not too late, just a little tardy
26 Monday Mar 2012
There’s still time to learn how to milonga. Lesley Mitchell gives the second in her trio of milonga lessons this Thursday in SPC at 9:15 pm.
You’re not having real fun on the tango dance floor until you can milonga. And, according to verytango.com, you’re not doing the real tango. (See their interesting article on the African and Cuban origins of milonga here.) We don’t want you wishing you coulda, shoulda, woulda. Life is too short for regrets. The only solution is to come on over and benefit from Lesley’s superb teaching.
The reason you need to milonga? We’re going to have a milonga! Our plans will be firmed up in the next few days but it looks like Viva will be starting a monthly milonga on the second Saturday of each month. The inaugural will be April 14th.
You wouldn’t want to go to a milonga and not milonga, would you?
We can cure your pasos envy
22 Thursday Mar 2012
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Without pena. You know you want to. You know you wish you could. You know you admire people who do. Well, it’s time to join them. You, too, can milonga.
We’ve got just the person to teach you – Lesley Mitchell. Lesley starts a three week series of lessons in milonga tonight at 9:15 at the Suzanne Patterson Center.
Milonga is that fast and rhythmic cousin to Tango with the upbeat and infectious music. Lesley will start slowly, bring you up to speed and show you how to make your tango vocabulary work in milonga. No student left behind. Guaranteed.
If that doesn’t put the spring in your Spring, we don’t know what would. Admission $12 and FREE for students, just because, you know, it’s Spring.
La vida es una milonga
19 Monday Mar 2012
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At least we’d certainly like it to be. To that end we’ve got Lesley Mitchell, Philadelphia’s premier tango teacher, to teach a three week series in milonga, the dance step. You know, the one you always think is too fast for you.
It’s not and Lesley is going to prove it. Working with some of the slower songs to start, Lesley will demonstrate ways of moving and sequences that are specific to milonga.
Your vida can’t be a milonga unless you know how to milonga. It’s rhythmic, exhilarating and fun. Start with us this Thursday at 9:15. If you’re a student, it’s free. Just our way of making you forget how awful exam week was.
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