We’ve got plans

21 Monday Jan 2013

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That’s kind of unusual for us, but we’re definitely getting that procrastination thing under control (New Year’s resolution!) and can’t wait to tell you what we have planned for the next couple of months:

  • This Thursday Vittoria Natale and Steve Mason will teach at Viva

  • On February 1st and 8th, we’ll have Vittoria and Guillermo

  • February 14th is our FUNNY VALENTINE MILONGA (It’s OK to start sending us love notes now)

  • Angeles Chanaha and Hugo Mastrolorenzo (straight from Argentina) will hold the floor from February 21st through March 7th

  • We don’t often get a good venue for a Saturday milonga, but thanks to the nice folks at CJDS, we’ve got Saturday, March 30 at SPC. There’s no working title yet so just think of it as OUR BIG FAT MARCH MILONGA

Whew, that was a lot of work.  We’ll rest up now, but not before we ask if you know you can follow us on Google+ (Viva Tango), Twitter (@vivatango) and Facebook (Viva Tango Princeton).  In fact, feel free to follow us anywhere.

 

Where to tango this weekend

18 Friday Jan 2013

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SATURDAY_______________________________________

El Besito Milonga, Vittoria and Guillermo’s lesson and milonga, Marlton, NJ  info

Milonga Los Pitucos, Felix and Jose’s lesson and milonga, Caldwell, NJ info

SUNDAY________________________________________

Atrium Tango Brunch, Maria and Steve’s brunch and milonga, Pennsauken, NJ info

Milonga en Casa, Lesley and Kelly’s potluck dinner milonga, Philadelphia, PA  info

 

 

 

Now that you’ve turned it around…

17 Thursday Jan 2013

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It’s time to get out of it. Lesley Mitchell has had you turning all the way around for the last two weeks. Tonight she reveals how to exit gracefully from those 180 degree turns. You didn’t think she was going to leave you spinning on the dance floor, did you?

Join us at the Suzanne Patterson Center at 8 o’clock for good music, good dancing, good food and good fun. Admission $12 or $10 for students with ID.

We don’t want to seem overly ardent, but we are making a shameless attempt to woo you early and often because we really want you to be our Valentine. If you get any flowers or candy from a ‘secret admirer’, feel free to give us the credit.

 

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An amazing turn of events

14 Monday Jan 2013

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As it turns out, a good teacher can take a single subject – 180 degree turns, for instance – and relate all of tango to it. That’s just what Lesley Mitchell has been doing.

Join us Thursday at 8 for her final lesson in about-face turns. If you’ve been paying close attention, you know you’ll learn things you weren’t even aware you didn’t know. Education – tango or otherwise – doesn’t get any better than that.

Admission $12 or $10 for students with ID. It all happens at SPC.

Save the date; Our Funny Valentine Milonga is February 14th, of course!

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Straighten up and fly right

10 Thursday Jan 2013

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LesleyWe’ve got Lesley Mitchell tonight at 8 to show you how to extract yourself from those uh-oh moments when you’re going clockwise and everyone else is moving counter clockwise on the dance floor.

Join us at the Suzanne Patterson Center for an evening of good fun, good friends, good food.  $12 admission or $10 for students with ID.

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Wrong Way Corrigan

07 Monday Jan 2013

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You don’t want to be a Wrong Way Corrigan on the dance floor. He was an aviator who filed a flight plan to go from New York to California and somehow wound up in Ireland.  That’s why we’ve got Lesley Mitchell to teach 180 degree turns Thursday night. These come in handy when you’re hoping to get to Sacramento and start to spy Dublin on the horizon. We’ll start at 8. $12 admission, $10 for students with ID.

There’s one very good photo this week (that’s slightly better than our usual ratio) – the class picture of our Beyond the Basics Boot Camp. We’re very proud of them. They worked hard and really mastered the material.

January 3 – 6, 2013

 

Hard to believe but Our Funny Valentine Milonga is just a little over a month away.  If you can suggest a better name than that or a name worse than all of last year’s rejects, speak up. We’ll use it.

 

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About Face!

03 Thursday Jan 2013

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Hut, two, three, four! Oh, all right, you won’t have to march in formation or present arms. But you will learn to do a complete 180 degree turn on the dance floor without provoking an international incident.  A woman who knows secret maneuvers you haven’t even dreamed of,  Lesley Mitchell will be your guide (or your Drill Sergeant if you prefer.)  Lesley will spend the next three weeks making non-combatants of us all when it comes to facing that oncoming horde of dancers when we’re going the wrong way. As you can see from last week’s pictures, that happens.

December 27, 2012

Join us at SPC for the lesson at 8 tonight. $12 admission, $10 for students with ID.

Our Tango Bootcamp – Beyond the Basics is this weekend, January 5th and 6th.  Last chance to register for the lower price.

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Start the New Year right

31 Monday Dec 2012

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With Viva Tango, of course!  On Thursday Lesley Mitchell will start our New Year off right with a lesson at 8. Then she will follow up on Saturday and Sunday with a tango bootcamp – Beyond the Basics. Refine your technique. Learn the elements of molinetes and ocho cortadodas and much more. Sign up now to get the lower price.

Boot camp Jan 5 and 6 2013 edited

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Where to tango New Year’s Eve

28 Friday Dec 2012

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Monday, December 31

Marie and Afshin’s New Year Gala – 9pm to 2 am

Nackford Karate Studio, Wayne PA   $35 per person  

more information   http://joyoftango.com/index.html

Jon Tariq’s NYE Milonga – 8pm to 4am

Basic Ballroom 353 W. 35th St. NYC

$20 per person or $35 for two with advance purchase

more information    http://www.tangowithjon.com/tangowithjon/News.html

Picture postcard endings at 8

27 Thursday Dec 2012

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argentine tangosmallYes, just like the ones you’ve seen on every postcard you’ve ever sent or received from Buenos Aires.  But here’s the incredible thing – real people do them too.  And we’ve got Kelly Ray tonight to teach you how. A spiritual Porteño and a brilliant de-constructor, Kelly has seen them all, knows them all and can teach them all.  This should be amazing fun.

Join us tonight at 8 o’clock (note the earlier start time) at the Suzanne Patterson Center. Admission $12, $10 for students with ID.

If you’re working on that list of New Year’s Resolutions, here’s one you want to include; Perfect your tango. And here’s how; Our Boot Camp – Beyond the Basics takes place next week on the weekend of January 5th and 6th.  If your basic skills need some polishing, if your leading/following technique needs some refining, if your giros, molinetes or ocho cortados could be better, this is for you. If you are a woman who wants to learn to lead or a man who wants to learn to follow, this is for you. Register now to get the lower price.

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