Turn! Turn! Turn! at 8

30 Monday Apr 2012

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To everything there is a season. And this week it’s the season for turns.

Turns with a triple weight change; That is what Vittoria and Guillermo will be teaching this Thursday.

Turns of the clock hands; Turn them back to 8 o’clock, our start time from now until the fall.

Turns around the dance floor to say goodbye to friends; See the Picasa album.

April 26, 2012

Turns to thoughts of spring and milongas; We intend to have one in May. As soon as we have a location, you’ll get an email.

Now it’s your turn; Mark your calendars and join us on Thursday for an evening of fun. You can’t turn that down, can you?

Come to parad(a)ise, stay for coffee and cake

26 Thursday Apr 2012

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Tonight at 9:15 pm Vittoria and Guillermo teach a tango step most everyone gets wrong – paradas. It’s that stick-out-the-leg, make-the-follower-stop, pivot-a-little-and-climb-over step, the one everyone trips on. Vittoria and Guillermo do a superb job of demonstrating the lead and follow for this difficult step. You’ll want to learn this.

And Nelly will reward you for it with coffee and cake following the lesson. A good evening all around.

And there’s more good news; Next week we return to our 8 o’clock start time for the next six months.

Tonight’s the last night students attend the practica for free. Take advantage of it.

Stop

23 Monday Apr 2012

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Guillermo is very good, world class good, at stopping Vittoria dead in her tracks. Vittoria is even better at getting around him. Both are acquired skills.

This Thursday at 9:15 pm, Vittoria and Guillermo will be demonstrating all the skills involved in those stops – paradas in tango lingo. Join us at SPC for a class in paradas with embellishments, some good music, tasty snacks, nice people. ‘Nuf said. We’ll stop now.

Where to tango this weekend

19 Thursday Apr 2012

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Start your weekend early with Viva Tango at 9:15 Thursday night, then tango for the rest of the weekend.

FRIDAY_________________________________________

Gala Milonga Lesley and Kelly’s 20th Anniversary celebration. Live music, lesson and milonga, Philadelphia, PA  info

SATURDAY_______________________________________

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

SUNDAY_________________________________________

Milonga Vivisur, Asbury Park, NJ  info

Tango Cafe, lesson and milonga, Philadelphia, PA   info

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Have a Salada with your salida

19 Thursday Apr 2012

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Vittoria and Guillermo have returned from their tour of California and are ready to dish up salidas tonight at 9:15 at SPC.

Salida translates as exit, the way out. And it is the way out – onto the dance floor. Vittoria and Guillermo will teach salidas with a half turn and embellishments tonight. In other words, spicy salidas.

Nelly has returned from her tour of ShopRite and is ready to dish up Saladas. Salada translates as that bag on a string that you dip into hot water. If you haven’t noticed, Nelly has been providing a variety of coffees and teas for the past several weeks. Add that to a great lesson, good food, nice music, wonderful people and you’ve got a complete fun evening of tango.

We hope you’ll join us for it. The kettle’s on.

WOW

16 Monday Apr 2012

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Thanks to all of you who came to our milonga Saturday night. It was a fabulous time. Great live music, great food, great people. When you get Vittoria and Guillermo, Lesley and Kelly, and the two Annas from Philadelphia all on the dance floor at the same time, that’s a critical mass of really, really, really good dancers. It makes a milonga feel like Buenos Aires.

Special thanks to the brilliant Bandoneonist Emmanuel Trifilio, to our pop-up surprise performer, Rebecca Salazar of the glorious voice, and to Lou Becerra of CJDS for teaching a terrific Beginners Lesson. Click below for pictures.

Join us Thursday at 9:15 pm for an exciting lesson with Vittoria and Guillermo on salidas. It’s where you begin, how you get on the dance floor. Vittoria and Guillermo have gotten on some  of the best with style and panache. They will reveal their secrets to us. If you start big, good things are sure to follow, don’t you think?

Milonga Magnolia
April 12, 2012

Viva at 9:15 tonight, no fooling

12 Thursday Apr 2012

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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.

    Directions  to SPC      Directions to All Saints

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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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.

 Directions  to SPC               Directions to All Saints