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!

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.

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?

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.

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.