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

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.

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

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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?