Dance early and often

27 Thursday Sep 2012

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Good advice in election season, especially as tonight is our last early start. Next week we go back to our winter hours for a couple of months with a 9:15 start time.

So join us tonight at 8. Chulo and Michelle will review ochos and boleos and it’s ChuLo’s birthday! Cake and dances at SPC. If you’re feeling really festive (and you’ve got every reason to), bring a bottle of wine to share tonight. Admission $12 or $7 for full time students with ID.

It’s just two weeks until our Tango Boot Camp.

And it’s just two days until our Milonga El Poema with the very entertaining Pablo Andrade playing the piano and singing.

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You’ve got to practice what he preaches!

24 Monday Sep 2012

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Minister of Tango ChuLo and his partner Michelle return on Thursday with another exciting lesson. Here you are taking the lesson and practicing last week in our Picasa album. But where are the boleos? There will be more photo ops this Thursday at 8 at SPC. When you see that flashbulb popping, throw a Hail Mary boleo.

Our Milonga El Poema is at All Saints this Saturday, September 29 at 8. Live music will be provided by the terrific Pablo Andrade. He sings. He plays piano. He wows. Don’t miss it.

Beginners Boot Camp with the incomparable Lesley Mitchell happens the weekend of October 13 and 14. Tell your friends who’ve always wanted to learn tango. Tell your neighbors. Tell your clergyman’s second cousin.

Phew, that’s an awful lot of talent in one post! Or are we just preaching to the choir?

You can go high or low

17 Monday Sep 2012

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ChuLo is on a roll. He and Michelle will follow up last week’s lesson with one on boleos this Thursday at SPC. Your choice, high or low. As ChuLo puts it, “clean back and front boleos for the beautiful Princetonian tangueras.” Ladies, you can’t possibly stay home after that!

Take a look at last week’s Picasa album, then get out your calendars because we’ve got two important events coming up:

Milonga El Poema

Saturday, September 29 at All Saints Church with Princeton’s own multi-talented composer, pianist, singer Pablo (Mosteiro) Andrade on keyboard. Your invitation is right here.

Beginners Boot Camp

Saturday and Sunday October 13 and 14 with Philadelphia’s own multi-talented artist, tanguera, teacher Lesley Mitchell. Full details here.

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We’re embellishing

28 Thursday Jun 2012

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And you will be too if you join us at SPC at 8 tonight to see Lesley Mitchell demonstrate how to get the quality of your tango movements just right so you can move easily, confidently, smoothly, and embellish to your heart’s content.

Don’t forget we’ve got our Milonga Brava on Saturday, a milonga with all the embellishments – live music by Maurizio Najt, great food by Nelly, lovely wine (if you choose to bring it), good dancers, nice people. You can count on that because we’d never embellish the truth.

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We’re in the middle

25 Monday Jun 2012

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Of a terrific series of lessons on technique by Lesley Mitchell and Kelly Ray. It’s lovely to know how to tango, but better still to get your movements exactly right, lending grace and elegance to your dance. If you’d like your tango to be comme il faut, join us at SPC Thursday at 8 for Lesley’s next class.

That takes care of the middle of the week, but we’re not done with you yet. We want to see you on the weekend too. Our Milonga Brava is this Saturday, June 30 at All Saints Church. It features the very accomplished composer, teacher and pianist Maurizio Najt.

If you want to be right in the middle of things this weekend, you’ve simply got to come!

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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

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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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.