Throw your weight around at 8

03 Thursday May 2012

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Throw your weight around with us, tonight at 8 o’clock. Vittoria and Guillermo will teach a turn with a triple weight change. Nobody does it better.

This comes in handy quite a lot, particularly if you’re inclined to vals. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again – If a man can get the embrace and the weight changes right, he’s halfway to being every woman’s dream tanguero. Let Vittoria and Guillermo show you how tonight at SPC, 8 pm. Admission $12, $5 for students with ID.

Viva has been unable to obtain any space for a Saturday milonga in May. We’re not letting that stop us, however. Next Thursday, May 10, we’re having our May milonga at SPC. It will be such a special night you’ll think you’ve already made it to the weekend.

There will be live music by Princeton’s own Pablo Mosteiro Romero, creator and host of The Death of Tango on 103.3 FM. Wait until you hear Pablo sing and play the piano! You can do that while you’re nibbling on Nelly’s scrumptious food, sipping a glass of wine and dancing tango. We think that perfectly completes all the ingredients you need for a heavenly Thursday.

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.

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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.