Come Thursday at 8 PM when we celebrate our new beginners and introduce them to the mysteries of how a milonga works.
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| September 6, 2012 |
Beginner Lessons Directions to SPC
Beginners’ Luck
10 Monday Sep 2012
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Graduates, refreshers, challenges, cakes, bonus lesson, multiple choices, Oy!
06 Thursday Sep 2012
We’ve got a lot going on tonight. It’s the last lesson in our Beginner Series and quite a lesson it is. Lesley Mitchell will spend the first 45 minutes on walking to the cross and the next 45 minutes on molinetes. Then the beginners will be graduates and Nelly will have some special cakes to help celebrate. We will invite the new graduates to join us for the intermediate lesson and the practica. If you can remember how scary your first time was, you’ll know what to do.
Then the intermediate lesson starts at 8:30 with Lesley’s easy/difficult molinete challenge. And finally at 9:30 our practica starts with great snacks and fabulous music.
Now it gets complicated:
If you would like to shore up some of your basic tango skills, come at 7 o’clock and take both the beginner and the intermediate lessons. Pay $25 for all the lessons and the entire night (unless you’re already a pre-paid beginner, in which case you’re all set.)
If you would like a refresher course in molinetes from a superb teacher (and who doesn’t need that?), come at 7:45 and join the last half of the beginner lesson followed by the intermediate lesson. Pay $12 for the entire night or $5 if you’re a full time student with ID.
If you’re pressed for time or just plain satisfied with your molinetes, come at 8:30 for the giro/molinete challenge. Also $12 for the entire night.
If you’re confused, Dennis and David will be conducting a symposium in deciphering the emails. Coming to a location near you very soon.
If you’ve read this far, mark your calendars for our next milonga, September 29, featuring the music of Princeton’s very own Pablo Andrade (who is really Pablo Mosteiro. Don’t ask.)
Beginner Lessons Directions to SPC
It’s Graduation Day
03 Monday Sep 2012
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On Thursday it’s Graduation Day for the beginners and for everyone who has been taking Lesley Mitchell‘s three week giro/molinete challenge. That’s an awful lot of you:
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| August 30, 2012 |
We’re not sure we’ve got enough caps and gowns to go around, but come any way and we’ll work something out.
If you’d like to brush up on some of the fundamentals of tango, you can take the last beginners class for $25.
Everything takes place Thursday at the Suzanne Patterson Center. $12 admission for the intermediate lesson and practica or $5 for full time students with ID.
Clear your calendars. Our next milonga is September 29 and features our favorite singing pianist, Pablo Andrade.
Take the challenge
30 Thursday Aug 2012
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Pepsi has nothing to do with it. It’s all Lesley Mitchell who continues her giro/molinete challenge tonight at 8:30. The giro is the turn, or what the couple does. The molinete is the grapevine pattern around the leader, or what the follower does. There will be an easy turn and a difficult one. If you’re really good, you’ll be able to do both. If you’re really, really, really good, you’ll be able to do both as a leader and a follower. Come at 8 and have something to eat before you test your tango skills. You’ll need to keep your strength up.
Now and again one of our dancers waxes poetic on the subject of tango. That’s exactly what Mary Ann Smorra did in this very well written article. We hope it helps to clarify your own thoughts about what tango means to you.
Everything happens tonight, starting at 8, at the Suzanne Patterson Center. Admission is $12 or $5 for full time students with ID.
The joint was jumpin’
27 Monday Aug 2012
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You should have been there last Thursday. Everybody else was. We had a great beginners class (with a great group of beginners) followed by a terrific giro/molinete lesson from Lesley Mitchell and a fun practica. See for yourself:
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| August 23, 2012 |
If you’re feeling remorse that you didn’t come to the Beginners Lessons, it’s not too late. You can come to the next two, August 30 and September 6, for the special price of $40 if you register (by sending an email to info@vivatango.org) or $25 per class if you pay at the door.
Mark your calendars for our upcoming milongas: September 29, October 27, November 22 (really) and for Viva’s Birthday Party, October 18.
We’ll see you Thursday at SPC.
This calls for giroics.
23 Thursday Aug 2012
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And you will be a Hero or a Heroine when you complete Lesley Mitchell’s three week giro/molinete challenge. There will be an easy and a difficult giro every week for you to master.
The first lesson is tonight at 8:30. We suggest you come at 8 to the Suzanne Patterson Center to enjoy some tasty snacks and help us welcome the beginners to the tango community. Then you can get down to the business of serious dancing. That will definitely make you our Hero, giro or not. Admission $12 or $5 for full time students with ID.
If you haven’t yet, tell your friends our Beginner Tango Series starts tonight. They’ve got just minutes left to send us an email to pre-register and get the lower price.
We’re the only game in town
20 Monday Aug 2012
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All the other tango venues are on hiatus, closed, or taking up salsa. But if you want to tango anywhere this week (and who doesn’t?) between Cherry Hill and South Boundbrook, you’ve always got Viva.
Lesley Mitchell, Philadelphia’s premier tanguera, joins us this Thursday for an intermediate lesson at 8:30. Come to SPC at 8. Eat first, meet the beginners, dance later. We’re aiming to have an even better time than we did last week.
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| August 16, 2012 |
Tell your non-tangoing friends time is running out to pre-register for our Beginner Tango Lessons and get the lower price.
Game on.
Feeling deprived?
16 Thursday Aug 2012
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So are we after our tango-less Monday. Come tonight and make up for lost time. ChuLo Manfredi will have a lesson with milonga steps at 8. Then you can dance the night away until 11:45. That’s all at SPC, as usual.
Admission $12 or $5 for full time students with ID.
Don’t forget to tell those neighbors, friends and distant cousins who have always wanted to tango that our Beginner Tango Lessons start next Thursday.
Qualifying rounds start Thursday
13 Monday Aug 2012
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If you want to secure your place on the 2016 Olympic Tango Team, you need to start training immediately. Rio beckons.
Fortunately we’ve got the perfect coach for the tangathlete. ChuLo (whose team won gold at the San Marino Olympics) will be on hand Thursday at 8 to get us started with that all important teamwork.
If you know any tango wannabes who hope to qualify for the Team, please tell them our Beginner Tango Lessons start on August 23. Click the link for complete information.
Here are pictures of the medal ceremonies from last week. By the way, we never name you or geo-tag you in our photos. We wouldn’t want to jeopardize your place in the Witness Protection Program, even if you are an Olympic headliner.
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| August 9, 2012
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Listen carefully
09 Thursday Aug 2012
First to ChuLo’s lesson about milonguero sequences for changing direction in tight spots. That’s at 8 o’clock tonight.
Then listen to the music. ChuLo will be DJing all night. He brings the Porteño’s passion for all things Argentine, a musician’s ear and a dancer’s sensibility to his music selections. He’s on a one man mission to make the level of DJing in these parts as good as it is in Buenos Aires.
Join us from 8 to 11:45 tonight at the Suzanne Patterson Center. $12 admission, $5 for full time students with ID.
If you’re still listening, remind your non-tangoing friends that Viva will have Beginner Tango Lessons starting August 23.
Viva Tango Inc. 