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We’ve got a diva for our pre-Festival festivities

01 Monday Oct 2012

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Straight from performing in the El Querandi tango show in Buenos Aires, Cyrena Drusine is teaching at Viva for the next two weeks. Cyrena is a remarkable dancer.  See some of her youtubes here and here.

The very first US Tango Champion, Cyrena has a very impressive list of other accomplishments and worldwide performance credentials. You can read about them on her website http://cyrenatango.blogspot.com/. And yes, there are lots more pictures for those of you with a literary bent.

We’re all so excited about this that ChuLo even volunteered to personally escort her to Viva. He wants to make sure she doesn’t get waylaid by any of the tangueros  in town for the PU Tango Festival this week.

Join us Thursday at 9:15 for her lesson. It’s the best possible preparation you can make for the weekend. There will be several world class dancers in Princeton this week. Viva is proud to present the very first one.

Our Beginners Boot Camp is coming up October 13 and 14. If you are a rank beginner, if you need a review of the fundamentals, if you’re a woman who wants to lead or a man who wants to follow, this is for you. Sign up now.

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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?

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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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Smooth & Effortless Ochos

13 Thursday Sep 2012

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Chulo and Michele are coming and they are going to keep us busy.

They will start with a class at 8:10 PM to include; Basics of the ochos. How to get smooth effortless ochos. Understanding the geometry of the bodies leading ochos and clean pivots.

As we are all enjoying Nelly’s food and some practica with Chulo and lovely Michele’s help. They will later inspire us with a wonderful Tango performance.

Up and coming event: Milonga El Poema, Saturday, September 29 at All Saints.

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Beginners’ Luck

10 Monday Sep 2012

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Come Thursday at 8 PM when we celebrate our new beginners and introduce them to the mysteries of how a milonga works.

September 6, 2012

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Graduates, refreshers, challenges, cakes, bonus lesson, multiple choices, Oy!

06 Thursday Sep 2012

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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.)

 

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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:

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.

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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.

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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:

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.

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