23 Monday Apr 2012
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Guillermo is very good, world class good, at stopping Vittoria dead in her tracks. Vittoria is even better at getting around him. Both are acquired skills.
This Thursday at 9:15 pm, Vittoria and Guillermo will be demonstrating all the skills involved in those stops – paradas in tango lingo. Join us at SPC for a class in paradas with embellishments, some good music, tasty snacks, nice people. ‘Nuf said. We’ll stop now.
19 Thursday Apr 2012
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Gala Milonga Lesley and Kelly’s 20th Anniversary celebration. Live music, lesson and milonga, Philadelphia, PA info
El Besito Milonga, Vittoria and Guillermo’s lesson and milonga, Marlton, NJ info
Milonga Vivisur, Asbury Park, NJ info
Tango Cafe, lesson and milonga, Philadelphia, PA info
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16 Monday Apr 2012
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All Saints, Argentine tango, dance lessons, live music, Meetup, milonga, practica, Princeton, VivaTango
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?
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12 Thursday Apr 2012
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All Saints, Argentine tango, dance lessons, live music, Meetup, milonga, practica, Princeton, VivaTango
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.
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.
22 Thursday Mar 2012
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Without pena. You know you want to. You know you wish you could. You know you admire people who do. Well, it’s time to join them. You, too, can milonga.
We’ve got just the person to teach you – Lesley Mitchell. Lesley starts a three week series of lessons in milonga tonight at 9:15 at the Suzanne Patterson Center.
Milonga is that fast and rhythmic cousin to Tango with the upbeat and infectious music. Lesley will start slowly, bring you up to speed and show you how to make your tango vocabulary work in milonga. No student left behind. Guaranteed.
If that doesn’t put the spring in your Spring, we don’t know what would. Admission $12 and FREE for students, just because, you know, it’s Spring.
19 Monday Mar 2012
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At least we’d certainly like it to be. To that end we’ve got Lesley Mitchell, Philadelphia’s premier tango teacher, to teach a three week series in milonga, the dance step. You know, the one you always think is too fast for you.
It’s not and Lesley is going to prove it. Working with some of the slower songs to start, Lesley will demonstrate ways of moving and sequences that are specific to milonga.
Your vida can’t be a milonga unless you know how to milonga. It’s rhythmic, exhilarating and fun. Start with us this Thursday at 9:15. If you’re a student, it’s free. Just our way of making you forget how awful exam week was.
16 Thursday Feb 2012
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Buttonwood, Lesley and Kelly’s lesson and milonga, Philadelphia, PA info
El Besito Milonga, live music and lesson, Marlton, NJ info
Tangazo, CJDS’s monthly lesson and milonga, Princeton, NJ info
Buttonwood, Milonga en Casa, potluck dinner milonga, Philadelphia, PA info
Collegeville Milonga, lesson and milonga, Wayne, PA info
Milonga Sentimental, Atrium Studio, Pennsauken, NJ info
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11 Saturday Feb 2012
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This is your only chance to dance with us next week. Viva Tango will be closed on Thursday, February 16th.
09 Thursday Feb 2012
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Argentine tango, dance lessons, Philadelphia, Princeton, Romance, Tusk Restaurant, Valentine's Day, VivaTango
But we’ll have pinwheels tonight anyhow, thanks to Lesley Mitchell. She’s teaching rocking turns from backward ochos – pinwheels, if you will. You don’t want to miss this. Lesley’s going to keep at it until every last one of us perfects that rocking step! It’s all happening tonight at 8 pm at the Suzanne Patterson Center.
Here’s another thing you don’t want to miss:
My Funny Valentine Milonga next Tuesday at
We really want you to be our Valentine.
And finally here’s something you will miss – There will be no Viva Tango Practica next Thursday, February 16th. We’re giving our all to love on Tuesday, Valentine’s Day. We’ll just be pooped out on Thursday.
Viva Tango Inc. 