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Special Tango Seminars in Buenos Aires

 

go to Pre-Registration Form & Prices information 20 hours of classes 
6 days seminar
3 Hours of Warm up Exercises & Technique
Milonga - Show
seminar closure
25 couples  group limited to 50 people
Level   Advanced,  Masters,  studious & braves
Certificates of attendance
The Place 
Waiting list for "not partnered"

New Pedagogical Method that consists in a pre-designed program

Seminars of General Program Seminars of Thematic Program

clear and definite
 proposals  

Planned Seminars  for:

2010

Seminars already done in:

 2003  2004  2005   2006   2007   2008   2009

Why  we want to

 give these seminars

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

20 hours of classes - 6 days seminar

 

The seminar has 20 hours of class in total. The 20 hours’ schedule is not always exactly the same, but in general we can say that these 20 hours are covered in the following way:

  •       There will be 4 days of 4 hours of class each, divided in 2 blocks of 2 hours, and

  •       2 days of only one block of 2 hours. These days of less work are normally Wednesday (middle of the week) and Saturday (last day). In this way we can have some “rest” time in the middle of the week; and in the last day we can have time for the certificates distribution and time for a soft drink and relax, good opportunity for talks and social exchange with participants and teachers.

 

 

 

 

3 Hours of Warm up Exercises & Technique

 

Each day we'll start with a 15 minutes set of warm up exercises, to prepare our body and avoid risk of injury, then we’ll continue with another 15 minutes set of a series of technique exercises useful for coordination, precision, rhythm and tango shape. The daily half hour of exercises completes the 3 hours along the 6 days of the seminar. In some special cases like the seminar announced for December 2010, given the importance of the date (Christmas) the seminar will be done along 5 days so that the mentioned exercising will cover 2 hours and a half. But this is an exceptional case as normally the 20 hours seminar is done in 6 days.

This daily half hour of exercises, won’t be done as couples. We’ll separate in 2 groups, men and women, which will work separately, guided by Gustavo & Giselle, respectively.

It is a very good opportunity to make a careful study on specific details of each role that are frequently missed in the intensity of the general class.

Part of the daily technical exercising will include elements that will be seen later in the class applied to the dance of the couple.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Milonga - Show seminar closure

 

At the closure of each seminar there will be a Milonga to which every seminar participant is invited. Normally this milonga will take place from 8 PM until midnight at “La Manufactura Papelera”. There is a drinks and snacks service.

Around 11 PM there will be a Tango Dance Show that features Gustavo & Giselle plus other invited prominent dancers of the world tango community.

Show idea and Direction always by G&G

Lighting: Gabriel Bortnik

DJ: Horacio Azorey 

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule

 

The next Seminars are going to be:

 

 

 

02nd to 07th
August 2010

Monday to
Saturday

Rhythm, Phrasing & Musicality

There will be  20 hours of classes in total.

4 hours of class every day divided in 2 parts,
in the following time schedule:

  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 

12:00 pm to 12:30 pm warming + men & women technique
12:30 pm to 02:30 pm first  part class
02:30 pm to 03:30 pm pause - (for lunch, rest, practice...etc)
03:30 pm to 05:30 pm second part class

 


Wednesday and Saturday

12:00 pm to 12:30 pm warming + men & women technique
12:30 pm to 02:30 pm first  part class only

 

Saturday evening

08:00 pm to 12:00 am Seminar Closure Milonga - DJ: Horacio Azorey
11:00 pm Tango Dance Show by G&G + invited dancers

 

 

 


 

 

20th to 24th
December 2010

Monday
to Friday

 Tango Milonguero

There will be  20 hours of classes in total.

4 hours of class every day divided in 2 parts,
in the following time schedule:

  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 

 

12:00 pm to 12:30 pm warming + men & women technique
12:30 pm to 02:30 pm first  part class
02:30 pm to 03:30 pm pause - (for lunch, rest, practice...etc)
03:30 pm to 05:30 pm second part class


 

Saturday 25th December evening

08:00 pm to 12:00 am Seminar Closure Milonga - DJ: Horacio Azorey
11:00 pm Tango Dance Show by G&G + invited dancers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Certificates of Attendance

 

At the end of the seminar the participants will get a certificate of attendance. The only requirement to obtain the certificate is to attend each and every class.

 

 

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What  and how we will work on in these seminars

New teaching technique

  • New coordination exercises

  • Positions recognition exercises

  • Language use exercises

  • Structural control exercises

  • Progressive rhythm exercises

 

Material we will cover

  • Figures

  • Development of choreographic ideas

  • Technical troubleshooting

  • Aesthetic appearance

  • Structure

  • Functionality

  • Rhythm

  • Adjusting the dance to the music

  • Meaning

  • Compositional balance of choreography

  • Dramatic Projection

 

Language

The Seminars are going to be given basically in English. There will be also support for Spanish, French and Italian speakers.

              

 

Video - Recording

It's not permitted to use video cameras,  nor sound recording devices during the seminar. Those who wish can film themselves during the pauses just in order to memorize.

 

 

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For whom are these seminars intended:

For advanced dancers, teachers  and all those even beginners or intermediate who like good dancing...

  • For experienced tango dancers

  • For advanced dancers who are involved with teaching

  • For teachers

  • For professional dancers

  • For beginners and intermediate that have the courage of facing the tango as it is, and in its complete magnitude

  • For all those who like to study deeply the tango 

 

We want to stress that these programs are pre-designed for advanced dancers.  This is our understanding of an advanced program of dance:  a program which deals with movements requiring a high level of coordination, through a profound analysis and organized study of every aspect of  those movements.   We also believe it is very important to state that we will continue with the pre-planned curriculum regardless of the general level of dance in the group.  If some of the dancers have trouble with some aspects of the program, we will try to provide individual aid.   However, we will not lower the level of difficulty of the program for the other dancers, nor will we be able to slow down the program as designed. 

These seminars should be especially interesting to dancers who are involved in teaching because we will focus on the organization of the knowledge and understanding of the dance, as well as its systematic employment.   Through these seminars, teachers with many years of experience, as well as beginning teachers and those who wish to become teachers, will be able to notably enhance their teaching methods in order to improve the learning process of students.

Based on our experience, we understand that the learning process implies to make an effort from which is expected a result, that means “expectations” are created. These expectations, many times, are frustrated, not being able to reach the objectives, as a consequence of a partial treatment of the fundamentals that the tango presents as a dance discipline. We believe that facing the tango in the most complete way as possible, optimize that effort, permitting to, not only advance dancers but intermediate and beginners as well, to have a learning process much more efficient and effective, a really faster and stronger process with really lasting results.

 

 

 

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The place where the Seminars are done

La Manufactura Papelera

 

 

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In Couples

 

The maximum number of participants will be 50 people, that is, 25 couples.

 

The seminar will have exactly the same number of men as women.   So, you will only be able to register as couples.

 

During the seminar we are going to be often changing partners in order to better develop your skill in leading and following.

 

Waiting list   for those who have no partner

 

 

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Waiting List for "dancers not partnered"

 

How to be on the list

  • Unpartnered dancers can be put on the waiting list (see below).  There is one for men and one for women.

  • To be included on the waiting list, please send us your information by filling out the following form:

Name  E-mail
Country City

Seminars you want to do

2010

A  -  2-7 AUG                            B - 20-24 Dec

Gender:   male    female      Dance:  leader    follower
 

       

 

       

  • The agreement to form a couple for the seminar should be made by the interested parties, without our intervention.  We are only putting the information on the list, without assuming any responsibility. 

  • You will be able to register for the seminar only after you have arranged to participate with a partner. After you find a partner we will remove your name from the list.

  • Those who don't obtain a partner will remain on the waiting list until the next seminar.

 

 

Men

Name

City - Country

e-mail

Leader or follower

Seminar interest
Guillermo Bs As Argentina jeguicol@hotmail.com.ar leader A10
         
         

 

 

 

Women

Name City - Country e-mail

Leader or follower

Seminar interest
Christina Hadjisavva Cyprus, Nicosia

hermione@netmail.com.cy

follower A10
         
         

 

 

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Why we want to give these seminars

Given that...

 

The Tango is an infinite possibility.   We don't mean to say, for example: "the tango is danced always like this" or "to dance tango one has to know how to walk" or "the tango is a very personal dance," etc., because we would diminish ourselves if we reduced tango instruction to such simple platitudes.   We prefer to talk about the possibilities:  we try to establish a realistic method of developing the tango (personally, technically, and in general)  that actually aids in "discovering the tango," which permits us to nourish it, give life to it, and make it  function in a palpable, convincing, and conclusive manner.   Today the tango is not only a popular dance born beside the Rio de la Plata, but it has become an indisputable language, rich and full of surprises, that transcends cultural boundaries as well as stimulating personal relationships within any given culture.

Talent and personal capabilities can be developed.    We understand that the famous "advanced dancers" are not all the same.  The immense complexity of aspects that converge in the tango makes it such that all dancers are talented in some aspects, but not in all aspects.   What's more, what one wants to be and what one desires to be are not always one and the same.   Because of this, we always seek to build on the capability that each individual person possesses, in order to maximize personal development.  

The Tango is neither easy nor difficult . . . only valuable.   This seminar is not thought of as a series of figures designed only for extremely able students who are able to easily and rapidly do whichever sequence we propose.   It will not simply consist of doing difficult figures.  Very much to the contrary, through profound analysis accompanied by specific exercises, we will seek to identify with precision those elements that constitute the dance.   In this way, we,  just as our students, can arrive at the most possible clarity and mastery of the dance, regardless of native ability level.   Quality of movement is very important to us.  But even more important to us  than quality of movement is that we approach the study and dance of tango in such a way that we fully appreciate, and take advantage of, its wide and profound artistic range and possibilities.  

 

  

we want...  

To found a school.   G and G will launch a totally renovated and very intense pedagogic method and curriculum which was prepared specially for these seminars, with the intention of instituting and maintaining, from this point forward, a school of tango dancing that will be truly and definitively able to propound and practice this new teaching method and curriculum, as well as be permanently dedicated to improving, advancing, and exploring these principles and methodologies. 

 

  

because...  

We want to improve ...    Based on the experience of 18 years of teaching, and the recognition of thousands of returning students, we feel ready to initiate this systematic curriculum and new teaching method.   Having organized a systematic body of knowledge regarding tango dancing, we believe that this is worth doing.

 

  

and for...  
Our love of Tango.  We like the tango, whether it's mercilessly capricious or subtly ordered.

 

 

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Proposals

We propose...

 

...So that you won't have these problems

Unveiling and demystification of popular wisdom, clichés, questionable and often contradictory technique and elements of tango dancing which have long been maintained.

In order to avoid the confusion of trying to follow useless or counterproductive principles and technique.

To organize a course of study in an effective manner, utilizing perfectly identifiable groups of elements, not only to be able to remember them, but also to be able to rely on them at any given moment, and utilize and combine them in new and functional ways which will actually open up an infinite universe of possibilities.

You are never asked how many steps does the tango have?

To develop a graduated, or progressive method of learning.

One must necessarily learn certain things before other things.

To develop methods for the composition of new combinations  of the elements of tango.

You know that some dancers do the same figures for years.

To realize a concrete and precise analysis of the projection of the dance.

Has it ever happened to you that you danced very well and nobody noticed?

To reach a technical advancement in the problems of coordination by illuminating and understanding movement in time and space.

Repetitive practice can in some cases be counterproductive, since we can repeat an error many times.

To learn to mentally analyze a sequence and figure out its possible construction, keeping in mind the "lead and follow."  To learn to visualize the synchronization of "the four legs".

Surely you have heard at some time:  Me?  I've learned my part...

To study the causes and effects involved in giving different rhythmic treatments to a particular  figure together with a particular piece of music. 

Have you ever noticed that one can dance well but not be dancing to the music.

 

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Seminars History

 

 

  Planned Seminars 2003
  Date Event

Place

Places available
1 March 25th to 29th,  2003 1st Special Seminar

La Manufactura Papelera 

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished
2 August 5th to 9th, 2003 2nd Special Seminar

La Manufactura Papelera

Club Español

Finished
- December 9th to13th, 2003 3rd Special Seminar Buenos Aires CANCELED

 

 

 

 

  Planned Seminars 2004
  Date Event

Place

Places available
3

March 22nd to 26th

2004

Monday to Friday

A

General Program Seminar 

La Manufactura Papelera

Club Español

Finished

4

April 5th to 10th  2004

Monday to Saturday

B

Thematic Program Seminar

"Changes of the turn direction"

La Manufactura Papelera

Club Español

Finished

 

5

July 26th to 31st 

2004

Monday to Saturday

C

General Program Seminar  

Club Español

Finished

6

August 9th to 14th 2004

Monday to Saturday

D

Thematic Program Seminar

"Rhythm Application"

Club Español

Finished

 

7

November 29th to December 4th 2004

Monday to Saturday

E

General Program Seminar 

Club Español

Finished

8

December 13th to 18th  2004

Monday to Saturday

F

Thematic Program Seminar

"Axis Inclination Colgadas & Volcadas"

Club Español

Finished

 

 

 

 

  Planned Seminars 2005
  Date Event

Place

Places available
9

March 21st to 26th 2005

Monday to Saturday

A

Thematic Program
"Changes of Turn Direction "

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

10

April 4th to 9th  2005

Monday to Saturday

B

Thematic Program
"Sacadas Man & Woman"

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

 

11

August 08th to 13th  2005

Monday to Saturday

C

Thematic Program

 "Axis Inclination

Colgadas & Volcadas"

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

12

August 22nd to 27th  2005

Monday to Saturday

D

Thematic Program
"Tango,  Milonga and Vals, Differences"

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

 

 
-

October 17th to 22nd  2005

Monday to Saturday

E

Thematic Program
"Rhythm, Phrase and Musicality"

Centro Región Leonesa

---------

CANCELED

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-

December 12th to 17th  2005

Monday to Saturday

F

Thematic Program
"Posture, Distance and Shape"

Centro Región Leonesa

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CANCELED

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  Planned Seminars 2006
  Date Event

Place

Places available
13

March  20th to 25th  2006

Monday to Saturday

A

General Program

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

14

April  03rd to 08th  2006

Monday to Saturday

B

Thematic Program:
Axis inclination: Colgadas & Volcadas

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

 

15

August  07th to 12th  2006

Monday to Saturday

C

General Program

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

16

August  21st to 26th  2006

Monday to Saturday

D

Thematic Program:
Changes of the woman's turn direction around the man

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

 

17

October  02nd to 07th  2006

Monday to Saturday

E

General Program

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

 
18

December  11th to 16th  2006

Monday to Saturday

F

Thematic Program:
Rhythm, Phrasing & Musicality

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Planned Seminars 2007
  Date Event

Place

Places available
19

March  05th to 10th  2007

Monday to Saturday

A

General Program 

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

 20

March 19th to 24th  2007

Monday to Saturday

B

Thematic Program:
Axis inclination: Colgadas & Volcadas 

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

 

21

April  02nd to 07th  2007

Monday to Saturday

C

General Program 

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

22

April  16th to 21st  2007

Monday to Saturday

D

Thematic Program:
Changes of the woman's turn direction around the man 

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

 

23

August  06th to 11th  2007

Monday to Saturday

E

General Program

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

24

August  20th to 25th  2007

Monday to Saturday

F

Thematic Program:
Rhythm, Phrasing & Musicality

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

 

 

 

 

  Planned Seminars 2008
  Date Event

Place

Places available
25

March  03rd to 08h  2008

Monday to Saturday

A

General Program 

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

 26

March 11th to 14th  2008

Tuesday to Friday

E
extra

Thematic Program:
Rhythm, Phrasing & Musicality

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

27

 March 17th to 22nd  2008

Monday to Saturday

B

Thematic Program:
Rhythm, Phrasing & Musicality

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

 

28

August  11th to 16th  2008

Monday to Saturday

C

General Program 

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

29

 August 25th to 30th  2008

Monday to Saturday

D

Thematic Program:
Axis inclination

Colgadas & Volcadas

Centro Región Leonesa

Finished

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Planned Seminars 2009
  Date Event

Place

Places available
30

March  09th to 14th  2009

Monday to Saturday

A


General Program 
 

La Manufactura Papelera

Finished

 31

March 16th to 21st  2009

Monday to Saturday

B

Thematic Program:
Rhythm, Phrasing & Musicality

La Manufactura Papelera

Finished

           
32

August  10th to 15th  2009

Monday to Saturday

C


General Program 
 

La Manufactura Papelera

Finished

33

 August 17th to 22nd  2009

Monday to Saturday

D

Thematic Program:
Sacadas &
Boleos

La Manufactura Papelera

Finished

 

 

 

  Planned Seminars 2010
  Date Event

Place

Places available
34

August 02nd to 07th  2010

Monday to Saturday

A

Thematic Program:
Rhythm, Phrasing & Musicality

La Manufactura Papelera

There are openings

35

December 20th to 24th  2010

Monday to Friday
+ Saturday 25th evening

B

Thematic Program:
Tango Milonguero

La Manufactura Papelera

There are openings

           

 

 

 

 

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