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20
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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
can be covered in 5 or 6 days in the following way:
20 hours
in 6 days
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Each day will start with half an hour of warm up and technique
exercises
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There will be
4 days of W/T + 4 hours of class each, divided in 2
blocks:
1st - 1/2 hour W/T + 2 hours class
2nd - 2 hours class
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there will be 2
days of only one block of 1/2 hour W/T + 2 hours class. 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.
20
hours in 5 days
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There will be
5 days of 4 and half hours of activity each, divided in 2
blocks:
1st - 1/2 hour W/T + 2 hours class
2nd - 2 hours class
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In the last day we will have some extra time for the certificates
distribution and for a soft drink and relax, good
opportunity for talks and social exchange with participants and
teachers.
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3 or 2.5 Hours of Warm up Exercises & Technique |
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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, or 2 & half hours
along the 5 days seminar.
This daily half
hour of exercises, won’t be done as couples. We’ll divide 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.
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Seminar Closure Milonga - Show |
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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 if it is done at "La 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 & Photography:
Bengt Jonsson
DJ: Horacio Azorey
In the case of having this Closure Milonga in some other place, times,
DJ and services may vary. |
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Certificates
of Attendance
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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
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Teaching Technique |
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Coordination exercises
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Positions
recognition exercises
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Language
use exercises
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Structural
control exercises
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Progressive
rhythm exercises
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Material
we will cover |
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Rhythm
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Adjusting the dance to the music
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Meaning
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Compositional balance of choreography
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Dramatic Projection
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Historic dance
references
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Video
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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:
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For
advanced dancers, teachers and all those even beginners or
intermediate who like good dancing... |
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For experienced tango dancers
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For
advanced dancers who are involved with teaching
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For
teachers
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For
professional dancers
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For
beginners and intermediate that have the courage of facing the tango
as it is, and in its complete magnitude
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For
all those who like to study deeply the tango
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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In Couples
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The
maximum number of participants will be 50 people, that is, 25 couples. |
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The
seminar will have exactly the same number of men as women.
So, you will only be able to register as couples. |
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During the seminar we are going to be often
changing partners in order to better develop your skill in leading and
following.
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Waiting
list
for those who have no partner
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Waiting List for "dancers not
partnered"
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How
to be on the list
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Unpartnered dancers can be put on the waiting list (see below).
There is one for men and one for women.
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To
be included on the waiting list, please send us your information
by filling out the following form:
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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.
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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.
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Those
who don't obtain a partner will remain on the waiting list until
the next seminar.
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Men
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Leader
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Women
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Why we want to give these seminars |
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that... |
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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. |
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Our love of Tango.
We
like the tango, whether it's mercilessly capricious or subtly
ordered. |
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Proposals
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We propose...
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...So that
you won't have these problems
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Unveiling
and demystification of popular wisdom,
clichés, questionable and
often contradictory technique and elements of tango dancing which
have long been maintained. |
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In order to
avoid the confusion of trying to follow useless or counterproductive
principles and technique.
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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. |
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You are never
asked how many steps does the tango have?
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To
develop a graduated, or progressive method
of learning. |
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One must
necessarily learn certain things before other things.
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To
develop methods for the composition of new combinations
of the
elements of tango. |
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You know that
some dancers do the same figures for years.
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To
realize a concrete and precise analysis of the projection of the
dance. |
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Has it ever
happened to you that you danced very well and nobody noticed?
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To
reach a technical advancement in the problems of coordination by
illuminating and understanding movement in time and space. |
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Repetitive
practice can in some cases be counterproductive, since we can repeat an
error many times.
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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
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Surely you have
heard at some time: Me? I've learned my part...
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To
study the causes and effects involved in giving different rhythmic
treatments to a particular figure together with a particular
piece of music. |
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Have you ever
noticed that one can dance well but not be dancing to the music.
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