Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Argentinian Tango Lessons


Directly from Buenos Aires, Argentina, the land of the beautiful tango, come two talented instructors, Oscar Gauna & Cecilia Diaz Gauna, to teach their inimitable style of Argentine Tango for the first time in Kuwait! This intensive tango seminar, under the sponsorship of the Embassy of Argentina in Kuwait, is perfect for amateurs & aficionados. After finishing on Saturday, October 22nd, an informal reception will be held where they will hand out the attendance certificates, signed and stamped by the Argentine Embassy. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn one of the world's most beautiful dance styles.

Location: Argentine Embassy, Mishref, Block 6, Street 42, Villa 57, Basement Salon.
Cost: Special promo for booking in advance 50 KD for the whole 23 hours seminar (up to Thursday September 22nd)

What you need:
For men: Shoes that don’t obstruct you from making pivots, like trainers or shoes with thick rubber soles.
For women: If possible, shoes with at least small heels, which hold your feet properly. No flip flops, platforms or trainers with thick soles.
For everyone: The eagerness to have fun learning a beautiful dance.

Levels: Beginners & intermediates
For more info and registration forms please contact Laura: 6577-5018, LaurasPereyra@gmail.com


Program Contents
·        Posture: Lining up, tension and relax. Breathing. Dissociation.
·        Walking: Shifting body weight,  footsteps, quality, elegance.
·        Embrace: Presence, energy exchange, open and closed embrace, connection, communication.
·        Moving around the dance floor: Usage of the space, circulation, moving forward in straight lines, crossing, pausing. Laterality, parallel and crossed system. Attachment to the music, simple beat, double, half and pauses.
·        Elements on the dance floor, figures: Changing directions while dancing. Ochos (forward and backwards). Turns to both sides. Bloqueos. Arrastres. Voleos. Ganchos. Sacadas. Enrosques. Adornos.
·        Improvisation: Combination. Sequences. Solutions to frequent problems on the dance floor. How to dance in reduced spaces. Adjustment to the orchestra style. Respecting other dancing couples sharing the same space.
·        Musicality: Marked rhythm orchestras. Melodic orchestras
·        Introduction to Milonga: Rhythm and some specific items.

Schedule
OCTOBER
Sunday
Monday
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Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
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From 7pm to 9pm
No
From 7pm to 9pm
No
From 7pm
To 9pm
No
From 7pm to 8.30pm


*After finishing on Saturday 22nd October, informal reception and handing out of attendance certificates, signed and stamped by the embassy.
 

7 comments:

  1. Hi LWDLIK!

    We really enjoy your blog-- keep up the great work! We would like to kindly ask that you credit or link back to our site should you wish to use any of our content, as we do when we take content from your blog or from others. Thank you so much in advance!

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  2. Hi Grapevine Kuwait, thank you for the compliment.

    Many thanks to you for crediting me so very, very many times when you've 'borrowed' events from here over the year even when you're tweaking them slightly and not crediting back to me. I'm so glad you're such an avid reader and find the events so irresistable.

    However, I know how hard it can be to get info on events and the events are only fun if lots of people turn out to support them so I've not had issue with you or anyone else regarding 'borrowing'.

    I thank Laura for the Tango Seminar Doc and the Registration Form Doc which she sent me via email.

    I see you credit an a great deal to other blogs and the rest of your info is readily available on Facebook. But thank you for compiling it in one place for people to enjoy.

    Have a nice day!

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  3. Sorry people this is one of my pet peeves.

    We are not talking about poetry or a novel here. We are talking about info that is freely available for all to see, copy and publish from public forums. And then the Italian Art Lady and Grapevine get pissy with me for publishing also.

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  4. Umm.. GK - I have just seen the same event posted on Kuwait-Music too?? With no credit to you? Or did you 'borrow' it from them?

    Ok I'm done with this subject now. It's cake time :O)

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  5. Hi LWDLIK, I was not trying to be rude or cause an issue with you. I thoroughly enjoy your blog, and I was actually being honest with that statement. I just want to make clear, that I ALWAYS, ALWAYS given you credit for EVERY SINGLE POST I have taken from YOUR SITE AND FROM THE SITE OF OTHERS. You are more than welcome to go back and check them. We are contacted by many organizers as well, so many of our events are also sent to us by contributors-- we do not freely take & "tweak" as you previously mentioned. If this was a mistake, we truly apologize. We just wanted to send you a message to clarify. We did not see an email address to contact you on, so we just decided to comment (and leave it up to you should you wish to publish). Anyway, I agree, we are also through with this issue. Have a good one!

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  6. The email address is under the label contact me on the right.

    Apology accepted. My apologies to you for me being a cantankerous old grump. It's jet lag and lost baggage.

    Friends? Hope so x

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Always great to hear from you :O)