Tango in Action Autumn Timetable from 2 September 2010

For further info call

- Alexandra 07971 822341
- Stefano 07961 326 731

Our Venues:

OASIS SPORTS CENTRE 32 Endell Street, Covent Garden WC2H 9AG.
Entrance on High Holborn. Nearest tubes: Holborn or Covent Garden.
Description: Large studio with mirrors, air-conditioning, sprung wooden floor. Other features: changing rooms, showers, cafe.

VIRGIN ACTIVE Shell Mex House, 80 Strand, WC2R 0DT.
Nearest tubes: Covent Garden, Charing Cross or Embankment.
Description: Large studio with mirrors, air conditioning, sprung wooden floor.

GYM BOX 42-49 St. Martins Lane, Covent Garden, WC2N 4EJ.
Nearest tubes: Leicester Square, Charing Cross.

GISELE AVANZI
Gisele Avanzi studied Ballet and Contemporary Dance at Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and performed throughout Argentina with some of the most important Dance Companies such as 'El Cisne Ballet' and 'La Terna'. Since 2001 she has been teaching various subjects related to Dance at the University of Arts in Buenos Aires.
Since 2008 she has devoted herself entirely to Tango and until Jan 2010 has toured extensively in Argentina and Europe as the partner of the late Osvaldo Zotto, with whom she has taught and performed in the major Tango Festival in Buenos Aires, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium.
She is well established as one of the most talented tango dancers of the new generations thank to her elegant style and her passion.
VIDEO OF GISELE'S
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DACtaBOcXgA

Stefano Fava and Gisele Avanzi classes:

TUESDAY CLASSES from 8.00 to 9.00 (drop in) £10 (both classes £17) @ Virgin Active (n.80 The Strand, London)
WALK, POSTURE, The class is ideal not only for those who have recently started but also for those who have been dancing for a while and feel they have started with the 'wrong foot', that is learning a lot of steps and figures without taking enough care of the foundation layer which is 'moving together in harmony with your partner linked by a warm, comfortable and protective embrace'. Particular attention will be given to what the leader can do to enhance the comfort and pleasure of the follower and vice versa. The class will focus on - Posture - Embrace: achieving the most organic and natural posture and embrace (for men and women), which make one feel most comfortable and make the partner feel connected and free and the same time- The walk: walk is the backbone of all tango dancing. Walking doesn't have to be boring. Through musical variations in the walk, students will learn how to tune the body to the partner, in order to let the emotions flow. - The Music: without close attention to the music there is no dancing. Technical Elements and Musical Expression are the two sides of the same coin and one cannot exist without the other for a deep and authentic dancing experience. Using the best tango songs, we will link the technical elements above to the expression of one's feelings through the music,

TUESDAY 9.00 to 10.00 (drop in) £10 (both classes £17)Virgin Active, n. 80 The Strand
ROTATIONS, PIVOT, TURNSAs an ideal continuation to the previous class, these lessons will focus on exploring, from the point of view of follower and leader, the foundamental mechanisms of the reciprocal rotations, that is all that is happening when partners do not walk straight in front of each other, but they go in the same directions with different fronts. Students will be learning simple rotating figures with the aim of executing every sequence with the same ease with which we do the walk. Through particular exercises, performed with the partner and always shaped by the music, particular attention will be given to what the leader can do to enhance the comfort and pleasure of the follower and vice versa.
 

Stefano Fava and Gisele Avanzi classes

WEDNESDAY 7.3O TO 8.45 (drop in) £10 (both classes £17) @ Oasis Sport Centre
TANGO MOVESThe target in this class will be: incorporating slightly more complex moves into that same physical ease, while refining with elegance and style the easier moves so that he/she can fully express their personality and his/her passion for the music, thus evolving from a Tango student to a Tango dancer.
THE MUSICSensitivity to the music obviously plays a crucial role for this process; that is why during the class, lots of attention will be given to the suitability of certain moves (and certain women’s decorations and embellishments) to certain music, not by imposing rules, but by trying to raise awareness to the many layers of certain Tango songs. Occasionally we will resort to short snippets of sequences that all class will execute together with the same music. Not with the aim of building choreographies but in order to “learn the music with our bodies” rather than with our minds, to “engrave” it in our moves letting the body become the channel through which the music is “played visually”.
TECHNIQUE AND EXPRESSION Borrowing from the famous quotation: “Culture is what is left in us once we have forgotten all we have learnt”, we will treat the technical aspect of Tango as something to be achieved and then digested and “forgotten”, for it to be a channel and NOT an obstacle to the expression of our inner world while we dance.

WEDNESDAY 8.45 to 9.30 @ Oasis Sport Centre
MILONGA CLASSIn this class we will familiarize with the Milonga rhythm through exercises to be executed on our own and with the partner. We will be studying sequences to make Milonga dancing fun and colourful
 

GIRALDO ESCOBARr:
Giraldo has previously performed with Arte Latino Cultural Project, Danza Colombia. He has created choreography for the Channel Four film Dance, appeared in Madonna's film Evita, Deborah Bull's bbc dance season programme Travels with my Tutu and has appeared on bbc Strictly Come Dancing. During Autumn 2008 Giraldo performed in Sally Potter's production of Carmen at Covent Garden