... a class in
Argentine Tango

Currently Tango-go! offers a weekly class covering the fundamentals of Tango dance-movement and technique

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ATTENTION!!!
5 or more people must respond as "ATTENDING" on the Tango-go! Event FB page by 7pm Wed April 28th. or class will automatically be canceled.
Link: Facebook Tango-go! Event Page
or search "Tango-go" Current sessions:
The next class is
 Wed. April 28th. 2010 at 8pm

COST:
$8 individual.
6 session class card: $40
First class free for new students

Contact:
505. 977. 6509
email: matt@artstudiomc.com


This is half the cost of an average Tango class. Tango began as a street dance (like hip-hop) and we wish to keep it street level, leaving the door affordably open to the Demimondes

LOCATION:
 Studio B (Bianca)
1205 High Street SE
Albuquerque, NM. 87102

google map

nearest major intersection:
Broadway and Cesar Chavez

Check map carefully. High St. does not go all the way thru to Cesar Chavez. Best to go East from Lewis & Broadway six blocks and turn right onto High St.
 

SHOES: Guys! thin sole dress shoes with leather (ideally suede) or easy sliding soles. Leave the cowboy boots and sneakers home. Ladies! ultra thin leather sole with heals over 1.5" and straps or backs - no open backs like clogs or sandals.
 

TANGO REFERENCE INFO & LINKS:
[email me your Tango related links to post here]
 YOUTUBE VIDEOS
 Osvoldo Zotto, considered one of the few maestros of Salon style Tango, passed away this week. Posted here on youtube are some lesson/demos given by him. Unfortunately they all seem to be in slo-mo for teaching purposes, hence some of his real-time presence is robbed.
  Tete Rusconi, maestro of the Milonguro style also passed away this week [1/10/10] this is an excellent video of his slight idiosyncratic style
  James Friedgen: a dancer from Seattle I met in NYC in 2005, amazing stuff video does not do justice
  Natalia Hills & Gabriel Misse, mind boggling footwork, showtime!
FILMS THAT CONTAIN
UNIQUE TANGO MOMENTS
 HAPPY TOGETHER, Dir. Wong Kar Wai, 1997
Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong in their relationship. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working as a bouncer at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. [the Tango bar in this film is actually well know and the film contains some great shots of Tango dancers there - brief]
  SHALL WE DANCE, Dir. Masayuki Suo, 1996
Shohei Sugiyama is an accountant who spots a beautiful Japanese woman in a dance studio window. Hoping to get closer to her, even though he's married, he signs up for dance lessons in secret, and slowly begins to fall in love with the art form itself. [with some of the funniest dance moments I've every seen on film, I was rolling in the isle. Not so much about Tango but hey ... good stuff]
 TANGO AND THE
HEALTH SCIENCES
 Oxytocin & Tango, International Tango Therapy Conference, Argentina
  TIMES OF INDIA: McGill University found that the tango works much better than conventional walking to reduce the risk of falls in older people. Washington University's School of Medicine said the dance benefits patients with Parkinson's ...
 TANGO LITERATURE
Maria Finn, Author of Tango Me Home, will be talking/dancing with the Tango-go! class Sunday March 7th.
WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY www.sound-picture.net
  Michael Walker to Mateo Cohén,
"Whatever that Tango thing is, you have it..."