We would like to thank all of you who attended the workshops by Juaquin & Larrisa and Georgia & Vatan and the Spring Milonga organized by the Syracuse Tango Community, it was a great success. It was so nice to see our tango friends all around upstate NY.
The Syracuse Tango community cordially invites you to our
Spring Milonga plus Tango workshops
Date: Saturdays March 1st, 2008 and June 7th, 2008
Place: Johnston's Bally Bay 550 Richmond Ave. Syracuse NY
Milonga
Time: 9pm to 1am
Cost:$10.00 per person at the door. We look forward to a fun evening of dance, friends, and refreshments. Door prizes will be given throughout the evening
Saturday Tango Workshops *(some tango experience required)
Workshop-With Joaquin and Larissa
1:30pm – 3pm Changes of Direction
Sharp changes of direction from 90 to 180 degree
Workshop-With Vatan and Georgia
3:15pm – 4:45pm Colgadas
Translates as “a hanger” - when the follower's axis is tilted away from the leader
Workshop Prices:
One workshop $20
Two workshops and Milonga $40
Milonga $10
Any questions regarding the milonga, please email your hosts: Gosia at gosia5@twcny.rr.com or Peg at mmaustin@syr.edu
Any questions regarding the workshops please email Vatan at vatan@bailatango.com
We look forward to seeing you there.
Many thanks to Dance Lovers of Central NY and Bruce Heffron for their kind invitations. During our classes on November 9th, 2007 and November 14th, 2007 over 60 people got to meet with TANGO... Thank you all for attending our classes, it was a blast.
Thank you to all our friends around upstate NY for attending this memoriable event. It was great to see them all and great to dance on live music. We very much appreciate Pedro Cuperman, Tere Paniagua and Owen Shapiro for putting this amazing event together.
"Tango dancers shift to a pure kinetic reason grafted in the specifics of a simple street dance. At the fringe of the city, drained of its margins, the pavement is inhabited by dance."
Pedro Cuperman
THE POINT OF CONTACT GALLERY
presents
TANGO
Installation & Performance
October 18, 2007 - January 31, 2008
Music, dance... transposed into video—a sort
of performance projected into the space of the gallery
where audience and art become intertwined
in the field of representation.
A renowned Miami-based Tango instrumentalist and composer
Maestro Miguel Arrabal, on the classic bandoneón
while Vatan & Georgia from SyracuseTango
along with Jean Fung from New York City’s Fun-Tango
and tangueros from near and far perform to the rhythms of the Maestro in a one-time only extravaganza, where the space of the gallery
and the sidewalks of East Genesee St. turned to dance floors.
Noon to 3 p.m. November 18, 2006
@Pioneer Health Club
taught by Georgia & Vatan
(thank you Lisa, Sandy W, Yvonne, George, Bonnie, Pasha, Sukru, Sandy P, Christian, Isaias, Deb, Ruth for participating in the boleo olympics)
“DANCERS ARE ALL CONNECTED”
September 29, 30, 2006
Marika and Bulent - Tango performances
Steve Ryan and Cindy Overstreet - West Coast Swing performances
Andy and Ilona - Latin dance performances
Hannah-Elizabeth - Bellydance performance
Special performances by LHS 13 Vocal Ensemble & Performing Arts class from Liverpool High School (under the direction of Cathy Osinski).
Workshop on September 29th:
Marika, Bulent, Andy, Ilona, Steve and Cindy cooperatively taught a class in "Connection and Communication " in dance.
Followed by a practica.
Workshops on September 30th:
Marika and Bulent taught 3 workshops: “Structural Elements”, “Analyzing Turns”, and “Dynamics & Change of Energy”.
The weekend event culminated with a milonga at Johnston’s Ballybay
*To find out more about Bulent and Marika go to: www.tangofabrika.com
Presented by the Liverpool High School Dance Club (under the direction of Cathy Osinski)
and Syracuse Tango
A Weekend of Performances, Dancing, and Workshops featuring Bulent and Marika from Montreal*
Including Steve Ryan, Andy and Ilona,and Hannah-Elizabeth from Syracuse and more!