Why not try learning Argentine Tango! The 4-week beginner introduction course starts on Sunday February 5th 2012, at 4pm.

This course is designed for students with no previous dance experience and it aims to introduce students to the basics of authentic Argentine social tango.

Couples and singles welcome!

New Year Special Deal
We have a special deal for 2012: The Beginners 4 week Intro Course is $50 and you can bring a partner for free!

For more information or to register your interest, please contact Irene.

Siempre Tango will be starting a New Beginner Class for all you people who have been threatening to do something different and decided that this is the year to do it. “Get some culcha inta ya” and if you bring a partner you can both enrol in the Four week Course for the Price of one. If you are a current student then why not suggest this offer to friends or even purchase a gift voucher for them!...
Register your interest today at dance@siempretango.net.au

Siempre Tango invites you to come and celebrate the festive season and the end of a very productive and fun filled year with our Christmas Practilonga

Super Thursday is held at the North Adelaide Community Centre, Thursday, December 15th from 8.00 to 11.00pm.

Music will be provided by DJ Mark.

There will be performances, prizes, great music and a spacious dance floor. Please BYO and a plate of supper.

Entry is $15 for all with $5 of every ticket sold going towards the drought emergency appeal for people in Africa through the United Nations High Commission for Refugees

A new 6-week block of classes commence this Wednesday 14th September at St Theodore’s Church Hall corner Swaine Ave and Prescott Terrace, Toorak Gdns.

These classes will get you all dancing with a focus on accessible movements and we will be reviewing how we to use good technique and sound musicality through some exciting new steps for you to learn.

Intermediate – 7.30-8.30pm
Advanced – 8.30-9.30pm

Course cost $75/$50 concession

Hope to see you there!

We are also starting a new intake of beginners’ classes. If you know anyone who would like to start learning the Argentine Tango, please contact us soon.

Carlos Costes and Amanda Michels are offering some workshops this Sunday. They gave a great performance on Thursday night, and are a personable and engaging pair. Here’s some video of them in action.

Here’s the revised schedule of workshops ($30 per person):

Sunday — 14 Aug 2011
Eastwood Community Centre (95 Glen Osmond Road, Eastwood)

Workshop 3, 1—2.30pm, Technique for men and women, no partner required

Workshop 4, 3—4.30pm, Milonguero movements (Colgadas and volcadas in Tango Milonguero)

Please contact us to enrol.

Private classes
Private classes are available on Sunday 14 August anytime outside of workshop times until 9pm. They will cost $85 per person for each hour-long session, up to three people.

If you have your own venue, private classes can also be arranged on Saturday 13 August or Monday 15 August after 4pm.

Please contact Mark to enrol for private classes (president@siempretango.net.au)

Did you know that the words ‘milonga’ and ‘bailongo’ both refer to a place where people dance? Bailar is the Spanish verb meaning to dance. Bailongo is a lunfardo word.

Lunfardo is an argot (ie a secret language/slang in French, Spanish & Catalan). It was developed at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century by people from the various less wealthy socio-economic groups in and around Buenos Aires and Montevideo possibly to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.

Refs:

http://www.planet-tango.com/lyrics/elchoclo.htm & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunfardo

If you haven’t had enough tango or football lately then here is a little interesting video showing a fusion of the two “arts”.

Tango and Canyengue

Part 2: Two leading performers of canyengue, Marta Anton and El Gallego Manolo, believe that when men started dancing with men in 1890, canyengue was born based on milonga danced by orilleros (men on the margins).