Friday, August 16th – Sunday, August 18th
– Spokane
All events are at the Group Fitness Studio
14214-B East Sprague Ave. – Spokane Valley
Friday evening
Class 1 – 7:00pm – 8:15pm – Chacarera – Argentine Folk Dance
Tango Practica & Social – 8:30pm – 10:00pm
Saturday
Qualities of embrace, moving from open to close embrace and back again in a fluid connective way. Moving into wraps and close embrace Volcadas.
Class 2 – 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Class 3 – 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Milonga – 8:00 pm to Midnight
Sunday
Continuing qualities of embrace, working with a shared axis, Colgadas in a more open embrace. Slowing down our dance with musicality and connection to the music and our partner.
Class 4 – 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Class 5 – 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Whole workshop – $70 – Add to Cart
Student Rate Whole Workshop – $55 – Add to Cart
Individual Classes – $13 – Add to Cart
Milonga – $8 – Add to Cart
Tango Connections:
An overarching theme in Lori & Patrick's classes are exploring qualities of connection, how we express and receive communication in the dance. This applies to both expected and unexpected moments in our dance. We enjoy exploring how we can expand our range of expression in response to different moods, people and music that we encounter.
Building on concrete fundamentals of posture and vocabulary we can experience subtle moments of flow, fluid connection, and an ever-present aliveness within the music. Within an alive, fluid connection we can explore the musical vocabulary of circular and spiral movements in the dance.
Carol: Would you come up with a description of what the chacarera class will be, along with when and how it's used; and a description of what folks can expect from the Fri. practica?
Patrick : Chacarera is a folk dance from Argentina. This dance is often done in this country in tango communities as a musical break or interlude during a milonga or at the end of a milonga. It is fun to dance and very easy to learn. In one workshop, you can learn the dance so that you can get up and enjoy the fun when it happens at a milonga. If you want to go farther with the chacarera, there is more fancy footwork you can learn.
Patrick : Chacarera is danced in couples but without embrace following a given choreography. All couples line up facing each other. The basic idea of chacarera is that your are courting your partner, finding yourselves together in the end. This is a playful courtship with whomever you are paired up with in the dance. The rhythm of chacarera is a 6/8 beat which can be counted as a 3/4 beat as known from the vals beat. Whereas the speed and rhythm of the chacarera can vary a lot, the structure is always the same. A chacarera consists of two or three identical parts that are repeated with a pause in the middle.
Patrick : Friday will be the chacarera class, followed by a practica/social time. We will shift to tango music for the practica (while possibly playing the chacarera once again later on – so we can all remember it more easily!). As the beginning dancing for the weekend, we encourage people to mingle. We encourage you to introduce yourselves to people you haven't met or danced with before. We might also take a moment and have a show of hands for who is teaching tango in their community, so that people at the practica can ask for a dance with an instructor.
Patrick : I will also set up the music to be two traditional tango songs followed by one alternative without cortinas, so that people can dance different styles with the same partner and then switch.