[TSOM-Announce] 5th Sat Milonga @ 4-Seasons!!

Note location: Four Seasons Studio.
This weekend, Oct 31, HALLOWEEN!

Have a costume? Join the fun and wear it. Not a costume person? That's okay too. Just come enjoy the dance and marvel at other peoples inventiveness while you enjoy your dances. Hope to see you there!

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Terri

[TSOM-Announce] Pre-Halloween Milonga Mala Yunta (with info regarding location and time)

I'm sorry I sent this message earlier today, without very important information... Just did copy/paste from the post on FB, where details such as location, date and time are part of the event...

So here it goes:

Mala Yunta 5th Friday Milonga: Pre-Halloween milonga

When: Friday, Oct 30 2015 from 9:30pm to 1am

Where: Four Seasons Dance Studio - 1637 Hennepin Ave S, Minneapoilis, MN 55403 (http://www.fourseasonsdance.com/contact.shtml)

Come to enjoy the first "Batalla de DJs" in the Twin Cities!

Optional: Dress up as an "original" Argentine character.

DJs: Yanhua and Cecilia. And Tamara? will SHE dare to compete with them?

Also come to say good bye to Marisa, we won't see her at another Mala Yunta until at least the snow goes away...

As usual admission is $10, and $5 for full time students.

Includes delicious snacks!

Los esperamos!

Maria, Marisa, Lili y Tamara

[TSOM-Announce] TSoM Halloween MIlonga SATURDAY!!!

Put your best costume together - or just come as your own, wonderful, tango-dancer self! There will be prizes for costumes. Four Seasons Dance Studio. 8:30. See you there!

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Terri

[TSOM-Announce] Pre-Halloween Milonga Mala Yunta

Mala Yunta 5th Friday Milonga

Come to enjoy the first "Batalla de DJs" in the Twin Cities!

Optional: Dress up as an "original" Argentine character.

DJs: Yanhua Deng and Cecilia Florencia García Gaul

and Tamara? wil SHE dare to compete with them?

Also come to say good bye to Marisa, we won't see in another Mala Yunta until at least the snow goes away...

As usual admission is $10, and $5 for full time students.

Includes delicious snacks!

Los esperamos!

Maria, Marisa, Lili y Tamara

[TSOM-Announce] anyone interested

This email was received from the woman Nancy whom some of you met at a recent milonga.  TSoM board does not bring in instructors; however, I thought I'd pass this on to TSoM members in case anyone has interest in encouraging this instructor.   Nance Hoeft <tangonance@gmail.com>	12:38 AM (9 hours ago)
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To Minneapolis Tango Board,

I have just returned to Carmel, California. I'm so happy that I flew in to the Minneapolis Airport  on October 10th & danced my first mid west Tango a few hours later at Four Season's. Everyone was so friendly & I felt very welcome. The mid west is just the best when it comes to hospitality. Truly, you were the highlight of my trip. The next 10 days I spent with aging parents in a difficult chapter of their lives.

I am an organizer here in California working solely with David Chiu.  I would like to return to Minneapolis Tango when I fly back to visit my parents. I'm wondering if you might be interested in having David Chiu come with me as a guest instructor. I have been bringing him from Los Angeles to the Monterey Peninsula for the past six years. We are currently working on the 2016 calendar & have some possible times available.

Below is a brief bio for David. You might still be able to see him on your PBS channel. He just performed with Romina Levine (from Forever Tango) at the Imagen Awards Ceremony in Hollywood.

I look forward to hearing from you .

Best,

Nance

831 915-7523

David Chiu is an inspirational, innovative and cutting edge tango Instructor based in Los Angeles. His students get immediate results in a fun and nurturing learning environment. David's clear teaching and keen eye guide his students to incorporate new movement in their bodies easily. His style combines classic elegance with Nuevo in close embrace. David has been dancing for 17 years and teaching tango for the last 12 years. He has studied extensively with Juan Carlos & Johana Copes, Osvaldo Zotto & Lorena Ermocida and Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne.  Additionally, playing piano since the age of four, gives David the ability to guide his students in the use of musicality in their dancing. He has been a featured International Performer at Tango Festivals in Taiwan and Korea. He also choreographed for Dancing With the Stars, Season III. Recently, he won the New York City Tango Festival Competition.

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[TSOM-Announce] Fwd: We want your money!!! Fundraiser milonga for Syrian refugees

info about Fundraiser milonga this saturday evening oct.24 View this email in your browser This Saturday evening, Fundraiser milonga for the Syrian Refugees Saturday evening, oct 24 9 -  1 (mini lesson 9 -9.30) Sliding entrance fee $ 10 till $ 1500  ( : Dance Life Ballroom 6015 Lyndale Ave, Minneapolis 55419 DJ Paul Lohman What can I do? What can you do?  You can come and dance the night away AND give to a charity organization that specializes in refugee work. As a tango community we can really make a tiny dent into the costs involved in helping people in dire need.  Can't come? Please consider stopping by Dance Life Ballroom beforehand to drop of your donations: there is a donation box located by the front desk. Together with Bashar Zaim and Crystal Zaim we handpicked the organization that simply knows best how to help : UNHCR the UN refugee Agency.   https://donate.unrefugees.org/ Please listen to the story of Hamza, and take a look at other organizations who are doing a marvelous job, by going to this link:  Hamza Story Bring your wallets and dance shoes, to ensure the success of this evening! ALL proceeds will go directly to UNCHR. Paul Lohman has donated his DJ skills, and Shinya has donated the space at Dance Life Ballroom! The Board members of the Tango Society of Minnesota, TSoM, will be donating and catering all food for the event! Looking forward to seeing all of you there! Sabine and John Ibes   Copyright © 2015 Tango and I, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Tango and I 5816 Pleasant Ave Minneapolis, Mn 55410 Add us to your address book

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www.tangoandi.com

www.tangoteachercoop.org

[TSOM-Announce] Fifth Saturday Milonga @ Four Seasons

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Terri

[TSOM-Announce] VENUE CHANGE! Fifth Saturday Milonga

Oct 31 - This Fifth Saturday milonga falls on Halloween and I just can't resist the obvious theme opportunity. This will be a costume-optional (but encouraged) event.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

There is a venue change for this 5th Saturday Milonga. We will be at Four Seasons Dance Studio this time.

Dance from 8:30 to midnight. No lesson this time.

Light snacks will be provided but, as always, your contribution to the food table is greatly appreciated.

See you there!

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Terri

[TSOM-Announce] milonga puro tango

Milonga PuroTango will be held tomorrow night Oct. 16th at Four Seasons Dance.

My apologies once again for the late announcement.
The doors open at 9:30 and the dancing begins when you arrive.

Admission is $10 , $5 for full time students

Light snacks and beverages are available and you may certainly contribute what ever you like.

I hope to see you there!
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[TSOM-Announce] Saturday, Oct 17: Workshop in Chacarera, Canyengue, Zamba and Candombe

This Saturday: Workshop in the other Argentine music dances that are popular in the milongas of Buenos Aires, sometimes called Folkloric. Now that they are commonly played here, you don't want to have to sit them out. If you are going to Buenos Aires, knowing these dances will go a long way towards showing the milongueros that you are knowledgeable, and serious about tango. 

Does the Chacarera look like a lot of fun? Can't understand the musical nuances of the Canyengue? Want to learn the subtle and beautiful seduction messages in the Zamba and other dances? These other dances are a lot of fun to learn, and we'll have a great time.

Even if you never chose to dance these, understanding them as well as the music will be an invaluable help to your tango, vals and milonga. This music, and these dances, are some of the roots of tango, and will really help to improve your musicality and the beauty of your dance.  They will also help you to solve some questions you may be working on in tango: walking, the embrace, posture, attitude, poses and other fundamentals that came from these dances into tango.

At the turn of the 19th century, Argentina was a huge draw for immigrants, as well as the gauchos from the pampas. As they filled the streets and alleyways of Buenos Aires, they mingled with the portenos (the inhabitants of the city's port area), African slaves, and natives. There was a vibrant mix of music and dance representing these cultures—flamenco, Italian melodies, Cuban habanera, African Candombe, polkas, mazurkas, and Spanish contradanse. These cultural styles began to fuse, and new styles of music and dance were invented.

Chacarera is a couple's dance, but the two dancers dance without touching. Women usually wear brightly-colored, flowing dresses.  Men wear baggy pants, hats, and silk scarves tied at the neck.  Zamba is a slow dance, where the couple does not touch but communicates with each other with their scarves.  Showy and seductive, it is often danced in the streets of Argentina. Canyengue is the forerunner of tango, scandalous in its time because of the close embrace.

Come ready to work! We have a lot to cover!!

1:30 - 3:30 PM Saturday, October 17th

Center for Performing Arts

3754  Pleasant Ave S

Mpls, 55409

$20  Half price for full time students.

Taught by Lois Donnay
612.822.8436
www.mndance.com

Canyengue:  youtu.be/pq99xgSDFE0

Zamba:  youtu.be/JjVfD-HKFmA

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[TSOM-Announce] TANGO TIDBITS

  

-  My revised 40-page booklet Buenos Aires Tips By Lynne is still available for only $10; includes maps/guides, answers all your questions;  lmsdance@gmail.com

-  Practice space available:  St. Louis Park, 22 X 13 tile floor, CD player, private;  only $1 an hour per person, lmsdance@gmail.com, 952-545-2989

- For sale:  bright gold tango shoes from Buenos Aires, size 7 1/2 to 8,  3 1/4  in. heel, excellent condition, $50 ($125 new), see photo below

- Retro Ballroom/Balance Pointe Studio in St. Louis Park is closing.  Are there instructors out there who would like to rent it? Call instructor/present renter Jeff Nehrbass 612-940-9905,612-521-3575 for info.

- For all kinds of dance events/info. see "Lynne's Dance News" and "Dance Address Book" found at http;//www.organizeronduty.com

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Lynne Schulz, ORGANIZER ON DUTY 

(de-clutter/beautify your home/office, prepare your home for sale,

pack/unpack your move, organize an event) 

http://www.organizeronduty.com, lmsdance@gmail.com, LMSDANCE@GMAIL.COM

1-952-545-2989, (office/home);  1-612-940-4981 (use only if urgent, do not text)

8030 W. 25th St., St. Louis Park MN 55426, U.S.A.

author of "Lynne's Dance News" (on my website) and Buenos Aires Tips by Lynne

[TSOM-Announce] Tango this week: Classes, Krung Thep w/Maxi Gluzman, TSoM milonga, art crawl

Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Regular Group Lessons Class and Event Calendar Tuesday: Beginning Tango 6:30-7:45PM - Intermed: 7:45-9 PM Thursday: Advanced tango, 7:30PM  Saturday: Beginning tango 10:00 - 11:30AM Regular Public Dances Tuesday Tango Party 9:00  Milonga with talk, food and wine, 3142 1st Ave S, 55408. $5 1st Wed: Krung Thep, 2523 Nicollet, 7PM Classes this Week: This week we are doing some fast-track learning, as I like to get in as much information as possible in the 1.5 hours that I have you! We are working on secadas, or as my followers may call them "those leggy things you do". They can be lovely and so fun, or painful depending on execution.  We need to do them right! I often get questions from local followers asking how they can help their leaders, who are really trying to please, to fix their secadas.  Let's see if we can do it in class. First Wednesday at Krung Thep!!  Wednesday, October 7th. Good dancers, wood floor, great food and wine, music that you love, free parking. Another chance to hang out with Maxi Gluzman! Krung Thep Thai restaurant, 2523 Nicollet Ave S. Mpls. Music starts at 7 - come early for the best table. www.krungthepthaicuisine.org $5 Saturday is the TSoM Milonga at Four Seasons on Hennepin.  I am teaching the lesson and DJ'ing, so be sure to come and support me!  8:30 lesson, dance at 9:30  There is also a Grand Milonga in Rochester in conjunction with the Maxi Gluzman workshops there.   Also, this weekend is the St Paul Art Crawl. Two of my students have studios there. One has invited us to show off our tango in teh Northwestern Bldg. It's happening Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday. Call me if you would like to help, and let me know what time is best for you!  saintpaulartcrawl.org/ Upcoming: Saturday, October 17th: Workshop on the other dances that Argentines dance in milongas.  We'll cover Chacarera, Zamba, Canyengue, and even a little Candombe. We'll not only learn the dances, but we'll learn about the music and the history behind them. Essential if you are headed to Buenos Aires, important if you really want to understand tango. It will improve your tango, as well as your understanding of the cuture.  12:00 Please let me know you're coming! $20 Musings: I was listening to a talk about "Blue Zones" - areas of the world where people live measurably longer lives. The people share common lifestyle characteristics that contribute to their longevity, some of which are moderate, regular physical activity, stress reduction (meditation), low alcohol intake, especially wine, engagement in spirituality, and  engagement in social life. I was struck by how closely this describes the tango lifestyle. Of course we go on and on about how healthy tango is for you.  But I also hear from people who are just a little embarrassed by how tango has taken over their lives.  Why, they are out dancing 3, sometimes 4 nights a week! How frivolous their life has become!  To which I would like to reply - what's wrong with that? We as a species were meant to hang out with each other! It is quite common in many cultures to go to the bar, or pub, or gasthof, every night. Why did we get out of that habit? And really - what else is so important? Skip the gym, Netflix, Facebook - and go dance. Do it for your health!   Tango Boutique! New arrivals! Clothes, shoes and accessories for the dancer.  Clothes that fit, stay on, have color, flow beautifully, with real style.  And great prices! Shoes from $40 to $120.  All clothes under $100.  Come and shop during parties and get an unbiased opinion from seasoned tango dancers. :) Buenos Aires! Time to plan for next year! The trip is full for November to December is still available.  Pick the dates that work for you and still stay in the house with us. We have so much fun!.  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2015 Dance with Lois Donnay, All rights reserved. Our address is: Dance with Lois Donnay 3142 1st Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55408 Add us to your address book  612.822.8436 update subscription preferences

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[TSOM-Announce] Update to New 90 minute Class Format

I didn't include the time, place and cost in the first announcement, see below. 

New 90 minute Class Format

WhenThu, October 8, 7:30pm – 9:00pm

WhereFour Seasons Dance Studio, 1637 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403, United States (map)

DescriptionThis class is designed to improve your Tango on many levels and in many ways. The class starts with 15 minutes of fun and entertaining drills (although drills may be perceived as boring and mundane to some they are without a doubt the most beneficial way to create the quickest improvement towards a higher level of dance) by including drills into the new format you should expect to experience immediate and ongoing improvements. A full hour of instruction assisted by Vessela Kouneva will follow ending with the last 15 minutes in the form of a guided practice. Exploring each week's concepts during the practice session is sure to compliment and provide for continued growth in your dance. Each week a specific area of Tango will be dissected and broken down to it's most natural state. The goal of this class is to enhance the joy of our respective journey in this beautiful dance. If by instituting the newly discovered building blocks, new concepts and drills provided leads to a better experience onto the Milonga floor each week, you will have reached your goal. Instructor: Ron Johnson Phone: 952-358-1776 Email: thetangotimes@gmail.com
Cost $15.00 This is an Ongoing Class not a series. All levels encouraged and welcome.

[TSOM-Announce] New 90 Minute Tango Class

This class is designed to improve your Tango on many levels and in many ways. The class starts with 15 minutes of fun and entertaining drills (although drills may be perceived as boring and mundane to some they are without a doubt the most beneficial way to create the quickest improvement towards a higher level of dance) by including drills into the new format you should expect to experience immediate and ongoing improvements.

 

A full hour of instruction assisted by Vessela Kouneva will follow ending with the last 15 minutes in the form of a guided practice. Exploring each week's concepts during the practice session is sure to compliment and provide for continued growth in your dance.  

 

Each week a specific area of Tango will be dissected and broken down to it's most natural state. The goal of this class is to enhance the joy of our respective journey in this beautiful dance. If by instituting the newly discovered building blocks, new concepts and drills provided leads to a better experience onto the Milonga floor each week, you will have reached your goal.

Instructor: Ron Johnson 

Phone: 952-358-1776

Email: thetangotimes@gmail.com

Cost $15.00 This is an Ongoing Class not a series.

All levels encouraged and welcome.

[TSOM-Announce] 2nd Saturday TSoM Milonga

It's time to celebrate discoveries!  Columbus discovered the Americas...or did he??  Come and discover a delightful evening of tango and fellowship!!

October 10th

Free Lesson by Lois Donnay 8:30pm - 9:30pm

Music by DJ Yanhua Deng, 9:30pm - 1:00am

Four Seasons Dance Studio, 1637 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403

Light snacks provided but contributions to the food table are always appreciated.

$10 members / $7 students

$14 non-members / $8 student non-members

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[TSOM-Announce] Announcing tango events in Rochester this weekend: Maxi workshops and Grand Milonga

Rochester Tango Workshops with Maxi Gluzman and Tango Society of Rochester Grand Milonga for which Maxi will be the DJ.

Details of the program in Rochester are below and also in the attached flyer.  Please distribute widely...

Thanks!

Augusto

Maxi Gluzman Tango Workshops in Rochester

Saturday, Oct 10, 2015 - Workshops
(Dahl Dance Center, 4204 North Hwy 52, Rochester, MN 55901)

1:15 to 2:30. Ochos forward and americanas in close embrace: leading and following secrets for these classic (and classically elusive) movements.
2:45 to 4:00. Good navigation for selfish reasons: how understanding space can make me a better dancer.
4:15 to 5:30 From tango to milonga: use what you already know from tango to cross the milonga threshold. . .for good.

 

Sunday, Oct 11, 2015 - Workshops
(Dahl Dance Center, 4204 North Hwy 52, Rochester, MN 55901)

1:15 to 2:30. The world of salidas: how to pleasantly surprise your partner since the first step.
2:45 to 4:00. Improvisation in waltz: how to seamlessly connect giros, sacadas and changes of direction in waltz.
4:15 to 5:30.  Musicality with the main orchestras of the Golden Age. 

TSoR Grand Milonga with DJ Maxi,

When: Saturday, Oct 11, From 8pm to 11pm

Where: Studio 324, 324 South Broadway, Rochester, MN 55901

Cost: $15 ($12 for TSoR members)