Tango & I in June
New Beginnings by Diana Devi
Fabian Salas Workshops July 15-17
Open Streets Minneapolis outdoor dancing June 5
Tango Challenge begins
Give yourself the gift of presence in your practice by Marcy
Dancing with women by Sharna Fabiana | | | | June 2016 news!! As our seedlings (new movements) in the garden need nourishing and the weeds (old habits) need picking, so is June at Tango & I. Come join us for creative and fun classes.
All group classes are held at Dance Life Ballroom in Minneapolis every Wednesday evening and Saturday morning Beginners and learning a new role
Every Wednesday 6.30 pm and Saturday 10 am
Beginner detailed curriculum 7.30 A level: the mollinette revealed 7.30 B level: the mollinette with a twist Class will be taught by Tango & I Team ( :
The 8.30 Intermediate and Advanced class will be taught by Guillermo Cerneaz and Diana Devi. Topics are Guillermo's special surprise. Guillermo is here till the end of June! Come check out his creative ways of exploring the art of Argentine Tango with us! | | Every Saturday morning: PRACTICA 11 - 1 Come practice your tango skills, always a tango and I team member available to answer any of your questions.
Private lessons? No Problem, easy to schedule right here
Mark your agenda : TANGO FUSION MILONGA June 25 | | | New beginnings, by Diana Devi It is with mixed emotions that I announce my time at DanceLife is coming to a conclusion. It has been 6 years since I started working with Sabine, first as an assistant then teaching classes together. Many things have happened during this time together: changing studios, changing curriculum to name few. As with all things there is a time and place, a time for letting go in order to grow something new. So what is the new? Well you can bet tango is involved! For the last several years I have been talking about building a tango hub in St Paul. This spring I started teaching at the Historic Triune Masonic Temple in St Paul, which will be my new tango home for a while! I also enrolled in a year long health coach certification class. And if that was not enough, I have been continuing to explore exercises for building strong healthy feet, gyrotonic movements for tango on top of my day job as a clinical pharmacist. I think my plate is pretty full! I want to thank all of the students at Dancelife Ballroom for their generosity and openness to learning tango. Thanks to Shinya for opening the studio and welcoming us , creating a space that is so right for tango. And last but not least I would like to thank my friend Sabine for the years that we have spent working together. It has been wonderful to work with her and I learned a lot. I learned a great deal about myself and about tango while working with her. It is nice to work with some one who is such a strong tango advocate! And who else will eat potato chips with me after dancing all night at a festival milonga!! Sabine and I will continue to collaborate on projects including a beginner milonga which we hope to schedule soon! Watch for upcoming events! See you in St Paul, at DanceLife or on the dance floor!!
 | | | | | |  | | Fabian Salas & Lola Diaz
July 15-17 Rochester MN All the important workshop & Milonga information you can find at the Blue Moon Ballroom website Fabian and Lola have been coming to Minnesota for the past couple of years and are liked for their creative way of teaching the art of Argentine Tango. Many, if not most, of our world class teachers today have first been taught by Fabian Salas first. He began touring the world as a traveling teacher in 1992, long after he had been dancing and promoting tango in Buenos Aires.
Early Bird prices end June 27!! | | |  | | Sunday June 5 11 am to 5 pm A unique opportunity to come and play with Tango&I AND with Keri Simonson Salsa, Bachata, Kizomba. Lyndale Ave and 33rd Keri will kick it off at 11 am with some Salsa and Bachata, followed by some Kizomba!!! At 12.30 (ish) we will start mini lessons for anybody out there : tango - salsa - kizomba - bachata
followed by Argentine Tango milonga at 2.30
Our DJ for that day will be Paul Lohman!
Thank you so much for you generous donations: Tango Desperados, Paul Lohman, Ibes Landscaping | | |  | | Tango Challenge begins! This is the very first Tango Challenge in Minnesota! And it did not arrive here by accident! My tango friend and organizer Mitra Martin from Oxygen Tango in Los Angeles is a tango teaching pioneer in the United States. Together with her team she has organized 21 challenges in the past 5 years, with 120 amazing Challenge graduates, from whom 90% are still embracing the Argentine Tango! It is due to their success that Tango & I are very motivated to dive into this new world of learning! We will be working very closely with Oxygen Tango through out the process! | | | | | | | Give yourself the gift of presence in your practice By Marcy Muldoon Whatever your tango goals, they are merely a means to an end in the tango learning process. Focusing on goals as a future state of perfection can lead to emotional reactions of impatience, frustration and feelings of inadequacy. Rather, a shift in perspective to use our goals to perfect our practice will reap far greater rewards. When learning tango we are passive recipients of knowledge. When we practice, we are actively engaged and focused, using deliberation and intention to guide our moves.
. Thomas Sterns, author of "The Practicing Mind" is a piano technician and accomplished pianist. But it wasn't until he tried to learn golf that he realized the importance of setting goals and applying consistent, deliberate effort toward that goal. He practiced one aspect of the golf swing at a time. At the range, he did not focus on the ball flight, instead he focused on the smaller movements of the swing that he had practiced repeatedly in his basement. When he was present in the moment, out of the past and future, he calmed down and focused on the task on hand. He realized he needed to shift his perspective from focusing on results to focusing on his practice. In his book, he outlined a set of rules to develop the practicing mind:
- Keep yourself process oriented.
- Stay in the present.
-Make the process your goal and use the overall goal as a rudder to steer your efforts.
- Be deliberate, have an intention about what you want to accomplish, and remain aware of that intention.
To maintain control of this mindset while focusing on your larger goals, he offers four techniques called the "4 S's"- simplify, small, short and slow. Simplify larger goals by breaking them into smaller sections. Keep the sections Small. Short- Limit practice sessions to a realistic and achievable time. Finally, by adding Slow to your practice, you develop a greater awareness of what you are doing and become actually more efficient.
The shift in perspective from results to process can be applied to any discipline or endeavor in life. It can be applied to complex, emotional goals in human relationships. But it can be applied very aptly to tango. For further information, I recommend reading his book.
Give yourself the gift of presence in your practice. You will relax and become patient with your efforts, knowing that good practice will yield good results.. You will be liberated from the tyranny of "perfection" and can non-judgmentally observe your movements and can consciously correct them. Using good practice, your goals will flow to you without pain and frustration. Enjoy the process. | | |  | | Dancing with women by Sharna Fabiano After many years in the tango community, classes for women still hold a special place in my heart. In offering them, I think not only of female tango dancers, but also of the entire spectrum of feminist effort in the world, the right of women to dress, live, study, work, marry, create, and reproduce (or not) as they themselves choose. Relatively speaking, most women in the United States live well, but "it could be worse" is not an answer to the question of equality and freedom. There is inspiring "feministing" to be done everywhere, some of it subtle and some of it fierce. I imagine all of it flowing into the same river of compassionate progress.
please read the rest of the article at Sharna's blog | | Copyright © 2016 Tango and I, All rights reserved.
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