Oscar Casas is an internationally recognized maestro of the art of social Argentine Tango, generous and prolific on YouTube with both performance and instructional videos, and one of the happiest milongueros you'll ever see on the social dance floor. Oscar will pull the best tango out of all of you! Thursday, April 5, 3142 1st Ave S, Minneapolis, 55408. 7:30pm; $40 (Limited availability) For advanced and serious dancers: Special, highly advanced workshop with Oscar Casas. Complex figures and compounded turns He will show us how to use these as building blocks for navigation and improvisation.
Friday, April 6 - Class & milonga! Black Dog Cafe, 308 Prince Ave St. Paul, MN CLASS: 7:00pm - 8:00pm $25 Pre-Milonga class: Milonguero Figures & the Embrace (All levels) This class explains all the most comfortable, efficient and elegant ways to develop a social dance MILONGA: 8:00pm $10 The Black Dog Cafe has a great selection of beer and wine, and excellent food. They have a new event area where the dance will be held. You can also go next door and listen to live music.
Saturday, April 7 Eagles Aerie 2507 E. 25th St, Minneapolis, MN 55406
1:00 p.m-2:30 .The Art of leaning (apilarce). Leaned figures with great female adornments that enhance the connection, the pause and highlights the woman's participation. (Inter Adv)
2:45 p.m.–4:15 p.m. - Vals: Consecutive turns (giros). Turns on two axes are important for the development of the waltz. The termination of such participation involves the participation of the women with respect to adornments, and the musical presence of specific movements
Sunday, April 8 Eagles Aerie 2507 E. 25th St, Minneapolis, MN 55406
1:00–2:30 p.m. - Lapices con Paradas (Pencils with Stops) Technique for men and women focusing on these excellent figures for the social dance floor. (Advanced)
2:45 p.m.–4:15 p.m. – 100% Cadencia (Cadence) A challenging, classic milonguero technique that softens movements including tango suspensions. (Inter/Adv)
PRICING for Sat & Sunday workshops: 4 classes: $110 (Full Time Student $80.00)
2 classes: $65.00 (Full Time Student: $45.00) Each Class: $35 (Full Time Student: $25.00)
"Which of Oscar's classes should I take? Am I ready?" Yes, you are ready for at least some of Oscar's classes, especially if you have been coming to my classes regularly. If not, give me a call and we can discuss it.
Musings: Some of you may note that I have chosen to repeat some of Oscar Casas's most popular classes from last year, mostly because he just couldn't fit in all the important information about that topic in the time given. Hopefully you have been working on the things he talked about, and now ready to really understand what he has to say. (If not, you
really need to come to the class again!) This is often the case when you are learning something. You have to hear it several times before not only
you get it, but your body internalizes it. I have heard from so many people that they have gone to a weekend of workshops, and forgotten most of what they learned. I do my best to help, but there is no doubt that knowledge fades. Oscar knows this community well, and knows what we need. That is why it is such a delight to have him return - at least until we all dance just like him!
