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Creativity: Rhythm vs Melody
About the topic:
Two tango goddesses spar off regarding the possibilities of following the melody or following the rhythm in your dance. 90 minutes of movement challenges to provoke your best improvisational skills. Hot stuff!
The role of Woman in Tango dance
About the topic:
The women’s role in Tango dance has been changing during the last decades.
The influence of social changes in the Tango scene helps help us to better understand understand better our possibilities in the dance, breaking the biggest and most traditional relation that organizes organize our tango community: gender-dance role.
How did women perceive themselves at the beginning of the century? and how is their experience now
About Inés:
Inés is a milonguera from Buenos Aires (Argentina). She is also a professional tango dancer and a teacher. She has been dancing for over 20 years, traveling around the world teaching and performing tango. She also holds a degree in Social pedagogy.
For the last 2 years, she has been merging Tango and social pedagogy, studying deeply the connections between Tango, pedagogy, and the social context
The role of women in tango music of the Golden Age
About the topic:
Some very popular and beautiful tangos, valses, and milongas were written by women.
Female musicians were almost completely excluded from tango orchestras in the first half of the 20ieth century (as well as from classical orchestras in many parts of the world). In my talk I’ll present two exceptions with interesting careers.
In contrast to musicians, female singers were quite popular in tango. Most of their recordings were tango canción, but we have also beautiful music for dancing. We don’t often hear female voices in milongas – I’ll present some fantastic songs that make dancers happy.
About Theresa:
Theresa from Munich (Germany) is a tango enthusiast since 25 years. She has started as DJ and organized milongas 15 years ago, and she has been travelling with her music in many parts of Europe. She has developed a teaching format “Listen and experience”, where dancers are invited to perceive in more detail the music that they have danced for hundreds of times, and where the music is embedded in a historical and social context.
Diego Braude – Tango in 21st century
In the turn of the Century was the scene of a generational shift: a few but relevant and influential new orchestras appeared, an entire new breed of young and revolutionary dancers took over, milongas slowly tried until then untasted flavors. Tango went global and then the second decade of this still new 21st Century went even further, to present us with a picture that exhibits a multicolored and transgenerational image where the past coexists with the present and the future.
Dozens of new orchestras with new sounds, milongas that follow the most traditional etiquette codes were exposed to others that prefer new ones. The World Cup having a huge influence of standardization but at the same time every dancing style sharing the floor as the embrace became once again the star of the story.
Still, it should be marked that one of the most transcendent transformations of the last twenty years – and one that has been emblematic of all changes in tango – has had to do with the role of women. Female dancers are no longer just followers (as it had been traditionally the case) because they also lead, but the follower role itself has changed into one of co-scriptwriter.
Female singers have become more the norm than the exception. Female bandoneonists multiply every year after there being none for ages. Female DJs are on the rise. Female organizers represent now no less that 50% of the collective and their milongas are among the most successful and representative of the new tango scene.
Virginia Cutillo – Theory of General Movement
Intensive introduction to opposition movement concepts to liberate your dancing and make you soar!!!
