TangoRojo is a tango festival with a difference—it’s a showcase of absolute tango artistry. Every year we bring you unique and spectacular tango artists; they come from diverse backgrounds, excel at new and unusual techniques in tango as a dance form and tango as an art, as a form of expression. There isn’t a festival like it anywhere in the UK, and that’s a promise!
Now in its fourth year, we bring you even more; more artists, more music and a bigger and grander venue!
SPECTACULAR VENUE · OVER 20 ARTISTS · HOT NIGHT OF TANGO THEATRE · SIZZLING TANGO MOVIE · FOUR EVENINGS OF MILONGAS UNTIL LATE.
Schedule:
Thursday, 17th May 2012 @ Latvian House, Queensway
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Drop-in beginner class with BIANCA
If you haven’t done tango before, this is your time to start. Come in, get a feel for the fundamentals of this beautiful and intricate dance, so that you can better appreciate all that’s to come in the rest of the festival.
BEGINNER
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Workshop 1: Musicality with BIANCA
All you need to know about rhythm.
This workshop is an exploration of rhythms in the tango family: tango, milonga and vals.
ALL LEVELS
8:15pm to 9:30pm
Workshop 2: The Essence of Tango Milonguero Style with RAUL MAMONE
The secrets of the tango milonguero style of dancing, typical in popular Buenos Aires milongas, will be revealed. With Raul Mamone, who will be partnered by Bianca of Rojo y Negro.
INTERMEDIATE
9:30pm to 1:00am
Milonga Pasional with BIANCARAUL MAMONEKIRSTY BENNETT
Festival-opening milonga with entertainment:
* TANGO PERFORMANCE—Bianca and Raul Mamone
* LIVE MUSIC—Raul Mamone sings for us
* GUEST DJ—Kirsty Bennet
* VJ—Rojo y Negro, projecting artwork by Sasha Leech
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Friday, 18th May 2012 @ Bloomsbury House, Bloomsbury
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Workshop 3: Tango Milonguero with RAUL MAMONEVALERIA MASIDE
Figures for the busy dance floor, as they would be done in Buenos Aires but in the style of Raul Mamone.
INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED
7:45pm to 9:15pm
Workshop 4: Tango Cadence with ANIBAL AND VALERIA
Cadence, dancing together, continuity and smoothness in the lead for the leader and sensibility for the follower, with Anibal Lautaro and Valeria Maside
ALL LEVELS
9:30pm to 3:00am
Milonga Celestial
with RAUL MAMONEVALERIA MASIDESASHA LEECHNADA MASFRANCISCO LEIVA AND CHRISTOPHE DELERCEVOLKER MARSCHHAUSEN
Friday-night milonga with entertainment: Tango performance—Raul Mamone and Valeria Maside Theatre with Laboratorio C (who will perform amongst dancers on the dance floor, during the milonga) Live music—NADA MAS DJ & VJ—Volker Marschhausen’s Tanguerilla show Exhibition of tango paintings by Sasha Leech
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Saturday, 19th May 2012 @ Bloomsbury House, Bloomsbury
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Workshop 5: Milonga Traspie with RAUL MAMONEVALERIA MASIDE
Typical Milonga sequences with its characteristic cadence and musicality in the style of Raul Mamone.
INTERMEDIATE
2:15pm to 3:45pm
Workshop 6: Tango Salon with ANIBAL AND VALERIA
Tips for the embrace, posture and walking. Elegant lápiz and giros for women, with Anibal and Valeria.
INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Contact Improvisation Workshop: Tango Sensorial with CLAUDIO FROST
TANGO SENSORIAL is a one of a kind workshop, devised and taught by Claudio Frost, dancer, teacher and actor.
The TANGO SENSORIAL workshop is inspired by tango, but it is also an invaluable workshop for anyone—even without any tango experience—who is interested in improving their connection and communication in tango, as well as any other couple dance. It is aimed equally at dancers as well as all who enjoy dancing, with or without any previous dance experience, or a partner.
SUITABLE FOR ANYONE
6:15pm to 7:45pm
Tango movie: Tanguero
Omar, a Tango teacher, is forced, after years, to return to Buenos Aires, a changed city. He meets friends, family and Veronica sharing a difficult challenge. That is how Omar finds himself in Tango.
Is the pursuit of happiness, dreams, regain our lives and above all, an alternative to the vulgarity, the worship of money and the decline of ethics?
The trip traces metaphorically the one made at the end of the 19th century by European immigrants towards South America.
SUITABLE FOR ANYONE
8:00pm to 9:30pm
Tango Cabaret
with CLAUDIO FROSTFRANCISCO LEIVA AND CHRISTOPHE DELERCETHIRD PERSON THEATRE COMPANY
Tonight, we treat you to a unique experience: tango cabaret.
This evening’s acts bring tango to life through theatre; each brings their own uniquely developed flavour, and their own outlook of tango the dance and the life.
The acts this evening are:
Puppet Tangueras by Claudio Frost
Poema by Francisco Leiva and Christophe Delarce
Improvised Tango Theatre by Third Person Theatre Company
SUITABLE FOR ANYONE
9:30pm to 3:00am
Milonga Sentimental
with ANIBAL AND VALERIARAUL MAMONEDIEGO DOIGNEAUSASHA LEECHNADA MASFRANCISCO LEIVA AND CHRISTOPHE DELERCESIMON HYDE
The main milonga of the festival promises to be explosive with the following headline acts:
Tango performance by Anibal and Valeria
Live music—NADA MAS
Guest DJ—Diego Doigneau
Guest VJ—Simon Hyde
Exhibition of tango scroll by Sasha Leech
and, surprise performance by Raul Mamone and Claudio Frost
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Sunday, 20th May 2012 @ Latvian House, Queensway
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Workshop 7: Vals with RAUL MAMONEVALERIA MASIDE
Sequences for Vals with its characteristic cadence and musicality in the style of Raul Mamone.
INTERMEDIATE
3:45pm to 5:15pm
Workshop 8: Milonga with ANIBAL AND VALERIA
Milonga traspié style. Essential combinations for the dance floor, with Anibal Lautaro and Valeria Maside.
INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED
5:00pm to 9:00pm
Beginner Intensive Workshop with BIANCA
So, you’re at the festival, you’re awed by the dancers and artists around you, and want to try your hand at tango too? Great, then start right here. The beginner intensive course is designed to get you into tango quickly and with the minimum of fuss. It’s for all who prefer to learn at a fast pace, aren’t able to attend beginner classes regularly in the evenings, or would simply like to recap their basics after a break.
BEGINNER
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Workshop 9: Cadence of Vals with ANIBAL AND VALERIA
Cadence of Vals. How to differentiate Tango and Vals (in walking and figures), with Anibal Lautaro and Valeria Maside.
INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED
7:15pm to 8:45pm
Workhop 10: Tango Milonguero with ANIBAL AND VALERIA
Dynamic giros with musicality in limited space. Make the dissociation work in a close embrace, with Anibal Lautaro and Valeria Maside.
INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED
9:30pm to 12:30am
Milonga Final with TONY WALKERPAULA DE OLIVEIRAROJO Y NEGRO
Goodbye milonga with surprises.
Singer—Paula de Oliveira
Guest DJ—Tony Walker
VJ—Rojo y Negro
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