Tango Music and Movement Class with Marco and May / Special Milonga with Guest DJ
Location: Dance Union (Click here for directions)
Date: See below
Mary and Marco will offer a five-class musicality series on Rhythm and Accent, hosted by the Tango Society of Boston. All events take place at Dance Union.Each class will precede either a milonga or a practica guided by instructors Marco and Mary. The final class will feature musicality in contemporary tango music and will precede "Tango to the MMMax" hosted by Boston Alternative Tango.
Dates
Sunday, Oct 6
Saturday, Oct 19
Sunday, Oct 20
Saturday, Oct 26
Sunday, Oct 27
Admission:
Class Topics:
I. Tango Untangled: Dividing and Biding Time, Dividing and Biding Time, Syncopation and Accent
II. Curvy Vals: Circling the Floor with Doublets and Triplets
III. Mastering Milonga Rhythms: Syncopation and Acc[id]ent!
IV. Hip Hemiola Rhythms (or 3:2): a Non-Platonic Greek Heritage
V. Beating the Rhythm out of Tango: Nuevo!
This series, for levels of adv. beginner and above, will explore the varied rhythms, accents, and syncopations of the music of Argentine Tango. Many rhythmic patterns are found in almost every song you will dance to, but other special rhythms and effects are only used by certain orchestras. Whether you lead or follow, the material presented in this series is guaranteed to increase your grasp of the music and will allow you to create a more interesting, sensual and musically expressive dance.
Participants will learn to hear and move to rhythms accompanied by live bandoneon demonstrations and tango recordings. Listening exercises developed to train your ear will be complemented with expert movement instruction.
Teacher Biographies:
Marco Cavallari began dancing ballroom, Standard and Latin at the age of fourteen. Hailing from Switzerland, Marco has been teaching and dancing Salsa and other Latin American dances since 1999 and Argentine Tango since 2002. Marco is a founding member of the Basel-based show dance group Blickfang and has participated in numerous ballroom (e.g. Euro Dance) festivals, Salsa congresses and Tango festivals and marathons around the world. He has studied intensively with renowned Tango teachers including Mariano Chicho Frúmboli, Sebastián Arce y Mariana Montes, Pablo Pugliese y Noel Strazza, Gustavo Naveira y Giselle Anne, Pablo Villarraza y Dana Frigoli, Julio Balmaceda y Corina de la Rosa and Marcelo Varela y Analía Vega.
A prizewinning flutist, Mary Oleskiewicz is known internationally as a widely published musicologist and a sought-after speaker and master teacher of music. She records for Naxos and Hungaroton Classics. Mary plays flute and bandoneon and has taught tango musicality workshops in Berlin, Boston and elsewhere. She is currently Associate Professor of Music at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she teaches music history and style analysis. Mary began dancing tango in 2005 and has studied privately with José Garufalo, Mariano Chicho Frúmboli, Aurora Lubiz, Muma, Javier Rochwarger, "El Pulpo", Luciana Valle, Silvina Valz, Brigitta Winkler and others. Read more about her at http//:www.BaroqueFlutist.org.
For more information: BaroqueFlutist.org
BostonAlternativeTango.com
Date: See below
Mary and Marco will offer a five-class musicality series on Rhythm and Accent, hosted by the Tango Society of Boston. All events take place at Dance Union.Each class will precede either a milonga or a practica guided by instructors Marco and Mary. The final class will feature musicality in contemporary tango music and will precede "Tango to the MMMax" hosted by Boston Alternative Tango.
Dates
Sunday, Oct 6
- 6-7.15pm: Class
- 7.15:10pm: Free guided practica ("Mix It Up," DJ: Maya)
Saturday, Oct 19
- 7:30-9pm: Class
- 9-2am: "La Milonga" (DJ Darian)
Sunday, Oct 20
- 6-7:15pm: Class
- 7:15-10pm: Free guided practica ("Mix It Up", DJ Nanying)
Saturday, Oct 26
- 7:30-9pm: Class
- 9-10pm: "Cambalache Milonga" (DJ Roger)
- 10-2am: "Cambalahe Milonga"(DJ Maya)
Sunday, Oct 27
- 7:30-9pm: Class
- 9-10pm: Special milonga "Tango to the MMMax" (DJ Janice)
Admission:
- Class: $15
- Class and Milonga ("La Milonga and "Cambalahe Milonga): $20
- "Tango to the MMMax": separate admission only
Class Topics:
I. Tango Untangled: Dividing and Biding Time, Dividing and Biding Time, Syncopation and Accent
II. Curvy Vals: Circling the Floor with Doublets and Triplets
III. Mastering Milonga Rhythms: Syncopation and Acc[id]ent!
IV. Hip Hemiola Rhythms (or 3:2): a Non-Platonic Greek Heritage
V. Beating the Rhythm out of Tango: Nuevo!
This series, for levels of adv. beginner and above, will explore the varied rhythms, accents, and syncopations of the music of Argentine Tango. Many rhythmic patterns are found in almost every song you will dance to, but other special rhythms and effects are only used by certain orchestras. Whether you lead or follow, the material presented in this series is guaranteed to increase your grasp of the music and will allow you to create a more interesting, sensual and musically expressive dance.
Participants will learn to hear and move to rhythms accompanied by live bandoneon demonstrations and tango recordings. Listening exercises developed to train your ear will be complemented with expert movement instruction.
Teacher Biographies:
Marco Cavallari began dancing ballroom, Standard and Latin at the age of fourteen. Hailing from Switzerland, Marco has been teaching and dancing Salsa and other Latin American dances since 1999 and Argentine Tango since 2002. Marco is a founding member of the Basel-based show dance group Blickfang and has participated in numerous ballroom (e.g. Euro Dance) festivals, Salsa congresses and Tango festivals and marathons around the world. He has studied intensively with renowned Tango teachers including Mariano Chicho Frúmboli, Sebastián Arce y Mariana Montes, Pablo Pugliese y Noel Strazza, Gustavo Naveira y Giselle Anne, Pablo Villarraza y Dana Frigoli, Julio Balmaceda y Corina de la Rosa and Marcelo Varela y Analía Vega.
A prizewinning flutist, Mary Oleskiewicz is known internationally as a widely published musicologist and a sought-after speaker and master teacher of music. She records for Naxos and Hungaroton Classics. Mary plays flute and bandoneon and has taught tango musicality workshops in Berlin, Boston and elsewhere. She is currently Associate Professor of Music at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she teaches music history and style analysis. Mary began dancing tango in 2005 and has studied privately with José Garufalo, Mariano Chicho Frúmboli, Aurora Lubiz, Muma, Javier Rochwarger, "El Pulpo", Luciana Valle, Silvina Valz, Brigitta Winkler and others. Read more about her at http//:www.BaroqueFlutist.org.
For more information: BaroqueFlutist.org
BostonAlternativeTango.com
