Sat March 27 to Sat April 3, 2010

Ricardo Barrios & Laura Melo

Ricky and Laura will be back to La Rogaia  with a class on Milonguero style Tango. They express with passion, tradition and innovation an elegant and precise style of dance, characterised by great virtuosity.

Ricardo is an actor, dancer, choreographer, director and teacher. In 1985 he was graduated in the National School of Dramatic Arts, since then he has performed, playing various roles, in over 60 productions of dance and theater in Latin America, the United States, Europe and Asia. He began his work with tango in 1988. His teachers were Juan Bruno, Miguel Balmaceda, Antonio Todaro, Oscar Casal and Domingo Pugliese. In recent years, he was part of the highly acclaimed company "Tango x 2" of Miguel Angel Zotto, was artistic director of "Tango Emoción" of the Mora Godoy Company, and participated as actor, dancer and choreographer in the Musical "Tanguera" and in the operetta "María de Buenos Aires" by Astor Piazzolla, in this latter play, he worked with the Italian singer Milva.

Laura is a highly acknowledged dancer, teacher and choreographer. Her degrees are in Psychomotricity and Music. She began studying tango in 1997 with Pedro Monteleone, Marcela Guevara, Osvaldo Zotto and Lorena Ermocida. She has taught and performed in International Tango Festivals in Belgium, Italy and Austria. She has done documentaries for the BBC of London and for RAI TV in Italy, as well as commercials for Austrian, Italian and Ukrainian television. Most recently, she was an instructor for the Mora Godoy Studio and for Tango Elite Argentino.

Ricardo and Laura have been working together professionally since 2002. They have done exhibitions, workshops and concerts in many European cities. They have performed with Orchestras including Color Tango, Juan José Mossalini, Hyperion and Tango Seis. 

more about Ricardo and Laura at www.tangoargentinodoc.com.ar

Level: Intermediate

Language of instruction: English, Italian, Spanish

Fee:  EUR 725 per person per week

Price includes 15 hours of teaching, lodging in doubleroom and food (breakfast and dinner, all beverages inculded) for the entire week of the course, including the booking charge. There is an extra charge for single rooms of an additional EUR 120 per week. Please contact us about details of instruction, lodging and food.


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Sat April 10 to Sat April 17, 2010

Wolfgang Sandt

Two hearts beat in Wolfgang's breast, and it is difficult to say, whether his bigger passion is sculpture or tango. In any case he is an excellent teacher, who imparts to his students with patience, artistic creativity and a lot of humour the joy for those things, that fill him with enthusiasm. Wolfgang has been dancing tango since 1994. Among his teachers are Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne, Fabian Salas and Carolina del Rivero, Mariano"Chicho" Frumboli and Eugenia Parilla, Kely and Facundo Posadas, Amira Campora, Metin Yazir, Graciela Gonzalez, Nestor Ray, Gloria and Eduardo Arquimbau, Yvonne Meissner and Eduardo Aquirre, Ruben Terbalca and many others. For him it is important not to teach figures and steps, but to impart to his students the ability to recognize the structure of the dance and its different elements, thus giving them the ability to invent playfully their own, always new "figures". Consequence of this is a concept for a "dialogue of the dancers ", where there are (almost) no "wrong steps". This is certainly an excellent presupposition to have lots of joy with Argentine tango even as a beginner.

Level: Absolute beginners

Languages of instruction: English, German, Italian

Fee: EUR 625 per person per week

Price includes 15 hours of teaching, lodging in doubleroom and food (breakfast and dinner, all beverages inculded) for the entire week of the course, including the booking charge. There is an extra charge for single rooms of an additional EUR 120 per week. Please contact us about details of instruction, lodging and food.

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Sat May 1 to Sat May 8, 2010

Steve & Debbie Morrall

Steve and Debbie Morrall are delighted to return to La Rogaia for the fourth year running to teach Argentine tango. In 2009 the course is aimed at dancers who want to find ways of moving simply with real musical signficance. You will be working with a dance teacher who is also a tango musician. Steve will have his bandoneon with him to assist his teaching. Quite simply, Steve and Debbie will
help you dance 'with your ears'.

Tango dancing is all about feeling and understanding the music. Steve uses his in-depth knowledge as a musican and as an acclaimed  teacher, in a fun and engaging way to help dancers interact creatively with the music. Through the use of games, imagery, simple explanations in everyday
language and lots of supervised dance time, Steve and Debbie will take you on a journey of musical exploration of tango, vals and milonga.  With 15 hours of lessons and time to practice and swap ideas about the dance, this week will give your tango musicality a real boost and give you time to get new concepts from your head to your feet.

More about Steve and Debbie at  www.tangoUK.co.uk

Level: Improvers & intermediates. To get the most out of this week, you will have been dancing improvised tango, regularly, for at least six months and be able to lead/follow ochos, giros, cross, and walk in parallel and cross basic systems. More experienced dancers will benefit from Steve's layered teaching methods and be shown how to supercharge their dance musicality by matching physical movements to musical moments.

Language of instruction: English

Fee:  EUR 625 per person per week

Price includes 15 hours of teaching, lodging in doubleroom and food (breakfast and dinner, all beverages inculded) for the entire week of the course, including the booking charge. There is an extra charge for single rooms of an additional EUR 120 per week. Please contact us about details of instruction, lodging and food.

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Sat May 15 to Sat May 22, 2010

Brigitta Winkler - Dance Tango with Energy ... and Relax

Brigitta Winkler is an internationally acclaimed dancer. She divides her time between New York and Berlin, where she studied ballet and modern dance for many years. In 1980, her life changed when she discovered Argentine tango. She then spent some years in Paris studying with Virulazo, a star of Tango Argentino. At that time she met Coco Orlando Diaz, and they began performing together at Les Trottoirs de Buenos Aires in Paris. In 1986, they took their own show to Montreal and Toronto. Brigitta travelled often to Buenos Aires to study with such noted dancers as Juan Carlos Copes, Antonio Todaro, Pepito, Gustavo Naveira, and Eduardo Arquimbau.

In 1987 she opened Tanzart dance studio together with her partner Angelika Fischer, where she hosted Arquimbau's visits to Berlin. In 1994 Brigitta choreographed and danced in Tango Marathon in the Theaterhaus Stuttgart and Tango Vision in the Podewil Berlin. She incorporates into her interpretation of tango Body-Mind Centering, which she studied in a four-year program with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen.
 
Today Brigitta Winkler is a Tango legend, famous for being among the first who integrated training of body awareness  and.body work in her teaching concept.
You will profit strongly from her concept, used by professional tango dancers worldwide. At the intensive workshop at La Rogaia Brigitta´s comprehensive body training will help you to perceive your body in a new very  agreeable way.
You will reduce tensions and blockades in your body, dance more relaxed and with less stress.

 

Jeanne Marie Castle writes about Brigitta: "Tango has begun to seep into my body as deeply as Authentic Movement. In Brigitta Winkler, I have discovered not only a wonderful tango teacher, but a woman trained in Body Mind Centering and group improvisation. I have witnessed her take a hundred nervous strangers and transform them into a group with one or two simple warm-ups emphasizing contact. her aprroach inspired me.The mingling of Authentic Movement and Tango so polar in their outer form has made a spicy new soup of experience within my conscious body. It seems to me that any beginning may summon our original beginning. For a continuity of being to begin to unfold, it takes two."

More about Brigitta Winkler at www.brigittatango.de

Level: Intermediate

Languages of instruction: English, German 

Fee:  EUR 675 per person per week.

Price includes 15 hours of teaching, lodging in doubleroom and food (breakfast and dinner, all beverages inculded) for the entire week of the course, including the booking charge. There is an extra charge for single rooms of an additional EUR 120 per week. Please contact us about details of instruction, lodging and food.

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Sat May 22 to Sat May 29, 2010

Wolfgang Sandt

Two hearts beat in Wolfgang's breast, and it is difficult to say, whether his bigger passion is sculpture or tango. In any case he is an excellent teacher, who imparts to his students with patience, artistic creativity and a lot of humour the joy for those things, that fill himself with enthusiasm. Wolfgang has been dancing tango since 1994. Among his teachers are Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne, Fabian Salas and Carolina del Rivero, Mariano"Chicho" Frumboli and Eugenia Parilla, Kely and Facundo Posadas, Amira Campora, Metin Yazir, Graciela Gonzalez, Nestor Ray, Gloria and Eduardo Arquimbau, Yvonne Meissner and Eduardo Aquirre, Ruben Terbalca and many others.

Wolfgang Sandt doesn´t simply teach you prefabricated unchangeable figures and rigid steps, which you cannot really use on the dance floor, but the ability  to recognize the structure of Argentine Tango and its different elements.
Armed with these real life tango secrets you will move confidently on the dance floor inventing playfully your very  own, always new "figures". Consequence of this is a concept for a "dialogue of the dancers ", where there are (almost) no "wrong steps".
For you this means you will have lots of joy and very little stress dancing Argentine Tango even as a beginner !

Level: Beginners and improvers

Languages of instruction: English, German, Italian

Fee: EUR 625 per person per week.

Price includes 15 hours of teaching, lodging in doubleroom and food (breakfast and dinner, all beverages inculded) for the entire week of the course, including the booking charge. There is an extra charge for single rooms of an additional EUR 120 per week. Please contact us about details of instruction, lodging and food.

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Sat Sept 11 to Sat September 18, 2010

Joseba Pagola & Bakartxo Arabaolaza

Joseba & Bakartxo come from San Sebastián (Basque country) where they have started a wave of Tango enthusiasm. They have been also teaching in Spain, France and Germany. Joseba and Bakartxo are focussing on the flow of energy within the couple, in close and in open embrace. They dance with every fibre of their body. Based on their training with Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne, Chicho Frumboli and Pablo Villarraza and Dana Frigoli they have created a style of their own: their Tango Nuevo is soft, lascivious and dynamic. And they love traditional music. How well this goes together they showed in "De Recuerdos y Tango" (their show "Of Memories and Tango"). They are inspired by the refined subtlety and joyous swing of old Tango music. In their classes they work very intensely with each individual participant and know how to explain even complex sequences of movements.

More information about the teachers at www.joseba-bakartxo.com

Level: Intermediate

Languages of instruction: English, Spanish

Fee: EUR 725 per person per week

Price includes 15 hours of teaching, lodging in doubleroom and food (breakfast and dinner, all beverages inculded) for the entire week of the course, including the booking charge. There is an extra charge for single rooms of an additional EUR 120 per week. Please contact us about details of instruction, lodging and food.

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Sat Sept 25 to Sat October 2, 2010

Metin Yazir

Metin Yazir , born in Istanbul, Turkey, started to dance and teach Tango in Munich, Germany, in 1993. He was mainly influenced by Roberto y Vanina and Gustavo Naveira. After teaching and performing in New York in the late 90ies he returned to Istanbul where he now is called "the King of Tango".
Metin, the “magician”,  dances with particular sensitivity and musicality – he makes even beginners look elegant and beautiful. Metin has an exceptional talent as teacher: he will introduce to you the secrets of lead and follow with a very precise observation of individual problems and with lots of humor, energy and temperament...

More about Metin at http://www.bailatango.com/

Level: Advanced

Languages of instruction: English, German

Fee: Special rate EUR 725 per person per week

Price includes 15 hours of teaching, lodging in doubleroom and food (breakfast and dinner, all beverages inculded) for the entire week of the course, including the booking charge. There is an extra charge for single rooms of an additional EUR 120 per week. Please contact us about details of instruction, lodging and food.

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Sat Oct 2 to Sat Oct 9, 2010
Sat Oct 1 to Sat Oct 8, 2011

Wolfgang Sandt

Two hearts beat in Wolfgang's breast, and it is difficult to say, whether his bigger passion is sculpture or tango. In any case he is an excellent teacher, who imparts to his students with patience, artistic creativity and a lot of humour the joy for those things, that fill him with enthusiasm. Wolfgang has been dancing tango since 1994. Among his teachers are Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne, Fabian Salas and Carolina del Rivero, Mariano"Chicho" Frumboli and Eugenia Parilla, Kely and Facundo Posadas, Amira Campora, Metin Yazir, Graciela Gonzalez, Nestor Ray, Gloria and Eduardo Arquimbau, Yvonne Meissner and Eduardo Aquirre, Ruben Terbalca and many others. For him it is important not to teach figures and steps, but to impart to his students the ability to recognize the structure of the dance and its different elements, thus giving them the ability to invent playfully their own, always new "figures". Consequence of this is a concept for a "dialogue of the dancers ", where there are (almost) no "wrong steps". This is certainly an excellent presupposition to have lots of joy with Argentine tango even as a beginner.

Improvers' workshop
You already  have attended  one or more Tango Argentino classes and visit regularly practicas, milongas and tango balls.  Maybe some of the situations described below sound familiar to you?

·    You have already learned by heart a lot of  fancy "figures" but every   time you want to dance them on the dancefloor somebody gets in your way.
·    You succeed to dance fairly well with your regular dance partner but the moment you dance with someone else nothing seems to work out anymore.
·    You are asking yourself often whether the music played is Tango, Milonga or Tango Valtz.
·    When Milonga or Tango Valtz are played you leave the dance floor because you believe that this is still too difficult for you.
·    You are annoyed because your partner never dances what you "lead".
·    You are annoyed because your partner only drags you through the ballroom and you don ´t understand what he wants.
·    You want to know why some of the "figures" you have learned don´t work out so well.
·    You are dancing already fairly well but want to improve your understanding of the music .

Then our beginners to intermediate workshop is exactly right for you !

In this workshop we show you
·    how you can improve your understanding of the music and how you can play with the rythm
·    how you avoid unpleasant collisions with other couples (and what you  to do if it happens)
·    how you still can dance on the crowded dancefloor
·    how  you can dance Tango Valtz and Milonga
·    how you get a better understanding of the "figures" which still don´t work so well and in consequence how you can dance them right
·    how you can understand different possibilities in the dance and how you can use this knowledge to develop spontaneously your own "figures" 
·    how you can dance even more elegant
·    how  you can improve your understanding for your partner while you dance
·    In short how you will have even more fun dancing Tango
 

Level:  Improvers

Languages of instruction: English, German, Italian

Fee: Special price for the week Oct 2 to 9, 2010 EUR 595 per person per week; regular price: EUR 625 per person per week

Price includes 15 hours of teaching, lodging in doubleroom and food (breakfast and dinner, all beverages inculded) for the entire week of the course, including the booking charge. There is an extra charge for single rooms of an additional EUR 120 per week. Please contact us about details of instruction, lodging and food.


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Sat October 9 to Sat Oct 16, 2010

FULLY BOOKED

Susanne Illini & Harald Rotter

Susanne Illini and Harald Rotter  run a Tango school at Bonn, Germany and organize every year the Bonn Tango Festival. Tango for them is fun, creativity, spontaneity, feeling, emotion, perfection, harmony, music and much more ... Tango is improvisation, freedom to move and to communicate. They like traditional music but also modern Tangos like Electrotango to experiment with different moves.

More information about Susanne and Harald at http://www.tangobuehne.de/ (in German only)

Languages of instruction: German and English

Fee: EUR 675 per person per week

Price includes 15 hours of teaching, lodging in doubleroom and food (breakfast and dinner, all beverages inculded) for the entire week of the course, including the booking charge. There is an extra charge for single rooms of an additional EUR 120 per week. Please contact us about details of instruction, lodging and food.


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October 16 to 23, 2010

FULLY BOOKED

Laura Priori & Andreas von Maxen

Laura originally from Brescia, Italy, has been living in Berlin for 25 years. She has started with Argentine Tango 13 years ago with Brigitte Winkler. She has partnered for several years "El Pajaro" Diego Riemer and organized a Milonga together with him. During her regular stays at Buenos Aires she was trained by Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne, Marianna Flores and Eduardo Capussi, Fernando Galera and Vilma Vega, Analia Vega and Marcelo Varela and Chicho and Lucia.

Andreas got into Argentine Tango 13 years ago. He has taught for several years in Bremen (Northern Germany) together with Thomas and Catalina and was mainly influenced by Fernando and Vilma, Nancy and Damian and Analia and Marcelo.

Laura and Andreas originally preferred the Milonguero-Style in close embrace. In the past years however they started to adopt elements of Tango Nuevo and to experiment with the open embrace. It is their aim to interpret the unique character of Tango music also in the “Nuevo Estilo”. In their lessons they emphasize on musicality, communication within the couple, playful movements. For preparation they also integrate body exercises with elements from Yoga and Feldenkrais.

Level: Intermediate

Languages of instruction: English, German, Italian

Fee:  EUR 675 in double room per person per week.

Price includes 15 hours of teaching, lodging in doubleroom and food (breakfast and dinner, all beverages inculded) for the entire week of the course, including the booking charge. There is an extra charge for single rooms of an additional EUR 120 per week. Please contact us about details of instruction, lodging and food.

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!!! NEW !!! Sat October 30 to Sat Nov 6, 2010

Fabian Salas & Lola Diaz

Tireless researcher and maestro, remarkable dancer and connoisseur of the secrets of tango - Fabián Salas has brought light to old beliefs and opened new ways in the conception of the dance, creating an unmistakable style of dancing the Tango. Since the early nineties he has performed in the most important Tango shows and has taught all around the world. In 1997 he starred as one of the three principal dancers in the award-winning movie "The Tango Lesson" by Sally Potter.

His partner Lola Diaz has been dancing since she was 5 years old and has enjoyed an education in classical and modern ballet. Until 2002 she danced as a ballerina in the ensemble of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. As a tango dancer she partnered Pablo Veron and since 2009 been she has working and teaching worldwide with Fabian Salas.

More information about Fabian and Lola at http://www.cosmotango.com/

Languages of instruction: English, Spanish, Italian

Fee: EUR 925 per person per week

Price includes 15 hours of teaching, lodging in doubleroom, food (breakfast and dinner, all beverages inculded) for the entire week of the course and entrance to Milonga with show of the masters, including the booking charge. There is an extra charge for single rooms of an additional EUR 120 per week. Please contact us about details of instruction, lodging and food.


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