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La Milonguera is a student organization at Purdue University devoted to the
promotion and enjoyment of everything related to Argentinean Tango.
Everyone is welcome!
As part of our interest in Tango, we offer three levels of classes in Tango,
Milonga, and Argentine Vals. Classes are open to everyone in the greater
Lafayette. Singles and couples are welcome.
In addition to scheduled classes, we organize workshops, field trips, movies,
milonga parties, performances, etc.
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Want to practice on your own? Find time on our
practice calendar
Fall semester callout: September 11th - 8:00pm PMU South Tower
Download the flyers here and
here
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Workshop and Halloween Milonga
Saturday October 24th
Location: MTHW 304
2:30-3:30pm Follower's technique + styling (men are welcome too!); (Intermediate)
3:45-4:45pm Milonga: Don't sit this one out! (Intermediate)
5:00-6:00pm Back Sacadas: Secrets to Success for the leader and follower(Advanced)
Admission:
Single class $15
Two classes $25
Three classes $35
Private lessons are available ($70/hour) e-mail me (or Sonia) to schedule
Halloween Milonga:
Location: STEW 302 9pm - 12am
Admission :
Club members $5
(Beginners - free)
General $8
-DJ Javier
-Costume is a must, yummy snacks, holiday spirit, Tango obsession
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Free Music Jam with Homer Ladas 6-8p 9/20!! Musicians and Singers, no experience needed
If you are a musician or singer who is interested in a rare opportunity to be part of a tango jam session with Homer Ladas, this is for you!
We'll be jammimg 6-8p Sunday 9/20 and performing at the beginning of the practica at 8p.
The pieces we'll be concentrating on are:
Malena, Romance de Barrio, and Milonga Sentimental.
The jam book is available for download here:
http://www.project-tango.org/TangoJamBook09.zip
It has the tango lead sheets we will play.
You can visit www.todotango.com to get the lyrics.
Entire arrangements of classical tango pieces are hard to come by and incomplete so rather than playing a piece from beginning to end you'll be jamming on the main theme presented on the lead sheets.
Please contact Joe Grohens joe.grohens at gmail.com if you'd like to be involved.
We have so much talent in our community, this should be fun,
Claire
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Workshops with Humberto Decima
Join us before and after the Big Three Milonga for workshops with Humberto
Decima!
Sat 09/12
Workshop 1 5:30pm-7pm
Milonga lisa and milonga con traspie. Using crosses, turns, sacadas and boleos.
Sun 09/13
Workshop 2 3pm-4:30pm
Tango:
Backward sacadas to the leader and follower: intermediate
Leg wraps (enganches): advanced
Workshop 3 4:45-6:15pm
Vals:
Change of directions. Planeos for the woman: intermediate
The 4th sacada or counter-turns sacadas: advanced
In each class we will work on:
* Elements of technique necessary for the theme of that particular class
* Posture, the walk, and different forms of the embrace
* Sensibility, connection and communication with your dancing partner
* The specific characteristics of each role: the follower and the leader
* We will analyze in detail how to communicate with your partner in order to
create certain moves or sequences, without dancing from memory, but from the
mark
* The structure of the music, rhythm and musicality.
Fees:
Private lessons available on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning for $80/hour
Accomodation with La Milonguera club members is possible.
To reserve the private lesson or find accomodation contact Sonya at szemlyan at purdue.edu
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Big Three Milonga
This September 12, come meet fellow Tangueros and Tangueras from
Urbana/Champaign, Bloomington, IN, and Purdue! Let's get together with new and
familiar tangueros, celebrate our scattered but persistent midwest tango life,
and have lots of fun in the charming century old Duncan Hall!
Check out, print, handout the flier, found here
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Milonga!
This summer was great! We have had two nice workshops with one newly introduced
teacher Nina, two classes with Joe and Carlota, intensive regular guided, open,
and individual practice, very well attended milonguitas, a barbeque social,
extreme picture contest, and a great new addition of exciting, talented, and
enthusiastic beginner members who are working hard to perform on the Global
Fest! Let's conclude this fruitful summer with shiny-smily-cozy-hearty milonga
party! It's a dress-up time, grand evening of the season! You can also
contribute with a small plate or bowl of party food .
Still FREE for beginners, as well as for the contest winners AMIR, NADYA, ALICE,
and BARRON!
All others $5.
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Tango
Picture Contest
Special thanks to K.Dees Coffee for
hosting our
Tango Picture Contest! Check it out! |
Workshops with Nina Tatarowitz
Mark you calendars! Nina Tatarowitz will be at Purdue on June 27 to teach two
workshops. From 1:00 to 2:30: Getting in and out of Paradas gracefully from
Ochos and Giros and from 2:45 to 4:15: Boleos: Relaxing the connection to create
an effortless "whip"
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Summer callout
The summer callout will be held June 17 at 8pm in the MSEE
Lobby. No experience or partner needed!
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Individual practice
We have set up a practice calendar on google which shows the rooms and hours
available for individual practice only (not the club's other activities). To use
a room, please put your name on this calendar in the available time slot.
If you have a partner, put both names on a calendar, thus showing that this time
slot is full. The slot showing just one name means that that person is available
for practice and looking for a partner. If you need a partner, look for a slot
with one name on it, and if this time/partner suits you, add your name on the
same slot. If no partner is available yet, just put your name on an available
time slot and hope that someone will join you.
To see and use the calendar, you must have a google mail account. Once you have
this account, send it to Barron (find the address on the bottom of every page on
this site) with a request to give you access to the practice calendar. After
access is granted, use the calendar to find a partner and/or reserve your time
slot.
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Outdoor Club Social
Everybody meets at 3-30pm at International Center, so we can carpool. Leave
3-45pm sharp.
Food and drinks: bring something of one or two of a kind in quantity to share
(for example, 2 drink bottles, or a veggie plate, or a package of a barbeque
meat), or a bread, or picnic plastic/paper supplies, or fruit. I'll bring a
charcoal and meats for 5-6 people, volleyball and badmington. Feel free to bring
your kids/friends/enemies....
If the weather is not good, we can stay at International Center to eat/dance.
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Close Embrace with Peter Wilcox
Are you looking to add some variety to your tango experience? Have you been out
of town and wondering why everyone else dances differently than we do? Come
learn close embrace! Peter Wilcox has generously offered to make the trip from
Urbana and teach a class on close embrace Saturday, May 23. Check it out!
A milonga will follow in the evening.
The class will emphasize the connection between the couple and musicality using
compact choreography that creatively uses limited space while respecting the
social dance floor. Although apparently simple, the milonguero style is a rich
and complex form of subtle body movements that profoundly respects tango
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Milonga @ Channing-Murray
What better way to relieve the stress of preparing for finals than with a
milonga at Channing-Murray? If you haven't been out of town yet, this is an
excellent first trip! There will be a class at 8pm on sacadas before the
milonga. Come early and enjoy a free lesson! Car pooling is available, e-mail
Sonya if interested
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Workshops with Humberto Decima and Maria Alferov
Schedule:
| Saturday May 9 |
| 6:30 - 8 pm | Workshop 1 | Combinations and sequences in the New
Tango (intermediate) |
| 9pm - 12:00am | Milonga |
| Sunday May 10 |
| 1:30 - 3:00pm | Workshop 2 | Lineal and circular Boleos,
dynamycs and with freezing (intermediate) |
| 3:15 - 4:45pm | Workshop 3 | Milonga lisa and milonga with
traspié (intermediate, with focus on close embrace) |
The workshops will be held in MTHW 304 and the Milonga will be in STEW 302
Admission fee:
1 workshop $20
2 workshops $35
3 workshops $50
Milonga $5
Private lessons are available on Sunday morning and evening
$80/hour with one teacher, $110 with two teachers
Please sign up by e-mail to tango-club-request@lists.purdue.edu
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March Performance - Neo
Our fourth and final piece is the Neo piece. Worth the download for the music
alone!
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March Performance - Milonga
This week Sonya and Seung-Jai perform the Milonga piece. All that hard work
really shows!
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Food Bazaar @ University Church
As you know, we've been using International Center for free for years.
Now it's our chance to thank them by helping then on a very important event!
The Bazaar is a major fundraiser for the International center. Volunteers bring
their national food dishes and put them on sale with the proceeds going to the
International Center. We can participate by having a food table at the bazaar
and at the same time promoting our club as well! Hundreds of people usually
attend this event. Volunteers are needed: to cook and bring/serve the food at
the bazaar; to set the club's table with food and the club's info. The
coordinator of this event is Ahmed. Please contact him via email:
amohamed@purdue.edu or in person in class to get all the details and please sign
up by the end of this week if participating.
If you cannot cook or serve, participate by spreading the word, attending and
purchasing the food!
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Milonga @ Channing-Murray
Kara will be teaching more workshops at Channing-Murray this weekend, followed
by a Milonga at night. Whether you go for the workshops or just the milonga,
don't miss it!
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March Performance - Vals
This week we have the Vals group piece. Congratulations to our performers!
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March Performance - Tango Solo
For the next four weeks we will be showcasing each song of the recent
performance. The performances will be presented in order, starting with Tango,
followed by Waltz, Milonga, and Neo.
Performers: I have complete recordings from both performances, but we don't have
webspace to host both. This week I show the Sunday performance. The Friday
performance is recorded from closer to the stage, but at an angle. If any of you
liked a particular day's performance, please let me know and I will post that
one!
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Weekend of 4/4/9 - A Night at the Milonga with Florencia Taccetti
BATO and the Tango Club will be holding a three-day workshop and milonga during
the first weekend of April (April 3, 4, and 5). Florencia will be focusing on
navigation, musicality, and movement in order to provide the principles and
essential framework to the art and enjoyment of going to a milonga. We have
been cordially invited to join them for this great weekend. Below is a link to
the BATO website where you will find the flyer with class information and
details regarding registration. Please sign up before March 30 in order to take
part in the lower prices and a receipt of confirmation. Let's represent the La
Milonguera well!
http://www.bloomingtontango.net/florencia_workshop/
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Saturday 3/28/9 - Workshops with Kara, tango instructor from Buenos
Aires
Kara is highly qualified professional tango instructor. She's one of the very
best instructors ever coming to Purdue. It's a great honor for us to host her
and take her classes.
WHERE: MTHW 304
1:30 to 3:00 pm Beginners
Improvisation and Musicality
(It's harder than it sounds!)
3:30 to 5:00 pm Intermediate
Sacadas of the woman to the man
(These are fun if you can lead them consistently. Good luck!)
5:30 to 7:00 pm Advanced
Colgadas: Grasp the basics of this concept and integrate it with confidence in
your dance
(Don't drop her!)
Pricing:
Student
$15 one workshop
$30 two workshops
$40 all three workshops
General
$20 one workshop
$35 two workshops
$50 all three workshops
Private lessons are offered on Saturday and Sunday 29th. This is the most
efficient way to learn tango!
The cost of private class is $80 per hour.
Please e-mail tango-club-request@lists.purdue.edu to sign up for a private
lesson. Sign up early to get the most convenient time for you.
After the workshops, we will be hosting a milonga in PMU South Tower from 9 to 1
am
Don't miss this great weekend in tango!
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Saturday 3/7/9 - Workshops with Fred and Yeorman and Milonga LILY
G432, 1pm - 4:15pm
We are thrilled to introduce this fantastic couple to you. They possess a strong
ability to make tango classes light and fun. They focus their attention on the
students' current needs and get amazing results.
Two classes are offered:
beginners/intermediate 1:00pm - 2:30 pm
intermediate/advanced 2:45pm - 4:15pm
Topics to be decided by Fred after observing the students.
The fee
for one workshop -$15
for two workshops - $25.
You can pay by cash or check on Friday in class or on Saturday.
Right after the workshops we are going to have an open club meeting. It means
that any club member caring about the club's success and willing to volunteer
for the club is welcome to attend this meeting.
The topics discussed are:
1)current state of the club: problems and achievements
2)what are desired changes and how to make them happen
3)upcoming elections
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Friday 3/6/9 - Beginner Milonga and Pot-luck
9:30-12:00pm Beginner Lesson
Right after the class we'll move to the International Center (523 Russell St)
for this special treat. Everyone is welcome! It's a great opportunity to
socialize with your club fellows and experience a milonga party! And it's a
dress up time!
Intermediate/advanced: please bring a drink (non-alcoholic) and/or a dish to
share. Remember: you are strongly encouraged to dance with the beginners.
STEW 306 9pm - 1am
Let's reward our efforts with a nice heartfelt tango dance party!
Refreshments provided.
Beginners - free.
Everyone else - $5. |
Saturday 3/1/9 - Club Performance
Fowler Hall STEW 6pm - 8pm
International Mother Language Day organized by Tagore Society is promoting the
diversity of languages and devoting their concert to the idea of mutual
understanding between different cultures and languages by means of music and
dance. Everyone is welcome and it's free.
The concert program is as follows:
1. Indian Vocal music (15 min)
2. Tango Dance (20 min)
3. Indian Classical Instrument (15 min)
4. Salsa dance (15 min)
5. West african Drums ( 25 min)
Our club members are performing four songs:
1. Tango solo: Baron and Alice
2. Vals: group dance
3. Milonga solo: Seungjai and Sonia
4. Neotango: Amir&Wei, Salah&Jill, Hayoung&Mariko
Stop by, enjoy and support your performing club members! |
Saturday 2/21/9 - Channing Murray Milonga
8-9pm Beginner Lesson
9pm-1am Milonga
$7 entrance
Champagne Urbana, Illinois |
Saturday 2/7/9 Milonguita at K.Dees Coffee
Milonguita is free, so please get a cup of coffee and/or a dessert to thank our
host. It's a dress up time!
IDEAS WANTED
The owner of this cozy, welcoming place is looking for some posters and wall
decorations from us. Please bring some ideas along with you to share and let's
have a small discussion over there on what we can do for him, and to promote our
club too!
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Friday 1/23/09 Tango Club CALL OUT - PMU South Tower Please ADVERTISE
anyway you can!
We need all Tango Members Old & New to join us for our first ever Professional
Call Out!!
Great teachers and hot dancing for all :)
9-9:30 Welcome guests & explain Tango/club details and history
9:30-10:45 Professional Tango Demo & Fun Free Lesson w/Joe and Carlotta
10:45-ish to Midnight - Open dance |
Saturday 1/17/09 - Channing Murray Milonga
8-9pm Beginner Lesson
9pm-1am Milonga w/ Dj Melih E. (and weather permitting) Tanda Dj Jillian
$7 entrance
Champagne Urbana, Illinois |
Friday 1/16/09 HOT TAPAS Tango Party- Meet & Greet
International Center 9pm - Midnight
INVITE ALL of your friends to join us this Friday night at the International
Center for Tapas Food & Dancing.
We want a great social atmosphere where we can meet NEW people and tell them
about our club in an informal FUN party.
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Saturday 12/20/08 K.DEE'S HOLIDAY Milonga 6-9pm
Absolutely free entrance however it is kind to spend a dollar on a yummy muffin
or cup of Joe, in appreciation of the cool venue!
We MUST leave prompty at 9pm, so if you plan on eating here....I suggest getting
there before 6pm.
This way you have a full 3 hours for dancing :)
http://www.kdeescoffee.com/
1) shoes, no problem...except golf shoes, though
2).wants us to feel free to interact with patrons...generate interest
3) from 6-9pm (he closes at 7pm, so we'll be there 2 hours after - not sure if
he's staying open to public then also)
Let's prove to Lafayette that Santa and Mrs. Claus can Tango!! Wear you Holiday
outfits and Santa caps!!!!
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This week we see Homer and Christina demoing "Dynamic Turns in Close Embrace".
For those of you interested in close embrace, check this one out! Translating
open embrace figures to close embrace can be difficult, but turns will always
work. Enjoy this video, as your webmaster will be out of the country for two
weeks, so be sure to check your e-mail for the news |
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This week we see the first after-class demo of TYWP 2008. Homer and Christina
demo the Ocho Cortada. Beginners, you just learned this! Watch the video and see
what you can do with this simple movement. |
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This week's video is Homer and Christina's second milonga performance. |
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The video this week is Homer and Christina's first milonga performance. |
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This week's video features Korey and Mila's second milonga performance. Check
it! |
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This week we see the first video from Tango Your Way to Purdue 2008: Korey and
Mila, performance 1 |
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Anyone who took pictures at last Saturday's Milonga, please send them to me at
gillonba@gmail.com so that I can post them! I will post all pictures I
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Friday 11/07/08 Tapas 'fore Tango!!
Jeff has generously offered to host a little eating and dancing before our
intermediate class Nov.7th! Please bring a small dish enough for you and others
to enjoy (or drink). We will enjoy these treats and a little tango dancing at
his place, then continue the fun in a caravan over to intermediate class.
Where: Jeff's house
Time: before intermediate class (to be announced)
If interested please email (Jillian) for directions to Jeff's place. |
Saturday 11/01 Halloween Milonga @ Channing-Murray
Something terrifying? Something daring? Something clever?
Come on out to the Halloween Milonga and enjoy some tango, incognito, at
Channing-Murray!
Gasp at the haunted chapel with its ghostly ambiance!
Shiver to eerie traditional music with dashes of spine tingling nuevo.
Devilish refreshments served!
Saturday November 1st
9pm to 1am
DJ Melih Eriten
8pm Beginnner Lesson
Melih and Duygu
Admission: $7.00
1209 West Oregon, Urbana , IL
(free parking available in University lots
after 5:00pm except reserved spaces) |
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This week's video is the final performance of Globalfest 2007. Download now and
watch La Milonguera's interpretation of Shakira's "Objection Tango" |
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This week's video is the final group piece, "Milonga Del Corazon" Find yourself! |
Fall Mini Workshop & Costume Milonga!
Fall Mini Workshop & Costume Milonga!
Basic Premise:
Cost: Prepay(before Oct.25th) = $12 for class & milonga, Same day pay = $10
milonga, $5 class
All Levels Evening class: taught by Melih & Joe from Champaign IL
(Time & room T.B.A)
Costume Milonga!! PMU South Tower 9pm-12am
Joe & Melih (and partners) will give a mini performance during our milonga and
Dj their hot music mix.
Join us for tango dancing in crazy outfits & Halloween costumes!
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Tango Is a
Shared Moment
interview with Carlos Gavito, at www.milonguero.nl
We dance the music, not the steps. Anybody who pretends to dance
well never thinks about the step he's going to do, what he cares about is that
he follows the music. You see, we are painters, we paint the music with our
feet. Musicians play an instrument and use their fingers, their hands. Dancers
use their toes. Read on.
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Performance
Tango or Milonguero?
collected notes by Susana Miller, published in "El
Tangauta"
Two styles of Argentine tango, performance and milonguero, bring
about a controversy in the dance community. Some attribute a false dichotomy
between these styles. False because, in reality, they are complimentary. In a
certain aspect, performance tango and milonguero tango are two sides of the same
coin. Read on.
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Old people and
Tango
Research article taken from The Society for
Neuroscience website, Nov 2005
A study presented at the Society for Neuroscience national
conference in
Washington, DC this week found that "Argentinean tango dancing" is an effective
treatment for maintaining a healthy brain.
Read on.
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The New
Tango Adopts Hot, Fast Moves - Heavy Beat, Lots of Twists Attract a Younger
Crowd; Mr. Ladas's All-Nighters
By Kim-Mai Cutler, The New York Street Journal
Europe, Aug 30, 2005
It still takes two to tango, but young urban aficionados have added
some surprising new twists to the tradition-bound Argentine dance...This is
"neotango", a new millennium version of the dance that was born at the turn of
the previous century in the brothels of Buenos Aires. It is booming all over the
tango world.
Read on.
A Sense of Where You Were
in The Economist, Dec 20,
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A toast to
life
interview with Carlos Gavito, at www.tangopulse.net
Scene: We are sitting at Lalo, one of my favorite restaurants in
Buenos Aires and apparently it is also Gavito's because I see him here all the
time. It is no secret that Carlos is battling with cancer. This fight is
acutely visible in his appearance and his weariness. Read
on.
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And Still They Tango
By Alma Guillermoprieto, National Geographic, Dec.
2003
Full of yearning and lament, the tango is perfect therapy for a
nation still stinging from economic loss. Music, champagne, beautiful women,
gorgeous men, perfume that drifts through the air like a song, songs that linger
in the mind like perfume. The union of two bodies transformed into one?
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But what is tango? The commonest description "the vertical
expression of a horizontal desire - is the least adequate: that applies to
nearly all dances. "A sad thought you can dance", a comment on the wall of the
National Academy of Tango in Buenos Aires, is closer to the mark, though tango
was not always a sad or even a nostalgic music, and can certainly be a joyful
one. Read on. |
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