Tuesday Dance House class
Autumn Season at Dance House
Close Embrace style Tango.
The Dance house class will now be on a Tuesday
BOOKING THROUGH THE DANCE HOUSE:
Booking Is now open
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September 15 – December 1 (12 weeks)
Tuesdays 8pm – 9pm
Old Sheriff Court,
105 Brunswick Street G51 1TF
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Close Embrace style: Tango and Milonga This class has its emphasis on learning the close embrace style of dancing tango. We will concentrate on refining the posture and connection so that dancing in this manner becomes smooth and comfortable. Walking technique and musicality are at the core of this course, thus we will teach milonga along with tango so that you can learn the different attitudes while dancing these two different dances.
Booking as a couple is preferable as for the aims of this course swapping partners frequently is not ideal. If you book with a partner you can mostly work with a person you like dancing with. People booking as Single will be partnered with other singles. Nevertheless, we will still change partners occasionally for learning purposes.
You may come to this class even if you have no/little experience of tango but you need to book as a couple and be able to practice either at home or by coming along to the Saturday practica at Notre Dame.
If you have any inquiries about the content of the class contact Sari tel. 079628 65324, e-mail: sari_lievonen@hotmail.com
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About the teachers
Sari Lievonen (MFA, MA, Pedagogic Diploma) is a versatile performer/choreographer/dance teacher and visual artist
who has worked as a dance professional in theatre and contemporary dance since 1987 and as a visual artist since 1999.
Sari was first drawn to tango while studying dance in Paris in the late 1980’s. She collaborated extensively in the 1990’s with Camus Nova,
the first Finnish ensemble to play Astor Piazzolla’s music in Finland. Sari has been part of the Glasgow tango scene since 2002.
She is the Creative Director for the Glasgow Tango Festival which was found in 2006.
Jeff Allan has been dancing Tango for the past eight years. Absorbing the infuenced of many teachers during this time, he is predominatley interested in the social tango dance, and at present the Salon & the Close Embrace styles. Although of cours he has also studied Tango Nuevo.
Jeff has partnered Sari in teaching and performance for the past two years. Sari & Jeff have been featured in for example the Edinburgh Hogmany “The Dancin” Show, the Glasgow Subway Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They have also participated in the Glasgow International (GI) with their interactive tango performance project.
Over the years Jeff has been a core mover in Glasgow’s developing tango scene. He was co-founder of Glasgow’s first weekly milonga, the Wednesday Tango Bar. He established the weekly practica in 2005 and has been running this, perhaps the the citys most popular weekly tango event, with Sari since them. The idea of organizing a Tango Festival for Glasgow came also from Jeff’ and he has been a core member of Tango in the City to make this festival a reality. Sari & Jeff also organise the CCA milonga that has been running since 2007.
