Dance Workshops :
Our "Neo tango" works with principles such as circularity, moving MORE AROUND AND IN each other, a dance that grasps the space, with dynamics, a lively embrace, connecting, with elasticity too. All of the above give the steps more depth, color, and significance, and within the focused form of tango, freedom within the embrace, A MORE ACTIVE AND CREATIVE ROLE FOR EACH of the dance partners, in that way, finding a new vocabulary that fits our contemporary world.
For this Neotango project in Bruges, we start from the (very traditional) principle that "everything is a giro": born from movement, musicality and the autonomy of the leader and the follower, we will find each other in an intimate and expressive dance, able to create even more freely in a very easy way, a principle that leads to a tango that opens your mind for a next level, a whole new universum.
Proposal :
FRIDAY
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WS1 19:00 - 20:00 - Moves & More (Technique)
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WS2 20:15 - 21:00 - Musicality (Into Experience.…)
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SATURDAY
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WS3 15:00 - 16:30 - Principles & More (Technique)
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WS4 17:00 - 18:30 - More Moves (Into Playing…)
Prices:
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€55 for the whole seminar (4 workshops)
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€40 for only Saturday
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€20 for Friday
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WS1+2 or WS 3+4 belong together. You can take WS1 or WS3 for 15/25 euro.
We like to give everybody some attention in our teaching. So, please subscribe to neotango@tangoalegre.be to put down a reservation for your spot. Payment in cash on site only.
You can read more about the Neotango project of Bennie Bartels & Astrid Maria Cerpentier on their web site https://www.tangoalegre.be/workshop-specials/.
Love to meet you in Bruges!.
Astrid Maria Cerpentier (Belgium) and Bennie Bartels (NL)
"Blues for Tangueros" By Isabelle and Thierry
We feel that a lot of the music played during neotango parties can be danced using blues technique. Because of that, Blues dancing and Tango dancing are two dances that fit very well together cross fertilizing each other. Common to both dance, a very strong and full time connexion, a movement freedom, playing and creating based on music inspiration, all that being the source of a lot of pleasure widening your dancing possibilities.
This is why Isabelle and Thierry propose a blues initiation built for neo tango dancers. During the workshop you will learn the basis of the blues connexion and increase your palette of body movements with the goal of dancing even closer to the music following your inspiration.
Proposal :
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Workshop themes
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When does music inspire blues dancing
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Blues connexion
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Basics body moves
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How to use blues in tango
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Spin technics
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SATURDAY
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WS1 16H15-17H45 : Introduction to Blues
Note : we will use different moves than seen during NTB2020 workshop so if you did last
year workshop, it is worth doing it again !
SUNDAY
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WS2 16H15-17H45 : Put more BLUES in your NEO
For those that did WS1
Prices:
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15€ per workshop
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25€ for WS1 & WS2
Registration : on NTB ticketing site https://www.billetweb.fr/neo-tango-bruges-brugge-ntb-2021 and at the door
Blues teachers
Isabelle and Thierry are Tango and blues addicts (and others dances too !). They will open bridges for you between those complementary universes. In their quest towards dance fusion, they gave "blues for tangueros " classes in several Neo festivals (Tangopostale, NTB, Croatia, Toulouse...and coming soon NTA 2021) as well as "Tango for blues dancers" (Berlin ibx, Tangopostale, Toulouse)
In addition to being dancers, they are also organizers for neotango and fusion festivals (TNT, NTA, NTB, Toulouse fusion week-end…).
