"Tango Diférente" @ Ponderosa (Germany)
a week of workshops and classes exploring the fusion of tango with Contact Improvisation, Feldenkrais, Yoga, Queer Tango, Meditation, Pilates, Tai Chi, BodyMindCentering, Skinner Releasing Technique, Improvisation and more!
Lots of Jams, Milongas, Practicas and space to chill out....REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN!
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS PLEASE VISIT:
TANGO DIFERENTE
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Sunday 10th of June 2012
a day to celebrate difference in dance!
FREE entrance! All welcome!
Classes in and with Tango Release, Queer Tango London and Freedom Tango.
2-3 pm Tango Release (Adriana Pegorer)3-4 pm Queer Tango (Tim Flynn, Ray, Carolyn)
4-6 pm Dancing (alternating tangos with pop & disco)
6-7 pm Tango Release (Adriana Pegorer)7-8 pm Freedom Tango (Peter Baldock)
8-10 pm Dancing (alternating tangos with pop & disco)
DJ: Ingo from Wotever Club (tangos, disco & pop)
Dancers: Adriana Pegorer & Asta Moro at Bar Wotever
‘As part of the South London Big Dance programme, led by Siobhan Davies Dance.’
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LINK TO TANGO RELEASE BLOG
'MOVING PERCEPTION'
The project will provide a series of inclusive specialized movement workshops, welcoming people living in the local Lambeth community and beyond, and in particular welcoming people with visual impairment. The workshops are open to everybody -sighted and non sighted- and they are free!
The workshops will be delivered by professional movement specialists. The techniques are particularly accessible to people with visual impairment as they foreground kinaesthetic empathy over visual mimesis.
Programme:
Saturday 26th November 2011: Feldenkrais and Contact Improvisation with Simonetta Alessandri
Saturday 14th January 2012: Yoga with John Stirk
Saturday 4th February 2012: Piloting with Michael Parmenter
Sunday 5th February 2012: Tactics with Michael Parmenter
Saturday 18th February 2012: Butoh with Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
Saturday 25th February 2012: Feldenkrais and CI with Thomas Kampe
Sunday 11 March 2012: Skinner Releasing Technique with Alex Crowe
Sunday 18th March 2012: Tai chi chaun with Enid Gill
Sunday 25th March 2012: Skinner Releasing Technique with Gaby Agis
Sunday 1st April 2012: Ideokinesis with Glenna Batson
Sunday 15th April 2012: Tango with Ute Walter
CLICK HERE TO VIEW BLOG
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STEAMPUNK TANGO!
Date: Friday 24th February
Hours: 7pm-11pm
Entry: Free
Venue: Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St
Accessibility: Full Wheelchair accessibility, for other need, get in touch
Celebrating the end of LGBT History Month 2012.
In aid of Albert Kennedy Trust
For Islington LGBT group and Camden LGBT Forum
MISS HOPE SPRINGS
Following recent success in the West End, join Ty Jeffries as his alter ego, down on her luck ex Vegas showgirl turned nightclub chanteuse Miss Hope Springs.
QUEER TANGO:
TANGO ARGENTINO mini class 7.30-8pm
you can lead or you can follow and you can change over any time you like!
With and by: Adriana Pegorer and Ute Walter
For more info please visit: http://www.queertango.com/
JO BUNNY
Music to Dance to by Jo Bunny, expect classics, hits and tango tunes...
SteamPunk baby!
Event Created by Wotever World for Camden LGBT Forum & Islington LGBT
Adriana Pegorer and Asta Moro performance at last year LGBT History Month.
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Colloque International: "TANGO: CREATION, IDENTIFICATION, CIRCULATION"
Paris, 26-29 October 2011
presenting:
"Performing gender in Milongas of Buenos Aires: exploring the binary within" by Adriana Pegorer
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10TH QUEER TANGO FESTIVAL HAMBURG 30 SEPTEMBER - 2 OCTOBER 2011
Sunday, 2nd October
Panel discussion
15:00-16:30
11 Years Queer Tango. About the relationship between queer being and queer consciousness. Happy theory vs. resistive practise?
with Paula Irene Villa (Munich), Adriana Pegorer (London), Charlotte Rivero (Stockholm), Felix Feyerabend (Hamburg), Marc Vanzwoll (Boston/San Francisco), Melanie Haller (Hamburg)
Tango Release workshop
16.45-18.30
The workshop develops partnering work into a playful dialogue drawing from contact improvisation and release based techniques principles.
SEE FULL PROGRAMME HERE:
www.queer-tango.de
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.... teaching and directing the participant's show at PHANTASTANGO! in Germany in July 2011
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.....presenting 'Close your eyes and ....dance!' research in Berlin, July 2011
ABSTRACT:
Tango is a social
practice layered with etiquette, and vision is one of its primary
aspects. For example the "cabeceo", a brief nod employed to
discreetly invite, accept and decline to dance, has a fundamental
reliance on the exchange of gazes between prospective partners.
But
the central role of vision is challenged by, amongst others, the late
tango master Carlos Gavito, who proposed the absence of visual
engagement for the follower during the dance -if motivated by the
dance itself-. The kinaesthetic intention of moving as ‘one heart
with four legs’ can, according to Gavito, be better achieved if the
sense of sight is not used or is made void in the follower. The
skilful leader accompanies the follower within a firm embrace around
the dancing hall and amongst the other couples, with legs and feet
sometimes touching.
What is the relation
between vision and touch in dancing and learning tango?
Drawing
on my experience of teaching tango to people with visual impairment,
I will critically engage with this problematic. I will focus on how
the quality of moving without seeing enriches the dancing and how my
practice of release based techniques and Japanese butoh provided me
with fundamental teaching tools that foreground kinaesthetic empathy over visual
mimesis.
L I N K TO CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
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