Festival schedule

April, 28th 2017

  • 14:00 — 18:00 Daily milonga
  • 14:30 — 15:30 “My first tango class” — free workshop with all festival maestro
  • Milonga “WELCOME”, maestros ronda

April, 29th 2017

  • 14:00 — 18:00 Daily milonga
  • 12:30 — 14:00 Workshop #1 (for teachers). Elina Roldan. Circulation in ronda. What you should know and teach your students about respectful and safe dancing on milongas.
  • 12:30 — 14:00 Workshop #2 (for students). Brenno and Eva. Waltz: cadence and musicality (Аll levels).
  • 14:20 — 15:50 Workshop #3 (for teachers). Elina Roldan. Milonga Lisa and Traspie. The difference in leading and following.
  • 14:20 — 15:50 Workshop #4 (for students). Graciela and Leo. Various salidas. Variations on base salida. (All levels)
  • 16:30 — 18:00 Workshop #5 (for students). Brenno and Eva. Linear and circular movements. Techniques and sequences. (Intermediate and advanced levels)
  • 16:30 — 18:00 Workshop #6 (for students). Graciela and Leo. Barridas: techniques and combinations. (Intermediate and advanced levels)
  • 22:00 — 05:00 Milonga Grande “ROSA ROJA” with orchestra PASIONAL.

April, 30th 2017

  • 14:00 — 18:00 Daily milonga
  • 12:30 — 14:00 Workshop #7 (for students). Brenno and Eva. Musicality in tango. How we utilize our body to interpret music we hear. (All levels)
  • 12:30 — 14:00 Workshop #8 (for teachers). Graciela and Leo. Dancing in pairs, how to build technique, important aspects of dancing tango in pairs.
  • 14:20 — 15:50 Workshop #9 (for students). Elina Roldan. Milonga Lisa and Traspie. (All levels)
  • 14:20 — 15:50 Workshop #10 (for teachers). Graciela and Leo. Creating our own steps combinations. How to teach to search and build student’s own style.
  • 16:30 — 18:00 Workshop #11 (for students). Elina Roldan. Enrosques for leaders and giros for followers. (Intermediate and advanced levels)
  • 16:30 — 18:00 Workshop #12 (for students). Brenno and Eva. Energy flow based on the leading. (Intermediate and advanced levels)
  • 22:00 — 05:00 Milonga Grande “NEGRO BLANCO”. Maestros show.

May, 1st 2017

  • 14:00 — 18:00 Daily milonga
  • 12:30 — 14:00 Workshop #13 (for students). Elina Roldan. Peculiarities of dancing to Osvaldo Pugliese’s orchestra. Various salidas. (Intermediate and advanced levels)
  • 12:30 — 14:00 Workshop #14 (for students). Graciela and Leo. Precision and level of intention in leading. Leveling the intension. (All levels)
  • 14:20 — 15:50 Workshop #15 (for teachers). Brenno and Eva. Steps: form and contents. How to balance between the form and contents while teaching combinations. How not to lose interest and still enjoy learning difficult combinations.
  • 14:20 — 15:50 Workshop #16 (for students). Graciela and Leo. Dancing the pauses. How to fill the pause, how not to stop but continue dancing during the pause? (All levels)
  • 16:30 — 18:00 Workshop #17 (for students). Elina Roldan. What do you know about the embrace? How you understand the connection in pair? (All levels)
  • 16:30 — 18:00 Workshop #18 (for teacher). Brenno and Eva. How to teach students dance to the music, theoretical and practical exercises for musicality classes based on students level and course length.
  • 22:00 — 05:00 Afterparty Milonga.

La Vida Musica Y Tango