CLOSE Embrace THEN and NOW: Daniela & Luis' Seminar in San Diego

"CLOSE EMBRACE: THEN AND NOW" INTENSIVE SEMINAR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 AND 21ST An immersive tango learning experience is uncommon. Typical workshops in festivals, and in events with visiting teachers, rarely offer a diligent learner a transformative understanding of her/his body dynamics and immense potential of creativity in the dance. Here is something quite different! 8 hours of progressive classes. Lots of individual attention (class size limited to 24). Fixing of old problems. Working on new solutions. If you seriously want to examine and grow your dance technique these workshops are for you. This couple is very attentive to detail and no fault goes unexamined. In this seminar, we will explore classic and modern techniques for dancing in close embrace. On the first day of the seminar, we will start from the foundations of posture, core, dissociation, walking and pivoting, examining critical techniques that create comfort and space in close embrace. Using their mastery in transmitting the subtleties of biomechanics with vivid imagery and details, Daniela and Luis will guide students at every level to polish and improve their technique. With the foundations in place, we will explore options of vocabulary for close embrace and how to use improvisation to multiply our possibilities. Special emphasis will be placed on breaking the symmetry in the leader's and follower's movements, and how this creates new opportunities for musical interpretation. On the second day, we will explore advances in technique in the last 20 years, showing how they can be incorporated in close embrace to create a dance that is more dynamic and "twisty". Suspensions, drops and smooth changes of speed will become effortless through proper use of elasticity and weight. Movements apparently requiring superhuman dissociation will become reachable with the right techniques. PREVIOUS STUDENTS FEEDBACK Please check out this link for student feedback on Daniela and Luis' previous seminars: http://www.danielayluis.com/#!student-reviews/c8v4 REGISTRATION Registration is limited to 24 students. Fee: $150/person until October 13th: $170 afterward. The seminar is progressive and priority is given to students who want to study in depth and participate in the whole weekend. Please email [email protected] to register. Please feel free to ask questions about the material.