Tango with Carrie Field in Berkeley, beginning and intermediate (three dates)

Carrie Field will be teaching tango at the Berkeley City Club on three dates only: Wednesdays, May 20th, 27th, and June 3rd! BEGINNING TANGO Join this beautiful dance of walking in an embrace to orchestrated music. We will learn and explore up to five tango basics with a focus on movement fundamentals. INTERMEDIATE TANGO This series at La Bruja explores simple functional anatomy for tango through concepts and exercises from Tango Inform. Build body awareness, movement clarity, and enhance proprioceptive experience. Applications for both follow and leader roles will be offered, and we will dance. May 20 Spinal Torsion for Spiral Investigating three types of spirals to enhance praxis for clear turns, juicy pivots and a deeper connection. May 27 Core of the Embrace: A physical and technical understanding the delicious interaction of the and leader/follower relationship. June 3 Feet and Legs Building a constant connection and conversation between the feet, the floor, and the core spiral. Practice and exploration of four different crosses. Wednesdays, May 20th, 27th, and June 3rd 6:45 pm: check-in 7:00-8:00 pm beginning tango 8:00-8:30 pm practica 8:30-9:30 pm intermediate tango series 9:30-10:00 pm practica No partner necessary; the teacher encourages people to switch partners throughout the class. You may also decide to stay with a partner. These classes are taught using the terms "leaders" and "followers," and are inclusive to queer, trans, and non-binary people. $60 general admission (series of three classes, beg. or int.) $25 general admission (single class, beg. or int.) $15 student with ID (single class, beg. or int.) $40 both classes in one evening (one person) We accept cash and venmo at the door. Series tickets available on eventbrite: Beginning: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988833547679? Intermediate: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988834414271? The practicas are included with the classes. Stay, dance, and ask questions! Beginners may stay and watch the intermediate class. Intermediate students are welcome to arrive at 8:00 to practice together with the beginners. Room: May 20th--drawing room, May 27th--ballroom, June 3rd--ballroom. (The room reservation may change.) Drinks are for sale at Morgan’s Bar and Lounge, across the hall from the ballroom. All ages are welcome in the dance classes. We are a 10-minute walk from Downtown Berkeley BART. For bike parking, use the bell to enter through the service entrance, and go straight to get to the back courtyard. No parking in the City Club lot. Street parking is free after 6:00 pm. Carrie Field fell in love with tango in 2004. After much study and many trips to Buenos Aires, she began teaching in Taos, New Mexico in 2009. She then noticed a missing educational experience for tango dancers and investigated how to condition her own and students’ bodies for better access to the dance. This exploration resulted the material of Tango Inform. Carrie has a B.A in dance and a masters in occupational therapy. She is certified in Pilates, yoga, Gyrotonic©, and has more than 30 years of experience teaching these movement modalities. She taught tango as a part of Taos Tango for many years and feels privileged to have taught at many tango festivals in the Southwestern U.S. Carrie has a passion for understanding the moving body and is excited to share with her tango community! Tango Inform is a collection of exercises designed specifically to prepare the body and enhance performance for dancing tango. The exercises of Tango Inform approach the body from four different areas of training: stretch, strength, release, and motor patterning. The individual exercises included in the approach have roots in varied movement modalities such as yoga, Pilates, Gyrotonic©, and Bartenieff Fundamentals. Kinesthetic and anatomical concepts are explained in friendly language to help students understand movement patterns and theories that can help their dance. The object of Tango Inform is to assist dancers in improving ease of movement, grace and physical confidence while dancing tango. https://tangoinform.wordpress.com/ Event organized by Lindsey Newbold.