Argentine Tango Intensive Workshop with FABIAN SALAS and LOLA DIAZ October 30 to November 6, 2010

For a long time Fabián Salas didn´t make any teaching tours outside of Argentina and has been missed badly by his fans and students in Europe
Finally he´s back again, together with his new dance partner Lola Diaz.
La Rogaia is one of the few places in Europe, where he will give a workshop in 2010.

About Fabián Salas:
Sometimes when you speak about one of the great masters of Argentine Tango, you take it for granted, that everybody already knows everything about them.
Maybe though it does make sense to tell a little about Fabian Salas.

During its “Golden Age” , Tango had been danced everywhere in Buenos Aires und you learned to dance Tango watching your parents or other dancers from your town quarter.
This happened completely naturally. Everybody watched and imitated the good dancers …and practiced. Oppurtunities to do so you found everywhere. Nobody had to think about teaching methods or didactics.
Fast forward to the 80ies. After the end of military dictatorship in Argentina the Tango scene has changed completely. Only a few dancers remain who have lived in the Golden Age and can pass on their knowledge. Most of them are excellent dancers, but have never wasted a thought on how to teach Tango efficiently.
A group of young dancers around Fabian Salas and Gustavo Naveira now tries to figure out, how the old milongueros danced. They try to get a profound understanding how the movements and dynamics of the dance work and develop for the first time a didactically based teaching method. This method until today has a big impact on all Tango dancers, no matter whether they dance traditional Tango or Tango Nuevo.
But they do not stop at that point. With their profound knowledge of the dynamics of Tango they break with old, sometimes rigid conventions and develop a new way of dancing Tango, more open, more fluent. And they start to dance to music, which hasn´t been considered dancable until then, for example the music of Astor Piazzola.
Fabián Salas becomes world famous as one of the main characters of Sally Potter´s world famous Tango movie “The Tango Lesson” , together with Gustavo Naveira and Pablo Veron.
To learn from Fabián Salas and Lola Diaz in a small, intimate group with a maximum of eight couples is more than simply taking Tango lessons. It is a unique opportunity one is not offered very often.

This workshop is supposed to improve participants theoretical understanding of Argentine Tango and will bring their Tango dancing abilities to a superior level within one week.
Tango teachers will improve their teaching methods to give their own students the best teaching and hence become more thought after Tango instructors.
The participants of this workshop will receive tuition almost like in a private class, instead of merely seeing the big name teachers from afar in one of the big festivals
This is a unique opportunity to learn Tango Nuevo from one of its founders. Places are limited to only eight couples.
More information at www.tangoholidays.com

Villa La Rogaia is an agriturismo (a country house and farm) situated near Lago Trasimeno in Umbria, Italy. It offers holiday apartments and a variety of creative classes, such as painting, dancing, cooking, italian language and many others. It offers also special holiday events, like participating in the olive harvest.
Villa La Rogaia is also an organic farm, that cultivates olive trees, produces finest extravergine olive oil and raises medicinal herbs and fragrant plants

Agriturismo La Rogaia, Azienda agricola biologica
di Annette Greifenhagen
Via Campagna 17
Castel Rigone
06065 Passignano sul Trasimeno
Umbria, Provincia di Perugia
Italy
e-mail: info@rogaia.de
www.rogaia.com

Contact person: Annette Greifenhagen

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