A Weekend to Love the Tango with Alicia Pons

February 12th, 2010

Alicia Pons has arrived, and our special weekend starts tonight with a workshop and a relaxed milonga at Triangle Dance Studio (upstairs) featuring music from DJ Eduardo Lazarowski. If you have yet to see how beautiful and elegant this dancer is, please take a moment to watch Alicia Pons on Youtube.

Saturday, after our full day of workshops, come join a festive dinner and milonga at Vita. The optional dinner features a select choice of menu items including appetizer, entree, and dessert as well as a glass of wine, all for just $32 ($25 plus tax and tip). Please contact me at aliciaweekend@tangophilia.com or 330-2TANGO4 (330-282-6464) to join the dinner from 8:30-10:30. The milonga will follow the dinner and will start as soon as the tables can be cleared (hopefully as early as 10:30pm, but we may be starting closer to 11pm). The milonga is still just $10 and includes a free beverage from the bar. The music will be provided by DJ Katia Singletary.

Because Alicia will be spending a nice stretch of time with us, there are lots of opportunities for small classes and privates, so please email me with your desired dates and times between Feb 15 and Feb 24. Privates are $90 per hour (for singles or couples).

Next Saturday, Feb 20th, Tangophilia will be hosting a special event with the Free Spirits Ensemble, in the form of a Wine and Cheese Cabaret and a milonga setting at the Holly Springs Arts Center. More details coming ASAP.

Also there will be a set of follow-up workshops with Alicia Pons on Sunday Feb 21st, at Triangle Dance Studio. The topics are to be determined, but will be informed by what comes out of this weekend.

Finally, all new class series started this week! Tuesday nights include Core Techniques: Close Embrace and Explorations: Colgadas, while Wednesdays focus on Core Techniques: Milonga and Vals and Explorations: Boleos.

In upcoming travel opportunities, you might consider attending the following national events.

Nos vemos,

Jason

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Event Details

Friday Workshop with Alicia Pons

8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Friday 12th February 2010
The Early Registration Deadline has passed.
Triangle Dance Studio, Durham (near RTP), NC

Put style, elegance and passion into your tango! The manner in which Alicia Pons imbues the role of the woman with verve and style has made her one of the most sought after female partners in Buenos Aires milongas.
She has a highly refined technique, and her foot play and sensual seduction are done with humor and artistry. Alicia has taught for the last several years with Cacho Dante, with whom she has frequently performed. She was trained in classical dance from an early age, and her first tango teachers were Graciela Gonzalez, whose women’s technique has shaped her precise footwork, and Tete Rusconi, one of the most renowned milongueros of his generation.
In her teaching, Alicia encourages men to lead with quiet confidence, and emphasizes the woman’s ability to not just follow, but to be an equal in the dance.

This will be Alicia’s 5th appearance in the Triangle.

Schedule

All events except Saturday Milonga will be held at Triangle Dance Studio

  • Friday, February 12 (upstairs studio)
  • 8:00pm – 9:30 pm Workshop(All Levels): Communication Within and Around the Dance
  • 10:00pm – 01:00 am Informal Milonga
  • Saturday, February 13 (back studio)
    • 12:00 pm Warm Up
    • 12:30 – 2:00 pm Saturday 1: Awakening
    • 2:15 – 3:45 pm Saturday 2: Attention to Detail
    • 4:15 – 5:45 pm Saturday 3: Turning
  • Saturday Milonga (moved to VITA)
    • 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm Special Dinner at Vita, $25 per person, including 1 glass of wine
    • 10:45 – 2:00 am Social Dancing
  • Sunday, February 14 (back studio)
    • 2:15 – 3:45 pm Sunday 1: Milonga
    • 4:00 – 5:30 pm Sunday 2: Vals

    Pricing and Registration

    This event is part of a series of events featuring Alicia Pons being held during the weekend. Click the links below to see details.

    • Friday Workshop with Alicia Pons
    • Informal Milonga with Alicia Pons
    • Saturday Workshops with Alicia Pons
    • Special Tangophilia Tradicional featuring Alicia Pons (moved to VITA)
    • Sunday Workshops with Alicia Pons

    *Private lessons with Alicia will be available Feb 15 – 24.

    Contact Info

    For questions and registration: Contact us by phone or SMS/text at 330-2TANGO4 (330-282-6464) or by email at aliciaweekend@tangophilia.com.

    Gender Balance

    We will do our best to maintain gender balance in all workshops. If there is an imbalance for any workshop, a waitlist will be created. You will be notified if you are placed on the waitlist and you will be notified when your registration is accepted. Priority for placement will be given to persons registering for weekend packages over individual workshops.

    Payments

    Credit card payments can ONLY be processed through the tangophilia.com website. We cannot accept cards over the phone or at the door.

    Check payments should be made out to JASON LAUGHLIN and mailed to: 4407 Hopson Rd Apt 1113, Morrisville NC 27560. If paying by check, please contact us by email, phone, or text when sending your payment so you can be notified if there are any issues with your registration (being placed on a waitlist, for example).

    Refund Policy

    • Before the early registration deadline: We can refund the full payment.
    • Up to 24 hours before the start time of an event (class, practica or milonga): We can refund 50% of the payment for events that you will not be able to attend.

    For a refund, you must contact us before the date of the event. NO REFUNDS will be given if you cannot attend the event but tell us on or after the date of the event.

    Payments received on or before Early Registration Deadline:

    • Full Package (includes 6 Workshops and 2 Milongas)
    • $150 per person
    • $120 for currently registered Tangophilia students
    • $120 for college or graduate students with ID
  • Weekend Pass (includes 5 Workshops and the Saturday Milonga)
    • $130 per person
    • $105 for currently registered Tangophilia students
    • $105 for college or graduate students with ID
  • Per Workshop
    • $25 per person: Friday, Saturday 1, Saturday 2, Saturday 3, Sunday 1, Sunday 2
    • $20 for Tangophilia Students: Friday, Saturday 1, Saturday 2, Saturday 3, Sunday 1, Sunday 2
    • $20 for college or graduate students with ID: Friday, Saturday 1, Saturday 2, Saturday 3, Sunday 1, Sunday 2
  • Friday Milonga
    • $10 per person
  • Saturday Milonga
    • $10 per person

    Payments received After Early Registration Deadline:

    • Full Package (includes 6 Workshops and 2 Milongas)
    • $165 per person
    • $135 for currently registered Tangophilia students
    • $135 for college or graduate students with ID
  • Weekend Pass (includes 5 Workshops and the Saturday Milonga)
    • $155 per person
    • $130 for currently registered Tangophilia students
    • $130 for college or graduate students with ID
  • Per Workshop
    • $30 per person
    • $25 for Tangophilia Students
    • $25 for college or graduate students with ID
  • Friday Milonga
    • $10 per person
  • Saturday Milonga
    • $10 per person

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    Tango at Parizade Tonight, with Mandragora Tomorrow!

    January 22nd, 2010

    strong>TONIGHT come out for Tango Paradiso at Parizade! The evening will feature guest DJ Katia Singletary.

    Saturday night, January 23, Triangle Tango will host a special milonga with live music by Mandragora! Mandragora is a tango orchestra based in Minneapolis-St. Paul. I was able to hear them perform at milongas during the Minneapolis Tango Festival in 2008, and their music is very fun to dance to. Cover is $20, doors open at 8:30pm, location is Triangle Dance Studio. Visit http://www.triangletango.com for details.

    Alicia Pons will return to the Triangle for two weeks in February, and registration is now open for the big weekend Feb 12-14. Because Alicia will be spending a nice stretch of time with us, there will be a lots of opportunities for small classes and privates, so please email me with your desired times for dates between Feb 15 and Feb 24.

    Nos vemos,

    Jason

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    New Practilonga Tonight, Charity Benefit Saturday

    November 5th, 2009

    Tonight is the inaugural night of a new “practilonga” hosted by four of our community’s top dancers. The evenings are held upstairs at Triangle Dance Studio, every Thursday from 7pm-9pm. The cost is just $5. The practilonga is hosted and sponsored by Katia Singletary, Cecilia Pagani, Jae Grisham, and Ellen Divers. Please contact any of them for details or questions, and I hope you’ll take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to practice and dance! There’s still time tonight, so go!

    While you’re at the practica, be sure to talk to Katia Singletary about the 3rd Annual Benefit for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society. It will be held this Saturday, Nov 7th at 7pm at Le Paris Spa. Entry is $20. You will be able to enjoy delicious food and drink while you bid on the luxe auction items, as well as be entertained by live tango performances. After the formalities, the evening becomes a milonga starting at 10pm. If you cannot attend but would still like to donate, checks can be made out to the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society, which will also provide paperwork for anyone whose company participates in Employee Match programs.

    When you come back from the practica, I hope I’ll have more details about the special weekend with Brigitta Winkler, being held Dec 11-13. I’ll be opening registration shortly!

    New class series will be starting in 2 weeks. The Wednesday Intermediate Series will focus on “Circling Sacadas in Vals”. Tuesday’s topic is to be determined. The Foundations 1 class will be on Wednesdays, the Foundations 2 will be on Tuesdays.

    In upcoming travel opportunities, you might consider attending the following national events.

    Nos vemos,

    Jason

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    Performance with Free Spirits Ensemble, plus other special events

    October 10th, 2009

    Tonight’s Tangophilia Tradicional at Triangle Dance Studio will be DJ’d by Katia Singletary, recently returned from Buenos Aires, with snacks catered by John Singletary. As always, feel free to join the intro lesson at 8 if you’d like to review or warm up, and the dancing goes from 9pm-2am.

    Tomorrow night, Sunday, Oct 11, please come to the 30th Anniversary Concert of the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra. Jason Laughlin and Cecilia Pagani will be performing two works by Piazzolla along with soprano Teresa Fernandez, and the Free Spirits Ensemble. Details, including pricing, are below.

    This coming week will close out the current class series. All new classes start next week with Foundations 1 on Tuesday at Helios Annex and Foundations 2 on Wednesdays at TDS. The Wednesday Intermediate Series will focus on “Valses by Canaro” and the Tuesday Series is TBD.

    Don’t forget that Brigitta Winkler will be joining us Dec 12-13, and if you are interested in exploring the interaction of tango and meditation, Tomas Howlin is hosting a special workshop at a meditation center in northern Vermont Dec 4-6. Tomas explains, “This event is directed to people who are interested in discovering the marrow of tango, in its naked form, without the steps.” See travel opportunities, below.

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    Sunday, October 11: Tangophilia with the Free Spirits Ensemble and
    Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, at Meredith College, Raleigh, NC

    The Free Spirits Ensemble will join the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra in its 30thAnniversary Concert. The program will include an encore performance of “where colors play and hoodoos dance” by Lanette Lind, “Milonga in Ay Menor” and “A Don Nicanor Paredes” by Astor Piazzolla with Teresa Fernandez, soprano, and guest tango dancers Jason Laughlin and Cecilia Pagani. Irene Burke, flute; Jim Williams, clarinet; Yang Xi, viola; Jane Salemson, cello; Dan Zehr, double bass; and, Lanette Lind, piano.

    The rest of the evening will include performances by the full Raleigh Symphony Orchestra as well as the 18-piece big band style Raleigh Jazz Orchestra. Selections include Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” and Edward Grieg’s “Peer Gynt Suite”, among others.

    Sunday, October 11, 7pm
    Jones Auditorium, Meredith College

    Tickets may be purchased at the venue. For ticket information call the RSO box office at (919)546-975. ($10 – $20, children under 12 are free)

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    Tuesday, October 13: Eduardo Tami Trio at Mount Olive College, Mount Olive, NC

    Tuesday, October 13, the Eduardo Tami Trio will be performing live tango in a concert at the Southern Bank Auditorium, Mount Olive College, 7:30-9:00pm. The trio consists of piano, guitar, and flute (played by Eduardo Tami). I toured and danced with the trio in the fall of 2006, and every concert they gave was a joy to hear.

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    December 12-13: Weekend with Brigitta Winkler, Durham, NC

    Brigitta Winkler will return to the Triangle Dec 12-13, 2009 for a weekend of play and exploration!

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    In upcoming travel opportunities, you might consider attending the following national events.

    Nos vemos,

    Jason

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    Google Calendar Address Updated

    August 4th, 2009

    If you\’ve added the Tangophilia Events calendar to your google or ical calendar, please be advised that the public address for the calendar has changed. Please update your calendars as necessary, and I apologize for the inconvenience.

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    Tuesday Jan 20th Classes Cancelled. Wednesday Classes and Parizade still on!

    January 20th, 2009

    Due to the inclement weather conditions, tonight\’s (Tuesday\’s) Foundations 1 and Intermediate Classes at Helios Annex are both cancelled. Although the snow is melting pretty rapidly, both accuweather.com and weather.com are telling me that the temp is at freezing and will rapidly drop below freezing as the sun sets.

    Assuming everything clears out tomorrow, Wednesday classes will continue as scheduled.

    Thursday, I\’ll be DJing at the Houston Tango Festival, and I\’m excited that there are a few more people from the Triangle attending the festival this year.

    If you\’re staying in town, then on Friday, please come to the milonga at Parizade. This month\’s milonga will be hosted by Cecilia Pagani and music will be provided by DJ Katia Singletary.

    Sunday the 25th, at 3pm, make a brief trip to Holly Springs Cultural Center to enjoy a concert by the Free Spirits Ensemble. It will feature the music of Astor Piazzolla and other Latin American composers, and the ensemble will be joined by guest singer Teresa Fernandez, and guest dancers John and Katia Singletary! For tickets, call (919) 567-4000. Adults $12, Seniors/Students $10, Children 12 and under free.

    This past Sunday, we had our second \”tango music jam\”, hosted by Katia Singletary. It\’s a lot of fun to be exploring the music directly, so if you have any musical skills at all, please consider joining. If we\’re lucky, we\’ll start being able to have live local music at milongas!

    Amalia Restucha will be hosting workshops and weekly classes taught by Facundo Posadas of Buenos Aires throughout the month of February. For details, please contact her at amalia_restucha@yahoo.com.

    Further out, I will be hosting Alicia Pons April 16-23, and am making plans to host Brigitta Winkler sometime in October. Gulden Ozen will be hosting Tomas Howlin sometime in June.

    Stay warm!

    Jason

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    Stepping up your tango in September

    September 20th, 2008

    Tonight (Saturday the 20th), I\’m hosting the 3rd Saturday milonga at Helios Annex! I hope you can make it out to this cozy and relaxed venue.

    Next weekend, I\’m hosting the 4th Friday Milonga at Parizade, the most elegant milonga in the Triangle, followed by the 4th Sunday Lesson and Practica, which is being relocated to my apartment on Davis Dr, just a mile south of I-40.  This will likely be the last one in the current format – I\’ll be experimenting with some changes going forward.

    Details for the Weekend with Luiza and Nick, Oct 3-5, were finally posted to the website and available on fliers last week.  I\’m making it a smaller weekend, focused on the unique perspectives that Luiza and Nick bring to the tango, and I\’m trying to keep the prices a little lower to make it easier for everyone to fit it in.  I hope you can make it!

    Looking ahead, I\’ll be teaching and DJing at the Atlanta Tango eXchange, Oct 17-19. I\’d love for there to be a strong representation from the Triangle at this event.

    And, farther afield, I\’ll be DJing at the 10th Annual Fandango de Tango in Austin TX, Nov 26-30 AND the 2nd Annual Houston Tango Festival in Houston, TX Jan 25-29, 2009.  I\’m still sorting out my fall travel schedule, but I\’ll be letting y\’all know which other festivals I\’ll be dropping in on as well.

    Tango, or tango not. There is no try.

    Jason

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    TONIGHT: Art on The Edge (with the Old Ceremony) and Parizade

    August 22nd, 2008

    I had a wonderful time dancing and DJing at the Baltimore Tango Festival. The event ran smoothly, and had a wonderfully relaxed and intimate feel. There is a photo gallery up at http://www.baltimoretangofestival.com if you\’d like to see what it was like.

    A big thank you to Cecilia Pagani and Cecil Ho for hosting and DJing the Helios milonga, and for some quick thinking and improvisation that helped ensure there was something for people to drink!

    TONIGHT Friday, August 22, as part of Art on the Edge, Cecilia Pagani and I will be performing tango to the music of The Old Ceremony in a show that also features aerial dancer Rebecca Drake. The show will be at Fletcher Theater in Raleigh, admission is just $10. There will be an opening comedy act (El Gleno Grande) at 7pm, and our show will be starting around 8-8:30pm. Ticket price includes both performances.

    After the show, I hope everyone will join me at Parizade for the 4th Friday milonga, featuring guest DJ Eduardo Lazarowski!

    Upcoming events for your calendar:

    Don\’t stop dancing…

    Jason

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    Tango y Independencia

    July 11th, 2008

    I hope you all had a Happy 4th of July y un feliz Nueve de Julio!

    I had a terrific time at the Chicago Tango Week. It\’s a fun event, well-organized, and the teaching staff were superb. I not only had the pleasure of DJing the Closing Milonga till 4:30am Monday morning, but also was fortunate to be able to partner with Melanie Klarics of Chicago for an impromptu demonstration at the Saturday night milonga. You might want to put it on your schedule for next 4th of July weekend.

    This weekend is a full one!

    Tonight, I\’ll be the featured guest at Mister Diplomat at the Dirty South Improv Comedy Theater in Carrboro. The show is FREE, is apparently standing room only, and the line starts a little after 8 for the 9:30 show. Here\’s how they describe the show, \”Diplomat features true stories told by one of the performers, a local celebrity or special guest. Anecdotes inspire a world of absurd scenes, fully improvised by the most aggressive improv comedians in North Carolina.\” I\’m expecting it to be a lot of fun! After the show, I\’ll be heading straight over to ….

    …Eduardo and Dan\’s milonga at Metro 8, from 9:30pm – 2am, no cover charge, but please purchase food and drink to encourage the restaurant to keep supporting tango. This milonga will be held on second Fridays through the summer, then likely go into hibernation for the fall, so don\’t miss it.

    Also this weekend…

    Of course, since a lot of people, including myself, are going to be at the Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne Weekend in Atlanta July 17 – Sun July 20, I\’m going to be cancelling the 3rd Saturday Milonga at Helios Annex. However, there is an alternative event that night that you might want to attend…

    Saturday, July 19th at the NC Museum of Art is a Music/Movie Combo, entitled \”Paris Dreams\”, featuring Les Primitifs du Futur, an ensemble that evokes \”the romantic sounds of pre-WWII Parisian dancehalls. It’s a magical, transporting swirl of Gypsy jazz, tango, waltz, rhumba, and other dance rhythms that will banish your every care. These wonderful musicians make beautiful traditional and original music on accordion, sax, xylophone, guitar, even the musical saw and theremin!\”. Following the music will be two classic short films of French cinema, \”The Red Balloon\” and \”The White Mane\”.

    For something more literary, our local tanguero and author Lewis Shiner will be doing some signings of his new novel Black & White\"\" (LA Times Review), a page turner that deals with Durham\’s historic Hayti neighborhood. He\’ll be conducting signings tonight (July 11) at 7pm at The Regulator Bookshop on Ninth Street in Durham, Sunday 13 July at 3pm at Malaprops in Asheville, and Wednesday 23 July at 7pm at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh. I also wanted to personally applaud and thank Lewis and his publisher, Subterranean Press, for releasing his publications online under a Creative Commons license, in DRM-free electronic formats. Bravo and congrats!

    Coming up on the travel and events calendar:

    Finally, for those of you that have been asking about the music in classes, I apologize for not having CDs in inventory lately, but fortunately, Amazon has started offering more and more tango music. For example, Carlos Di Sarli – RCA Victor 100 Anos\"\" is the CD that I use for all the foundations classes. Even cooler, Amazon started offering DRM-free MP3s, of great orquestas like Carlos Di Sarli\"\". Enjoy!

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    First Tango in Le Paris

    November 2nd, 2007

    Would you like a fun opportunity to give back to the community?

    Le Paris Spa is hosting a special Tango Night on Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 at 7:00pm to support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  There will be demonstrations of Argentine Tango, and after the main events, social dancing for the rest of the evening.  So tell all your friends to join you on that Saturday evening for Tango!

    Tango Benefit Show and Social Dance:

    Entrance fee: $15 for single, $25 for couples
    All proceeds will go toward supporting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

    Highlights: 

    • 15% of the value of all Le Paris Spa gift certificates purchased on that evening will be donated.
    • 15% discount off all retail products.
    • Silent Auction Including:
      • L’Arc de Triomphe Package from Le Paris Spa
      • 3 Gift Certificate to Ideas Coffee House
      • Gift Basket and Concert Tickets to Durham Symphony Orchestra
      • Tangophilia Gift Certificate
      • An Autographed Duke Basketball

    Please call Le Paris Spa @ (919)806-0353 to make your reservations.

    Sponsored by:

    • Le Paris Spa
    • Tangophilia
    • Ideas! Coffee House
    • Durham Symphony Orchestra 

    Address:
    Le Paris Spa
    5607 NC Highway 55
    Suite 102
    Durham, NC 27713
    (919) 806-0353

    Le Paris Spa is about a mile south of the Hwy 54/55 intersection (Exit 278 off I-40), on your left as you\’re heading south.

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