We\’re making some changes to the classes in 2004. The Foundations and Intermediate Classes are being reorganized to make classes more convenient for students and help students retain material by providing more continuity from week to week. Read on for the details!
Foundations Classes will be available Mondays and Wednesdays at Triangle Dance Studio, and Fridays at the Carrboro ArtsCenter. The Monday and Wednesday classes will be changed from 6 weeks of 1hr each to the new schedule of 4 weeks of 1.5hrs each. We hope that the new timetable will make it easier for people to start exploring tango while simultaneously improving the learning experience with more continuity. Foundations Classes are not just for beginners! We encourage students of all levels to revisit Foundations Classes often to brush up on neglected skills, practice techniques in depth, and reinforce the foundations that you\’ll need to build your tango. If your tango mainly consists of patterns called \”8-count basics\” and \”ochos\”, then you\’ll discover the structure and ideas that enable you to truly lead and follow improvisationally, and dance the tango so you can navigate any dance floor with any partner.
For Intermediate Classes, we\’re moving from a monthly subscription system to topic-based series of classes. A Series consists of 3-6 weeks of 1.25 hour classes. Each Intermediate Series will focus on a particular technique, starting with the fundamentals and then progressing through more advanced applications and refinements of the technique. The Monday and Wednesday Series will explore separate topics from each other with minimal overlap. We will explore leading and following, floorcraft, and musicality of the technique. You may elect to register for the series or for portions appropriate to your level. Students with only a month or two of tango experience, or for whom a particular technique is totally new will feel most comfortable in the first 1-2 weeks of the series. More experienced students may expect to be comfortable in weeks 1-3 and progressively challenged by material in the following weeks. The later weeks of the classes will be built upon technical foundations covered in the earlier weeks, so permission is required if you only want to register for later portions of a series. Each class is immediately followed by a supervised practice during which you can work on any material of your choosing and ask questions of the instructor.
Pricing will generally be as follows, but may change from series to series. This is only a guideline.
Monday or Wednesday Foundation Classes: 4 week series for $50. Per Class: $15 per class. Free to students in Intermediate Series or students taking 3 or more private lessons per month. Try the first class risk-free! Four students per class minimum.
Monday or Wednesday Intermediate Series: 6 week Series for $60, 5 week Series for $50, 4 week Series for $45, 3 week Series for $40. For all series, per class charges are $15, $12 for members of Triangle Tangueros or students in university or secondary school. Take two series concurrently (Monday and Wednesday), and take an additional 15% off 50% off the 2nd series. Preregister for the amounts you plan on taking, and if you take more, you\’ll pay the difference btwn the amount you preregistered for and the final discounted amount due. Classes taken purely on a drop-in per class basis (without preregistration) will be charged the per-class rate. Six students (or equivalent) per series minimum.
Registering for classes allows you to attend the supervised practice and additional Foundations Classes at no extra charge, and also entitles you to additional discounts and offers on other events.
Preregistration is now REQUIRED for all Intermediate Series. Drop-ins are always welcome (with permission, depending on the material), but if you want to make sure that the series will actually be held, then please preregister (or encourage others to do so 
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