tangophilia blog

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.

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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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.

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

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:

• Unfortunately, due to a serious of untimely car repairs, I\’ll be staying here Labor Day Weekend, instead of attending the 8th Labor Day Tango Festival in Albuquerque, Aug 28 – Sep 1, 2008. The good news is that I\’ll be opening the schedule for private lessons, so let me know when you\’d like to schedule!
• Those of you that want to hit the mountains on Labor Day weekend might want to visit the weekend with Homer Ladas and friends in Asheville, hosted by Tango Gypsies.
• Sep 12-14, Gulden Ozen (Tangovita) will be hosting Tomas Howlin.
• Oct 3-5, I\’ll be hosting workshops with Luiza Paes and Nick Jones, details to be announced soon!
• Oct 17-19, I\’ll be teaching as part of the Regional Xchange hosted in Atlanta by Tango Evolution

Don\’t stop dancing…

Jason

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.