Mountain View

Argentine Tango Group Classes Every Sunday
at the Cheryl Burke Studio in Mountain View

Join us every Sunday at the Cheryl Burke Studio, located at 1400 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA 94043 (formerly the Starlite Dance Club).

No special clothes are required; what feels comfortable for you is fine. Please do come with a pair of smooth-soled shoes, either leather or suede will work on the dance floor. Later you might feel the wish to buy tango shoes and we can easily advise you about that. No partner necessary.

Sundays:

5pm - 6pm Fundamentals of Argentine Tango.

6pm - 7pm Advanced Level Argentine Tango.

7pm - 8pm Practica time (free if you take any of the two classes).

Where:
1400 North Shoreline Boulevard
Mountain View, CA 94043
(formerly Starlite Dance Club)

Please click here for a map and directions to this location.

Price per class:
$ 15/ Drop-in
$ 50/ 4 weeks (one class)
$90 (both classes)

For the FUNDAMENTAL CLASS we will work on:

1. Warm up and stretching: tuning our instrument
2. Weight change exercises: creating “we”
3. Footwork placement skills
4. Proper use of joints and muscles: dance with the whole body
5. Leading and following exercises
6. Building a Good Balance
7. Being grounded, the floor is your friend
8. Finding the Best Posture for Tango
9. Open and Close Embrace exercises
10. Connection: creating togetherness
11. Floor navigation exercises
12. Improvisation and Creativity: tango as a dialogue
13. Change of speed and direction exercises
14. Musicality exercises for Tango, Vals and Milonga
15. Tango etiquette

THE ADVANCED LEVEL CLASS:

This is the right class for you if you have been dancing Argentine tango for a reasonable time and you have enough experience to move to the next level? Then, you will be training with us doing more complex movements. We will teach you the subtleness of the this dance that make it so divine.

1. Caminada, Walking Technique: refinements and variations
2. Getting the most from the cross and parallel systems
3. Going to la cruzada: refinements and variations
4. Corridas, Suspensiones, Pausas and Paradas
5. Forward and Backward Ocho variations
6. Ocho Cortado with variations
7. Advanced Giros
8. Boleos variations
9. Ganchos and Enganches
10. Barridas, Llevadas y Planeos
11. Sacadas, Contra-sacadas and Back sacadas
12. Volcadas and Colgadas variations
13. Embellishments for Leaders and Followers
14. Tango, Vals and Milonga rhythm, refinement of the technique

While learning all these different patterns the connection, navigation and musicality will be always emphasized.

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