PRACTICA & ARGENTINEAN MERIENDA WITH CARINA MELE

Happy to announce another HIGHLIGHT OF THE TRIP to Buenos Aires: 

PRACTICA EN EL PATIO WITH CARINA MELE !

We will have a guided practica with the Argentinean professional dancer and teacher CARINA MELE, with a pause in a terrace outdoors enjoying the lovely summer weather and tasting a traditional mid afternoon meal called " MERIENDA" : MATE /COFFEE/TEA WITH ARGENTINEAN SWEET BAKERY DELICACIES ( PASTELITOS/ FACTURAS).

MATE is a traditional drink prepared by pouring warm water on yerba mate , like a tea, that you drink through a straw. 

Mate is Argentinean national drink, at any time and any situation, and its meaning is to share among friends. If you don´t dare to try it, you will get coffee or tea instead.

PASTELITOS are  sweet bakery products, also very traditional in Argentina, made of a crispy and tasty fried dough filled with "dulce de batata" or "dulce de membrillo" ( jams done with sweet potato or quince )

FACTURAS is a generic name for different kind of bakery , with cream, dulce de leche, and other different tastes

At the PRACTICA, Carina will work with all those questions you propose, and show some figure you will work with.

SCHEDULE:
Friday 13th January, 16.00 - aprox.19.00.

Practica in 2 parts of 45/50 min each one, and pause in between or afterwards for Merienda.

FEE:
u$s 30 (dollars ) includes Practica and Merienda. 

You pay in cash directly to Carina.



ABOUT CARINA MELE

Argentinean Tango dancer and teacher born and based in Buenos Aires. Bachelor in Arts and Artistic Production.
She started dance studies as a child, with classical and Spanish dance, tap and contemporary dance, until she discovered tango and devoted exclusively to it in 2002 , working as teacher and dancer in well known milongas in Buenos Aires. She has worked in Denmark, Sweden, France, Spain, Belgium, Estonia, Norway, England and South Africa. In parallel she has worked as artistic producer in several tango and theater shows.

ABOUT HER TEACHING STYLE:
Carina has a deep interest in the development of tango technique for both roles, attending to the particular needs of each student and providing useful tools for the social dance.

WATCH CARINA DANCING:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-IRVMmCJfw

SOCIAL TANGO - TANGO FOR MILONGAS WORKSHOP with GUSTAVO REMBER

We are delighted to announce the 4th highlight of our trip!

This time we will enjoy SOCIAL TANGO/ TANGO FOR MILONGAS WORKSHOP with GUSTAVO REMBER, Argentinean tango teacher and dancer.

In our selected venue, a dance studio with air conditioned in the heart of town, we will enjoy besides the workshop a very argentinean experience: we will taste a "Picada" ( argentinean Tapas) with some of the delicacies of argentinean charcuterie, together with a glass of argentinean Malbec or a glass of another very argentinean drink: Fernet with Cola.

SCHEDULE:
Monday 9th January, from 14.00 until 18.00. 

The class is divided in two parts: the fist part, one hour, is about Technique and fundamentals of social dance at the milongas. The second part, one hour, is about Useful movements /figures for crowded spaces.
In the break or after the class we will taste Picada with Fernet or Malbec

FEE
The cost of the workshop is 20 dollars per person. 

The fee includes Picada and a glass of Fernet-Cola or a glass of Malbec. 

Extra drinks should be paid separately.
The workshop fee will be paid to the teacher in dollars (cash) at the moment of the class.

GUSTAVO REMBER

With a background as singer, and educated as Engineer, and Economics and Math teacher, he started dancing tango in 2003, after listening to tango his whole childhood.

Among HIS TEACHERS we may mentioned: Gabriela Elías, Horacio Godoy, Carlos Copello, Fabián Peralta, Natacha Poberaj, Carlos Pérez, Cecilia García, Mariela Sametband, Moira Castellano, Chicho Frúmboli y Juana Sepúlveda

Summarizing HIS PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY as teacher, dancer and organizer we may mentioned:
- Teacher at La Viruta Tango and Nueva Escuela Argentina del Tango (both institutions among the most well known in the tango scene in Buenos Aires)
- Organizer of the famous Misterio Tango Festival from 2009 until 2018 in Buenos Aires
- Workshops/Performances all around Argentina, Uruguay, England, Sweden, and USA.
- Performances in all the traditional milongas in Bs As (La Milonguita, La Viruta, Canning. Maldita Milonga, Soho Tango, DNI tango, etc).....and the rest of Argentina.

HIS STYLE combines the best of traditional tango and new tango, in a very playful and musical way. Because of his permanent participation in the milongas, he has developed an exquisite sense about tango as a social dance, dancing in reduced spaces, and able to adapt to different styles, partners, and circumstances, as very few professional dancers are able to do. And that is why we have chosen him to introduce this important subject in one of the classes of our trip.

WATCH GUSTAVO DANCING:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av6kH9S6XEA

Here, the dance starts after a 2 min presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPxW4d6IGUc