DC Queer Tango Weekend
About this Event
Sponsored by the Montgomery College Arts Institute, the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, and the Cultural Arts Center.
Friday
🕑: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
All-Levels workshop with Karen: Healthy movement
Host: Karen Johnson
Info: Healthy movement (using spiraldynamik training) to create changes in dynamics with ease, accommodating each person's individual body and needs. (Registration required.) Location: CU205 dance studio
🕑: 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Workshop with Elly: Higher Risk Moves
Host: Elly Fernandez
Info: Higher risk moves (starting with sacadas for all, moving into hooks/leg wraps/ganchos). (Registration required.) Location: CU205 dance studio
🕑: 09:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Dinner & Community Discussion
Info: Registration required. Location: first-floor lounge
🕑: 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM
After Dinner Social and Community Sing Along
Info: Group sing along to tango music highlighting meaning, cultural context, and poetry of tango lyrics (English translation available). Location: first-floor lounge
Saturday
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Embrace: Communication and Connection (all-levels workshop with Andrés Ozzuna)
Host: Andrés Ozzuna
Info: (FULL) The objective of this workshop is to find a comfortable yet dynamic and connected embrace so that both leaders and followers can transmit intention, movement and response with clarity and ease. (Registration required) Location: CU205 dance studio
🕑: 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Tango Improvisation Lab (workshop with Matías Donadío)
Host: Matías Donadío
Info: (FULL) In this exploratory workshop, we will play with elements such as the sacada, enrosque, lapiz and gancho within a giro. (Registration required) Location: CU205 dance studio
🕑: 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Practilonga
Host: DJ Sandeep Tata
Info: Informal practice time to work on what we've learned. Location: first-floor lounge
🕑: 07:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Queer Tango Taster class
Info: An introduction to tango before the party gets started. Location: first-floor lounge
🕑: 08:30 PM - 11:30 PM
Be Here Queer! Milonga
Host: DJ Karen Johnson
Info: Location: first-floor lounge
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