Rebecca Shulman Dances with Salt Lake City!
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Here are the exciting class topics and a hazy idea of Rebecca's schedule in SLC, plus a bit about who she is, below that ~~ Please check this invite again in a day or two to see what we've added! (Sunday afternoon plans, pricing, locations, and of course, evening milongas!)
(1) Friday, November 6 ~~ Milonga & Rhythmic Tango ~ the pleasures of punctuation, and the clarity of clean right angles, combine to charm us when we add rhythms to simple steps. This material works well to express jagged or quick rhythms in tangos as well as for dancing milongas with ease.
(2) Saturday, November 7 ~~ Eight Ways to Switch the Ocho, PLUS 4 techniques for pivots. Structure and improvisation stemming from the variety of elements that will flip an ocho from back to front, or vice versa. How many ways can you think of? Experienced dancers will enjoy this trove of options, including the pivot-techniques, which range from secret to fancy.
(3) Saturday, November 7 ~~ The Winning Sacada ~ the easiest, safest, most popular sacada, which you should dance more often! It's very satisfying, and can add a nice 'pow' and extra spin with little danger to anyone's toes. We'll explore a variety of places to find this same easy sacada: from common giros, from the cross, from ochos, and we'll enjoy it in valses as well as tangos.
(4) Sunday, November 8 ~~ Banked & Bent Salidas and Turns ~ Joy, melody and yearning ~ dance a sustained curve through space, whether you're a follower adding two specific curves to a straight path, or a leader creating a curving path. Beautiful ways of curving to the cross will be augmented by the tilt, sway, and curve that followers will sculpt.
Rebecca lives in New York, began dancing tango in 1991, and traveled frequently to Buenos Aires throughout the 90s, learning from, dancing with, and observing dancers who in their youth had danced in tango's Golden Age (the 1940s). She has also taught and performed with a wide variety of today's finest teachers and performers from several generations. She's been well received at many festivals and in workshops across the States, and along with teaching 5 levels of tango for 20 years at Dance Manhattan studios, created curricula for a team of ten tango teachers there. (She was also one of Nick Walker's teachers, 33 years ago or so :)
Rebecca's been called "unique in her parallel skillsets of being a truly comfortable and skilled social dancer as well as a captivating performer – both as a leader and follower!" (Dan Boccia, Anchorage). Ballet, yoga, and contact improvisation round out her background, and she continues to learn tango both from her various partners and colleagues and by taking classes from visiting instructors ;) All this training and experience makes her "exceptionally versatile as a teacher, enabling her to craft unusually engaging classes and provide detailed, attainable feedback to dancers" (Dan again).
Here's the link to an improvised performance she's proud of:
Contact Rebecca at [email protected] or 917-828-1250 with questions. She'll also be available for private lessons on the days immediately before and after the weekend, and you can book with her directly.
(1) Friday, November 6 ~~ Milonga & Rhythmic Tango ~ the pleasures of punctuation, and the clarity of clean right angles, combine to charm us when we add rhythms to simple steps. This material works well to express jagged or quick rhythms in tangos as well as for dancing milongas with ease.
(2) Saturday, November 7 ~~ Eight Ways to Switch the Ocho, PLUS 4 techniques for pivots. Structure and improvisation stemming from the variety of elements that will flip an ocho from back to front, or vice versa. How many ways can you think of? Experienced dancers will enjoy this trove of options, including the pivot-techniques, which range from secret to fancy.
(3) Saturday, November 7 ~~ The Winning Sacada ~ the easiest, safest, most popular sacada, which you should dance more often! It's very satisfying, and can add a nice 'pow' and extra spin with little danger to anyone's toes. We'll explore a variety of places to find this same easy sacada: from common giros, from the cross, from ochos, and we'll enjoy it in valses as well as tangos.
(4) Sunday, November 8 ~~ Banked & Bent Salidas and Turns ~ Joy, melody and yearning ~ dance a sustained curve through space, whether you're a follower adding two specific curves to a straight path, or a leader creating a curving path. Beautiful ways of curving to the cross will be augmented by the tilt, sway, and curve that followers will sculpt.
Rebecca lives in New York, began dancing tango in 1991, and traveled frequently to Buenos Aires throughout the 90s, learning from, dancing with, and observing dancers who in their youth had danced in tango's Golden Age (the 1940s). She has also taught and performed with a wide variety of today's finest teachers and performers from several generations. She's been well received at many festivals and in workshops across the States, and along with teaching 5 levels of tango for 20 years at Dance Manhattan studios, created curricula for a team of ten tango teachers there. (She was also one of Nick Walker's teachers, 33 years ago or so :)
Rebecca's been called "unique in her parallel skillsets of being a truly comfortable and skilled social dancer as well as a captivating performer – both as a leader and follower!" (Dan Boccia, Anchorage). Ballet, yoga, and contact improvisation round out her background, and she continues to learn tango both from her various partners and colleagues and by taking classes from visiting instructors ;) All this training and experience makes her "exceptionally versatile as a teacher, enabling her to craft unusually engaging classes and provide detailed, attainable feedback to dancers" (Dan again).
Here's the link to an improvised performance she's proud of:
Contact Rebecca at [email protected] or 917-828-1250 with questions. She'll also be available for private lessons on the days immediately before and after the weekend, and you can book with her directly.
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E. W. Garbett Center for Choral Studies, 700 N 200 W, Salt Lake City, UT 84103, United States
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