NA-E, NA-C: Update--Robert Hauk April 2006 North Florida Mini Festival

[Theo Bartek <teo77@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Dear Friends,

We are deeply honored to have Robert Hauk from Portland, Oregon come to
Northern Florida to teach close embrace tango.

Robert has many years of experience teaching tango.  He has been dancing
tango for 11 years and has spent a great amount of time in the milongas in
Buenos Aires. He is recognized and respected by the milogueros. His main
influence is Susanna Miller, having studied with her for 9 years.

Because of his expertise, he is recognized as one of the leading American
instructors of the close embrace milonguero-style tango. He has taught at
many festivals and in many cities throughout the US.

He is in great demand as a teacher. We are very fortunate that his busy
schedule allows him to join us this year!

Robert's philosophy of teaching is to not overload students with too many
steps to quickly.  He does teach with steps, using the situations to work on
common problems for leaders and followers.

He likes to make sure students can do what he teaches. He will tailor his
classes to the people in the workshop. He wants his students to do something
well, rather than a lot of things poorly.

Now he is coming to North Florida to share his deep insights and
understanding of tango with tango dancers in the Southeast.

We welcome tango dancers from Gainesville and all around the area: Tampa,
Orlando, Melbourne, Sarasota, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, and St. Augustine,
Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm, as well as Louisiana, Georgia, South
Carolina, and North Carolina.

This is a great opportunity to learn the close embrace apilado-style of
tango that will enable you to dance effectively in close spaces like the
salons in Buenos Aires.  If you have had some workshops with Susanna Miller
this workshop will help you continue to develop and expand upon what you
learned with Susanna.

We talked to Robert last weekend when we were in Portland to perform and
teach a weekend intensive.  He gave us a description of the classes he is
planning to teach here.

Class Descriptions for the April 2006 North Florida Mini-Festival with
Robert Hauk.
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The classes are composed of two tracks of progressive classes, one track for
beginners and one for intermediates/advanced dancers.

There is some overlap between the two tracks.  Both tracks will develop
similar movements. However,  the intermediate
track will go farther.

The last two classes of the intermediate series are musicality oriented.  We
will look at the music of many orchestras, in order to give dancers more
ideas for dancing musically, and freely.


Classes Friday Evening-April 14:
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Beginners Class 1:  6:30-7:45PM, Apilado Embrace Tango Foundations

We will develop the posture end the embrace.  We will explore walking in
this embrace, and discover the foundation mechanics of dancing in the
apilado embrace.

Intermediate/Advanced Class 1: 8:00-9:15PM  Tango is Walking

We will explore walking in the apilado embrace.  We will develop the
mechanics of walking in parallel and crossed feet.

Classes Saturday Afternoon-April 15:
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Beginners Class 2: 12:00-1:15PM Simple Rhythmic Steps

We will develop a small but very useful vocabulary of rhythmic steps to
spice up the dance and begin the exploration of the music.

Intermediate/Advanced Class 2: 1:30-2:45PMTurning to the left

We will explore three left turning movements that are fundamental to this
style of tango.

Beginners Class 3: 3:00-4:15PM  Check Step Turns

We will develop the check step turns and from them we will develop the ocho
cortado, a classic step of the Apilado embrace.

Intermediate/Advanced Class 3: 4:30-5:45PM Turning to the Right

We will develop right turning movements in this class.  In this embrace it
is common that the leader walks backward to turn to the right.  We will
develop this situation, and consider a few variations.

Classes Sunday Morning/ Afternoon-April 16:
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Beginners Class 4: 10:00-11:15AM Walking in Crossed Feet

We will develop the mechanics of walking in crossed feet, and introduce the
back ocho.  We will learn to comfortably change the orientation of the feet
from parallel feet to crossed feet.

Intermediate/Advanced Class 4: 11:30AM-12:45PM Putting Things Together 1,
Rhythm

We will begin combining the movements we have studied so far.  We will
develop a rhythmic style that is fun and energetic.  We will explore the
music of many orchestras.

Beginners Class 5: 1:00-2:15PM Putting Things Together

We will combine the movements developed so far.  This will give students
ideas of how they can improvise and invent their own combinations.

Intermediate/Advanced Class 5: 2:30-3:45PM Putting Things Together 2,
Slowing Down

In this class we will explore using the spaces in the music for pauses.  We
will explore different music than in the last class, and expand the horizons
into the music of the later golden age.

Please RSPV.

We need to know, in advance if you are planning to attend the April 14-16
Mini-Festival featuring Robert Hauk and Tango Sur.

Many people have already registered for this event.  People are coming from
Tampa, Melbourne, South Carolina, Tallahassee, St. Augustine and
Gainesville. If you have not yet made your reservation please do so now by
replying to this email.We look forward to hearing from you!

Wishing you many heartfelt tangos

Teo and Marsha

Tango From The Heart: http://www.gainesvilletango.org

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