VALERIE WILLIAMS
CHOREOGRAPHER    DANCER    MOVEMENT SPECIALIST
Choreography     Performing     Residencies     Argentine Tango     Social Dance     Early Dance    

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Dance Heart to Heart!
Argentine Tango
                
        

One of the delights of Argentine Tango is that you can travel almost anywhere in the world and dance. There is no partner required. Tango is a very social dance and at most milongas, someone will ask you to dance. Here in our small community, everyone will ask you to dance.

Look for Argentine Tango in:

Ames, Iowa
Call for information: 515-232-7374

Tango in Des Moines
contact Fr. Kevin Cameron

Tango in Iowa City, Cedar Rapids

Tango in Des Moines
Next Session:
Saturdays, beginning March 29
(new beginners always welcome)
1:30-2:30pm
Practica from 2:30-3:30pm
Visitation Church       
1271 E 9th, Des Moines, IA 50310
or email Fr. Kevin Cameron


      About the Argentine Tango

For more tango links:  
        Los Creadores Click on Musicians to listen to tango music
        Henry's Tango Resource List
        Tango Society of Minnesota
        Tango History from Gotango         Brief info on Tango from The Tango Lesson
        Greg Kovaciny's fav disc list


Tango in Ames:
        
Milongas on Sundays at the Memorial Union on the ISU Campus
         5-7pm Open Dancing


Tango Classes
New classes starting on Sundays, February 3-April 20, 2008 (no class on March 16, 23)
     Technique 4pm, Beginning figure 4:30pm, Expansion on that figure 5pm

Practicas on Thursdays, March 27, April 17, and May 8, 2008
     Come for dancing and coaching from 7-9:30pm      $10 drop in

Register by calling the Workspace, 294-0970
no partner required, $50 Students, $55 non-Students per course
classes meet at the Memorial Union, ISU Campus

Tango 1 - Beginning
        Learn the basics!
        Learn what it takes to get moving on the dance floor.
        Learn how to dance from the center of your body.
        Learn to link basic figures.
Tango 2 - Beginning Intermediate
        Learn vocabulary for dancing tango: axis, giro, parada, gancho, sacada, etc.
Tango 3 - Intermediate/Advanced
        Learn necessary technique to improve your dancing.
        Learn more complex figures.
        Gain a stronger understanding of the underlying structure of Tango dancing and music.
        Dance with other tangueros.

The Argentine Tango is a rich and complex improvisational dance, considered to be the most challenging and fulfilling of all the partnered dances. The study of Argentine Tango can improve your balance, focus, sensitivity, and particularly your ability to work with and respond spontaneously to a partner.
AND, Tango is a fun way to meet and get to know people. Ames hosts regular tango salons and milongas and is fortunate to enjoy the excellent teaching of tanguera Valerie Williams. Tango dancing is available at Cafe Diem and at the ISU Ballroom Dance Club's socials.
Tango has been showcased and celebrated on the stage and screen for decades. You may be surprised at how the real experience of dancing the tango socially differs from what you've seen in live performance and on TV. Try Tango this year!