Queer Tango Weekend In San Francisco With Astrid Weiske

Friday 27th October - 8-10 pm - All levels 2 h Leading Special Seminar – a fundamental journey into mind and body to create good, clear and solid leading. We aim to build up together in the group more awareness, strength, confidence in your dance. We focus on following issues: Bodywork: Find strong grounding/stability, Posture and Embrace and discover the power of your core. and spirals Intention: Direction, contra movement, Stop, Pausing, timing Connection: mental, physical, musical Dialogue of dynamic energy in motion: Continual movement, speeding up, speeding down, small, big, Geometry of movement: linear, diagonal, circular, forward backward, counter movement. Quality of movement. Evening: Queer bombing local milonga - t.b.a. - Saturday 28th October 3.30 - 5 pm - Musicality – Rhythm is it! - all levels Music is like a poem, getting aware and develop a deeper understanding of different flavours within the musical structure, melody or different rhythms. This workshop focus on different of types rhythms you find in the music like marcato, syncopas or 3-3-2 and how to integrate different articulations to your dancing...Find your own rhythmical language and play with it. 5.15 - 6.45 pm - Vals - intermediate Astrids favorite circular Vals ideas - do not miss Astrids Vals secrets ;-) Evening: 7.30 till midnight Milonguita Laverne and Shirley @ Sabrinas - Sunday 29th October - intermediate 1 - 2.30 pm - Sexy ganchos: Solid standing leg, smooth and fluid loose but controled leg. Hot leg wraps for the social dancfloor which flow like water - bodywork and technique exercices, communication, implementation in the dance 3.30-6.30 pm Queer Tango Tea Dance Milonga @ Finish Hall (Door $ 12) - !! All Workshops will be at: “The Works -Exercise & Dance Studio”, 2566 C Telegraph Ave Berkeley CA 94704 arrival 15 min prior possible for warm up Prices: 2h Leading Seminar 30 $ / 1 WS (1,5h) 25 $ / All WS & Seminar 95$ Privates for 1-2 people: $90/ hour + floor fee. 3+ privates are 80 per hour plus floor fee contact: [hidden] or [hidden] More Info below.