Learn to dance Argentine Tango
with Lindi and Anthony
Thursday nights
Beginners 7.00 – 8.00pm
£40 for six week course, paid in advance on first lesson.
Improvers/experienced dancers 8.00 – 9.30pm
£40 for six week course, paid in advance on first lesson. £8 drop-in.
Practise afterwards
To book or for more info, contact us here.
Everything is carefully explained!
Master how the tango is danced from the basic elements to full synchronisation with your partner.
Move together with confidence and ease, having developed an authentic sense of musicality.
Experienced dancers will be encouraged to gain greater fluidity and an increased vocabulary of movement.
During the classes, we provide details of the London salons where couples can go to enjoy dancing.
Private lessons: £30 for one hour £50 for 2 hours. Private lessons can be shared between people.
Your Teachers
Anthony Howell
A former dancer with the Royal Ballet, Anthony is nominated for this year’s Lucas latin dance awards as a teacher of tango. In 2001 he received a £6000 LADA bursary to study the tango in Buenos Aires. He founded Tango Art in 2002, whose work has been seen at The John Thaw Memorial Studio Manchester, The Ikon Gallery Birmingham, SKC, Belgrade, The Place, London, Chisenhale Dance Space, London. Anthony has danced with Tango Code at River Tango 2006 and in Tango Extravaganza 2007.
Lindi De Angelis
Lindi has taught at The Dome and at various venues around London. She obtained her BMus in Dance in 2004 and her PGCE in 2005 at the University of Cape Town. She has been studying and performing Argentine Tango since 2002. She has performed in various South African productions including Tango Experience, All you ever wanted to know about tango, but were too afraid to ask, Pulcinella and Guardian of the Flame. Her passion for dancing to classical music is embedded in her training as a solo classical percussionist since the age of 12.
Lindi and Anthony also dance as Tango Schumann in art galleries and cultural centres (www.tangoschumann.com)
The Room is also available for practices £15 per hour – reducing to £12 an hour for multiple sessions.
Private Lessons at £40 per hour – reducing to £30 an hour for multiple lessons.
TangoLab | Sacadas + Giros
with Lindi and Anthony
Technique towards a theme
First: Saturday 11 February
at 2 pm – 5.30 pm
Second: Saturday 18 February
at 2 pm – 5.30 pm
Three hour intensive workshops twice a month.
(Two 1½ hour sessions plus a break with refreshments.)
£30 per person
(REDUCTION! £50 if you pay in advance for 2 workshops).
To book or for more info, contact us here.
Strictly no beginners!
We advise beginners to attend our beginners’ class at 7 pm on Thursday nights, which is followed by our regular class for improvers at 8pm-9.30 £8 or £40 for 6 lessons. Once a month, we intend to offer an intensive Beginner’s Day – details to come.
This series of twice monthly Saturday workshops will run throughout 2012. Every month there will be a theme, so by the end of the month you should feel that you have reached a new level so far as the subject is concerned. Themes for the year include: musicality, sacadas and back sacadas, giros and enrosques, volcadas, colgadas, milonga and vals, voleos and ganchos, close embrace, nuevo etc.
There will always be general technique exercises to do – which you should aim to perfect during the year – and then specific exercises concerning the monthly subject.
Women’s technique is focused on as well as technique for men, and during the workshops women are given as much to work on as men.
Because these workshops are designed for those who are serious about improving their dance, homework will be set, to encourage you to practise, and every second workshop will include a review of the work we did in the first workshop. And we don’t intend to just talk at you! There will always be time to practise and dance the ideas in during and after the workshops.
Some of the best dancers in London have developed as a result of working at The Room, London’s only laboratory for tango. Guest teachers will also be leading workshops on Sundays throughout the year. We believe that to dance tango well it is necessary to develop a tango body and a tango sensibility.
Theme for February: Sacadas and Giros (the structure of tango gyrations – giros – and how they relate to displacements – sacadas. The notion of crossing your partner’s line explained, plus how to lead sacadas with smoothness and ease and how to follow sacadas equally smoothly. Then we will deal with complexsacadas and back sacadas for men and for women, and explore the relationship between sacadas and ganchos)