Classes with Raquel Greenberg/ Las Milongas Ideal/ Practicas
To top you up with good cheer here are Tango Warwick's offerings to start off 2025:
This Friday, 3rd January, sees Tango Warwick's special "9th Day of Christmas" edition of our monthly traditional milonga, in an exciting new venue in Warwick, from 6.30 to 10.30 pm, and with Ewa Zbrzeska as DJ. For details:
You can pay at the door, but in cash. This will be the last Milonga Ideal for Cintia Morea before she and her family return to Argentina shortly, so it will also give an opportunity for her tango friends to wish her farewell. During her 12 years here she made many contributions to tango in our area and in particular to these milongas.
Breaking News: Ricardo Peixoto will be back in residence as DJ for the February edition of Milonga Ideal on Friday 7th February, 8pm to midnight, Warwick Space, CV34 4NU
Friday Classes at St Mary's will welcome back Raquel Greenberg as guest teacher on Fridays 10th & 17th January. Private classes also possible. Details below.
The Wednesday totally informal practicas at Warwick Space will resume on Wednesday Jan 8th, 8.15 to 10.15. Andy Adamson is resident DJ. Tango dancers at all levels welcome. Come when you can for as long as you can. Cost £5.
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Raquel Greenberg @ St Mary's: 10th & 17th January 2025
WHERE: St Mary's Church Hall , St Mary's Road, Leamington Spa, CV31 1JW.
TIMING:
6.30-7.50 (All levels, but not absolute beginners.)
8.00-9.20 (Intermediates and onwards)
9.30-10.30 (approx) Practica
We are delighted, and excited, to be able to welcome Raquel Greenberg back as guest teacher to start off our classes in 2025.
[However absolute beginners should wait until Friday 14th Feb to start, (or 31st January). Sorry!]
Raquel is a brilliant teacher as you will know if you have had the opportunity to enjoy her classes with Tango Warwick in the past, or from visiting her Academy in London. Her Latin UK award for best tango teacher can be taken as evidence if you haven't yet been so fortunate. See below for more.
Raquel will give two extended classes, the first for all levels but not absolute beginners, the second for intermediate level onwards. Experienced dancers are encouraged to come as early as they can, to help bring on the less experienced as well as for themselves.
***You do not need to come with a partner.
In particular we welcome single dancers as well as couples, newcomers and visitors as well as those we haven't seen for months or years, irregulars and regulars alike.
The evening ends with a sociable and lively practica/ social dancing, with some wine, fine cordials, and cake. It will complete an instructive, friendly, and very enjoyable evening's dancing.
PRICES:At door, IN CASH!
6.30 pm class only: £12 (£8 for students with student Id).
8.00 pm class:£15 (£10)
Whole evening £15 (£10)
Practica: Free with classes otherwise £3 (£5)
TEACHER:Raquel Greenberg
PRIVATE CLASSES: It may be possible to have private classes with Raquel on the Friday afternoons or the morning of Saturday 11th Jan. Please initially email tangowarks@gmail.com but your class will not be confirmed until you have heard so from Raquel herself.
RAQUEL GREENBERG:
Raquel Greenberg started dancing when she was 6 years old. 12 years of ballet and contemporary were the foundation for all that followed. In 1991 she started Latin and ballroom studies, received the IDTA diploma (international dance teachers association) and competed in international dance competitions such as the prestigious Blackpool congress in England. In 1998 she discovered and was swept away by the Argentine tango.
Her most marking maestros are Carlos Gavito, Osvaldo Zotto & Lorena Ermocida , Roberto Herrera, Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne, Javier Rodriguez & Geraldine Rojas, Nito & Elba, Vanina Bilous.
From 2001 she based herself and lived in Buenos Aires, capital of Tango, where she was teaching and performing, breathing the essence of the Argentine Tango.
In 2012 she moved to London, her new base, where she is teaching performing and from where she travels the world to spread her art. She has won the Latin UK awards for best Tango teacher and has performed at the Queen Elizabeth hall, Royal Festival hall, the Olympic games, Regent’s street festival, and was chosen to perform for the first Argentine Tango milonga at Blackpool Tower Ballroom.
Her personal style is the outcome of fusion between traditional tango and modern tendencies, having studied, worked, and danced, with old age milongueros, great masters of the traditional style and the leaders of “new age” tango.
Elegance, grace, musicality and aesthetics within the embrace – the soul of tango, are her guidelines.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR !
Hope to see you,
David, for Tango Warwick.