Classes and Schedules
Upcoming beginners’ six-week series starting:
- September 9th, 2009
- Octber 21st, 2009
Price: $60 for the series ($30 for full time students with ID)
Classes take place EVERY WEDNESDAY at the Life Enrichment Service Center of Dekalb county.
1340 McConnell Drive, Decatur, GA 30033
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Approach to teaching
Atlanta Tango aims to get students on the social dance floor as quickly as possible. We want you to be able to share the passion and elegance of this beautiful dance—and not be stuck in classes forever without a social dancing experience.
Our Fun with Fundamentals class is shaped to give you the ability to acquire a basic movement vocabulary quickly. And, because we change partners frequently, you have the experience of dancing with a variety of partners, which facilitates learning and adds some social fun.
Our On-going class for intermediate and advanced dancers is open to all those who have completed a fundamentals series or who already have tango experience. Here we focus on helping students develop individual expression in choreography and musicality and on perfecting technique.
No partner needed.
Fun with Fundamentals: Beginners and Up
This six-week class focuses on the fundamentals of Argentine tango, including posture, embrace, walking steps and rhythmic movements. We emphasize musicality and connection between partners, and cover crucial social dance floor etiquette. The fundamentals of this class are the building blocks for good dancing, and more experienced dancers frequently return to polish their basics.
PRICE: $60 for the series, $30 for full time students with valid ID
Absolute beginners are encouraged to sign up for the whole series. Experienced dancers can take the classes on a pay-as-you-go basis ($10 per night).
Next FUNDAMENTALS series starts May 20th.
On-going: Intermediates and Up
This class focuses on increasing dancers’ competence and confidence in three key areas: choreographic vocabulary, musicality and technique. While you can join this class at any point, we often take three or four classes to focus on a family of moves, musical expression or technique. Recent series have included, for example, crossed-feet patterns, musicality, ochos and boleos, deepening the connection of partners, turns with sacadas, vals, milonga, advanced walking technique, and rhythmic accents.
($10 per class, $5 for full time students with valid ID)
ON GOING SERIES (May 2009): BREAKING THE HABITS: Dancing outside of the box. We will explore familiar situations and find new solutions to solve them.
SPECIAL WORKSHOPS
With some frequency, Barbara and Angel teach Intensive Beginners' Workshops. These workshops summarize the material covered in our six-week Fun with Fundamental class in three and a half hours. These workshops are the ideal starting point for anybody who wants to familiarize himself with Argentine Tango.
Atlanta Tango also teaches Intensive Intermediate Workshops. In these workshops we focus on material not covered in the Beginners' series, but it is useful in helping you to take full advantage of our Intermediate/Advanced class.
Barbara and Angel also teach special workshops covering a wide variety of topics . Past workshops have covered WOMEN'S TECHNIQUE, MILONGA, VOLCADAS, ETC.
Barbara Durr and April Parker will teach a Women's Technique Workshop Saturday May 16th at the Decatur School of Ballet. MORE DETAILS.
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