VF Vanesa & Facundo
MM Maja & Marko
BL Bulent & Lina
Workshops with ★ No Gender Balanced Required.
Ssingle Leaders or followers registration welcome for all workshop. The Organizer will try to maintain gender balance but a partner is not guaranteed due to last minute cancellation, no show or other reasons beyond our control. To secure a partner, please your own or register before August 31, 2024.
** Schedule and workshop titles subject to change without prior notice.
7.00 - 8.15pm • BL1
Essential Techniques for all levels
8.15 - 9.30pm • BL2
Advanced colgadas
**Followers on waiting list
6.15 - 7.30pm • VF 1
Tango Secrets 1 : EMBRACE, the critical factor of your dance: How to connect & dissociate in a linear or circular way depending on the movement
7.30 - 8.45pm • MM 1
Fun and functional : Playful sequences from simple rebounds to create new challenges for the lead & follow
9.00 - 1.00am 8PENING MILONGA . DJ IVAN . Show by Milonga Opening Ronda by ALL Maestros
5.15pm - 6.30pm • MM 2
Improvised Combination with Giros: What elements can be added to create fun and surprising effects in the dance!
6.30pm - 7.45pm • VF 2
**Spaces available for Leaders Only
Tango Secrets 2 : Musicality: how to using body weight and energy to execute movement differently according to the musical idea.
7.45 - 9.00pm • VF 3
Interpreting variations: rhythmic and melodic language depending on the type of variation (Adv Dancers Only)
5.00 - 7.00pm Afternoon Practica . DJ BARATA
9.00 - 3.00am (or later if you keep dancing) Grand 8 MILONGA & + All Night Milonga
DJ STEVEN + DJ SEBASTIAN
11.45pm : Show by Maja & Marko
1.00 - 2.15pm • VF 4
Sacada. Sacada. Sacada : directional system to create effect and dynamics in followers' giros.
2.30 - 3.45pm • VF 5
MILONGA: playing with the center and the axis for complex figures.
2.30 - 3.45pm • MM 3
VALS: The 2 personalities of Vals, how lead & follow can create rhythmic or lyrical turns depending to what the music asks of you.
4.00 - 5.15pm • MM 4
D’Arienzo vs. Di Sarli: technical & musical elements, how to use & modify standard tango figures to express the qualities of these two orchestras.
5.15 - 6.30pm • MM 5
The free leg: Pimp up your embellisment skills in simple movements such as ocho cortado and others. ★ No partner required
4.00 - 7.00pm Sunny Room Milonga
9.00 - 3.00am (or later if you keep dancing)
Grand 8cho Milonga + ALL night Milonga
1.30 - 2.45pm • MM 6
Boleos & Adornos. Rhythmic and technical precision, & adding embellishments to your boleos. ★ No partner required.
2.45 - 4.00pm • MM 7
M & M's Favorite Milonguero variations for small space: 2 fun variations in close embrace, perfect for rhythmic/energetic part of the song
4.00 - 5.15pm • VF 6
**Spaces available for Leaders Only
More than just turning: varies combinations, shapes of the structure of the turn according to musicality.
5.15pm - 6.30pm• VF 7
Dynamic changes: strength, speed and weight. Depending on the music effect (Adv)
4.00 - 6.30pm Sunny Room Milonga
9.00pm - 1.00am (or later if you keep dancing) TANG . 8 . OVER Milonga
TECNIQUES SERIES
BL 1, VF 1, VF 2, VF 4, MM 5, MM 6 , VF 6 & VF 7
MUSICIALIY SERIES
VF 2, MM 3, VF 3, MM 4, VF 6 & VF 7
IMPROVISATION FOR SOCIAL FLOOR
BL 2, MM 1, MM 2, VF 3, VF 4, VR 5, MM 3, MM 4, VF 6 & MM 7
Bulent Karabagli & Lina Chan are Crazy, Creative & Seriously Fun people and are known for organizing best Toronto Tango events with great professionalism, quality & hospitality. For them, nothing is better than feeling the great party vibe and seeing all the happy tango high faces around them.
Bulent organized the biggest Tango Festival in Montreal, Canada 6 years in the past. He is also the founder of Toronto Tango Experience.
Bulent & Lina are know to offer wome of the highest quality Argentine Tango classes in Toronto with a friendly and young crowd. Bulent & Lina Argentine Tango Toronto are rated 5 out of 5 stars on Google & Facebook