I’m back from performing in Dubai which as an exciting and surreal experience, more details on that below!
But now, back in London, we have a really exiting day of workshops planned for the last Sunday of this Month. Also, Jenny and I have been rehearsing a piece that we’ll be performing at a few different Modern Jive venues over the next couple of months, so look out for those, and we’ve got some exciting stuff planned to share with you, so if you’re up for a day of fun learning and dancing, do book on!
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Tango Jango Workshop Day, Sunday 26th of October!
Dubai
Other workshops etc
1. Tango/Jango Workshop Day, Sunday 26th of October!
Jenny and I will be continuing the popular format which starts of with two hours of Beg/Int Argentine Tango, followed by two hours of hot sequences for Jango and Tango.The workshops can be booked separately or together.
This month we’ll be working some fancy sacadas that work great on a social tango dance floor, and eye catching in modern jive.Hope you can make it!
Free Parking!Spacious Venue!Bar with Coffee, Tea and Alcohol!
2. Performance at Dubai
The weekend before last I was performing at the Buddha Bar in Dubai to an audience that included rich and famous expatriates such as the Duchess of York and other fancy names that I don’t recognize since I don’t read Hello.On stage right after us was Kelly Roland, (from Destiny’s Child) and then some fancy Ibiza DJ who kept the club pumping whilst the invite only guests bought up the million pound penthouses on the man-made archipelago ‘The World.’It was a bizarre and fun experience.The sea was amazingly warm, the inside of the hotels uncomfortably cold, the part of town that caters to the locals swarms with men.I was there with three female flamenco dancers, a guitarist and violinist.&nb
sp; The men stared at the girls, sleazy like they claimed.I just thought the poor men just looked nervous.Like some exotic aliens had landed in their midst.Anyway, we stared back so who’s to say?
We performed a 15 minute new choreography, a mix of flamenco and tango, accompanied by a violinist and flamenco guitarist.There were three female flamenco dancers and me.The show was screened on a big screen behind us whilst we were dancing, so we’ll hopefully be able to get some of the footage and I’ll send you all some if we do!(Well as long as my hairdo stayed in place, obviously.)
3. Other Workshops around the UK
Don’t forget you can find all my workshops and performances on the calendar page on the website, for example this coming weekend we’re teaching and performing in Manchester, and in November I’m running a Body Awareness, Isolations and Spinning Technique workshop for the London Swing Dance Society, 9th of November.
Jango is a fusion of Tango and Jive. It is inspired by the freedom of modern-jive with the footwork and connection of tango. There are classes, workshops and a DVD available in the style, as well as hundreds of dancers around the country that have been inspired by this fusion. Events such as Funky Lush, the T-Jive and others play the kind of music ideal for this kind of dancing.
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