ARCHIVE OF PREVIOUS EVENTS IN BRIGHTON WITH VISITING TEACHERS, DJ’S, AND MUSICIANS

OSKY CASAS from Buenos Aires - Sunday 22nd August 2010

UMI Hotel, 64 Kings Rd, Brighton

ABOUT OSKY:

Osky is hot stuff: a talented dancer of the young generation from Buenos Aires, he is quite simply a dancer everyone wants to dance with right now! The son of Oscar Casas and the grandson of a milonga organizer, Osky has been exposed to tango from an early age and can be seen dancing, performing and teaching on a daily basis in the milongas of Buenos Aires.

Osky is from the breed of dancers that excel when dancing in close embrace with limited space. He calls his style of dancing neo-milonguero; and it is subtle with a soft, yet firm embrace and footwork that is second to none.

TANGO WORKSHOPS WITH FEDERICO CIE IMPERIAL - Saturday 14th August 2010

UMI Hotel, 64 Kings Rd, Brighton

ABOUT FEDERICO:

In my teaching approach, I give a particular place to rhythm and musicality, breathing techniques, self perception and the relationship with the partner. To attain more natural movements, I implement contemporary dance techniques, I am grateful to the people who encouraged me in this respect: Esteban Moreno, Chicho Frumboli, Sandrine Navarro, Pablo Rojas, Mariana Docampo.

Tango dancer for the Cie Artefakt as well as artistic director of the Cie Imperial, the Argentine-born Federico Perea is also a tango instructor on the Réunion island, often invited to lead workshops and to take part in dance festivals in Guadeloupe, Tahiti and France.

WORKSHOPS/MILONGAS WITH MARAL KOJAYAN - SAT 3RD AND 10TH JULY 2010

MARAL KOJAYAN: Dancer/Teacher/Performer/Choreographer/Director Buenos Aires, London, Paris, NY, Toronto, Montreal Resident in Buenos Aires

Maral's love for dance and her training began at a very young age in 1984. Some years later, already with a solid background in many movement forms including contemporary, ballet, tap, Armenian dance and yoga practice, Maral's passion for tango brought her to Buenos Aires.

Maral's intensive study and particular attention to the connection, organic movement, technical precision and to the quality of movement has led her to teach and perform in many cities around the world including Buenos Aires (at DNI, Practica 8, Maldita Milonga, CITA), London, Paris, New York, Toronto and Montreal (most recently at the May 2010 Tango Nuevo Festival).

Maral is known for her graceful yet electric accuracy, her active creativity and expressive presence. Maral has worked with a number of partners during her time in Buenos Aires and abroad including Richard Manuel and Pablo Rojas and has performed with a number of high new generation talents including Bulent Karabagli and Martín Gutiérrez with who she was working creatively and teaching at DNI in Buenos Aires in 2009.

Performing and teaching with Maral in Brighton is Mariano (the violinist from Sexteto Milonguero)

Videos:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBAmyEO-yK0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFLgjosec1A

see Maral's website for more videos.

NEY MELO AND JENNIFER BRATT - EXCLUSIVE UK VISIT TO BRIGHTON!!!

April 30th/ May 1/2

BOHEMIAN BERLIN WEEKEND IN BRIGHTON!! 20/21 MARCH 2010

With Astrid Weiske and Mareike Focken

UMI Hotel, 64 Kings Rd, Brighton

And we've another exciting tango weekend lined up for you in March, again flying in fantastic teachers exclusively for Brighton! This weekend, with an unusual female teaching partnership from Germany (Berlin/Dusseldorf), promises cheeky workshops full of fun!!

ASTRID WEISKE

For more than 14 years Astrid has been dancing Tango Argentino and is well known in the tango communities worldwide as an excellent leading woman. She has developed strong sensitivity in leading, great creativity in improvising and playful musicality which stand out as key elements in her dance. Astrid extended her dancing also to the follower role which expanded her knowledge of the dance much more.

Since 2005 she has been teaching in Berlin at "PHYNIXtanzt" Studio, traveling as a guest teacher and followed invitations in Germany and also abroad to New York, San Francisco or Copenhagen.

Her main influence and deep understanding of tango in dancing and teaching she got from her constant studies over the years with renowned dancers like: Brigitta Winkler, Gustavo Naveira y Giselle Anne, Cecilia Gonzalez, Chicho Frumboli, Pablo Pugliese y Noel Strazza, Tomas Howlin or Homer and Christina Ladas.

Her teaching is based on awareness, analysis of natural movement in combination with her knowledge of technique, structure of the dance and awareness of connection in the couple. Creating a constant dialogue between leaders and followers who share the responsibility of listening and reacting to each other, based on a strong connection to the music.

Her exploration of the techniques of tango, from the very classical to the very experimental, leading and following, including other dance forms like contact improvisation or modern dance makes her believe that there is no "one" Tango. She believes in creative, liberating variety and connection of ideas, movements and technique by respecting the roots of Argentine Tango. She promotes that fusion to reduce borders and let people find their own expression in the dance. Students can expect that mix with encouragement, lots of personalized feedback, and a healthy dose of humor.

MAREIKE FOCKEN

Mareike Focken is one of the young talented German Tango dancers and teachers who is known for her beautiful, light and fluid dance that she combines with creative, cheeky playfullness.

In 2006 she discoverd Tango in Tiflis and was really touched by the dance and continued back in Germany her studies and as an open-minded, light-hearted and breezily person she soon found quickly her way into the world of tango.

In 2007 Mareike started teaching tango for students who are participating in the sport program at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. In 2008 she became a part of the tango-team of the wellknown Tanzhaus NRW in Düsseldorf and teaching intensively.

Mareike learned from taking classes with known Maestros in Buenos Aires and during Tango-Festivals in Europe as well through excessive dancing in countless milongas. Her knowledge about principles of Aikido influences her understanding of power, direction and centre to analyse position, posture and movements in Tango. Her affinity to playing the piano and singing may be the second source of her insight in dynamic dancing and gives her a strong understanding of musicality.

One of her major aims in teaching tango is to keep and spread the bright and easy-going atmosphere she experienced from the beginning, encouraging trial and error, playing and laughing, interpreting every step and every pause as a great chance. Very helpful to reach these aims is highlighting the connection of the couple and hearing the music instead of learning choreographies for an audience.

NOCHE DE ARGENTINA - Saturday 6th March 2010

UMI Hotel, 64 Kings Rd, Brighton

With Ana y Arturo (Buenos Aires)

We have some exciting teachers on tour from Buenos Aires coming to Brighton: Ana y Arturo. They have taught workshops and performed all over Europe, Asia and Argentina. Arturo recently featured in Francis Ford Coppola's new film 'Tetro'.

• www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj1DnnQXXq8
• www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKTsRCe2gLA
• www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlVoFvxy33g
• www.anayarturotango.com

EL PIBE AVELLANEDA SATURDAY 5TH - SUNDAY 6TH DECEMBER 2009

WEST PIER SUITE, UMI HOTEL, 64 KINGS RD, BRIGHTON

EL PIBE AVELLANEDA is a living legend with more than 30 years of Tango.

Very few (living) Tango dancers in the world can match his CV. Bianca begged him to send it to her and he said: how can I send you the full room of photos of 30 years of dancing in the concerts next to every single important orchestra there ever was; in every milonga of Buenos Aires and USA, Russia, France, Italy and other countries where he is extremely popular; every show he was in (and he was in all of them including Forever Tango in Broadway), all the prizes he won etc. etc.

In Russia he even danced for Putin.

He dances in a style which some define as 'milonguero' style, which is definitely performed with a great feeling for the woman, and fantastic musicality.

Here is El Pibe on youtube or have a browse for yourself:

SANDRA AND SANTIAGO MONTICELLI (Argentina) SATURDAY 7TH NOVEMBER 2009

Kijutango are hosting what promises to be a fantastic Argentine Tango event in Brighton on Saturday 7th November with Sandra and Santiago Monticelli (who has appeared on television's Strictly Come Dancing) from Santango Estudio, Buenos Aires. Enjoy an afternoon of two 2 hour Tango salon seminars, an evening workshop on the joyful old-time rhythm of milonga traspie, and a late-night candle-lit milonga with stunning performance by Sandra & Santiago, all in the beautiful location of the UMI Hotel, on Brighton seafront. Kijutango will also be giving away Club Dance Holidays vouchers offering discounts on any of their forthcoming Tango holidays which include Tango in Barcelona this November and Tango in Buenos Aires in February!

WEEKEND WITH CONSTANTIN RUEGER (BERLIN) 3/4TH OCT 2009 WITH LIVE MUSIC FROM DÚO EL BORDE (ARGENTINA)

Come and enjoy a weekend with the charming Constantin who runs the elegant Walzerlinksgestrickt milonga in Berlin on Friday evenings. A very popular teacher throughout Europe, Constantin's workshops and DJ-ing are in great demand. The workshops are fun, relaxed and infused with humour.

Live music from Dúo El Borde.

TANGO WEEKEND with TARA & FERNANDO and OSCAR ACEBRAS 11/12 JULY 2009

A weekend of workshops and performance by FERNANDO GUIDI (Argentina) and TARA HUGHES-LAW (UK) of Vida de tango, in Devon, home of the TANGO FEASTS!
www.vidadetango.co.uk

With live music from OSCAR ACEBRAS.

WEEKEND WITH CONSTANTIN RUEGER (BERLIN) 4/5TH APRIL 2009

Come and enjoy a weekend with the charming Constantin who runs the elegant Walzerlinksgestrickt milonga in Berlin on Friday evenings. A very popular teacher throughout Europe, Constantin's workshops and DJ-ing are in great demand. The workshops are fun, relaxed and infused with humour. Constantin will be DJ-ing at the Sunday milonga.

VALENTINES TANGO WEEKEND 14/15 FEBRUARY 2009

A weekend of workshops and performance by FERNANDO GUIDI (Argentina) and TARA HUGHES-LAW (UK) of Vida de tango, in Devon, home of the TANGO FEASTS!
www.vidadetango.co.uk

With live music to dance to from singer and musician GUILLERMO ROZENTHULER (Argentina) at the Sunday 15th Feb milonga!
www.guillermo.co.uk

NOVEMBER 1/2nd 2008 CARLOS AND ANA GREGORI (ARGENTINA)

A weekend of workshops on the milonguero style

ANNIVERSARY TANGO WEEKEND WITH INES MOUSSAVI (BERLIN) 11/12 OCTOBER

The elegant Ines Moussavi and her partner Thomas Muller from Berlin will be in Brighton for a weekend of workshops and a milonga to celebrate kijutango's second anniversary!
http://triptotango.com/

Carlos & Diana, World Tango Champions 2006 come to the UK for just two weeks and will teach and perform for us in Brighton on August 6th at Bar Rogue!

Carlos Paredes and Diana Giraldo (Colombia) were winners of the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires in 2006. They are exponents of the Modern Canyengue Show Style.

Their very charismatic style made them the audience's and the jury's favourites from the beginning of the event which comprised 5 days of eliminations and they were amongst more than 300 tango couples from all over the world, most of them from Argentina, participating in the event with the dream of winning the first prize. They have danced with La Tuba Tango, Color Tango, Sans Souci amongst other famous tango orchestras.

Workshop theme: milonga canyengue o lisa.
Here is another youtube clip for you to enjoy, Carlos and Diana dancing to La Tubatango: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O95CO2KuUwU

Privates 5pm-7.15pm
Workshop 7.30-9pm
Milonga with performance 9pm-1am
Venue Bar Rogue, opp Brighton Pier
Cost £25 workshop and milonga
£20 workshop
£12 milonga with performance, or £10 in advance

This event jointly organised with Carola of Brighton Dancing.

Tangueros have a special music designed especially for dancing tango: tango music! Argentines sometimes say: la música me lleva - the music leads me. But what do they hear when tango music plays? In this series of workshops, we explain what's going on inside the music so that you can begin to hear the movements that the music is making. These workshops will improve your dancing, but more importantly they'll make it hugely more enjoyable and provide a platform for deepening your relationship with the music.

These workshops are (mostly) not suitable for absolute beginners.

• 10:30 - 11:30 private lesson
• 12:00 - 13:00 Workshop 1: Rhythm, Melody and Space: an introduction to the different layers of tango music. Learn how to dance to the melody with Miguel Caló and Carlos Di Sarli.
• 13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
• 14:00 - 15:00 Workshop 2: Dancing to D'Arienzo. Juan D'Arienzo, the undisputed "king of the beat" is all rhythm - but the rhythms are more sophisticated than Gotan, and sometimes he even uses rhythmic effects to make melodies as well.
• 15:00 - 15.30 BREAK
• 15.30- 16.30 Workshop 3: Dancing to Pugliese. Pugliese's music is full of dramatic tension and this reflects in our bodies and our movements, which are contained and high in intensity!
• 16.30 - 18:00 práctica

• 4-5pm private lesson
• 17.00-18.00 Workshop 4: Dancing to the singer. What instrument could be more expressive than the human voice? The cantor de orquesta (orchestra singer) is not backed by his orchestra but rather is integrated within it as its most expressive instrument. When he sings, we must dance to his phrasing, and his meaning. When we get this, the singer stops being in the way, and instead takes our tango to a whole new level.
• 18:30 - 20.00 Workshop 5: Dancing to the Gotan Project: rhythm is layered too! Which layer you hear affects how you dance: learn to hear them all.
• 20.30 - 1.00 MILONGA: DJ Michael Lavocah The Mikestro. Live performance from tango singer Guillermo Rozenthuler

Monday: private lesson available with Michael 10.30-11.30am at Brighton Natural Health Centre.

Whole package: 5 workshops, one practica and a milonga £70
Day passes: Sat £40 / Sun £35
One workshop: £15
Milonga: £10
Privates: £35 at Joogleberry, or £40 at Brighton Natural Health Centre

Venue for workshops and milonga: Joogleberry Playhouse, 14-17 Manchester St, Brighton BN2 1TF

A beginners weekend of tango with Kirsty of kijutango and Iwan Kushka at Evolution Arts and Natural Health Centre.
Please contact Evolution with enquiries and bookings: www.evolutionarts.co.uk

Four fabulous workshops, coffees and vegetarian lunch for £50!
We're very happy to welcome back the lovely Bianca from Rojo y Negro tango school in London, after the sell-out workshops with Bianca in January.

Workshop 1: Great opening and closing moves 10.30am-12pm
Workshop 2: Groundedness, centredness, connection, contact - clean your tango inside-out! 12.30-2pm
LUNCH 2-3pm
Workshop 3: Musicality in the giros (different from just musicality, which is normally applied in the walk) 3-4.30pm
Workshop 4: Nuevo: how to lead (leaders) and recognise (followers) different complex propositions 5-6.30pm

£50 FOR FOUR WORKSHOPS including coffees and a vegetarian lunch
£25 FOR TWO WORKSHOPS
£13 FOR ONE WORKSHOP
No need to book with a partner

Bianca will also be bringing her collection of Darcos tango shoes from Argentina…

Venue: Joogleberry Playhouse, 14-17 Manchester St, Brighton

Welcoming back Chan Park to Brighton, with another weekend of workshops learning traditional Argentine tango with principles of zen, tai chi and yoga.
For further info on tangozen, please visit Chan’s website: www.tangozen.com www.tangozen.com

Enjoy a seductively themed workshop and dancing.

It’s our January Tango Sale!
A day of workshops (all levels) on traditional and modern tango
with Bianca of Rojo y Negro, London, and a milonga in the evening, all at Joogleberry Playhouse.
10-11.30am Traditional Tango and Close Embrace
12-1.30pm Rhythm and Musicality
2.30-4pm Dancing to Pugliese and Color Tango
4.30-6pm Modern Tango - dancing to electronic tangos
6-9.30pm Milonga. DJ: Bianca

Cost: Only £50 for all four workshops including coffees and a vegetarian lunch!
Please book in advance by contacting kijutango

Tango shoes…Bianca will be bringing her collection of beautiful tango shoes for you to peruse and purchase

BODY TRAINING FOR TANGO WITH LAURIE BOOTH

We have run a series of workshops with Laurie Booth, an award winning choreographer and dancer. A leading exponent of improvisation he has established a reputation as a major influence on the contemporary dance world. He is also a gyrotonic instructor. www.lauriebooth.co.uk

THE WORKSHOP

The particular requirements of tango create unique needs and stresses for the dancer's body. This workshop will provide exercises and strategies for developing and empowering the movement potential of all tango dancers.
This workshop is suitable for beginners and all levels.

Please contact kijutango to register your interest for further workshops with Laurie.