Events

Las Puertas is located at: 1500 1st Street NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102

Call:  505-242-1958 for details.

Enriqueta Kleinman Tango Workshop

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Tango - Enriqueta KleinmanThe Tango Club of Albuquerque will be hosting a beginner/intermediate level Argentine Tango workshop with Enriqueta Kleinman.

Enriqueta is available for private lessons from Wednesday, Sept 11 through Monday, Sept 16. Contact Leslie Jones: (505) 369-6040 • info@abqtango.org

For a flyer with a mail-in registration form, class subjects, times, and pricing information please click here.

Click here to purchase workshops passes online.

Enriqueta comes from Buenos Aires and grew up with the culture, music, and dancing of Argentine Tango all around her.  She currently teaches and performs in Buenos Aires, US, Canada, and Europe. She is an expert in Salon Tango-Milonguero Style, the social dance style of Argentine Tango. Enriqueta also specializes in teaching women’s technique and is known for her smooth, sensual dancing. She has performed in the Metropolitan Championships in Buenos Aires as well as many milongas and festivals in Buenos Aires, the US and Canada. Having lived for several years in New York City, Enriqueta speaks English fluently.

Friday, September 13

7:30-9:00pm (All Levels) Milonguero Fundamentals: Caminatas (walks), quick walks, different ways to advance forward. Variations for amague (“rock step”); with flexion and change of weight, with flexion and change of direction, without flexion (in place).

9:00-10:30pm Guided Practice session

Saturday, September 14

1:30-3:00pm (Beginner/Intermediate)
Cruzadas and Ochos (crosses and figure 8’s): Getting to the cruzada (cross) from the basic walk. Different combinations of ochos — backward, milonguero, cut, front, from the side, with backward crosses walking for circulation and for moving ahead.

3:30-5:00pm (Beginner/Intermediate)
Giros (turns): giros and contra-giros (counter turns), half turns, 180-degree turns, turns with change of direction, turns with backward and forward corridas (runs).
8:00pm-Midnight — Milonga de las Puertas. Hosted by Lee Blaugrund. $5.

Sunday, September 15

1:30-3:00pm (Beginner/Intermediate)
Tango Sequences: Combinations of turns; counter-turns and pivots, the feel of direction using your feet, turns using the floor, changing the embrace, raising and lowering the energy of the woman according to the part of the sequence that needs it.

3:30-5:00pm (All Levels)
Technique for the follower: Posture, separation of the torso from the rest of the body, sustaining the axis, maintaining connection, technique as the foundation for beautiful embellishments.

6:30-9:30pm — Milonga/House Party with Enriqueta at the home of Julie Reichert and Bill Mohr. Pot luck. Free. Details TBA.

Prices
Per class: $20 TCA members; $25 non-members.
Friday practica only: $5 members or non-members
Package: Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday 1:30 class: $80 TCA members (does not include Follower’s Technique class); $100 non-members

Early Bird — Register and pay by midnight 9/10/2013
Package: $75 TCA members; $95 non-members
Package + Follower’s technique (Sunday 3:30 class): $95 TCA members; $120 non-members

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Mauro Peralta and Claudia Cortes Workshop

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Mauro Peralta is dedicated to exploring the communication and connection of the couple through his practice and his teaching. Incorporating techniques from ballet, jazz, yoga and gyrotonics, his focus is on the sensual embrace and walk of traditional tango. His dancing has brought him recognition as a performer for its creativity, unique style and an embodiment of the emotion and wholehearted abandon of tango as danced in the milongas of Buenos Aires

Claudia Cortes grew up dancing folklore and contemporary dance forms in her native Patagonia. Introduced to tango in Los Angeles in 2006, she travelled to Buenos Aires to study the dance and returned to California to teach and perform in the local milongas and festivals. Her teaching draws from a background in athletics to emphasize correct technique, posture and alignment in the embrace. Her dance exemplifies the intensity, stillness and the beauty of Argentine Tango.

Mauro and Claudia joined forces in December 2012. Together they seek to create a stirring, inspiring and poignant dance.

NM Tango Academy  is hosting this workshop.  Following is the schedule for the weekend.

Friday night: (7:30 – 8:45pm)                                                                                                From the simple to the most complex in tango (progressive class for all levels)

 Saturday                                                                                                                               Class I: (1:00 – 2:15pm) La tecnica: Alignment, spirals into our body, energy from our center to the floor and our partner                                                                                                  Class II: (2:45 – 4:00pm) Sacadas with enrosques and lapices

 Sunday                                                                                                                                 Class I: (1:00 – 2:15pm) Change of directions (Dynamics and circularity into the movement)                                                                                                                            Class II: (2:45 – 4:00pm) Front and back boleos! Feel the timing of your partner, find your weight and the free leg

Prices are $125 for the entire workshop and you can register at  http://nmtangoacademy.com/public_html/Mauro_%26_Claudia.html                                                                             Individual classes are $30 each, pay at the door.

2nd Annual Heroin Awareness Committee Arts for Hope and Recovery Fundraiser

The Heroin Awareness Committee is dedicated to creating hope, awareness,                          and change surrounding the drug epidemic that is facing New Mexico.

Arts for Hope and Recovery is a fundraiser to raise funds for a future Adolescent treatment center in Albuquerque.  Join us and guest MC Steven Michael Quezada on Saturday, August 10th from 6pm to 10pm for food, entertainment by Chris Dracup Trio, Urban Verbs, & Motu Dance Troupe, a silent and live auction.  Tickets are $30 each or $50 per couple.
To purchase tickets, please go to http://artsforhopeandrecovery.com/

Susana Miller Workshop

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Susana Miller is a preeminent teacher of Argentine Tango in the Milonguero Style, a term she coined to introduce tango apilado to students around the world. Milonguero Style is a synthesis of Susana’s studies over the years of the unique dancing styles of the older milongueros. She has a gift for deciphering their distinct vocabularies and choreographic combinations, and transmitting these to her students.

Tango Downtown is hosting a workshop with this incredible international teacher at Las Puertas on August 3rd & 4th so please plan on joining us.

For information regarding classes, times, and pricing along with the registration form, please go to http://www.tangodowntown.net/susanaWS2013.html