Diego Riemer & Raquel return!/ Tango Vals
It's Tango Vals from 7.30 pm-9.30 pm at St Mary's this Friday 10th Nov with Luis & Elizabeth. Then practica. Beginners & Fundamentals from 6.30 to 7.30. Details as usual: see https://tangowarwick.org/news/2023/7/12/tango-warwick-in-the-summer Therein are also details of the very welcoming, totally informal, Wednesday Space practicas.
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Diego Riemer and Raquel Greenberg return to Tango Warwick, at last, on Saturday 2nd December. They were last together with us in 2017. There will be 3 workshops in Leamington Spa from noon until 5.30 pm. The first with Raquel until she is joined by Diego, who is arriving from France. It will not be strictly gender balanced. The second two will be by both of them, and strictly gender balanced. Advanced booking and payment is required.
Details:
The Workshops: (The subtopics mentioned give an indication of what may be covered)
12 noon-1.30 pm: Workshop 1 "Tango tips, body awareness for all levels. (Technique, speed of legs, footwork, balance control, preparation of body for smooth sacadas, giros, effective ochos, milonga.) Raquel, with Diego when he arrives, if in time.
2pm-3.30 pm : Workshop 2 "Diego & Raquel's signature MILONGA Workshop:
Rhythm training laboratory to expand your improvisation skills". Diego & Raquel.
3.45 pm to 5.15 pm: Workshop 3 "TANGO VALS – Alterations in turn, musicality focus and fun combinations. (Musicality interpretation within the improvisation, picado versus lento; explosive versus pausa; cut versus long; how to listen, which vocabulary to choose, when to apply what, musical decorations.) Diego & Raquel.
The venue: St Marks Church Hall, Rugby Road, Leamington Spa, CV32 6DL. (Good car park.)
The church is on the north side of Rugby Rd in north Leamington. It is 2 blocks east of an ASDA petrol station (good value), and 3 blocks east of the Fat Pug pub. On number 1 bus route, and about 25 minutes walk from the railway station. For the hall enter car park through St Marks Rd entrance on the west side of the Church. The entrance to the Hall is on the left in the corner with the Church, by some bushes.
Prices & Booking:
Workshop 1: £15
Workshop 2: £20
Workshops 3: £20
Two workshops: £35
All 3 workshops: £50
To be paid in advance.
Booking in advance is essential as numbers are limited. For workshops 2&3 if you can book in a couple please do, otherwise we will pair leaders and followers and operate a waiting list. SINGLE LEADERS ARE ADVISED TO BOOK EARLY: on recent occasions there have been leaders who have applied too late to be able to come.
Bookings will not be firm until they are confirmed following payment.
To book: first e-mail tangowarks@gmail.com with subject "Raquel and Diego 2023" stating how many leaders/followers you wish to book for, their names, and which workshops. If there are places available you will then be given payment details. Also please give a phone number in case we get a sudden cancellation.
The teachers:
DIEGO RIEMER
Diego "El Pájaro" Riemer , multifaceted artist in dance, music, design and advertising, takes up tango in Buenos Aires, his hometown, where he is formed with the maestro Tito Molinari and learns from the "old" dancers and milongueros. He thereafter perfects his technique with several professional dancers.
In 2000 he leaves for Europe and is first installed in Berlin and then in Lyon where he single-handedly develops a successful international career, becoming a reference and inspiration for many dancers, especially for his musicality in tango and his way of dancing milonga (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnKSvq4AIz8 for a slow one).
As a former drummer, he explores the rhythms of the tango, waltz and milonga in a very particular manner. Owner of a unique and original musical expression in his dancing and improviser par excellence, he is internationally recognized and sought for his sense of humor in tango, the exploration of the traspié and rhythm, the caminata and the giros with adornments (enrosques and lapices), in addition to his special and thorough technique and pedagogy for the transmission of tango and its culture.
RAQUEL GREENBERG:
Raquel Greenberg started dancing when she was 6 years old. 12 years of ballet and contemporary were the foundation for all that followed. In 1991 she started Latin and ballroom studies, received the IDTA diploma (international dance teachers association) and competed in international dance competitions such as the prestigious Blackpool congress in England. In 1998 she discovered and was swept away by the Argentine tango.
Her most marking maestros are Carlos Gavito, Osvaldo Zotto & Lorena Ermocida , Roberto Herrera, Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne, Javier Rodriguez & Geraldine Rojas, Nito & Elba, Vanina Bilous.
From 2001 she based herself and lived in Buenos Aires, capital of Tango, where she was teaching and performing, breathing the essence of the Argentine Tango.
In 2012 she moved to London, her new base, where she is teaching performing and from where she travels the world to spread her art. She has won the Latin UK awards for best Tango teacher and has performed at the Queen Elizabeth hall, Royal Festival hall, the Olympic games, Regent’s street festival, and was chosen to perform for the first Argentine Tango milonga at Blackpool Tower Ballroom.
Her personal style is the outcome of fusion between traditional tango and modern tendencies, having studied, worked, and danced, with old age milongueros, great masters of the traditional style and the leaders of “new age” tango.
Elegance, grace, musicality and aesthetics within the embrace – the soul of tango, are her guidelines.