Friday (December 5)


December 6th, 2008

Tango intermedio with Anabella Cruz Heck & “???” (@Tango brujo)
–the class is regularly taught by Anabella and Anibal Montenegro, however, he was on a trip, so Anabella was teaching with someone else (unfortunately, i don’t remember the name of the guy replacing Anibal). The style was also different, much more traditional than nuevo – cute close embrace steps which looked simple but confused us a little bit.

The last class we took together (in 2008 of course!, we want to come back :) ) was our favourite class of the week:
Tecnica para tango, intermedio y avanzado with Martin Gutierrez & Samantha Di Paolo (@Tango brujo)
–this time the topic was rebotes/rebounds combined with totally cute sort of tomada and of course gancho! (Martin’s class without a gancho is unimaginable). Relaxed atmosphere and great help of the teachers left us with the feeling that we had a great great time… Next week I’m going to attend to their classes alone plus some classes for beginners as I want to see how they teach beginner classes here at the heart of the tango plus polish and develop my leading skills.

Samantha Di Paolo, Martin Gutierrez, Michalina Patrzalek, Peter Stefanics (@Tanbo brujo)

The other good news: in 2009 (maybe spring? maybe March? maybe autumn?) we are going to invite Samantha Di Paolo and her European partner to Budapest for workshops! :) Here you can check out her blog and impressive curriculum vitae.

Thursday (December 4)


December 6th, 2008

We took only one class today as we were running errands before Peter’s departure on Saturday. We expected it to be with Christian and Carolina as it was usual on Thursdays, however, there was a change of teachers for December and the class was taught by Kyoko and Adrian.

Tango 3 with Kyoko & Adrian (@DNI)
–we were positively surprised by the level of explanation and expertise of the teachers. We were working on a sacada with levantada combined with an enganchada and rebound. Even though the level of the class was supposed to be intermediate, in our opinion, it was more than that. The teachers operated on the levels suitable both for intermediate and advanced students.