Wednesday – Friday (December 10-12)


December 14th, 2008

The closer I am to leaving, the more things I need to think of, organize etc. In one word: holidays are already over ;) So in between the classes I’m organizing and preparing the website for the Danube Tango Meeting, corresponding with Homer and Christina Ladas (they’ll be in Europe and they’ll most likely visit us during the first days of August, I truly can’t wait to meet them! ), preparing for our December workshops (in Hungary and in Poland) and organizing our classes in January… uff.

At the same time – ‘I’m dreaming of a white Christmas…’… no snow in Poland yet, but I can feel the Christmas atmosphere when I hear from my mum about baking Christmas cookies & packing presents. It’s really a beautiful time in my family, full of warmth and love. And of course delicious food ;)

When it comes to the classes, I’ll mention the most important one – Tango contact improvisation workshop with Javier Corrales & Anayansi Macherel. That was my first ‘real’ meeting with the contact improvisation -I had heard about it before but any action vanished into thin air. The workshop was deep and meaningful, showing me the new planes in my dancing and in general in tango and the possibilites of the contact and the embrace. It also helped me to understand what it means to dance with your whole body and how to be balanced in imbalance (el desequilibrio, for example: in colgada) with the help of the Body Mind Centering. It also helped me to get rid of some sterotypes that i had in my mind by, for example, an exercise in which i was doing salto and jumping on the lady that was 1,58tall and in general petite. Or when i had to receive weight and sustain a grown up man in a similiar exercise. What seemed impossible, was much easier once you followed the contact. I left the class relaxed and felt almost enlightened :) Since January – contact improvisation classes and contemporary dance classes in Trafo are awaiting me :)

On the topic of contemporary dance, postmodern dance and tango – Cambalache festival has just started this week. It’s a festival organized by Pablo Inza and a group of other tango gurus here, which presents all the new trends in the area of tango, theatre and dance during the week of performances in the theatre, seminars/workshops and exhibitions. I zealously bought the tickets one week before and on Thursday went for the Funcion 2 with Sharna Fabiano’s Uno, Karine Monneau’s Quebrada and really excellent Eurydice Ascendente (by the group called La Semilla, with Kara Wenham, Nina Tatarowicz and Julio Ernesto Bassan among others).

[more about Festival Cambalache and Fiesta Cambalache soon... now i'm off to bed.. :o ]

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