Impressions after the Festival

 
We were a small group of brave women, looking forward to discover a bit more of our femininity and intimacy through the tango close embrace.

During two hours, gradually the bodies were getting more in complicity with the partner and also getting lost into the unknown pathways of the dramatic and passionate tango lyrics.
Is always fascinating lead the incredible process of a beginning group,  that in two hours learn how to embrace, walk together, listen and guess each other... How they change their looking, their body language, their way of listening and at the end I always discover a small smile drawn on their faces. That's Tango for me.

Sometimes, when I go to the "Milonga" I can not see in most of the couples these humble surrender…

I want to thank the girls with this Tango made for a woman, the tango is called "Malena" and the dancers are amazing. Geraldine Rojas is one of my favorite dancers, she always inspired me with her strong presence. 

You have been so lovely, free and relax!! And also thanks to Jaime, for inviting me and for the nice comment that I attach below!

  

It was a beautiful Saturday morning. Thanks for being there!

Endlessprogress Wordpress:  

"Getting close with Tango’s intimate embrace. I never thought about the fears of letting go and being close in relation to dance but the initial moments in a Tango embrace can be a bit challenging! However, once you are able to relax and listen to your partner’s body you start to glide across the floor and the beauty of the dance unfolds with each step. We were a group of brave hearts this morning as Rosabel lead us deeper into our bodies and around the room.

We started off learning how to embrace each other and how to be lead. The most important parts of how to communicate with your partner so you can begin the basic Tango steps. Once we were all a bit more comfortable in each other’s arms our legs also became more free and the steps became bigger and dramatic- more Tango!
It was really a special feeling to be embraced in the Tango, I don’t think any other dance is quite like it. It’s subtle beauty and charm, the intimacy….I can’t wait to learn more. Rosabel was an amazing and patient teacher, who was able to give us helpful technical and personal pointers. She brought humor and passion to the lesson and we were all quite thankful for such a gentle, thoughtful and exciting introduction into Tango."

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"Cállate y abrázame" at the Festival 48-Stunden-Neukölln

The Festival

48 Stunden Neukölln is an annual, decentrally organised festival of the arts which has grown to become the largest event of its kind in Berlin. In 2011, more than 330 venues in northern Neukölln offered around 770 individual to mark the occasion. Around c. 1,700 people, around 1% of the populace of northern Neukölln. Visitors come from all over the world to Neukölln, providing the area with influences from the more diverse cultures and traditions. All this adds up to the opportunity to enjoy this unique experience.

The festival is organised by “Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln e. V.” since 1999, a weekend has been devoted to presenting a gamut of artistic activity to a most varied audience. Every organisation, initiative, and individual artist in Neukölln is cordially invited to get involved in the festival. Additionally, artists from further afield (both from the rest of Germany and from abroad) are provided with a framework to conduct artistic experiments in all sorts of spaces. Important aspects of the event include the communication facilitated between artists and their audiences, and a number of offerings in which residents of the area, and visitors, where ever they come from, can also actively participate in.

Approximately 70,000 visitors took advantage of this cultural opportunity in 2010: they viewed examples of all imaginable art forms, from performance, the visual arts, intervention in unusual contexts, dance, theatre, music and especially, activities in which one gets actively involved.

48 Stunden Neukölln can only be made possible through the tireless energies of all the artists as well as those responsible for each venue, most of whom do so on a voluntary basis. Neukölln provides the ideal location for realising and viewing innovative potential in social-minded art projects. 

The Workshop

During the 18th of June, will take place at "The Center for Endless Progress" a small Tango Workshop for beginners. Free!!

For an hour and a half we will try to explore the secrets of the tango embrace. From our normal way of embracing we will transform this feeling into a surrender emptiness that allows us to connect with the rhythm and the music.

We are going to learn how to find the dialog between the men roll and the woman roll through the basic steps.

But the main thing is have the chance to discover this amazing dance that allows us to enter in our deepest passions…

Place:
The Center of Endless Progress
Berthelsdorferstr, 10
12043 Berlin-Neukölln

Schedule: 18th of June, from 12h to 14h.

Links:
48-stunden-festival
The Center of Endless Progress
Endlessprogress Wordpress 

Open Tango class at Bethanien

Dear friends I would love to invite you to the Open Tango Class that will take place during the Sommerfest in Bethanien.

Saturday 28th of May at 20:00h in the space of Mime Centrum, Studio 2. Free event!

The Sommerfest will be a big party with various activities on the many old and new cultural and artistic spaces that are part of the Bethanien house. All the acts start at 14h and the party takes the all day.  

In our Tango Open class we are going to start from the beginning, giving a lot of importance to the embrace and how we communicate with each other.

You can come with your dance partner or just pass by and we will find the way to connect all the people!

 

I will see you there?! Let's keep dancing!!

You will find the program of the party here:

 Kunstquartier Bethanien

Many things have changed

Barcelona, neighborhood el Raval, in front of my old house. Since then my way of dancing has changed a lot, also my live has changed, many things and new experiences.

But when I see the video I get excited, I remember beautiful moments. When we record it in the 2007, we tried to experiment, play, learn, everything was new and exiting. Now I also try to experiment but I realize that I do it in a very different way, the first novelty and passion have gone and appears a special calm and deep compression.

Now when I surrender to tango I can play with rules that are already part of me and what I can give is much more intimate, is much more me.

Martin Gajdyzs, my tango partner in that moment, is back in Buenos Aires and I'm living in Berlin so not more us, not more Barcelona… the memory and nostalgia is part of tango, that connects us with the absence. An absence that I live now very happy over the Berlin's sky.

Dancing in India

I had one of the most amazing New Year's Eve this December in India.

I participated in the last International Theater Festival of Kerala working on the last Kim production, commissioned by the Principal Theatre of Kerala.

For the last event of the Festival we were working hard on an incredible production during one month. That event took place the 31st of December during the all afternoon and evening.  

At twelve o'clock in the evening, I was dancing a Tango on the top of an Indian bus and with hundreds of people around… That was me way to change the year.

Was a beautiful experience !!! Thanks to Elias Cohen to invite me there, to Jaime Molina for dance with me and to Roger Rossell for his nice looking that always catch's me.

Intensive Tango Workshop

22-24 of April 2011 - Workshop for Beginners

            We could use the tango to invoke femininity and masculinity, from their expression of dignity, strength and delicacy, flowing through its sober elegance.

            We offer the opportunity to approach the Argentine tango with a simple and accessible language, providing tangible guidelines applicable to everyday life. Doing exercises for the physical posture and body awareness, everything to be able to direct, release, control. When necessary.

            The work with the embrace it will be highly valued because without this the organic dance can not develop. Giving great importance to the musicality.

            We will look for the quality of our artistic expression also cultivating simplicity, improvisation and a sense of humour.

The main skills to work are:

• The importance of the embrace.

• The basic tango walk.
• The basic step.
• The eight (front and back).
• Rotating.
• The correct posture for women and man.

Language classes: German and English. Also in Spanish if it's necessary.

Schedule:

Friday 22: 18 - 21.30h (with 30 min pause)

Saturday 23: 18 - 22.30h (with 30 min pause)

Sunday 24: 16 - 20h + Closing MILONGA (20,30- 22h)

Total class hours: 11h + 2h milonga.

Couples:

You can participate in the workshop with your dance couple, that could be great!

But If you don't have partner you can write us and we try to connect the people who wants to take the workshop.

Maximum 12 couples.

Space:

Kunstquartier Bethanien / Studio Zwei
Mariannenplatz 2
10997 Berlin

Anfahrt
Bus 140 Station Mariannenplatz
U1/U8 Kottbusser Tor

Price:

130 euros

90 euros (reduce)

The price include: snacks during the pauses and in the closing Milonga.

Contact for more info and inscriptions:

Rosabel Huguet: ich@rosabelhuguet.com