MUMA IN EUGENE OREGON, COMING UP JUNE 1ST-5TH.
By Marisela Rizik
By Marisela Rizik
Being around Muma is like
collectively feeling and sharing the early era of tango. Her memories are
precious gems for those of us who loves everything tango. Muma brings to the
dance floor, the recolection of how tango was like in her time as well as her
parents. Her memories guide us way beyond the tango renaissance of the mid 80's.
Muma was exposed to tango music and dancing since her early
childhood.(check her musicality, my goodness!)
Her parents met at a milonga- Glorias Argentinas. Her mother sang with the
Lomuto orchestra!
Milongas in her grandma's patio with lights hanging from climbing plants
are part of her early memories.
Her family befriended orchestra leaders, singers and tango musicians.
Alberto Castillo was a close family friend.
She danced live to the orchestra whose recordings we play nowadays.
And when Rock took over pushing tango aside, she joined that group, but at
home she said they still listened and danced tango.
Later, when the revival of tango in the mid 80's knocked at her door, she
was ready. She has not stopped since then. She met and taught with the best
known milongueros: Vidort, El flaco Danny, El pibe Sarandi and many more.
Do you want tradition and social tango? Come to Muma's workshopo and you'll
learn from a source with documented evidence.
In Muma's words: "My purpose is that people who learn from me,
learn to dance in a way that they can express themselves with body and soul, my
style is not the style for the entertainment of the onlooker, but for the
satisfaction of the couple dancing for 3 minutes of utmost
enjoyment..."
Deadline for discount is coming up this Sunday: Please bring your check or
cash to Milonga Bruja this Friday or la milonguita, and sure you can always mail
it.
Here the workshop announcements:
ARGENTINE TANGO WORKSHOPS
WITH
Muma,
IN EUGENE JUNE 1-5
Muma is a great tango
dancer and teacher from Buenos Aires versed in teaching the essence of Argentine
tango, its musicality and everything that has to do with teaching tango as a
social dance!
MILONGA
BOOTCAMP. Get a complete picture of the milonga dance with these sequential
workshops. Strongly recommended by Muma to be taken in sequence even if you
understand the milonga dance. Muma will work heavily with traspie. In Muma
words: The understanding of the traspie in milonga improves your tango and waltz
for the precision that it requires and the speed of the rhythm.
SATURDAY, June 2
12:00-1:15
1)
Milonga lisa: rhythm, balance, posture change of weight.
15 minutes breaks between clases.
15 minutes breaks between clases.
1:30- 2:45
2).
Traspie basic sequences:
Quick
Review of material covered in previous class.
3:00- 4:15
(3)
Switching between milonga lisa and milonga traspie. We’ll study a different
sequence of traspie. Always integrating the previous material.
SUNDAY JUNE 3
12:00-1:15
4)
Giro and contragiro- (turn and counter-turn with traspie). Using the same
sequences studied in the previous Workshops we will include the ability to make
the giro and contra-giro.
1:30- 2:45
5)
Cementing the work of giro and contragiro from the previous
workshop, plus unifying the new material -improvising at times and learning how
to use it in the social dance floor
3:00- 4:15
6)
Total practice of all the covered material with specific feedback and
corrections make to each dancer. In this class, you will see how the material
studied applied to tango and waltz as well as milonga.
All prepaid
payments need to be received on or before Sunday May
27
Each
workshop - $20 prepaid / $25 after the deadline
$15 for students.
Private lessons - $70 for individual. $90
for couple. Reserve early! Plus Studio fee. Or if you have space at home, you
can take Muma to your space.
Friday, Monday-Tuesday-
Checks
to: Multicultural Media
P.O. Box 374 Eugene, Oregon
97440
Please include, name, phone
number
and workshop
number.
or just
bring it to La Milonguita on Sundays
Info
& Questions:
Marisela
Rizik 541-485-6647
All
workshops at the Reach Center 2520 Harris street.
5-7PM. LA Milonguita as usual
$5.00
Another chance to hang with Muma.
Thanks,
Marisela
541-485-6647
See Muma dancing in these videos .
