anulare lectie tango joi, 18 febr si workshop BamGoTango 20-21 febr

Aloha!

Va anuntam ca lectia de tango de joi, 18 febr si workshopul BamGoTango ce urma sa aibe loc in acest weekend -20/21 febr- in Studio Experimental, cu Marcela si Mario se anuleaza.

Ne cerem scuze pentru eventualele incoveniente.

Pe curand,
Miha si Jose

Studio Experimental

Men Only: Tango Escencia, with Mario Ferraro, Saturday/ 6th Febr

Aloha, prieteni!

In acest weekend, sambata, 6 februarie, va propunem a man to man perspective, o incursiune catre radacinile tangoului: Men Only: Tango Escencia, un workshop deosebit, cu Mario.

Probabil este primul workshop de acest gen din Romania, prin faptul ca desi este doar pentru barbati, nu este unul clasic de tehnica pentru barbati ci...este cu totul altceva:
- originile dansului
- "personajele" din tango
- Epoca de Aur a tangoului (folosirea versurilor), tangoul in Europa, tangoul astazi
- atitudinea barbatului leader in tango
- ascultarea versurilor din muzica de tango si (ex)punerea lor in dans
- dans bazat pe interpretarea muzicii; cum se interpreteaza muzica de tango
- dans, studiu doar intre barbati
- cum gasesti strategia prin care sa ai o "conversatie" foarte placuta si autentica timp de 3 minute...cat tine un tango, un dans al carui leader esti tu: "When you dance, you have a three minutes conversation" (o conversatie prin dans, nu verbala!:)
- cum dansezi ascultand, simtind si exprimand muzica si nu gandind in pasi/ structuri
- dezvoltarea unui dans bazat pe istoria tangoului, pe muzica si interpretarea ei
...& alte surpize :)

Nu este un seminar teoretic ci unul experiential, ce va imbina "teoria" cu (accentul pus pe) practica.
!Seminarul este doar pentru barbati, accesul femeilor care sunt si leader in tango este stric interzis!

15.00-20.00: 4 ore seminarii+ 1 ora practica (doar pentru participanti)
*la practica, participantii invita o tanguera cu care vor sa puna in practica tot ceea ce se va experimenta la seminarii; pentru femei, practica este gratuita*

Cost: 250 Ron

Inscrieri: baminro@gamil.com; 0728 775 498

Workshop Body Awareness for Tango Dancers, with Marcela & Mario, 30-31 January '10

          …to study and understand how our body works most efficiently in the dance…

What is Body Awareness?

BAM (Body Awareness Method) is a body corporal organization by the use of the body-image in terms of the space. 

BAM sees the body like a connection net. When some connection is missing, the body loses the natural organization and this method helps you find an efficient way to connect it again. 

The time it takes for the body to become aware depends on the expectations and limitations of each dancer, which will be assessed individually.

Teaching your body the mechanisms of the movement

 Normally, we learn to dance by copying the instructor, whose movements we try to re-create with our own bodies. The learning process, however, can be made more efficient as the individual becomes aware of his body, its limitations and how to tackle them.

This workshop will focus on:

Become aware of your limitations: This is the first step towards “waking” the body, as well as providing a blueprint for the change your body will undergo.

“Un-block” your body: Your body’s range of motion may be limited due to blockages. The first step to freeing up the affected body parts is awareness of the problem; the second step is learning how to mobilize these parts; and the third is to integrate them into the rest of the body. Exercises: Release, Articulate, Dissociate

Organize your body: Essential to “awakening” the body is learning proper alignment, a pre-requisite for organic movement. Exercises: mechanisms of movement, neurological and physical connections between parts of the body, body alignment, integration, information flow throughout the body

Manage your Energy: Essential to improving quality of movement, on-stage presence and stamina, among other things. The following exercises are designed to meet this specific need.

*Eutony to use the appropriate amount of muscle tension required by each movement

*Release tension exercises to effectively flow between these two complementary states.

*Spatial organization exercises to use the space around as the extension of your own body.

Build your confidence: Training will focus on communicating, integrating and listening to the other, with the aim of achieving greater harmony when dancing together with a partner. Exercises: Centering, Responsiveness, etc.

Workshop schedule:

Saturday, 30^th January

S1-15.00- 17.00:

-          Blocked and Unblocked Body

-          Spine

On “blocked and unblocked body” we work on:

• how to have an efficient and free dance

• Body Awareness Method (BAM©):

-          detect blocked parts in the body

-          understand the difference between unblock and relax

-          recognize the different muscle tones (high, middle and low)

• Tango:

- recognizing moving habits that limit us in different Tango sequences

- discerning between different types of limits: tango technique, body habits

On "Spine" we work on:

• How to increase the range of mobility of the torsions

• Posture

• Body Awareness Method (BAM©): 
- Organizing the spine
- Increasing the range of mobility
- Understanding the relation spine- posture

• Tango:
- torsions, dissociations and the difference between them

S2- 17.15- 19.15:

-          Lower body system: the feet

• connection to the floor and efficient weight changes

• Body Awareness Method (BAM©):

- finding projection of the gravity center when walking

- understanding the relation between center and feet

• Tango:

-          weight changes by transfer and by rotation

Sunday, 31st January

S3-15.00- 17.00:

-          Upper body system (shoulder, shoulder blade, arms)

• having a free, available embrace

• changes of embrace

• Body Awareness Method (BAM©):

- unblocking the joints between shoulder and arm

- creating space between the bones

- finding the accurate tone of muscles

• Tango:

-          dynamic of the embrace

-          combination of fixed and movable embrace

-          possible levels of the embrace

S4- 17.15- 19.15:

-          Lower body system (legs)

-          Communication

On “Lower body system” we work on:

• learning how to release the legs

• Body Awareness Method (BAM©):

-          how to free the articulation of legs and hip

-          understanding the relation “basic leg-free leg”

-          unblocking the hip

• Tango:

-          working movements focusing on basic leg- free leg: barridas, boleos, ganchos

On “Communication” we work on:

• tools to improve the connection with your partner

• Body Awareness Method (BAM©):

-          understanding how you can give and receive information

-          learning to use the necessary energy

-          being proactive

• Tango:

-          improvisation tools

-          sequences and musicality

Useful information and registration info:

-          Each seminar has 2 phases: Body Awareness phase and Tango phase

-          The length of one seminar is 2 hours

-          The workshop is for ALL LEVELS

-          One day minimum participation is mandatory- teachers consider that participating just in one seminar is not efficient

-          You can register alone or in couple

-          Location: Studio Experimental, Hrisovului 2A (Pajura)

Prices:

-          Full Pass Event: 260 Ron/ pers

-          One Day Pass: 140 Ron/ pers.

• To register send your options by e-mail to baminro@gmail.com. Registration becomes valid after your payment. Payment can be done both cash or by bank transfer. Please mention the payment modality in your e-mail. You will receive by e-mail details for transfer by bank – if necesarry and a written confirmation after your payment.

• For other details or more info: 0040 728 775 498 (Kiran Mihaela)

• No filming or photography is allowed at workshop.

• Entrance at workshop is restricted to registered attendants.

Body Awareness & Tango cu Marcela & Mario- program lectii grup@ Studio Experimental

Dancing Tango…Know Yourself
***optimize the quality of your dance***


*Lectiile se desfasoara intre orele 19.00-20.30*
*All levels*
*Locatie: Studio Experimental, Hrisovului 2A*

These classes consists in working from:
- The organization of your body;
- The partner's organization;
- The organization with the music.

...according to: embrace, walk, tango elements- boleo, barrida, sacada, etc. 

1. Monday, 18 January:
Vals (Cross and Parallel)
- Walking
- Turns

2. Tuesday, 19 January: 
Milonga (Continuity and Traspie)
- Rhythmic
- Ochos

3. Thursday, 21 January: 
Tango (Tradicional and Modern)
- Colgadas
- Volcadas

4. Monday, 1st February: 
Vals (Cross and Parallel)
- Rhythmic
- Shared turns

5. Tuesday, 2nd February: 
Milonga (Continuity- Traspie)
- Turns
- “Runnings”

6. Wednesday, 3rd February: 
Tango (Tradicional and Modern)
- Fraseo
- Dynamics

7. Tuesday, 9 February: 
Vals (Cross and Parallel)
- Rebotes
- General summary

8. Thursday, 11 February: 
Milonga (Continuous and Traspie)
- Traspie
- General summary

9. Tuesday, 16 February: 
Tango (Tradicional and Modern)
- Improvisation thematics
- General summary

10. Thursday, 18 February: 
Closing thematics
- Surprises
- “Community dinner”

• Cost lectie: 35 Ron

Discounts:
• 5 classes Pass: 150 Ron
• All classes Pass: 250 Ron

Info &registration: 0728. 775 498 (Kiran Mihaela), baminro@gmail.com

*For private classes with Mario & Marcela, please contact us in time by e-mail!

Marcela Trape & Mario Ferraro- teachers of Body Awareness Method - BAM® applied to Argentine tango

Marcela Trape is a maestra, dancer, choreographer (ballet, contemporary dance, Argentine tango) and teacher of dance and dance- theatre in Buenos Aires, where she dances and teaches Argentine tango with her partner- Mario Ferraro.
Marcela was born in Bahia Blanca, in Argentine in 1971. She underwent academic training at the Bahia Blanca School of Classic Dance and obtained the Beca Antorchas prize in ’94, which enabled her to study with the maestro Alfredo Gurguel and the maestra Ana Maria Stekelman. Concurrently, she pursued her career in Contemporary Dance at the National Arts Institute in Buenos Aires.
She danced professionally for Argentine ballet companies and for the Disney Animation Festival company; she also participated in contemporary dance events and performed dance- theatre organized by independent dance companies.
As well as pursuing a very active career, she devoted her time to the Argentine tango, which she danced professionally with Andres Amarilla and, today, she dances and teaches with her partner, Mario Ferraro. Marcela is also co-director and choreographer in her dance-theatre company and teaches contemporary dance.

For 10 years Marcela Trape has developed a method of body organization for tango dancers (Body Awareness Method - BAM®), by which she has trained several maestros, maestros and famous Argentine Tango teachers like Eugenia Parrilla, Esteban Moreno, Pablo Inza, Melina Brufman, Fabián Salas, Andrés Amarilla and Mauricio Castro.
Marcela has also written a book called BamGoTango. You can read more information or buy the book on: www.bamgotango.net
With her dance partner Mario Ferraro, she works and teaches Body Awareness for Tango and in Tango-Dance-Theater. They focus on efficiency of natural movement.

Born in 1971 in a village near Buenos Aires, Mario Ferraro is an Argentine tango dancer and choreographer. His story with tango began in his childhood when his father gave him at 6 years old his first dog named…Tango.
At 8 years he began his studies at the school of music and dance. At 15 years he was also interested in percussion instruments and studied drums.
Parallel to the academic formation, Mario spent his life in a community where everybody was dancing typical folk dances (tango, paso doble, milonga, and fostroc, chacareras).
Finally at 27 years (12 years ago) he definitely dedicated himself to the tango, and he decided to go to Buenos Aires.
Mario is defined not as a dancer (bailarin), he is defined as a dancer that makes the dance (bailador).
This definition is critical when talking about tango. The leader proposes, adapts and responds.
Mario recognizes a good dancer when he has the ability to manage his dancing as a function of his partner and to find in this a door to the dance.
His dancing is based on the motion and the music, thus finding a flow of qualities. Using both open and closed embrace his dance is defined as a dance exhibition hall (Exhibition tango salon).

As a teacher Mario focuses and based the learning on the efficient use of the structures, taking these structures as tools for developing the dance. He does not determine a style, he proposes to develop a rhythmic body language. His teaching is based on developing personal and individual search of each member, in this way encouraging freedom within the couple. Mario supports this concept in the study of more traditional structures of tango and the new strauctures.

Some years ago he started to work with Marcela who conjugated his view of the tango and the efficient use of the body in a sensible way.

Marcela and Mario joined their perspectives, one from the search of freedom in the (own) body and the other from a search of freedom between the bodies.





“The objective of the Method, which I call “Body Awareness”, is for each individual to find the shortest and most efficient path to progress, in the most natural way possible. Normally, we learn to dance by copying the instructor, whose movements we try to re-create with our own bodies. The learning process, however, can be made more efficient as the individual becomes aware of his body, its limitations and how to tackle them.” –Marcela Trape



Workshop & classes in Marcela’s “Body Awareness” will focus on the following:

Become aware of your limitations: This is the first step towards “waking” the body, as well as providing a blueprint for the change your body will undergo.

“Un-block” your body: Your body’s range of motion may be limited due to blockages. The first step to freeing up the affected body parts is awareness of the problem; the second step is learning how to mobilize these parts; and the third is to integrate them into the rest of the body. Exercises: Release, Articulate, Dissociate

Organize your body: Essential to “awakening” the body is learning proper alignment, a pre-requisite for organic movement. Exercises: mechanisms of movement, neurological and physical connections between parts of the body, body alignment, integration, information flow throughout the body

Manage your Energy: Essential to improving quality of movement, on-stage presence and stamina, among other things. The following exercises are designed to meet this specific need.
*Eutony to use the appropriate amount of muscle tension required by each movement
*Release tension exercises to effectively flow between these two complementary states.
*Spatial organization exercises to use the space around as the extension of your own body.

Build your confidence: Training will focus on communicating, integrating and listening to the other, with the aim of achieving greater harmony when dancing together with a partner. Exercises: Centering, Responsiveness, etc.

Workshop Body Awareness Method - BAM ® applied to Argentine Tango, 16-17 th January, Bucharest

“Put emotion into your motion

Put motion into your emotion”

- Eddy Rodts

Marcela Trape & Mario Ferraro

16-17 JAN ’10, BUCHAREST- ROMANIA

By Studio Experimental

SATURDAY, 16^TH JANUARY

12.00hs- 13.30hs

INTRODUCTION

Become aware-The first step towards the Tango

• Become aware of your body
• to detect blocked parts
• to understand the difference between block-unblock and relax
• Become aware of your dance
• to detect moving habits that limit us in different Tango sequences
• to discern between different types of limits:
• Tango technique
• Body habits

13.30hs- 15.00hs

LUNCH BREAK

15.00hs- 16.30hs

THE BODY

• Spine flexibility
• Recuperate and increase spinal mobility
• Stimulate connections in the body-the body like a whole
• Fluid movement using the natural movement of your spine
• Generating space between the bones
• Dissociations-torsions
• How use eyes -the starting point to begin unblocking the whole
  

17.00hs- 18.30hs

THE DANCE

• Basic turns –combinations: man/woman
• Planeos and voleos
• Combinations

20.00hs- 00.00hs

PRAKTIKA XPERIMENTAL

Mario and Marcela dancing for you

SUNDAY, 17^TH JANUARY

11.00hs - 12.30hs

THE BODY

• Lower body system: hip-leg-feet
• Freeing the articulation of legs and hip
• Release the legs
• Understand the relation between center and feet

o Connection to the floor

• Finding projection of the gravity center when walking

13.00hs -14:30hs

THE DANCE

• Level of the center of gravity
• The pivot
• The weights

14.30hs- 16.00hs

LUNCH BREAK

16.00hs- 17.30hs

CLOSE

• Music and quality of movements
• Sequences
• Changes of couple

18.00hs- 21.00hs

PRAKTIKA XPERIMENTAL

guided by Marcela & Mario

Useful information and registration info

• In the workshop the teaching will be an integrated approach of bodywork and tango.

◊ Body organization:

- Spine

- Upper Body System: Arms- Shoulders

- Lower Body System: Legs- Hip- Feet

◊ Tango:

- Recognition of structures

- Recognition of the factors applicable to structures (planeos- sacadas- boleos- cadencias- suspenciones)

- Combination of the elements among themselves and within the basic structures and new structures (new tango)

• The length of one seminar is 1 h and 30 min.

• Workshop and classes with Marcela and Mario are for all levels. You can register alone or in couple.

• It’s important to know that this workshop is thought by teachers as a whole and this is due to BAM® work. In case you take only a part of the workshop, you need to know that this type of work(shop) is a whole and taking only one part is not efficient.

• Location for workshop and praktika: Studio Experimental (Hrisovului 2A, zona Pajura)

Prices:

• The price for 1 individual seminar (S01- S06) is 60 Ron (approx. 14.25 euro)
• Participating at practicas (P1 & P2) costs 30 Ron (approx. 7 euro)/ P1 and 20 Ron (approx. 4.75 euro)/ P2

Discounts and packages:

* Full pass EVENT (F1): 410 RON 360 RON (approx. 85.70 euro)

* Full pass seminars (F2): 360 RON 320 RON (approx. 76, 15 euro)

* Full pass practicas (F3): 50 RON 40 RON (approx. 9,5 euro)

• Refunds:

- In case of workshop cancelling you will receive full refund

- If you give up participating until 4th January, you will receive 50% of the money

- After 4th January, no refund will be made.

• To register send your options by e-mail to baminro@gmail.com. Registration becomes valid after your payment. Payment can be done both cash or by bank transfer. Please mention the payment modality in your e-mail. You will receive by e-mail details for transfer by bank – if necesarry and a written confirmation after your payment.

• For other details or more info: 0040 728 775 498 (Kiran Mihaela)

• No filming or photography is allowed at workshop.

• Entrance at workshop is restricted to registered attendants.

The 10 BAM® Advantages

Here are the 10 BAM® advantages to enable you to dance your tango consciously and with pleasure for yourself and your partner.

1. Connect to your partner so that you function as a single mechanism.
2. Acquire a comfortable and elegant posture, able to adapt to different situations that arise when dancing.
3. Maintain an available embrace to be able to execute any move using the right muscular tension.
4. Relax the legs, particularly to do boleos and ganchos.
5. Always feel anchored to the ground to remain stable for every step.
6. Execute spiral movements whilst respecting the natural rhythm of the spine, without forcing the movement.
7. Establish simple and direct communication with the partner, without being rough, given that the body language is sufficiently developed to transmit precise information.
8. Keep the body and mind available to receive information and reply in good time, without rushing or slowing down.
9. Execute step sequences with ease, as we now have the necessary tools to organize the body beyond technical difficulties.
10. Dance at length without feeling tired as we know how to efficiently manage our energy.

- excerpt from "BamGoTango" book, by Marcela Trape and Pascale Rodts-Rouge