every Tuesday night, starting May 19 There will be lessons and dancing at Alegria with Timmy y Joanne 8778 Gatewood Drive North Ridgeville, Ohio 44039 440/748-2204 7:00 lesson in the Milonguero style of tango 8:00 to 10:30 Open dancing Still only $5 including light refreshments Pop is $0.50 Bring your friends
Watch or Outdoor tango dancing durning the summer at Crocker Park Mall. Saturday, May 30 is our first night of Tango at Crocker Park 6:30 to 8:30 under the stars. We would like it if you would do a demo for the audience, and as a group, we'll strut our stuff. Help build the tango community Afterwards we'll continue dancing at Noemi's and Andres house till the weeee hours of the morning. It's Andre's 73 birthday
Coming to Alegria, Aug 6 thru 11 Pocho y Nely from Buenos Aires, Argentina Both have been dancing tango more than 60 years each. They have danced to Di Sarli, D'Arienzo, and more. They will show you what make tango so famous. They lived through it all
Coming back for a return visit Maximiliano Gluzman y Heather Whitehead You loved them in March. See them again the weekend of Oct 16 & 17
At Alegria Where the Argentine Tango, Milonga, and Vals are danced and taught. Tim and Joanne Pogros teach the close embrace, Milonguero or Apilado style of tango to their students. We also have brought many instructors from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Cleveland to help in good instruction. People like, Carlos Gavito, Milena Plebs, Ricardo Vidort, Robert Hauk, and many, many, more.
The Argentine Tango is a dance of Passion, grace, speed and intricate steps. It is intensely individualistic and improvisational. The music is derived from black African rhythms, the melodies of southern Italy, Cuba and the Andalusian Tango. The theme of tango is passion, emotion and longing. It is reflected in the somber strains of the bandoneon, an accordion like instrument that breathes and signs with the pining of a lost love. Born around 1880 in the River Plate Region, Tango is an exclusively urban phenomenon whos major development took place in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. Initially only performed by amateurs, the tango was danced solely among men, who perfected their steps to impress the prostitutes at underground brothels. Women were included at the turn of the century, and the aristocracy embraced the dance in the late 1910s. 100 years since its birth, the tango is both the classic and modern form is again an integral part of Argentine culture, reclaimed by an older generation and discovered by the young.
