Tango Revolution

Tango Revolution celebrates International Day of Tango (12/11) at Caffe Trieste Downtown SF!

2011-12-04T13:10:00.000-08:00

Special guest performers Ville Hiltula (bandoneon) and Maho Nabeshima (piano)will perform 2 Live music sets during the Milonga. See details below.

SUNDAY DECEMBER 11, 2011 from 6pm -10pm
CAFFE TRIESTE DOWNTOWN
1667 MARKET STREET@ GOUGH
San Francisco, CA 94103

FREE with food/drink at the caffe. Special Tango menu available.
Donations for the artists are encouraged!
Hosted by Sonja Riket - More info: 415.661.1852
www.tangorevolution.blogspot.com - www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

Come celebrate the International Day of Tango and Tango icon Carlos Gardel’s birthday!

We are honored and grateful that our friends and professional Tango musicians Ville Hiltula (bandoneon) and Maho Nabeshima (piano) will perform 2 Live music sets during the Milonga.
Members of the Tango Revolution Orchestra will join them in the first set, then our guests will play a second set in duo.

Take an introductory Tango dance lesson with award-winning teacher Sonja Riket (no dance experience or partner necessary), then dance the night away in the intimate atmosphere of Caffe Trieste.

Or come to taste the special Tango Menu with locally made Argentine empanadas and enjoy listening to first class Argentine Tango live music, watching the dancers strut their stuff!

Bring friends and family for an authentic Argentine Tango experience! All levels and ages are welcome.

EVENT SCHEDULE:
6-7pm: Introductory Tango dance lesson with Sonja Riket ($5 Donation)
7:30-10pm Milonga (Tango Dance Party).
8pm: 1st Set of Live music with special guest performers Ville Hiltula (bandoneon) and Maho Nabeshima (piano) joined by members of the Tango Revolution Orchestra.
9pm: 2nd Set of Live music by duo Ville Hiltula (bandoneon) and Maho Nabeshima (piano).

About Ville Hiltula and Maho Nabeshima:
Ville Hiltula (Finland) and Maho Nabeshima (Japan) are an international tango duo from the San Francisco Bay Area: two extremely talented musicians who put their mark on the tango tradition.
Coming from diverse musical and cultural backgrounds these two musicians unite their collective experience and talents to provide tango music with a contemporary personal vision without forgetting the traditions of this wonderful music.
Their repertoire covers a wide range of different tango styles. Having an extensive collection of old traditional danceable tango and tango nuevo in their repertoire, they also like to push the borders of traditional tango music by playing contemporary newly written music.

Ville Hiltula:
Ville was born and raised in Finland where he started his musical career with accordion at the age of 9. He studied at the Sibelius-Academy in Helsinki and later performed as an accordion soloist and chamber musician in different countries in Europe. From 2002 to 2006, Ville studied bandoneon and Argentine Tango at The Rotterdam Conservatory`s tango department in the Netherlands, the best Tango school outside Buenos Aires, Argentina.

As a bandoneon player and tango musician Ville has been working actively ever since and collaborated with many world renowned tango artists such as Carel Kraayenhof y su Sexteto Canyengue, Gustavo Beytelmann, Victor Hugo Villena, Orquesta Tipica OTRA, Roberto Alvarez y su Color Tango, Alfredo Marcucci, Sonia Possetti, Alejandro Schwarz, Leonardo Sanchez, Pablo Agri, and also played together with pop groups Blof and Nuspirit Helsinki.

He participated as a soloist in Astor Piazzolla`s tango opera Maria de Buenos Aires, which performed all over Belgium in 2005-2006 together with Musiques Nouvelles ensemble. Ville also worked together with Aurelia Saxophone Quartet and the Argentinean pianist Juan Pablo Dobal in the project called Nuevo Encuentro.

Ville has performed in Buenos Aires, Argentina (VIII Festival de Tango Buenos Aires, Teatro Alvear, Teatro San Martin, Casa del Tango, Congreso National de Buenos Aires, Teatro de la Ribera, Carapachay, Confiteria Ideal, La Viruta), most European countries as well as in Japan and the USA. His music appears on 4 CD’s. www.villehiltula.com

Maho Nabeshima:
Maho received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in piano performance from New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and an Artist Diploma from Carnegie Mellon University.

She served on the faculty of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University’s preparatory school, the Colburn School of Performing Arts and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music preparatory division.

Maho has given solo and chamber music recitals in Japan, Germany and the United States, with the Essex Symphony Orchestra in Andover, Massachusetts and most recently in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. She was a featured pianist on the Steinway Society Concert Series in Pittsburgh, PA, the Walden School Concert Series in Dublin, New Hampshire, as well as on the Liszt Gala Concert hosted by the American Liszt Society in San Francisco, CA. She recorded 2 CD’s. www.mahonabeshima.com

About Tango Revolution:
Tango Revolution is a weekly neighborhood project to offer anyone the opportunity to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango: a dance and music of immigrants which continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and social status. By regularly holding the event free of charge in an accessible café on a Sunday afternoon we encourage the spontaneous inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience. Where both beginning and accomplished dancers and musicians can share the floor without obvious hierarchy.

Part of the project includes giving young musicians from high schools, community music schools, conservatories and universities the opportunity to learn and perform traditional Argentine Tango music as well as Piazzolla’s Nuevo Tango. They receive coaching sessions by professional Tango musicians from Argentina, Europe and the USA, collaborate with guest faculty and professional musicians and perform regularly as a music ensemble at SF’s Community Music Center, Caffe Trieste Downtown and other special events in the Bay Area.

The Tango Revolution project began in 2005 at Café Revolution in SF’s Mission District. Its success has inspired other musical groups such as Classical Revolution to adopt the idea, the name and the practice of making music in accessible places.
Many dancers honed their skills with us and many musicians were introduced to the tango music, since there is no official Tango music school in the Bay Area. Some went on to form their own groups such as the tango quartet Tangonero, which has its origin in the Tango Revolution project.

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We offer the beautiful connection between human beings in the Tango Embrace as a common ground and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary. What better way to come home to ourselves and connect with each other across our differences than the non-verbal power of a musical and dance embrace, listening and moving together as one?
www.tangorevolution.blogspot.com – www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

Tango Revolution Orchestra celebrates its 6th Anniversary

2011-10-28T05:03:00.000-07:00

TANGO REVOLUTION 6TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION (2005-2011)

Special guest performers Ville Hiltula (bandoneon) and Maho Nabeshima (piano) join Tango Revolution musicians in a CONCERT of Piazzolla (Nuevo Tango), traditional Argentine Tango and Argentine folk music and as “Orquesta Tipica” in the MILONGA(Tango Dance Party)!

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6, 2011 from 7pm -12am
SF Community Music Center
544 Capp Street (b/w 20th & 21st Street)
San Francisco, CA 94110

Hosted by Sonja Riket - More info: 415.661.1852
www.tangorevolution.blogspot.com - www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

Come celebrate Tango Revolution’s 6 years of service to the community with free Tango classes, Milongas and opportunities for young musicians to learn about and perform the Argentine Tango style!

We feel extremely honored that Argentine Tango professionals of such caliber as Ville Hiltula and Maho Nabeshima will join us in this celebration!
With high level artistry and exceptional teaching ability, they have coached the Tango Revolution musicians in an intensive master class leading up to tonight’s collaborative performance in Concert and as “Orquesta Tipica” during the Milonga (Tango Dance Party).

Take an introductory Tango dance lesson with award-winning teacher Sonja Riket (no dance experience or partner necessary), then dance the night away in the intimate atmosphere of the concert hall with balcony, splendid hardwood floors and a beautiful open air patio to catch your breath!

What a treat!!! Don’t miss this very special and participatory event!
Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and ages are welcome.

EVENT SCHEDULE:
7-7:50pm: Concert of Piazzolla (Nuevo Tango), traditional Argentine Tango and Argentine folk music by Tango Revolution musicians with guest performers Ville Hiltula (bandoneon) and Maho Nabeshima (piano)
8-8:45pm: Introductory Dance Lesson by award winning teacher Sonja Riket (no dance experience or partner required)
9pm: Milonga starts
10pm: Live music set for dancing with Tango Revolution “Orquesta Tipica” and guests Ville Hiltula (bandoneon) and Maho Nabeshima (piano)
Milonga continues till 12 am.

Entrance fee: $15/$10 seniors & students, children under 11 free

ABOUT VILLE HILTULA AND MAHO NABESHIMA:
Ville Hiltula (Finland) and Maho Nabeshima (Japan) are an international tango duo from the San Francisco Bay Area: two extremely talented musicians who put their mark on the tango tradition.
Coming from diverse musical and cultural backgrounds these two musicians unite their collective experience and talents to provide tango music with a contemporary personal vision without forgetting the traditions of this wonderful music.
Their repertoire covers a wide range of different tango styles. Having an extensive collection of old traditional danceable tango and tango nuevo in their repertoire, they also like to push the borders of traditional tango music by playing contemporary newly written music.

VILLE HILTULA: was born and raised in Finland where he started his musical career with accordion at the age of 9. He studied at the Sibelius-Academy in Helsinki and later performed as an accordion soloist and chamber musician in different countries in Europe. From 2002 to 2006, Ville studied bandoneon and Argentine Tango at The Rotterdam Conservatory`s tango department in the Netherlands, the best Tango school outside Buenos Aires, Argentina.

As a bandoneon player and tango musician Ville has been working actively ever since and collaborated with many world renowned tango artists such as Carel Kraayenhof y su Sexteto Canyengue, Gustavo Beytelmann, Victor Hugo Villena, Orquesta Tipica OTRA, Roberto Alvarez y su Color Tango, Alfredo Marcucci, Sonia Possetti, Alejandro Schwarz, Leonardo Sanchez, Pablo Agri, and also played together with pop groups Blof and Nuspirit Helsinki.
He participated as a soloist in Astor Piazzolla`s tango opera Maria de Buenos Aires, which performed all over Belgium in 2005-2006 together with Musiques Nouvelles ensemble. Ville also worked together with Aurelia Saxophone Quartet and the Argentinean pianist Juan Pablo Dobal in the project called Nuevo Encuentro.

Ville has performed in Buenos Aires, Argentina (VIII Festival de Tango Buenos Aires, Teatro Alvear, Teatro San Martin, Casa del Tango, Congreso National de Buenos Aires, Teatro de la Ribera, Carapachay, Confiteria Ideal, La Viruta), most European countries as well as in Japan and the USA. His music appears on 4 CD’s. www.villehiltula.com

MAHO NABESHIMA:
Maho received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in piano performance from New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and an Artist Diploma from Carnegie Mellon University.

She served on the faculty of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University’s preparatory school, the Colburn School of Performing Arts and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music preparatory division.

Maho has given solo and chamber music recitals in Japan, Germany and the United States, with the Essex Symphony Orchestra in Andover, Massachusetts and most recently in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. She was a featured pianist on the Steinway Society Concert Series in Pittsburgh, PA, the Walden School Concert Series in Dublin, New Hampshire, as well as on the Liszt Gala Concert hosted by the American Liszt Society in San Francisco, CA. She recorded 2 CD’s. www.mahonabeshima.com

ABOUT TANGO REVOLUTION:
Tango Revolution is a weekly neighborhood project to offer anyone the opportunity to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango: a dance and music of immigrants which continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and social status. By regularly holding the event free of charge in an accessible café on a Sunday afternoon we encourage the spontaneous inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience. Where both beginning and accomplished dancers and musicians can share the floor without obvious hierarchy.

Part of the project includes giving young musicians from high schools, community music schools, conservatories and universities the opportunity to learn and perform traditional Argentine Tango music as well as Piazzolla’s Nuevo Tango. They receive coaching sessions by professional Tango musicians from Argentina, Europe and the USA, collaborate with guest faculty and professional musicians and perform regularly as a music ensemble at SF’s Community Music Center, Caffe Trieste Downtown and other special events in the Bay Area.

The Tango Revolution project began in 2005 at Café Revolution in SF’s Mission District. Its success has inspired other musical groups such as Classical Revolution to adopt the idea, the name and the practice of making music in accessible places.
Many dancers honed their skills with us and many musicians were introduced to the tango music, since there is no official Tango music school in the Bay Area. Some went on to form their own groups such as the tango quartet Tangonero, which has its origin in the Tango Revolution project.

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We offer the beautiful connection between human beings in the Tango Embrace as a common ground and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary. What better way to come home to ourselves and connect with each other across our differences than the non-verbal power of a musical and dance embrace, listening and moving together as one?
www.tangorevolution.blogspot.com – www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

TANGO REVOLUTION ORCHESTRA AND DANCERS APPEAR AT THE SF SYMPHONY!

2011-07-27T04:28:00.000-07:00

Come join us in a special music and dance opportunity this Thursday July 28, 2011 at Davies Symphony Hall!

The SF Symphony is putting on a special concert with the 4 seasons by Vivaldi and Piazzolla and has asked Sonja Riket to organize a pre-concert and intermission event with live Argentine tango music and dance.

Come to dance or watch the expert dancers at the Milonga de Symphonia with live music by Tango Revolution Orchestra, then enjoy a fabulous Piazzolla concert by the SF Symphony.

MILONGA DE SYMPHONIA

WHAT: Tango dancing with Live music by Tango Revolution Orchestra.
WHEN: THURSDAY JULY 28, 2011
Pre-concert from 7-8pm and during intermission from 8:30-8:50pm
WHERE: DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL UPSTAIRS LOBBY
On the corner of Grove Street and Van Ness Avenue in SF(Parking garage on Grove St. between Gough and Franklin St.)
COST: To enter you need a concert ticket. Half price concert tickets are available with promo code “July50off” online or by phone/in person. http://www.sfsymphony.org/season/Event.aspx?eventid=48928
MORE INFO: Sonja Riket 415.661.1852
www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com
www.tangorevolution.blogspot.com

TANGO REVOLUTION ORCESTRA and CMC faculty guests in CONCERT and MILONGA (Tango Party)

2011-04-28T13:06:00.000-07:00

Saturday April 30, 2011
From 8pm-12am
SF Community Music Center
544 Capp Street (21st Street) in SF

FREE ENTRANCE AS PART OF NATIONAL DANCE WEEK!

Join us for an evening of Argentine Tango music and dance in San Francisco’s cherished Community Music Center with its beautiful concert hall and outdoor patio!
As part of Bay Area national Dance Week 2011, faculty Sonja Riket hosts a free Piazzolla concert and Tango dance party.

The youthful Tango Revolution Orchestra and special CMC faculty guests showcase their skill and enthusiasm for playing Piazzolla’s Nuevo Tango for listening and traditional Golden Era Tangos for dancing.

Take an introductory Tango lesson with award winning teacher Sonja Riket. No dance experience or partner necessary!
Then dance the night away with live Tango music and watch a special demonstration by expert dancers!

CONCERT: 8-8:30pm
INTRO DANCE CLASS: 8:45-9:30pm
MILONGA(TANGO PARTY) starts: 9:30pm with DJ Zeycan Monteleone
SPECIAL DANCE DEMONSTRATIONS at 10pm
LIVE MUSIC SET: 10:15-11pm
MILONGA CONTINUES TILL 12am

More info: Intimate Embrace Tango 415.661.1852 www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com – www.bayareandw.org -www.tangorevolution.blogspot.com

ABOUT TANGO REVOLUTION:

Tango Revolution is a weekly neighborhood educational project to offer anyone the opportunity to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. By holding the event free of charge in an accessible café on a Sunday afternoon we encourage the spontaneous inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience.

Part of the project includes giving young musicians the opportunity to learn and perform traditional Argentine Tango music as well as Piazzolla’s Nuevo Tango. They receive coaching sessions by professional Tango musicians from Argentina and the USA and perform regularly at SF’s Community Music Center, Caffe Trieste Downtown and other events in the Bay Area.

The Tango Revolution project began in 2005 at Café Revolution in SF’s Mission District. Its success has inspired other groups such as Classical Revolution to adopt the idea, the name and the practice nationwide. The Tango group Tangonero has it origins in the Tango Revolution project and many musicians honed their skills with us.

We envision Tango Revolution as a fertile ground for learning about Argentine Tango, a dance and music of immigrants, which continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and social status. Where both beginning and accomplished dancers and musicians can share the floor without obvious hierarchy.

We offer the beautiful connection between human beings in the Tango Embrace as a common ground and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary. What better way to come home to ourselves and connect with each other across our differences than the non-verbal power of a musical and dance embrace, listening and moving together as one?
Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and ages are welcome.

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We organize classes, workshops, Milonga’s, concerts and social awareness-and fundraising events around critical issues of our time.
www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com - 415.661.1852- www.tangorevolution.blogspot.com

FREE WORKSHOP SERIES FOR MUSICIANS AND SINGERS

2011-03-12T00:49:00.000-08:00

FOR ALL MUSICIANS, SINGERS, MUSIC FACULTY, COACHES, AND MUSIC THERAPISTS

A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN TOOLS TO FREE YOURSELF FROM TENSION, PAIN AND INJURY AND FIND INNOVATIVE SOURCES FOR EXPRESSION, COMPOSITION AND IMPROVISATION

SF Community Music Center & faculty member Sonja Riket present a series of FREE educational workshops on the relationship of movement to music making/singing for creative expression and injury prevention/rehabilitation with special guest faculty Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of the groundbreaking, innovative Body-Mind Centering Method® of somatic education.

Human movement is a fundamental dimension of the musical experience.
In this series of free workshops spread over the year 2011, we will explore movement as a crucial element in music making:
-As a modality for expressive possibilities, as a tool for injury
prevention/rehabilitation, to embody music in a healthy, dynamic structure.
-How to use the body effectively to produce high quality musical performances
-How human developmental movement patterns: homologous, homo-lateral, contra-lateral are foundational elements of musical organization
-To improve breathing, tone, coordination, strength and technical proficiency

** Workshops will be taught by Sonja Riket, CMC faculty and Body-Mind Centering® and Feldenkrais® Teacher. The last integrative workshop on November 13 will be taught by Mrs. Bainbridge Cohen. **

DATES:
Sun 2/6: 12-3pm
Sun 3/13: 12pm - 3pm
Sat 4/2: 10am - 1pm
Sun 9/25: 12-3pm
Sun 10/16: 12-3pm
Sun 11/13: 12-3pm with guest faculty Mrs. Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

(Workshops can be taken individually or as a series (recommended) to allow for deepened understanding as content will vary and build; material is sourced from the somatic methods of Body- Mind Centering® www.bodymindcentering.com and Feldenkrais® www.feldenkrais.com.
Participants are asked to bring their instruments and a piece of music to play or ideas for composition at the end of each workshop)

LOCATION: San Francisco Community Music Center, Concert Hall:
544 Capp Street – SF, CA 94110
415.647.6015 - www.sfcmc.org

***Please register your participation with Sonja Riket at: 415.661.1852 or
email at: sriket@earthlink.net Visit www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, an Occupational Therapist and Registered Somatic Movement Therapist® is the developer of Body-Mind Centering® and the founder of the School for Body-Mind Centering®. For more than 37 years she has been an innovator and leader in developing this embodied and integrated approach to movement, touch and
repatterning, experiential anatomy, developmental principles, perceptions and psychophysical processes. She is the author of Sensing, Feeling and Action and currently has 3 DVD’s: Body-Mind Centering and Dance, Nervous System and Yoga and Four Special Children. www.bodymindcentering.com

Sonja Riket is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist®, a Certified Feldenkrais® and Body-Mind Centering® Teacher and faculty member at the SF Community Music Center. Her passion for dance and music began at age four and blossomed into a professional dance career spanning 30 years and four continents. For two decades she has been practicing and teaching somatic methods for dancers, musicians and general public of all ages. Sonja is the founder/director of the SF Somatic Wellness Program for low-income women and children at SF’s Women’s Building. She teaches somatically inspired Argentine Tango dance, and is the founder of the Tango Revolution Orchestra, which performs every Sunday at SF’s Caffe Trieste Downtown. Sonja is a humble student of the Bandoneon instrument.

TESTIMONIALS
“I HAVE USED BODY MIND CENTERING IN MY PIANO PLAYING AND TEACHING FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS. BODY AWARENESSIS A CRUCIAL ELEMENT IN MY ART; IT IS THE TOOL THROUGH WHICH I CAN REALIZE MY MUSICAL INTENTIONS. WITHOUT IT, I WOULD BE PRONE TO INJURY; WITH IT, I HAVE ACCESS TO A TREASURE-TROVE OF ARTISTIC POSSIBILITIES. I LIKE TO WORK WITH THE BODY SYSTEMS AS A STIMULUS FOR GENERATING NEW INTERPRETATIONS, AND I HAVE ESPECIALLY ENJOYED BONNIE BAINBRIDGE COHEN’S WORK CONNECTING THE SCAPULA TO THE FINGERS. AMAZINGLY, THAT WORK CORRELATES BEAUTIFULLY WITH CHOPIN’S IDEAS ABOUT PIANO PLAYING. BEING GROUNDED IN MY BODY ALLOWS ME TO BE EXPRESSIVE IN MY SOUL.”
-MONICA JAKUC LEVERETT
ELSIE IRWIN SWEENEY PROFESSOR EMERITA OF MUSIC
SMITH COLLEGE, NORTHAMPTON, MA

“WORKING WITH SONJA RIKET, HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUSLY REWARDING EXPERIENCE. HER
TEACHING, WHICH GRACEFULLY BLENDS THE SOMATIC METHOD OF BODY-MIND CENTERING® WITH ELEMENTS OF THE FELDENKRAIS METHOD®, HAS BEGUN TO INTEGRATE WITHIN ME A LEVEL OF DYNAMIC BODY BALANCE AND AWARENESS WHICH I HAD NEVER KNOWN EXISTED, AND WHICH I AM
CONVINCED CAN GREATLY BENEFIT ANY MUSIC STUDENT, TEACHER, OR PROFESSIONAL PERFORMER. I AM FINDING MYSELF PLAYING WITH MORE FLUIDITY, EASE, AND COMFORT THAN EVER BEFORE, AND CAN FINALLY BEGIN TO LOOK BEYOND MY HISTORY OF MUSIC RELATED INJURIES TOWARD AN OPTIMISTIC FUTURE PREVIOUSLY DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE. BUT FAR MORE THAN JUST INJURY
PREVENTION, SONJA’S “CULTIVATING CREATIVE EXPRESSION” COURSE AT SF’S COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OPENS UP CREATIVE AND PHYSICAL RESOURCES WHICH CAN POSITIVELY AFFECT NEARLY EVERY ASPECT OF ONE’S LIFE. THE OVERALL EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN NOTHING SHORT OF A COMPLETE PERSONAL PARADIGM SHIFT.”
-PETER LEE, BACHELOR OF MUSIC, CLASSICAL GUITAR SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.

“VERY FEW EXPERIENCES IN MY SIXTY PLUS YEARS HAVE BEEN AS REWARDING AND PRODUCTIVE AS THE BODY-MIND CENTERING THERAPY, INFORMATION, EXPLORATIONS AND EXERCISES I HAVE RECEIVED FROM SONJA RIKET. THIS FOR ME HAS BEEN A VERY POWERFUL HEALING EXPERIENCE, RESTORING MOBILITY TO MY PLAYING (53 YEARS OF MOVING NOTES ON A SAXOPHONE) AND
GENERALLY IMPROVING MY QUALITY OF LIFE AS I DEAL WITH AGE RELATED ISSUES AND PAST INJURIES. NO RISK, EXCEPTIONAL PERSONAL GAIN, THE BEST AND MOST PRODUCTIVE HEALTH RELATED SESSIONS OF MY LIFE.”
-BILL FIEGE, SENIOR FACULTY SF COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER,
TEACHING & PERFORMING IN SAN FRANCISCO SINCE 1968

Body-Mind Centering® is a registered service mark of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen used with permission.
Feldenkrais® is a registered service mark of the Feldenkrais®Guild of No. America.

Grand celebration of the 5th anniversary of Tango Revolution!

2010-12-01T01:57:00.000-08:00

Grand celebration of the 5th anniversary of
Tango Revolution with honorary guests performers Leonardo and Olga Suarez-Paz in Piazzolla concert and milonga (tango dance party) with live music.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 4, 2010 from 7pm -12am
aMUSE GALLERY
614 Alabama Street (b/w 18th & 19th Str, Harrisson & Florida)
San Francisco

Come celebrate Tango Revolution’s 5 years of service to the community with free Tango classes, Milongas and opportunities for young musicians to learn about and perform the Argentine Tango style!
We feel very honored that Tango stars Leonardo and Olga Suarez-Paz will join us in this celebration! Leonardo will perform violin and a special song in honor of Tango icon Carlos Gardel’s birthday (December 11) with our Tango Revolution musicians, teach a dance class and offer a special dance performance with his wife Olga.
What a treat!!! Don’t miss this special event!

PROGRAM:
7pm: Class with Leonardo Suarez-Paz – Intermediate level.
8:15pm Piazzolla concert with Leonardo Suarez-Paz (violin, song) and Tango Revolution musicians.
9pm: Milonga starts with DJ Zeycan
10:15pm Dance Performance by Leonardo and Olga Suarez-Paz
10:30pm Live Music set
Milonga continues till 12 am.

Entrance fee: $15 for Concert and Milonga w/Live music
$20 for Class, Concert and Milonga w/Live Music

There will be limited appetizers and drinks. Please bring your own wine, food, desserts to contribute to the celebration.

Donations towards the Tango Revolution Project are very welcome!

Hosted by Sonja Riket - More info: 415.661.1852
www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com – www.tangorevolution.blogspot.com

ABOUT TANGO REVOLUTION:
Tango Revolution is a weekly neighborhood project to offer anyone the opportunity to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. By holding the event free of charge in an accessible café on a Sunday afternoon we encourage the spontaneous inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience.

Part of the project includes giving young musicians the opportunity to learn and perform traditional Argentine Tango music as well as Piazzolla’s Nuevo Tango. They receive coaching sessions by professional Tango musicians from Argentina and the USA and perform regularly at Caffe Trieste Downtown and other special events in the Bay Area.

The Tango Revolution project began in 2005 at Café Revolution in SF’s Mission District. Its success has inspired other musical groups such as Classical Revolution to adopt the idea, the name and the practice. The Tango quartet Tangonero has its origins at Tango Revolution as well as several other musicians now playing Tango in the Bay Area.

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We offer the beautiful connection between human beings in the Tango Embrace as a common ground and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary. What better way to come home to ourselves and connect with each other across our differences than the non-verbal power of a musical and dance embrace, listening and moving together as one?

Astor Piazzolla Themed Masterclass with "Tango Royalty" Leonardo Suarez-Paz

2010-12-01T01:54:00.000-08:00

Here is a unique opportunity for the musicians amongst you to study with a great artist who received the direct lineage of Astor Piazzolla. Don’t miss it!

WHEN: Friday December 3, from 5-6:30pm
WHERE: SF Conservatory of Music
50 Oak Street (at Market)
SF, CA 94102
PLEASE ARRIVE NO LATER THAN 5PM AND WAIT IN THE ENTRANCE HALL.
COST: $25
WHAT:
Leonardo will use a piece composed by Astor Piazzolla and teach you how to play this particular style of music: a mixture of Tango, Jazz and Classical. He will focus on the difference (for all the instruments) in phrasing, legatos, staccatos, rubatos ... and how to express the melody.
All musicians are welcome; notes will be provided.
For more info and to register your participation please contact Sonja Riket at 415.661.1852

ABOUT LEONARDO SUAREZ-PAZ:

Leonardo Suarez Paz , a fourth generation tango artist, billed by the press as “tango royalty”, is a representative of the Academia Nacional del Tango of Buenos Aires. He is known for his uncommon talent as a singer, a career which he began at the age of six, a tango dancer, and an artist who “possesses a unique spirit and is a virtuoso extraordinaire on the violin” (Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York) Leonardo’s mother Beatriz Suarez Paz, a leading tango singer in Buenos Aires, has passed along to Leonardo his vocal passion and talent. “Suarez Paz’s father, a brilliant tango violinist, had been one of Piazzolla’s principal collaborators, and from the first bar it was clear that the father and the son were made of the same stuff” (“Flying High,” JAZZIZ Magazine by Alexander Gelfand, Music Critic Cuartetango in Birdland, New York.)

By the time he was 14, Leonardo was playing and touring with tango orchestras and was the only young, teenage member of the last Horacio Salgan orchestra, in which each musician was a tango star. He is the only violinist of his generation who played with most of the great directors of the Golden Age as a violin soloist. He was also influenced by the Nuevo Tango, thus carrying the torch that was handed down from Astor Piazzolla to his father and to him, “Leonardo plays with the same intense passion and clarity heard a generation ago on his father's recordings.” (Barnes & Noble, Music Review February 2004)

In Buenos Aires, he brought together the best in tango and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, who has also commissioned tango arrangements from Leonardo Suarez Paz. An EMI Classics artist, violinist, arranger and composer, Leonardo’s experience as a classical musician is part of the legacy, which makes him a leading tango violinist today.
Throughout his intense career, he has performed and recorded with a bouquet of international stars enhancing the productions of Placido Domingo (“Mariachi” Capitol Records 2000), American jazz legend Stanley Jordan (“My Favorite Things” TCB Records 2002), Latin star Luis Miguel (“Amarte es un Placer,” EMI 1999), and Carlos Franzetti’s (“The Jazz Kamerata”/“Tango Bar” Chesky Records). One can hear the sound of his tango violin in motion pictures Bossa Nova, Imposters and Flawless with Robert DeNiro. In 2009 and 2010 he toured throughout Brasil, China, Korea and Singapore with the show Café de Los Maestros, dedicated to the legends of tango.

Leonardo has performed with the tango shows Tangox2 , Forever Tango and Tango Argentino on Broadway.
Leonardo directs Cuartetango String Quartet, who’s latest album L’Atelier was released by EMI Classics. His Cuartetango Music & Dance Company and Romance de Tango shows were featured on an Emmy-winning program, “Rhythm and Roots,” which is currently airing in the US, Europe and the Middle East. http://www.ebru.tv/en/genres/ArtsLiterature/rhythm-and-roots/episodes/2/206-Cuartetango
For more info please visit: www.leonardosuarezpaz.com - www.suarezpazdance.com

BLUE TANGO

2010-08-25T18:43:00.000-07:00

A World Tango fusion concert and dance celebration in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month by Argentine singer/guitarist Maria Volonte and Kevin Footer on harmonica.

Friday, September 10, 2010
8pm - midnight
$15/$10 (students/seniors)

Community Music Center – Concert Hall
544 Capp St. (between 20th&21st Streets, Mission&So.Van Ness)
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.647.6015 - www.sfcmc.org

Event Schedule
8-8:30pm World Tango Fusion Concert with Maria Volonte (vocals, guitar) and Kevin Footer (harmonica)
8:45-9:30pm Introductory Tango dance lesson with Sonja Riket (no partner or dance experience necessary)
9:30pm Tango dance party (Milonga) starts
10:15-11pm Live music set for Tango social dancing by Maria Volonte and Kevin Footer with guest Darren Morgan on cajon.
11pm Milonga continues till 12 am.

For more info, please call: Sonja Riket 415.661.1852 – intimate_embrace_tango@earthlink.net www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

Argentine singer/songwriter Maria Volonte is a Latin Grammy nominee, Gardel Prize winner (Argentina’s Grammy) and member of the Tango Hall of Fame who combines a love of her Argentine roots with an absolutely personal approach to making music – result of a life lived intensely as a woman and as an artist – that has fascinated critics and audiences around the world.
Maria returns to the US following her recent tours of Argentina and Europe bringing with her all the passion and sensuality of her native Buenos Aires. Her new music explores the fusion of tango with the blues – two musical traditions born on the margins of society, which went on to seduce the entire world.
In tonight’s concert Maria will perform uniquely original compositions, deeply rooted in the Argentine tango with elements of blues and jazz. She will be accompanied by Kevin Footer on harmonica.
After an introductory dance lesson by award winning tango teacher Sonja Riket, the Milonga will feature a more traditional Live Tango music set for social dancing by Maria, Kevin and guest Darren Morgan on cajon. Come listen, watch the social Tango dancers or join in the dance!

More info about the artists:
MARIA VOLONTE (vocals & guitar):
Maria Volonte is an Argentine artist celebrated for the intense emotional universe that fires her music. Filling theaters and fascinating audiences and critics around the world, Maria turns each concert into a celebration of life, art and music.
Winner of the Gardel Prize (Argentina’s Grammy award) and a Latin Grammy nominee, Maria is a singer, guitarist and songwriter who takes the music of Latin America to unexpected places by crossing musical boundaries and honing a deeply personal approach.
As the Los Angeles Times wrote, “Volonte is a good example of an artist who is respectful of her roots yet not afraid to go beyond musty old formulas… Her musical concept is refreshingly broad.”
Jazz Perspectives wrote: Maria Volonte combines the earthiness of Edith Piaff with the sassiness of Eartha Kit.

Maria’s love of the musical life and her passion for experimentation have lead to far-reaching projects, from an exploration of the sassy roots of tango to tango fusion to collaborations with revered icons of jazz such as Horacio Larumbe (a project which lead to her 2003 Latin Grammy nomination). She has performed the title role in the Astor Piazzolla opera “Maria of Buenos Aires”, opened for jazz pianist Brad Mehldau, played at the famed jazz club Yoshi’s in California and thrilled audiences at music festivals from Punto de l’Este to Helsinki.

Maria has released six albums. Her latest, “Sudestada” (2007) features four of Maria’s own compositions and was produced by famed singer-songwriter Raul Carnota. “Yo soy Maria” (2006), explores the fusion of tango with jazz and bossa nova and was nominated for the 2007 Gardel Prize. “Tangos” (2004), brought together a classic collection of tangos from her repertoire and was nominated for the 2005 Gardel Prize. “Fuimos” (2003), a duo project with the legendary pianist Horacio Larumbe, won Maria the 2004 Gardel Prize and was nominated for a Latin Grammy. “Cornisas del Corazon” (1999), was recorded live at the historic Tortoni Cafe in Buenos Aires while her first, “Tango y Otras Pasiones” (1996) was chosen by the “La Nacion” newspaper as one of the “Top 100 Tango Recordings of All Time.”
In 2007, Maria was inducted into the Tango Hall of Fame.

Maria says: “For me singing is a celebration of life itself. It is the ecstasy and pain at childbirth, the mystery of the long voyage, the thrill of chance encounters, the surrender in love and the slow revelation on one’s true self. In singing I renew the force of life within me. I am never more myself than when I sing.”
Please visit: www.mariavolonte.com and Artist Video Link: http://vimeo.com/12754767

KEVIN FOOTER (harmonica)
Kevin Carrel Footer is a writer, photographer and harmonica player deeply inspired by the intense passions of tango. Since 2001, his writings are featured in the “Buenos Aires Herald.” His photographs, writings and music focus on the intimate, glimpsed world of the spirit. He plays harmonica professionally and tours the world performing with the celebrated Argentine tango diva Maria Volonte.
His writings, photographs and music can be read, viewed and listened to at: www.kevincarrelfooter.com

SONJA RIKET (Tango dance)
7x7 Magazine “Best Tango Teacher” Award winner and movement therapist Sonja Riket teaches dance and movement classes and organizes cultural-, social and fundraising events around critical issues of our time. After a long professional modern dance career in Europe, USA, Mexico and Africa, performing with such luminaries as Jose Limon and Lar Lubovitch dance cies.in NYC, she moved to SF where Tango found her in 1998. At a very early age her father, who was a music teacher in Belgium, instilled in her a deep love of music which always inspired her to dance. As faculty member of the SF Community Music Center she teaches Creative Expression and Injury Prevention for musicians. Sonja is a humble student of the bandoneon instrument. In 2005 she created Tango Revolution, a free weekly Tango music and dance event open to the public, held in an accessible café to encourage the spontaneous inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience. Youth from high schools, conservatories and universities are given the opportunity to learn about the music, dance and history of Argentine Tango and to perform as Tango Revolution Orchestra under the guidance of expert coaches. For more information visit: www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

Tango Revolution Orchestra and guests in Concert and Milonga

2010-04-29T02:11:00.000-07:00

Tango Revolution and CMC faculty Sonja Riket present:

Tango Revolution Orchestra and guests in Concert and Milonga (Tango Party)

Saturday May 1, 2010
From 8pm-12am
Community Music Center
544 Capp Street (21st Street) in SF

FREE ENTRANCE AS PART OF NATIONAL DANCE WEEK!

To celebrate Mayday and United Nation’s declaration of Argentine Tango’s world heritage status, the youthful Tango Revolution Orchestra and special guests showcase their skill and enthusiasm for playing Piazzolla’s Nuevo Tango and traditional Golden Era Tangos for listening and dancing. They will be joined by Betty Wong, piano faculty at CMC.
Take an introductory Tango lesson with award winning teacher Sonja Riket. No dance experience or partner necessary!
Come listen, watch the social Tango dancers or join in the dance!

CONCERT: 8-8:30pm
INTRO DANCE CLASS: 8:45-9:30pm
MILONGA(TANGO PARTY) starts: 9:30pm
LIVE MUSIC SET: 10:15-11pm
MILONGA CONTINUES TILL 12am

More info: Intimate Embrace Tango 415.661.1852
www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com – www.bayareandw.org
www.tangorevolution.blogspot.com

ABOUT TANGO REVOLUTION:

Tango Revolution is a weekly neighborhood educational project to offer anyone the opportunity to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. By holding the event free of charge in an accessible café on a Sunday afternoon we encourage the spontaneous inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience.
Part of the project includes giving young musicians the opportunity to learn and perform traditional Argentine Tango music as well as Piazzolla’s Nuevo Tango. They receive coaching sessions by professional Tango musicians from Argentina and the USA and perform regularly at Caffe Trieste Downtown and other events in the Bay Area.
The Tango Revolution project began in 2005 at Café Revolution in SF’s Mission District. Its success has inspired other groups such as Classical Revolution to adopt the idea, the name and the practice nationwide.

We envision Tango Revolution as a fertile ground for learning about Argentine Tango, a dance and music of immigrants, which continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and social status. Where both beginning and accomplished dancers and musicians can share the floor without obvious hierarchy.

We offer the beautiful connection between human beings in the Tango Embrace as a common ground and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary. What better way to come home to ourselves and connect with each other across our differences than the non-verbal power of a musical and dance embrace, listening and moving together as one?

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We organize classes, workshops, Milonga’s, concerts and social awareness-and fundraising events around critical issues of our time.
www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com - 415.661.1852

International Tango harmonica/piano duo Joe Powers and Naoko Aoki returns to Bay Area to celebrate Tango's world heritage status!

2010-02-05T08:26:00.000-08:00

2 different events on Saturday-Sunday February 20-21, 2010!

On September 30, 2009 UNESCO, the United Nations cultural organization declared Argentine Tango a part of the world’s cultural heritage. "Tango conquered a long time ago a universal transcendence," UNESCO declared in a statement and added that the dance "embodies and encourages diversity and cultural dialogue."

After last Augusts’ sold out SF event, international Tango harmonica/piano duo Joe Powers and Naoko Aoki returns to the Bay Area for a celebration in style!
Their week-end performances will feature a traditional Argentine Tango concert and Milonga and a Tango/blues fusion happening in honour of Black History Month and the common roots of these musical genres.

For more information contact Sonja Riket at 415.661.1852
intimate_embrace_tango@earthlink.net, www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

Joe Powers, a Portland based harmonica phenomenon, is well known for his unique and soulful blend of jazz, tango and blues. When travelling to Buenos Aires, to record his first Tango CD, he met Japan’s top Tango pianist Naoko Aoki. Together, the international duo has exhilarated audiences from Argentina to USA and Japan with performances of this seductive dance music. Join them for their return duo appearance in San Francisco!

Joe Powers: www.joepowers.com – Naoko Aoki: http://celeste.coplan.jp
View Joe and Naoko on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-D12Uag3rs

Details about each event follow below.

I) TANGO HARMONY
Saturday February 20, 2010
8pm-12:30am
$15 /$10 (students/seniors)

SF Community Music Center - Concert Hall
544 Capp Street, SF 94110
415.647.6015 www.sfcmc.org

Event Schedule
8-8:30pm Argentine Tango Concert with Joe Powers (harmonica) and Naoko Aoki (piano)
8:45-9:30pm Introductory Tango dance lesson
9:30pm Tango dance party (Milonga) starts
10:15-11pm Live music set for Tango social dancing by Joe and Naoko.
11pm Milonga continues till 12:30 am

Listen to a selection of traditional Argentine Tangos, Waltzes and Milongas as well as original compositions by Joe Powers (harmonica) and Naoko Aoki (piano). Take an introductory dance lesson (no partner or dance experience necessary). Come listen, watch the social Tango dancers or join in the dance!

II) TANGO & BLUES
A Tribute to Black History Month
Sunday February 22, 2010
6-10pm
FREE with purchase of food/drink at cafe- Donations encouraged!

Caffe Trieste Downtown
1667 Market Street, SF 94103
415.551.1000
www.caffetriestedowntown.com

Event Schedule
6-7pm Introductory Tango Lesson
7:30-8pm: Tango Revolution Youth Orchestra opens Milonga with a traditional Tango set.
8:30-9:15pm Tango/Blues fusion set by Joe Powers and Naoko Aoki.
Milonga continues till 10pm..

Since 2005 Tango Revolution, a free weekly Tango music and dance event is held in an accessible café to encourage the spontaneous inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience. To honour Black History Month Joe Powers (harmonica) and Naoko Aoki (piano) will play a Tango/Blues fusion set and highlight the common roots of these musical genres. Come listen, watch the social Tango dancers or join in the dance!

More info about the artists:

Joe Powers:
Harmonica virtuoso, Joe Powers is one of the few Harmonica players in the world to specialize in Tango Music. He was winner of the Belgian Crystal Harmonica Award in the Classical Division (2008) and received 4th place in Jazz Diatonic, at the World Harmonica Championship in Germany (2005). Since then he has performed at Tango festivals and events throughout North and South America, Europe, and Japan collaborating with top Tango maestros including: Emilio de la Peña, Raul Luzzi, and Koji Kyotani. He has shared the stage with top Tango artists such as: NarcoTango, ColorTango, and "Gotan Project" singer, Veronika Silva and has performed with groups as diverse as Pink Martini, British Pop Icon Jamie Cullum, and Smooth Jazz Pioneer Tom Grant. His CD, "Amor de Tango" was recorded in Buenos Aires in 2007 and features members of the famed Leopoldo Federico Tango Orchestra, including Latin Grammy Nominee, Nicolas Ledesma on Piano. His newest CD, "Melancolie" (Summer 2009) is a collaboration with Grammy Nominated, British Composer/Pianist, Michael Hoppé, featuring classically inspired, New-Age melodies.
This January 2010 Joe has been nominated for an Portland Music Award for "Outstanding Achievement in World Music".
For more information please visit http://www.joepowers.com.
Listen to Joe's music here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/joepowers

Naoko Aoki:
Naoko Aoki began her piano studies at the age of 4. After graduating from the prestigious Musashino Conservatory in Tokyo, she lived in Argentina and studied Tango with such Tango masters as Nicolas Ledesma and the late Emilio de la Peña. In addition she served as the principal pianist for over two years at the only Tango Orchestra School in the world, "La Orquesta Escuela", in Buenos Aires, under the direction of famed Tango maestro, Emilio Balcarce. Today she is considered by many to be the top Tango pianist living in Japan. Her Tango Ensemble, "Orquesta Aurora", which she composes and arranges for features some of the country's finest Tango talents. She travels nearly every year to Argentina and beyond for performances. Naoko made 3 CD´s..: Tierra Querida, Buenos Aires; Mi Refugio; and Puerto a Puerto. Visit http://celeste.coplan.jp/

TANGO HARMONY- August 9, 2009

2009-07-27T09:08:00.000-07:00

A world-class Tango concert and dance celebration of Hiroshima Peace Day by International Tango harmonica/piano duo Joe Powers and Naoko Aoki.

Sponsored by Tango Revolution and SF Community Music Center

Sunday, August 9
7pm – 12 midnight
$12/$10 (students/seniors)

Community Music Center- Concert Hall
544 Capp St. SF
415.647.6015 www.sfcmc.org

Event Schedule
7-8pm Introductory Tango dance lesson with Sonja Riket
8:15-8:45pm Tango Concert with Joe Powers and Naoko Aoki
9-10pm Tango dance party (Milonga) and CD signing
A portion of the proceeds will be dedicated to the CMC scholarship fund
10-10:45pm Live music set for Tango social dancing by Joe and Naoko.
10:45pm Milonga continues

The events of Aug 6-9, 1946 (nuclear bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Japan) may have left a bitter taste in the world’s collective mouth, but this year Japanese pianist Naoko Aoki and US harmonica phenomenon Joe Powers intend to bring us a different message. Their friendship and musical partnership are a great example of how the power of the arts can bridge differences between two very distinct cultures.

Joe Powers, the only Tango harmonica artist in the US, is well known for his unique and soulful blend of jazz, tango and blues. When traveling to Buenos Aires, to record his first Tango CD, he met Japan’s top Tango pianist Naoko Aoki. Together, the international duo has exhilarated audiences from Argentina to USA and Japan with performances of this seductive dance music. This concert marks their first duo appearance in San Francisco!

Enjoy a selection of traditional Tangos, Waltzes and Milongas as well as Nuevo Tango and original compositions. The concert is preceded by an introductory dance lesson by award winning tango teacher Sonja Riket (no partner or dance experience necessary) and followed by a Live music Tango party.
Come listen, watch the social Tango dancers or join in the dance!

For more info contact Sonja Riket at 415.661.1852,
intimate_embrace_tango@earthlink.net, www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

Artists info: Joe Powers: www.joepowers.com - Naoko Aioki: http://celeste.coplan.jp/

Watch a video-clip from their February 2009 performance at the University of Oregon, in Eugene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qTuOpU1Doc -

GOLDEN TANGO! TANGO YOUTH PROJECT in concert with JEREMY COHEN.

2009-04-22T05:47:00.000-07:00

SUNDAY MAY 3, 2009 from 7pm-12am

Join us for an evening of Argentine Tango music and dance in one of San Francisco’s most beautiful churches!

Come celebrate “Best Tango Teacher” Sonja Riket’s golden anniversary of a 50 year-long dance career as a worldwide performer, dance educator and community arts organizer.

Take a class with Sonja and witness the burgeoning of the SF Tango Youth Project: a collaboration between young musicians from high schools and conservatories with mature expert musicians under direction of Jeremy Cohen of Quartet San Francisco.
Enjoy dancing till midnight to the sultry sounds of Argentine Tango surrounded by exquisite murals!

Tango Youth Project musicians showcase their skill and enthusiasm for playing Golden Era and Nuevo Tangos for listening and dancing with renowned Quartet San Francisco’s guest musician Jeremy Cohen. In 2004 Quartet SF won the International Tango Competition in NYC and Cohen mentored the musicians with his expertise.

7-8pm Introductory dance class with Sonja
8-9pm Tango Youth Project in concert with Jeremy Cohen.
9pm – 12am Tango Dance Party (Milonga) with live music.

Snacks and wine are available. Bring your own to add to the celebration! (please no hard liquor).

FREE ENTRANCE AS PART OF NATIONAL DANCE WEEK!

St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church
500 De Haro (Mariposa)
San Francisco CA 94107

Intimate Embrace Tango encourages the inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience. We envision Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. As an extension of this vision, we also organize classes, workshops, awareness- and fundraising events around the critical social issues of our time.

More info:
Intimate Embrace Tango: 415.661.1852
www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

Tango Revolution celebrates International Women's Day with poetry , music and dance

2009-03-07T23:51:00.000-08:00

SUNDAY March 8 from 6-10pm
CAFFE TRIESTE: 1667 Market Street @ Gough in SF

6-7pm Basic Introductory Tango dance class by Sonja Riket
7:30-10pm: Open floor Tango dancing with sets of Poetry by our guests Ana Elsner and Kristyan Panzica (with clarinet and bass)
Roberto Traina will sing Tangos in honor of women.

The event is FREE with food and drink at the caffe.
Donations for the artists are welcomed.

Poet ANA ELSNER has dedicated her work to raising the popularity and status of poetry in the everyday consciousness of society. For more information please visit her site at www.redroom.com/autor/ana-elsner

For more info on International Women's Day see: www.internationalwomensday.com/about.asp

ABOUT TANGO REVOLUTION:
Tango Revolution is a weekly neighborhood educational project to offer anyone the opportunity to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. By holding the event in an accessible café on a Sunday afternoon we encourage the spontaneous inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience.

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We organize classes, workshops, cultural, awareness-and fundraising events around social issues of our time.

Come listen, watch or join in the dance! All ages and levels welcome!
www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

TANGO REVOLUTION CELEBRATES VALENTINE'S DAY WITH LIVE TANGO BAND "PARLOR TANGO" ON SUNDAY FEBRUARY15

2009-02-15T17:05:00.000-08:00

TANGO REVOLUTION HOSTS SPECIAL VALENTINE'S EVENT WITH LIVE BAND
PARLOR TANGO

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15 from 6-10pm
CAFFE TRIESTE: 1667 Market Street @ Gough in SF

6-7pm Basic Introductory Tango dance class by Sonja Riket
7:30-9:30pm: Live music by Parlor Tango with open floor dancing
Continued Milonga till 10pm.

The event is FREE with food and drink at the caffe.
Donations for the artists are welcomed.
www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

ABOUT PARLOR TANGO:

PARLOR TANGO is a trio dedicated to Argentine tango music composed, mostly, between 1910 and 1950. Its repertoire of tangos, waltzes and milongas evokes the flavor of black-and-white movies and steamy dance halls.

In Paris, the native city of Odile Lavault, tango has been very important since 1912. Traveling Argentine musicians inspired local bands. It became common for French accordion players to play bandoneon as well. Lavault is continuing this tradition

Pianist Marco Casasola brings his youthful energy to assure the rhythmic foundation of the trio. Casasola grew up surrounded by tango music and figured out rapidly how to mix his passion for jazz with his relatives’ favorite tangos.

PARLOR TANGO has performed for ODC Theater, the Navarete/ Kajiyama+ Dance Company, and tango dancers all over Northern California. PARLOR TANGO has one CD “Live at Anna’s”.

Tonight Odile and Marco will perform as a bandoneon/piano duo.
http://www.myspace.com/parlortango

Tango Revolution celebrates presidential inauguration with Live band Tango No.9 on Sunday January 25 from 6-10pm

2009-01-25T02:58:00.000-08:00

Come celebrate the inauguration of our new president with a special event at Tango Revolution this Sunday January 25 from 6-10pm.

We are pleased to present the live Tango band Tango No.9 www.tangonumber9.com at our weekly Sunday Milonga.

Tango Revolution continues its mission of service to the community by providing free music, dance and other cultural events accessible to all.
Bring your friends and family of all ages for listening as well as dancing to the band.
Typically our audience members range from a few months old to 101 years young!
More info: 415.661.1852

TANGO No.9
SUNDAY JANUARY 25 from 6-10pm
CAFFE TRIESTE: 1667 Market Street @ Gough in SF

6-7pm Basic Introductory Tango dance class by Sonja Riket
7:30-9:30pm: Live music by Tango nr.9 with open floor dancing
Continued Milonga till 10pm.

The event is FREE with food and drink at the caffe.
Donations for the artists are welcomed.

ABOUT TANGO No.9
Tango No.9 is an all-star Bay Area ensemble united in a love for a famously elusive non-native art form. Since 1998, the group has delved deeply into the wrold of Tango, playing countless concerts and milongas, collaborating with many of the top dancers on the west coast, and recording two critically acclaimed albums - the all-Piazolla "All them cats in Recoleta" (lauded by JazzIz Magazine as one of the best modern tango CD's of 2002) and 2006's exploration of early tango, "Radio Valencia."

The quartet is Joshua Raoul Brody on piano, Isabel Douglas on accordeon & bandoneon, Greg Stephens on trombone and bandleader Catherine Clune on violin.
With this unique instrumentation, Tango No.9 embraces both a reverence to tango's seductive past and an innovative vision of the music's storied future.

ABOUT TANGO REVOLUTION:
Tango Revolution is a weekly neighborhood educational project to offer anyone the opportunity to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. By holding the event in an accessible café on a Sunday afternoon we encourage the spontaneous inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience.

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We organize classes, workshops, cultural, awareness-and fundraising events around social issues of our time.

We hope that Tango Revolution is a fertile ground for learning about Argentine Tango, a dance and music of immigrants, which continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and social status. Where both beginning and accomplished dancers and musicians can share the floor without obvious hierarchy. Where all gender pairings are encouraged and anyone may ask anyone to dance.

We offer the beautiful connection between human beings in the Tango Embrace as a common ground and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary. What better way to come home to ourselves and to connect with each other across our differences than the non-verbal power of a musical and dance embrace, listening and moving together as one?

Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and ages are welcome. No partner or dance experience necessary

Tonight Sunday October 26 special bookreading with Camille Cusumano, author of Tango: an Argentine Love Story

2008-10-26T14:00:00.000-07:00

TANGO REVOLUTION
is pleased to present a special book reading and signing by Camille Cusumano
on Sunday October 26 from 6-10pm at

CAFFE TRIESTE: 1667 Market Street @ Gough
6-6:45pm Basic Introductory Tango dance class by Sonja Riket
7-8pm: Book reading, singing and Q&A by Camille Cusumano
8-10pm: Open floor Tango dancing with Live music sets.
The event is FREE with food and drink at the caffe.
Donations for the artists are welcomed.

MORE INFO ABOUT THE BOOK:
TANGO: An Argentine Love Story
On the heels of the painful breakup of a fifteen-year relationship, Camille Cusumano heads to Buenos Aires to dance tango and deal with her grief. Her original two-and-a-half month tango vacation turns into an indefinite stay as Camille connects with an inner peace that’s eluded her for ages. As she delves into the seemingly unconnected but in fact quite parallel practices of tango and Zen, she learns that her fierceness and patience can exist in harmony.

Camille Cusumano, an editor at VIA Magazine in San Francisco for seventeen years, has written for many publications including Islands, Country Living, Yoga Journal, and others. She is the author of The Last Cannoli, and the editor of the Seal Press Love Story anthologies. When not on an adventure elsewhere in the world, she lives in San Francisco, where she practices tango and Zen.

Praise for Tango
***Tango is a remarkable addition to contemporary dharma literature. It reads like a thriller, a romance, and above all it shows the redemptive potential of a sincere spiritual practice.”
—Sylvia Boorstein, PhD, author of Happiness Is an Inside Job

***Camille Cusumano has lived out many a mid-life woman’s fantasy: packing her bags, slit skirts, and tango shoes and spending a year in Argentina. The result is a memoir that is like the dance itself: smooth, absorbing, and erotically charged.”
—Laura Fraser, author of An Italian Affair

***The transformative power of the tango embrace beautifully captured. Bravo!”
—Marina Palmer, author of Kiss & Tango

ABOUT TANGO REVOLUTION:
Tango Revolution is a weekly neighborhood educational project to offer anyone the opportunity to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. By holding the event in an accessible café on a Sunday afternoon we encourage the spontaneous inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience.

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We organize classes, workshops, cultural, awareness-and fundraising events around social issues of our time.

We hope that Tango Revolution is a fertile ground for learning about Argentine Tango, a dance and music of immigrants, which continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and social status. Where both beginning and accomplished dancers and musicians can share the floor without obvious hierarchy. Where all gender pairings are encouraged and anyone may ask anyone to dance.

We offer the beautiful connection between human beings in the Tango Embrace as a common ground and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary. What better way to come home to ourselves and to connect with each other across our differences than the non-verbal power of a musical and dance embrace, listening and moving together as one?

Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and ages are welcome. No partner or dance experience necessary.

www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com
415.661.1852

Tonight Special dance demo and music coaching!

2008-10-05T13:08:00.000-07:00

Tango Revolution offers a special dance demo by Gustavo Benzecry Saba and Maria Olivera of Buenos Aires sometime between 8:30-9:30pm.
Theu will show how to dance in small places and with great connection. Don't miss it!
Their book "Embracing Tango-Techniques and Metaphores between Tango and Life" will be available for purchase.
www.tangosalon.com.ar

From 7-8pm Pablo Motta will once again offer a coaching session for the Tango Revolution musical collective.
www.pablomotta.com

Last week we had a poetry reading by Kristyan Panzica who also surprised us with a clarinet improvisation.

Come out to enjoy and support our wonderful community Tango endeavour!

Tango Revolution celebrates 1st Anniversary at Caffe Trieste!

2008-07-06T15:37:00.000-07:00

Come join us today to celebrate Tango Revolution's 1st Anniversary at Caffe Trieste!

Tango Revolution started on November 27, 2005 at Cafe Revolution in the Mission where it run a wildly popular event for 1 year.

We are proud to continue to bring a beautiful and highly accessible weekly Tango music and dance event to the community, where professional and amateur musicians and dancers can collaborate and learn together.

A moment of peace and togetherness in a musical and dance embrace on a little corner in the city of Love...

Today we are happy that Michelle Walther, our lead violinist will be holding a coaching session at the caffe from 7-8pm about the Argentine Tango style for participating musicians and those eager to join. Michelle played with the Tango group Los Gatos Azules in Boston.
Thank you Michelle!

Come join us in a champagne toast!
Hope to see you there,
Sonja

CAFFE TRIESTE: 1667 Market Street @ Gough in SF
EVERY SUNDAY from 6-10pm

6-7pm Basic Introductory Tango dance class
7-8pm: Live music open rehearsal or coaching.
8-10pm: Open floor Tango dancing with Live music jam sets.

The event is FREE with food and drink at the caffe.
Donations for the artists are welcomed.

Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and ages are welcome.

More Info: www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

Tango Revolution in concert with JEREMY COHEN!

2008-05-01T10:14:00.000-07:00

FRIDAY MAY 2, 2008 from 9pm-2am

What better occasion to celebrate MAY 1 and NATIONAL DANCE WEEK than bring together the spirit and passion of young musicians playing Argentine Tangos?

Tango Revolution musicians showcase their skill and enthusiasm for playing Golden Era and Nuevo Tangos for listening and dancing with renowned Quartet San Francisco’s guest musician Jeremy Cohen. In 2004 Quartet SF won the International Tango Competition in NYC and Cohen mentored the musicians with his expertise. Together with Abraham Becker and Pablo Motta (who also coached the musicians)Jeremy toured with the famed Forever Tango show.

Since 10 months, during the weekly Sunday Tango event at Caffe Trieste, a group of rotating musicians has committed itself to learning to play Argentine Tangos for dancing.
Come out to witness this budding revival of Live Tango Music for dancing and listen, watch or join in the dance!

Enjoy delicious tapas or wine and dine in style to the sultry sounds of Argentine Tango!

9-10pm Introductory dance class
10-11pm Tango Revolution musicians in concert with Jeremy Cohen and invited guests
11pm – 2am Tango Dance Party (Milonga) with live music and special performance.

FREE ENTRANCE AS PART OF NATIONAL DANCE WEEK!

CAVA 22
3239 22nd Street (@Bartlett, b/w Valencia & Mission)
San Francisco CA 94110
415.642.7224
Parking garage on Bartlett & 21st Str.

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which encourages the inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience. We envision Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world and organize classes, workshops, and social awareness- and fundraising events around critical issues of our time.

More info:
Intimate Embrace Tango: 415.661.1852
www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com
www.quartetsanfrancisco.com

New Schedule for Tango Revolution

2008-02-17T13:10:00.000-08:00

As of today Sunday February 18 our weekly Tango Revolution event will be held from
6-10pm at Caffe Trieste Downtown.

6-7pm Basic Introductory Tango dance class.
7-8pm: Live music open rehearsal.
8-10pm: Open floor Tango dancing with Live music jam sets.

Come bring many friends to support the new schedule and longer opening hours!
We have a great team of musicians with a native Argentine singer!

The event is FREE with food and drink at the caffe.
Donations for the artists are welcomed.

Caffé Trieste Downtown
1667 Market Street @ Gough (one block from Van Ness) in SF
Nearest Bart: Civic Center

More Info: 415.661.1852 - www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

More details:

Tango Revolution is a weekly neighborhood educational project to offer anyone the opportunity to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. By holding the event in an accessible café on a Sunday afternoon we encourage the spontaneous inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience.

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We organize classes,workshops, cultural, social awareness-and fundraising events around critical issues of our time.

Come take a beginning Tango class or practice your dance in a relaxing, non-intimidating atmosphere. Non-dancers can watch the moves and immerse themselves in the beautiful Tango music. We extend an open invitation to aspiring Tango musicians to jam together and practice their skills with the dancers in a receptive and energetic environment.

We hope that Tango Revolution is a fertile ground for learning about Argentine Tango, a dance and music of immigrants, which continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and social status. Where both beginning and accomplished dancers and musicians can share the floor without obvious hierarchy. Where all gender pairings are encouraged and anyone may ask anyone to dance.

We offer the beautiful connection between human beings in the Tango Embrace as a common ground and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary. What better way to come home to ourselves and to connect with each other across our differences than the non-verbal power of a musical and dance embrace, listening and moving together as one?

Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and ages are welcome. No partner or dance experience necessary.

Special guest singer Mario Baum at Tango Revolution's X-mass event December 23 from 5-9pm

2007-12-23T15:22:00.000-08:00

We are very happy that Mario Baum, Argentine Tango singer, is visiting us fom LA and will be participating in our Tango Revolution event. He will sing his special repertoire of Tango's, Valses and Milonga's accompanied by piano.
Any Tango musician jammers are welcome to jon in and come to the open rehearsal from 5-6pm to work things out, then play for the non-stop jam for dancers from 7:30-8:30pm.

We are very happy to have such a special guest for our X-Mass event and I hope that together with your friends and family you will come and warm your hearts with a Tango Embrace! Come watch, listen or join in the dance. All levels and ages are welcome! FREE with food and drink at the café.

In the spirit of giving 2 pairs of used tangoshoes, a beautiful tie and 2 never worn Tangodresses will be offered to whomever fits them. Come try it out!

EVERY SUNDAY
from 5-9pm

Ingredients are: Live Argentine Tango music open rehearsal.
Informal Tango dance instruction and practice, (class is usually around 6pm)
Mix, stir, add great coffee and a sprinkle of cinnamon,
ENJOY a lazy Sunday afternoon at San Francisco's
original Espresso House since 1956!

Caffé Trieste
1667 Market Street @ Gough (one block from Van Ness) in SF
Nearest Bart: Civic Center

Donations for the artists are accepted.

Tango Revolution hosts electronic/Tango CD Release Party of "The Outsider" by Ryan Avery, producer/violinist of Chance's End.

2007-11-29T18:58:00.000-08:00

SUNDAY DECEMBER 2
from 5:30-9:30pm
Caffé Trieste Downtown
1667 Market Street @ Gough, (one block from Van Ness) in SF
$5 suggested at door

Event Schedule:
5:30pm Doors open w/Live Tango music
6-7pm Beginners Tango dance class by Sonja Riket (Best Tango Teacher 7x7Mag. 2006)
7:15-8:15pm Performance by Ryan Avery- violin- and Tango Revolution musicians
8:15-9:30pm Live Tango Jam with Open Floor Dancing and "The Outsider" CD Signing(CD available at $15)

Tango Revolution musicians will lead in Ryan Avery’s performance with Latin-inspired music. Come out to support the young musicians and be prepared to have a VERY good time at Tango Revolution!
More Info: 415.661.1852- www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com - www.chancesend.com

More details:
Violinists play concertos, not breakbeat electronica. But Chance's End, led by classically-trained San Francisco violinist Ryan Avery, is about to change that. Influenced by artists such as Groove Armada, Gotan Project, and Vanessa-Mae, Chance's End is fusing solo violin with electronic music, bringing the instrument well into the 21st century.

Ryan formed Chance's End in the summer of 2000 in his hometown of Boulder, Colorado before moving to San Francisco, California where he collaborates with Tango Revolution events. His sound is built around acoustic and electric violin, infused with strong melodic hooks, and polished with a thick sonic texture of breakbeat electronica. With Chance's End new album "The Outsider", the violin stands front and center of a gorgeous downtempo electronica landscape, creating a unique web of lush melodies and electronic beats.
His new album once again brings violin electronica to the masses, and its unique style is bound to turn some heads.

Tango Revolution is a weekly neighborhood educational project to offer anyone the opportunity to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. By holding the event in an accessible café on a Sunday afternoon we encourage the spontaneous inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience. We believe in shared leadership of all genders and offer the beautiful connection in the Tango Embrace as a common ground and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary. What better way to come home to ourselves and connect with each other across our differences than the non-verbal power of a musical and dance embrace, listening and moving together as one?

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We organize classes, workshops, cultural, social awareness-and fundraising events around critical issues of our time. Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All ages are welcome. No dance experience or partner necessary.

On October 21 and 28 Tango Revolution will be hosted by guest teachers and DJ's

2007-10-15T05:07:00.000-07:00

While I am away to Europe, our neighborhood Sunday Tango event will keep going with wonderful teachers and DJ hosts. Our live musicians are on break.

October 21 John Chang (one of the originators of the Wednesday Cellspace Milonga) and his partner Nicole will teach the beginners class at 6pm then DJ and host the Milonga till 9pm.

October 28 David and Mariana (tango teachers newly arrived here from Madrid) will teach the beginners class at 6pm then DJ and host the Milonga till 9pm

Please come out with many friends to dance and support their efforts to offer an inclusive and affordable cultural Sunday evening. Donations are accepted.

SUNDAY OCT 21 & 28
from 6-9pm

Caffé Trieste

1667 Market Street @ Gough (one block from Van Ness) in SF

Nearest Bart: Civic Center

FREE with food and drink at the café. Donations for the artists accepted.

Come celebrate UN International Peace Day with a Tango Embrace at "Historia" Tango/Jazz CD Release Party !

2007-09-20T02:53:00.000-07:00

TANGO REVOLUTION, a weekly Sunday Argentine Tango music and dance event, celebrates the UN coined “International Day of Peace and Global Ceasefire” (September 21) by hosting a special Tango/Jazz CD release party of “Historia” by Thomas Yee and Jose Rodriguez violin/guitar duo.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 23th, 2007
from 5:30-9:30pm at:
CAFFE TRIESTE DOWNTOWN
1667 Market Street @ Gough (one block from So. Van Ness)
San Francisco 94103
Nearest Bart: Civic Center

For this special concert there is a $5 donation cover @ door
Contact info:
415.661.1852
www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

EVENT SCHEDULE
5:30pm Doors open with Live Tango music
6-7pm Beginners Tango Dance Lesson by Sonja Riket (Best Tango Teacher 7x7 Mag.2006)
7-7:30pm Open Floor Tango Dancing
7:30-8pm Performance by Thomas Yee and Jose Rodriguez violin/guitar duo.
8-9:30pm Yee-Rodriguez Duo and Friends Tango Jam with Open Floor Dancing and "Historia" CD Release Signing (CD available at $15)

Thomas and Jose’s friendship and musical partnership is a great example of how the power of the arts can bridge the differences between two very distinct cultures, one Korean and one Mexican.

They met during their studies at the SF Conservatory of Music and between them have won several awards, scholarships and competitions. Their talent and musical tastes brought together a dynamic and close collaboration during many recitals and concerts after their Master Degree graduation. Their debut CD reflects a culmination of their work together: a program of Tangos. Spanish dances, folk dances and jazz standards as a mark of “Historia” in their careers. As professional musicians they play with many symphonies and orchestras throughout California and have collaborated several times with Tango Revolution events. Their performance is infectious and undoubtedly will stir you to dance. Come out to support the debut CD of these talented musicians and be prepared to have a VERY good time at Tango Revolution!

Tango Revolution is a weekly neighborhood educational project to offer anyone the opportunity to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. By holding the event in an accessible café on a Sunday afternoon we encourage the spontaneous inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience. We offer the beautiful connection between human beings in the Tango Embrace as a common ground and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary. What better way to connect with each other across our differences than the non-verbal power of a musical and dance embrace, listening and moving together as one?

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We organize classes, workshops, cultural, social awareness- and fundraising events around critical issues of our time.

Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All ages are welcome. No dance experience or partner necessary.

CD Release party of "Historia" is postponed to Sunday September 23 at Caffe Trieste Downtown.

2007-09-09T05:27:00.000-07:00

Please note that because of delays in the production, the CD release party of "Historia", the debut Tango/Jazz CD of Thomas Yee/Jose Rodriguez violin/guitar duo, scheduled for Sunday 9/9 is now postponed to Sunday 9/23 at Caffe Trieste Downtown.

Please reserve the time and check this blog closer to the date for the full program from 5:30-9:30pm. It will be amazing!

In the meantime there is a constant rotation of live musicians at our Tango Revolution Sunday afternoon event for your listening and dancing pleasure.
The days are getting shorter and cooler but the company and embraces remain as warm as ever. Come learn the art of relaxing together in a bath of culture!

TANGO REVOLUTION
EVERY SUNDAY of the month
from 5-9pm
CAFE TRIESTE DOWNTOWN
1667 Market Street @ Gough in SF
Nearest Bart: Civic Center
FREE with food and drink at the caffe

Ingredients are:
Live Argentine Tango music open rehearsal,
Informal Tango dance instruction and practice,
Mix, stir, add great coffee and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
ENJOY a lazy Sunday afternoon at San Francisco's
original Espresso House since 1956!

Tango Revolution is a weekly neighborhood educational project to
offer anyone the opportunity to learn and experience the social
aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. By holding
the event free of charge in an accessible café on a Sunday afternoon
Tango Revolution encourages the spontaneous inclusion of music
and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience.

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which
envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to
ourselves, each other and the world. We organize classes,
workshops, cultural-, social awareness-and fundraising events around
critical issues of our time.

We hope that Tango Revolution is a fertile ground for learning
about Argentine Tango, a dance and music of immigrants, which
continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and
social status. Where both beginning and accomplished dancers
and musicians can share the floor without obvious hierarchy.
Where all gender pairings are encouraged and anyone may ask
anyone to dance.

We offer the beautiful connection between human beings in the
Tango Embrace as a common language and antidote against the
isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe
is necessary. What better way to connect with each other across
our differences than the non-verbal power of an embrace,
listening and moving together as one?

Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and ages are
welcome.
www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

Thomas Yee/Jose Rodriguez violin/guitar duo give preview sample of their new CD

2007-08-26T04:48:00.000-07:00

On August 26 during our weekly Tango Revolution event at Caffe Trieste our friends Thomas Yee (violin) and Jose Rodriguez (guitar) will join our other musicians for a small preview of their debut CD "Historia" set to release on Sunday September 9, 2007. It is possible that there will be a tv crew filming at some time.

The days are shortening and the coffee and wine are good; come join us for a great time with music, dance and friendly conversation!
Daniel Binelli, the great bandoneon musician, after lingering with us for 3 hours, gave our event his stamp of approval: he whispered in my ear that the atmosphere of Tango Revolution reminded him of a 1920's Parisian Cafe.

Come see for yourself.

TANGO REVOLUTION
EVERY SUNDAY of the month
from 5-9pm
CAFFE TRIESTE
1667 Market Street @ Gough in SF (one block from Van Ness Ave.)
Nearest Bart: Civic Center
FREE with food and drink at the cafe

Ingredients are:
Live Argentine Tango music open rehearsal,
Informal Tango dance instruction and practice,
Mix, stir, add great coffee and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
ENJOY a lazy Sunday afternoon at San Francisco's
original Espresso House since 1956!

Tango Revolution is a weekly neighborhood educational project to

offer anyone the opportunity to learn and experience the social

aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. By holding

the event free of charge in an accessible café on a Sunday afternoon

Tango Revolution encourages the spontaneous inclusion of music

and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience.

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which

envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to

ourselves, each other and the world. We organize classes,

workshops and social awareness-and fundraising events around

critical issues of our time.

We offer the beautiful connection between human beings in the

Tango Embrace as a common language and antidote against the

isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe

is necessary. What better way to connect with each other across

our differences than the non-verbal power of an embrace,

listening and moving together as one?

Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and ages are

welcome.

Donations for the artists accepted.

www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

Special Birthday Celebration on Sunday July 15!

2007-07-14T18:46:00.000-07:00

On Sunday July 15 TANGO REVOLUTION invites you to a wonderful afternoon of music and dance to celebrate Sonja's birthday.

We will start in Dolores Park (18th & Dolores Street) at 4pm with a free concert by the SF Symphony featuring Daniel Binelli on bandoneon.
Come join me for a sip of champagne!
To find my spot in the crowd look for Buschoccio (a plastic blow-up doll on a stick, resembling George Bush but with a loooong nose, like Pinocchio)

After the concert our Tango Revolution music and dance event at Cafe Trieste will take place from 6-9pm.
Come sample their excellent food and share birthday cake with me!

Ingredients are:
Live Argentine Tango music open rehearsal.
Informal Tango dance instruction and practice,
Mix, stir, add great coffee and a sprinkle of cinnamon,
ENJOY a lazy Sunday afternoon at San Francisco's
original Espresso House since 1956!

Café Trieste
1667 Market Street @ Gough in SF
Nearest Bart: Civic Center
FREE with consumption at the café.

More Info: 415.661.1852 - www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

Tango Revolution is a weekly neighborhood educational project to offer anyone the opportunity to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history.

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We organize classes, workshops and social awareness-and fundraising events around
critical issues of our time.

Come watch a movie, be inspired by a presentation, take a beginning Tango class or practice your dance in a relaxing, non-intimidating atmosphere. Non-dancers can watch the moves and immerse themselves in the beautiful Tango music.
We extend an open invitation to aspiring Tango musicians to jam together and practice their skills with the dancers in a receptive and energetic environment.

We hope that Tango Revolution is a fertile ground for learning about Argentine Tango, a dance and music of immigrants, which continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and social status. Where both beginning and accomplished dancers and musicians can share the floor without obvious hierarchy. Where all gender pairings are encouraged and anyone may ask anyone to dance.

We offer the beautiful connection between human beings in the Tango Embrace as a common ground and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary. What better way to connect with each other across our differences than the non-verbal power of an embrace, listening and moving together as one?

Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and ages are welcome.

Donations for the artists accepted.

Tango Revolution at Cafe Trieste starting July 1!

2007-07-01T00:30:00.000-07:00

Tango Revolution might shift and change its outward form and structure but its heart, soul and mission remains steadfast.
While we plan to offer further events at our previous home at Station 40, Tango Revolution will now hold a regular Sunday afternoon event at a landmark cafe with a Mediterranean feel.
Please join us:

EVERY SUNDAY
from 5-8pm
Ingredients are:
Live Argentine Tango music open rehearsal,
Informal Tango dance instruction and practice,
Mix, stir, add great coffee and a sprinkle of cinnamon,
ENJOY a lazy Sunday afternoon at San Francisco's
original Espresso House since 1956!
CAFE TRIESTE
1667 Market Street @ Gough in SF
Nearest Bart: Civic Center
FREE with consumption at the cafe.

I hope to see you there,
Sonja

Tango Revolution joins Ghetto Gourmet Sunday June 24, 2007

2007-06-22T10:47:00.000-07:00

We are still in the process of negotiating a new pattern of use of the Station 40 event space for our Tango Revolution evening.
Check your e-mail regularly, go to www.tangorevolution.blogspot.com for updates, or call (415) 661.1852

On a personal note, if there is anything this country teaches me it is to roll with the punches!

In the meantime, on SUNDAY JUNE 24, the location of our next Tango Revolution event is:

SYNERGY SCHOOL
1387 Valencia Street (@25th St.) in SF
Nearest Bart: 24th & Mission

Because I participate in a private dinner event beforehand, Tango Revolution will open its doors from 9-11pm (or later?) for open dancing only (no class this time)
Entrance: $3-$10 sliding scale
Live music by Thomas Yee and Jose Rodriguez!

To raise awareness on World Refugee Day (June 20) Tango Revolution will donate a percentage of its proceeds to the International Rescue Committee (www.theirc.org)

If you want to participate in the private dinner event please check out: http://ggtango624.eventbrite.com
I highly recommend it!

I hope to see you on the dance floor,
Sonja

P.S. Please, stay tuned for further developments around Tango Revolution during the summer!

No Tango Revolution Sunday June 10, 2007

2007-06-10T11:36:00.000-07:00

Regrettably there will be no Tango Revolution event this Sunday June 10.
Please stay tuned for further notice and check back here for updates.

Have a great week-end!
Sonja

N0 TANGO REVOLUTION THIS SUNDAY 5/27

2007-05-25T02:39:00.000-07:00

Regretably there will be no Tango Revolution event this Sunday May 25 because of a double booking.

Please stay tuned for updates.

Have a great Memorial Day week-end.
Sonja

Tango Revolution celebrates Mother's Day May 13, 2007

2007-05-12T22:00:00.000-07:00

Dear Tango Friends,

Tango Revolution has grown a lot over the last weeks. During National Dance Week over 70 people visited each event.
Great performances and presentations were offered and we heard wonderful feedback from people. What touched me the most was to see so many happy faces and feel such good energy! We thank everyone for their presence and participation.

For Mother's Day we have another beautiful event planned. Bring your mom, grandma and especially any woman you know who is planning to become a mother.

This Sunday's event is a benefit for Christina Ladas, a Tango teacher/dancer in our Bay Area community who was taken to the hospital with an acute kidney disease. All proceeds of the event will go towards her healthcare fund. Please, if you can, be generous with your donations at the door.

To continue to keep things going smoothly, we need more volunteer help. Please let me know if you can help out tomorrow and/or during future events.
We can use your help for:
*taking the donations at the door
*helping out behind the bar
*someone with good ears who can listen to the doorbell and press the buzzer during the evening.
*set-up before the event and organization after the event
Of course there can be a rotatation so that everyone has a chance to dance and enjoy the event.

MOTHER'S DAY at TANGO REVOLUTION!

WHEN: SUNDAY MAY 13 from 5 - 10 PM

WHERE: STATION 40

3030B - 16th Str. (b/w Mission & Valencia) in SF

Opposite Bart Station 16th&Mission

WHAT: Join us for an evening of neighborhood Argentine Tango film, music and
social dance at a great community space. Come watch, listen or join in
the dance! No partner ordance experience necessary. Bring your mom,
grandma and especially any woman you know who is planning to become a
mother.

5-6pm: Documentary Movie: The Mystery of Tango (selected parts)

6:15 pm: Mother's Day Presentation by Maria Iorello, midwife

7-8pm: Introductory Tango class by Sonja Riket

8-10pm Argentine Tango Social Dance

DJ John Chang

Drinks and food available

COST: $3-$10 donation. All proceeds will benefit Christina Ladas' health care
fund.

www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

(415) 661.1852

Details:

Tango Revolution is a bi-weekly neighborhood educational project to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. It is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We organize awareness-and fundraising events around critical issues of our time.

We hope that Tango Revolution is a fertile ground for learning about Argentine Tango, a social dance and music of immigrants, which continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and social status. Where both beginning and accomplished dancers/musicians can share the floor without obvious hierarchy. Where all gender pairings are encouraged and anyone may ask anyone to dance. Where we can find a Tango Embrace as a common language and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary.

Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and ages are welcome.

Tango Revolution celebrates National Dance Week, MayDay and Intimate Embrace Tango's 7th Anniversary!

2007-04-29T06:53:00.000-07:00

This Sunday April 29 is the closing day of an amazing National Dance Week 2007! I hope you took the opportunity to try out many dance classes and events and will continue dancing throughout the year. www.bayareandw.org

Please join us to celebrate MayDay at Tango Revolution community.
We are also celebrating Intimate Embrace Tango's 7th Anniversary and prepared a relaxing and informative Sunday event with a Tango movie, a presentation about immigrant rights and empowerment, a Tango class and social Tango gathering with live music.
FREE entrance as part of NDW 2007!

TANGO REVOLUTION

WHEN: SUNDAY April 29 from 5 - 10 PM

WHERE: STATION 40

3030B - 16th Str. (b/w Mission & Valencia) in SF

Opposite Bart Station 16th&Mission

WHAT: Join us for an evening of neighborhood Argentine Tango film, music and
social dance at a great community space. Come watch, listen or join
in the dance! All levelsand ages are welcome.

5-6pm: Documentary Movie: The Mysteries of Tango

6pm onward : Drinks and food available.

6:15 pm: Prensentation by Viviana Rennella and Patricia Nuno about
immigrants rights and empowerment.

7-8pm: Introductory Tango class by Sonja Riket

8-10pm Argentine Tango Social Dance

DJ John Chang

Live music by Jason Kocol (bandoneon) and Jose Rodriguez (guitar)

COST: FREE entrance as part of National Dance Week 2007

www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com

(415) 661.1852

Details:

Tango Revolution is a bi-weekly neighborhood educational project to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. It is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We organize awareness-and fundraising events around critical issues of our time.

We hope that Tango Revolution is a fertile ground for learning about Argentine Tango, a social dance and music of immigrants, which continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and social status. Where both beginning and accomplished dancers/musicians can share the floor without obvious hierarchy. Where all gender pairings are encouraged and anyone may ask anyone to dance. Where we can find a Tango Embrace as a common language and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary.

Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and ages are welcome.

National Dance Week 2007

2007-04-25T02:17:00.000-07:00

We are happy to once again participate in National Dance Week 2007 for the 9th consecutive year!
NDW means one week of 300 FREE dance events, classes, rehearsals, performances, etc. all over the Bay Area! It is your chance to try out a dance style, discover the work of a choreographer or dance company or find out about other kinds of movement education.

It is an honor to continue offering these events to the community. Please, find the Intimate Embrace Tango program for NDW 2007 below. For all the listings you can go online at www.bayareandw.org or pick up a special NDW newspaper at the dance studios throughout the Bay Area or in the Bay Guardian.

I hope you will take advantage of this wonderful week of dance. Please, note that if you take one of the Free Pre-Beginner Tango workshops during NDW it will serve as the pre-requisite for further Tango study with me in the follow up technique classes this May 2007.
Also come visit our Tango Revolution the next 2 Sundays with a special Tango movie, introductory Tango class, live music during the Tango social dance and a special organic dinner by Radio Afrika and Kitchen(4/22)

REMEMBER TO CALL 415.661.1852 TO SIGN UP. YOU WILL HAVE PRIORITY WHEN THE CLASSES ARE FULL.

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BAY AREA CELEBRATES NATIONAL DANCE WEEK 2007

www.bayareandw.org

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

JOIN US A THE CONGA LINE KICK-OFF ON

FRIDAY APRIL 20 AT 12 NOON AT UNION SQUARE IN SF!

INTIMATE EMBRACE TANGO PROGRAM:

3 PRE-BEGINNER LEVEL TANGO WORKSHOPS: 4/21, 4/24, 4/28

2 TANGO REVOLUTION SOCIAL TANGO EVENING GATHERINGS

WITH FILM,MUSIC,DANCE AND FOOD: 4/22,4/29

1 SOMATIC TANGO LAB : 4/26

1 OPEN HOUSE FELDENKRAIS COMMUNITY CLINIC: 4/27

1 MOVEMENT ROOTS WORKSHOP: 4/28

1 INTRO TO ARGENTINE TANGO AT OPEN HOUSE LA SOLEA DANCE STUDIO: 4/29

DETAILS BELOW -

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PRE-BEGINNER WORKSHOPS:

WHEN: *SATURDAY APRIL 21 from 2 - 4 PM

*MONDAY APRIL 23 from 7 - 9PM

*SATURDAY APRIL 28 from 2 - 4 PM

WHERE: MARGARET JENKINS DANCE LAB

301 - 8th Street, 2nd. floor (@Folsom) in SF

WHAT: THE RELATIONAL MATRIX OF TANGO: FINDING THE JOY OF CONNECTION -
PRE-BEGINNER WORKSHOP No dance experience or partner required.

Using somatic exercises, we will explore our body's ability to listen and respond to another's presence in preparation for partner dancing. With that connection and guided by the music, we will share the joy of communicating through simple Tango steps. Bring socks or soft slippers.

CALL 415-661-1852 TO SIGN UP

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TANGO REVOLUTION: COMMUNITY EVENT

WHEN: SUNDAYS April 22 and April 29 from 5 - 10 PM

WHERE: STATION 40

3030B 16th Str. (b/w Mission & Valencia) in SF

Opposite Bart Station 16th&Mission

WHAT: TANGO REVOLUTION

Join us for an evening of neighborhood Argentine Tango film, music and social dance
at a great community space. Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and
ages welcome

5-6pm: Movie: Tango Fatal by Lorenz Russo: an innovative, dramatic and imaginative feature film told through the language of dance. With Grammy Award winning soundtrack by Carlos Franzetti and original choreography by Carlos Capello.

6pm onward : Organic Dinner available by Radio Afrika and Kitchen (4/22)

6:30pm: Presentation on EarthDay(4/22) and MayDay-Immigrants Rights(4/29)

7-8pm: Introductory Tango class

8-10pm Argentine Tango Social Dance with live music jam.

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WHEN: THURSDAY APRIL 26 from 7 – 9 PM

WHERE: MARGARET JENKINS DANCE LAB

301 - 8th Street, 2nd. floor (@Folsom) in SF

WHAT: EXPLORE TANGO FROM THE INSIDE!

Somatic means learning through body experience. Through somatic principles, add a different level of awareness, connection and comfort to your Tango dance. Minimum 6 months Argentine Tango experience required. Wear loose comfortable clothing.

CALL 415-661-1852 TO SIGN UP

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OPEN HOUSE - SF FELDENKRAIS COMMUNITY CLINIC

WHEN: FRIDAY APRIL 27 from 1-5 pm

WHERE: THE WOMEN'S BUILDING

3543 - 18th Street (b/w Valencia & Guerrero) in SF

WHAT: OPEN HOUSE

Come learn about this amazing free clinic in the Mission! The Feldenkrais Method is an effective means of movement education that improves flexibility, posture, coordination and awareness. Sign-up on site for a 20-minute individual hands-on session by Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioners and a group movement class.

1-2pm: Demonstration and lecture

2-4pm: Every 20 minutes: sign up on-site for a sample of an individual hands-on session.

4-5pm: Awareness Through Movement group class

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MOVEMENT ROOTS: A SOMATIC LAB

WHEN: SATURDAY APRIL 28 from 12 – 2 pm
WHERE: MARGARET JENKINS DANCE LAB

301 - 8th Street, 2nd. floor (@Folsom) in SF

WHAT: SOMATIC MOVEMENT - Injury Prevention and Body Awareness.

We will explore how somatic awareness and the developmental movement patterning of Body-Mind Centering helps us to find more efficient body alignment and optimal functioning for injury prevention, retraining and creative expression. Special attention will be given on how we relate to the Ground.

Open to everyone.Wear loose, comfortable clothing.

CALL 415-661-1852 TO SIGN UP

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OPEN HOUSE LA SOLEA DANCE STUDIO

WHEN: SUNDAY APRIL 29 from 11-7pm
Classes in Flamenco, Belly Dance, Spanish Classical & Mexican Folklore
12-1pm Introduction to Argentine Tango

WHERE: LA SOLEA DANCE STUDIO
3376 - 19th Street (Mission) in SF

Earth Day and National Dance Week!

2007-04-18T15:51:00.000-07:00

Please join us to celebrate EarthDay and National Dance Week 2007 with over 300 free dance related events all over the bay area from Friday April 20 through Sunday April 29. Full program at www.bayareandw.org

TANGO REVOLUTION
SUNDAY APRIL 22
from 5-10pm

STATION 40
3030B 16th Street (b/w Valencia & Mission)
Opposite Bart: Mission & 16th

WHEN: SUNDAY April 22 from 5 - 10 PM
WHERE: STATION 40
3030B - 16th Str. (b/w Mission & Valencia) in SF
Opposite Bart Station 16th&Mission
WHAT: Join us for an evening of neighborhood Argentine Tango film, music and
social dance at a great community space. Come watch, listen or join in
the dance! All levels welcome.

5-6pm: Movie: TANGO FATAL by Lorenz Russo: an innovative,dramatic and
imaginative feature film told through the language of dance. With Grammy
Award winning soundtrack by Carlos Franzetti and original choreography
by Carlos Copello.
6pm onward : ORGANIC DINNER available by Radio Afrika and Kitchen
6:15pm: Presentation by Mary Rose Kaczorowski about the endangered
Memorial Oak Grove in Berkley
7-8pm: INTRODUCTORY TANGO CLASS
8-10pm ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIAL DANCE
DJ John Chang
Live music by Thomas Yee(violin) and Jose Rodriguez(guitar)

FREE entrance as part of National Dance Week 2007!

www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com
(415) 661.1852

Details:

Tango Revolution is a bi-weekly neighborhood educational project to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. It is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We organize awareness-and fundraising events around critical issues of our time.

Come watch a movie or enjoy a presentation, then take a beginning Tango class and practice your dance in the relaxing, non-intimidating atmosphere of this intimate community space.
Non-dancers can watch the moves and immerse themselves in the beautiful Tango music. We extend an open invitation to aspiring tango musicians to jam together and practice their skills with the dancers in a receptive and energetic environment.

We hope that Tango Revolution is a fertile ground for learning about Argentine Tango, a social dance and music of immigrants, which continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and social status. Where both beginning and accomplished dancers/musicians can share the floor without obvious hierarchy. Where all gender pairings are encouraged and anyone may ask anyone to dance. Where we can find a Tango Embrace as a common language and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary.

Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and ages are welcome

Easter Sunday Tango!

2007-04-06T09:40:00.000-07:00

Dear Tango Friends,

Join us for a relaxing Easter Sunday of Tango music and dance and a heartfelt presentation on non-violent communication at:

TANGO REVOLUTION
SUNDAY APRIL 8
from 6:30-10pm (or later?)

STATION 40
3030B 16th Street (b/w Valencia & Mission)
Opposite Bart: Mission & 16th

6:30-8pm All level Tango class applying the principles of non-violent communication by Nora Hoffman and Sonja Riket
8-10pm (or later?) Argentine Tango Social Dance
DJ John Chang
Donation: $3

www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com
(415) 661.1852

Details:
Tango Revolution celebrates Easter by offering a special collaborative Tango class/presentation with Nora Hoffmann and Sonja Riket before the Tango Party.
Nora will present the basic principles of non-violent communication as coined by Marshal Rosenberg.
During the Tango class, Sonja will invite you to apply these principles in the way you dance and give verbal feedback to each other.
Learn to communicate with each other in ways that increase understanding and inspire compassion and joyful giving. More info: www.baynvc.org and www.cnvc.org

Tango Revolution is a bi-weekly neighborhood educational project to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. It is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a Relational Matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We organize awareness-and fundraising events around critical issues of our time.

Come watch a movie or enjoy a presentation, then take a beginning Tango class and practice your dance in the relaxing, non-intimidating atmosphere of this intimate community space.
Non-dancers can watch the moves and immerse themselves in the beautiful Tango music. We extend an open invitation to aspiring tango musicians to jam together and practice their skills with the dancers in a receptive and energetic environment.

We hope that Tango Revolution is a fertile ground for learning about Argentine Tango, a social dance and music of immigrants, which continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and social status. Where both beginning and accomplished dancers/musicians can share the floor without obvious hierarchy. Where all gender pairings are encouraged and anyone may ask anyone to dance. Where we can find a Tango Embrace as a common language and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary.

Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and ages are welcome

Tango Revolution at Station 40 Sunday!

2007-03-24T09:24:00.000-07:00

Join us for a relaxing Sunday of Tango music and dance and an informative movie at:

TANGO REVOLUTION
SUNDAY MARCH 25
from 6-10pm (or later?)

STATION 40
3030B 16th Street (b/w Valencia & Mission)
Opposite Bart: Mission & 16th

6-7pm Movie: Las Madres: the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
7-8pm Introductory Tango lesson
8-10pm (or later?) Argentine Tango Social Dance
DJ John Chang
Donation: $3

www. IntimateEmbraceTango.com
(415) 661.1852

Details:
Tango Revolution commemorates the 30th anniversary of the military coup in Argentina by showing a documentary film on the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo: a group of courageous mothers who since 1977 continue to demonstrate every Thursday in front of the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina to demand justice for the disappearance of their children and other 30.000 people.

Tango Revolution is a bi-weekly neighborhood educational project to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. It is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a Relational Matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We organize awareness-and fundraising events around critical issues of our time.

Come learn about the history of the country where Tango was born, then take a beginning Tango class or practice your dance in the relaxing, non-intimidating atmosphere of this intimate community space.
Non-dancers can watch the moves and immerse themselves in the beautiful Tango music. We extend an open invitation to aspiring tango musicians to jam together and practice their skills with the dancers in a receptive and energetic environment.

We hope that Tango Revolution is a fertile ground for learning about Argentine Tango, a social dance and music of immigrants, which continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and social status. Where both beginning and accomplished dancers/musicians can share the floor without obvious hierarchy. Where all gender pairings are encouraged and anyone may ask anyone to dance. Where we can find a Tango Embrace as a common language and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary.

Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and ages are welcome

Tango Revolution at Station 40!

2007-03-10T21:43:00.000-08:00

We are very happy to announce that Tango Revolution has found a new home at Station 40, an old post office converted into a community event space. We will gather there every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month to continue our educational project.

Please join us Sunday March 11 to celebrate International Women's Day and the continuation of Tango Revolution!

TANGO REVOLUTION
SUNDAY MARCH 11
from 5-11pm (or later?)

STATION 40
3030B 16th Street (b/w Valencia & Mission)
Opposite Bart: Mission & 16th

5-6:30pm Movie: Las Madres: the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
7-8pm Introductory Tango lesson
8-11pm (or later?) Argentine Tango Social Dance
DJ John Chang

Donation: $3

Details:

Tango Revolution honors International Women's Day (March 8) by showing a documentary film on the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo: a group of courageous mothers who since 1977 continue to demonstrate every Thursday in front of the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina to demand justice for the disappearance of their children and other 30.000 people during the military coup of 1976-83.

Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a Relational Matrix of connection to ourself, each other and the world. Tango Revolution is a bi-weekly neigborhood educational project to learn and experience the social aspect of Argentine Tango dance, music and history. We organize awareness-and fundraising events around critical issues of our time.

Come watch a movie, take a beginning Tango class or practice your dance in a relaxing, non-intimidating atmosphere. Non-dancers can watch the moves and immerse themselves in the beautiful Tango music. We extend an open invitation to aspiring tango musicians to jam together and practice their skills with the dancers in a receptive and energetic environment.

We hope that Tango Revolution is a fertile ground for learning about Argentine Tango, a social dance and music of immigrants, which continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and social status.Where both beginning and accomplished dancers/musicians can share the floor without obvious hierarchy. Where all gender pairings are encouraged and anyone may ask anyone to dance. Where we can find a Tango Embrace as a common language and antidote against the isolation, separation and fearful existence we are led to believe is necessary.

Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All levels and ages are welcome.

Donations for the artists are accepted.

www. IntimateEmbraceTango.com
(415) 661.1852

Tango Revolution March 4th, 2007

2007-03-04T16:47:00.000-08:00

No more Tango Revolution at Little Baobab.

We are awaiting confirmation on a new location.

Please stay tuned!

Sonja