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
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Tango Revolution celebrates International Women's Day with poetry , music and dance
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
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
Sunday, February 15, 2009
TANGO REVOLUTION CELEBRATES VALENTINE'S DAY WITH LIVE TANGO BAND "PARLOR TANGO" ON SUNDAY FEBRUARY15
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
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
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Tango Revolution celebrates presidential inauguration with Live band Tango No.9 on Sunday January 25 from 6-10pm
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
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
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Tonight Sunday October 26 special bookreading with Camille Cusumano, author of Tango: an Argentine Love Story
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
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
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Tonight Special dance demo and music coaching!
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!
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!
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Tango Revolution celebrates 1st Anniversary at Caffe Trieste!
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 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
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