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
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Tango Revolution Orchestra celebrates its 6th Anniversary
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
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
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
TANGO REVOLUTION ORCHESTRA AND DANCERS APPEAR AT THE SF SYMPHONY!
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
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
Thursday, April 28, 2011
TANGO REVOLUTION ORCESTRA and CMC faculty guests in CONCERT and MILONGA (Tango Party)
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
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
Saturday, March 12, 2011
FREE WORKSHOP SERIES FOR MUSICIANS AND SINGERS
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.
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.
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