from 8pm-12am
Join us to celebrate the International Day of Tango and Carlos Gardel’s Birthday (12/11)!
Tonight you can take the class and listen or dance to the live Tango music of REDWOOD TANGO SEXTET and DJ Rene Quebec!
Ashkenaz facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/305688743258795/
Redwood Tango Ensemble
SCHEDULE:
8-9pm: All level class with award winning teacher Sonja Riket
9pm-12am: Milonga with danceable traditional Tango Live music by Redwood Tango Sextet and DJ Rene Quebec
9:30pm & 10:45pm: Live music sets
Entrance: $20 general/$15 seniors/students with ID
Advance tickets: $17 general/$13 seniors/students with ID
This is a fragrance-free event.
Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center,
1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702
510.525.5099 – www.ashkenaz.com
Parking in mall across the street
Ashkenaz is always all ages.
The café offers beer, wine and a vegetarian menu.
More info on the artists: www.redwoodtango.com
Tango Revelation Milonga is a social Argentine Tango dance gathering on the second Sunday of every other month (with some exceptions). It is led by award-winning Tango teacher Sonja Riket, who teaches at Ashkenaz since 2008. This Milonga series includes a dance class, dance performances and live music by local and international Tango guest artists.
Argentine Tango was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay in the late 1880’s as a dance and music of immigrants. Grown into a worldwide phenomenon, it continues to cross the boundaries of race, culture, language and social status. It encourages the spontaneous inclusion of music and dance in our everyday life as a communal experience.
In 2017, this event evolves out of the “Tango Revolution” Milonga, which began in 2005 at Café Revolution in SF’s Mission District , then found a home at Café Trieste Downtown SF from 2007-2012 (with the Tango Revolution Orchestra) and at Berkeley’s Café Mediterraneum from 2012-2016.
With a slight change of name to “Tango Revelation”, we continue to envision Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and our world.
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. To complement our screen-oriented lives, we need to slow down, rediscover the joy of body-based expressions and create live gathering places among ourselves in a spirit of harmony and well-being!
What better way to come home to ourselves and connect with each other across our differences than the non-verbal power of a music and dance embrace, listening and moving together as one? Come find out what Tango can reveal to you!
Hosted by Sonja Riket 415.661.1852
www.tangorevolution.blogspot.com
www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com
