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Tango Teacher Training 2010: Washington, DC

Mercurio is proud to support the next generation of tango teachers by offering this training. Our goal is to provide useful tools from experts in the fields of dance, movement, education, and communication to help you develop your own personal system of articulating and structuring an educational environment and a learning process for students of tango. This event is open to experienced social dancers who would like to prepare for professional teaching as well as teaching as a community service or on a volunteer basis.

Each day will be a blend of movement/dance, discussion, and both partnered and group exercises. You will have the opportunity to practice both one-on-one teaching and teaching for a group, and to give and receive feedback from your peers, the faculty, and assistants.

Keep in mind that this is not a weekend in which you will improve your dancing, but rather your skills of observation, communication, and movement awareness. There will be a variety of levels of tango dance skill in the group, and we will use this to our advantage in understanding how to facilitate learning from different perspectives.

We will explore tango as a holistic partnership, so any previous experience in the opposite role will be extremely beneficial to you. Bring a notebook and flat shoes.

7-9pm, Friday, June 25: Refinement for Experienced Dancers (Public Class)
Led by Daniel Trenner

In this workshop, each dancer is challenged to learn both roles simultaneously. Partners are required, but your partner may be either a man or a woman. By studying the underlying structure of tango movement from both sides of the embrace, we will reveal details about each partner's contribution to the dance that will have a ripple effect in your social dance experience. This rewarding way to study is also very demanding of dancers kinesthetic attention. Be prepared to work hard. Partners are required for this class, but your partner need not be registered for the entire teacher training. Public Class Registration Only

1-5pm, Saturday, June 26: Talking About Tango
Led by Karen Studd

In this session, we seek to capture the tango in words. How do we speak about tango, acknowledging that it is primarily a non-verbal experience? How do we explain such a personal art form that feels different to each dancer, and looks unique on each couple?

Karen will guide us to name the un-name-able, discovering the important role words play in focusing both our attention and our intention in the classroom. We will develop language to describe what we do as tango dancers, and to guide others to becoming tango dancers.

1-5pm, Sunday, June 27: Gender Roles and Tango Training
Led by Daniel Trenner

What is traditional tango training? How does it relate to the situation faced in the tango's modern revival? What is radical or new about pedagogy in this modern revival? Why is an understanding of gender roles so crucial to good tango pedagogy? Daniel will guide us through a physical and intellectual exploration of this territory in the context of our own dancing. Sunday's session will include experiential anatomy of the tango partnership and practice teaching one another and the group.

Locations

FRIDAY: NW Sport & Health, 4001 Brandywine Street, NW (Metro: Tenleytown)
SAT/SUN: NW Sport & Health, 4001 Brandywine Street, NW (Metro: Tenleytown)

Faculty

Karen Studd is a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA), a Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME) and has a Masters' degree in Dance. She currently is a tenured faculty of the School of Dance at George Mason University and a Programs Coordinator for the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies. Studd has taught movement analysis and led workshops in Experiential Anatomy, The Meaning of Movement, and Movement and Metaphor in the United States and abroad for the last twenty years. In addition, she continues to teach dance as an area of specialization in the Body of Knowledge that is Human Movement.

Daniel Trenner has been an influential force in the revival of Argentine Tango, which he first encountered in Buenos Aires in 1986. He founded Dance Traveler, a dance tour company, which has taken 1500 people dancing in 7 countries, including Salsa in Havana, Cuba; BttTV, a video production company with more than 100 volumes of instructional video; The Tango Catalogue, which was for seven years the source for all things tango in North America; and he has led dance workshops in more than 120 cities in 13 countries. Before tango Daniel was a tap dancer for more than 10 years with Brenda Bufalino and Leon Collins. He settled in the Pioneer Valley in Northampton, MA in 2002, and is presently teaching at Smith College, Amherst College, Mt. Holyoke College, and the Performing Arts High School (PVPA).

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Special Events Tuesday Milonga Upcoming Events Fall 2010 Guests Fishnet Fete Global Milonga Teacher Training		Tango Teacher Training 2010: Washington, DC Mercurio is proud to support the next generation of tango teachers by offering this training. Our goal is to provide useful tools from experts in the fields of dance, movement, education, and communication to help you develop your own personal system of articulating and structuring an educational environment and a learning process for students of tango. This event is open to experienced social dancers who would like to prepare for professional teaching as well as teaching as a community service or on a volunteer basis. Each day will be a blend of movement/dance, discussion, and both partnered and group exercises. You will have the opportunity to practice both one-on-one teaching and teaching for a group, and to give and receive feedback from your peers, the faculty, and assistants. Keep in mind that this is not a weekend in which you will improve your dancing, but rather your skills of observation, communication, and movement awareness. There will be a variety of levels of tango dance skill in the group, and we will use this to our advantage in understanding how to facilitate learning from different perspectives. We will explore tango as a holistic partnership, so any previous experience in the opposite role will be extremely beneficial to you. Bring a notebook and flat shoes. 7-9pm, Friday, June 25: Refinement for Experienced Dancers (Public Class) Led by Daniel Trenner In this workshop, each dancer is challenged to learn both roles simultaneously. Partners are required, but your partner may be either a man or a woman. By studying the underlying structure of tango movement from both sides of the embrace, we will reveal details about each partner's contribution to the dance that will have a ripple effect in your social dance experience. This rewarding way to study is also very demanding of dancers kinesthetic attention. Be prepared to work hard. Partners are required for this class, but your partner need not be registered for the entire teacher training. Public Class Registration Only 1-5pm, Saturday, June 26: Talking About Tango Led by Karen Studd In this session, we seek to capture the tango in words. How do we speak about tango, acknowledging that it is primarily a non-verbal experience? How do we explain such a personal art form that feels different to each dancer, and looks unique on each couple? Karen will guide us to name the un-name-able, discovering the important role words play in focusing both our attention and our intention in the classroom. We will develop language to describe what we do as tango dancers, and to guide others to becoming tango dancers. 1-5pm, Sunday, June 27: Gender Roles and Tango Training Led by Daniel Trenner What is traditional tango training? How does it relate to the situation faced in the tango's modern revival? What is radical or new about pedagogy in this modern revival? Why is an understanding of gender roles so crucial to good tango pedagogy? Daniel will guide us through a physical and intellectual exploration of this territory in the context of our own dancing. Sunday's session will include experiential anatomy of the tango partnership and practice teaching one another and the group. Locations FRIDAY: NW Sport & Health, 4001 Brandywine Street, NW (Metro: Tenleytown) SAT/SUN: NW Sport & Health, 4001 Brandywine Street, NW (Metro: Tenleytown) Faculty Karen Studd is a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA), a Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME) and has a Masters' degree in Dance. She currently is a tenured faculty of the School of Dance at George Mason University and a Programs Coordinator for the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies. Studd has taught movement analysis and led workshops in Experiential Anatomy, The Meaning of Movement, and Movement and Metaphor in the United States and abroad for the last twenty years. In addition, she continues to teach dance as an area of specialization in the Body of Knowledge that is Human Movement. Daniel Trenner has been an influential force in the revival of Argentine Tango, which he first encountered in Buenos Aires in 1986. He founded Dance Traveler, a dance tour company, which has taken 1500 people dancing in 7 countries, including Salsa in Havana, Cuba; BttTV, a video production company with more than 100 volumes of instructional video; The Tango Catalogue, which was for seven years the source for all things tango in North America; and he has led dance workshops in more than 120 cities in 13 countries. Before tango Daniel was a tap dancer for more than 10 years with Brenda Bufalino and Leon Collins. He settled in the Pioneer Valley in Northampton, MA in 2002, and is presently teaching at Smith College, Amherst College, Mt. Holyoke College, and the Performing Arts High School (PVPA).