Mark your calendars for the great spring party of Tango, Nature, and Connection! Salt Lake Tango Fest 2018 with Guillermo Cerneaz, Gaby Mataloni, Rod Relucio, Jenny Teters, Tommy Smith, John Miller, Jesica Cutler, Patricia Becker. Serena Lembach & more!
SCHEDULE (download a PDF)
9 classes + an extra chacarera workshop + Brunch Music and DJing lecture
5 milongas including Canyon Picnic & Asado and our classic Trasnochanda con Medialunas
“Temple of Tango” – our amazing venue at the Garbett Art Center a.k.a. Old North Church (700 N 200W, Salt Lake City) has been remodeled, and now features two new and expanded dance floors.
The Tango House experience … stay right next to the venue in a vintage house complete with a dance floor (strictly limited – only 4 rooms, 5 beds)
The afterparty tango-tour … yes, it’s Mystic again, with its hot springs soak, pavillion milonga and asado, accommodations in cowboy cabins and hippy school buses, and sightseeing tour of Native petroglyphs and amazing rock formations (Monday-Tuesday May 28 and 29)
Registration begins on February 11 at 10pm MST with the first 20 “door-prize” super-early bird passes priced at just $120. Early bird pass $155 (the price will be $165 at the door)
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| May 25, 2018, Friday | ||
| 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm | Guille & Gabi. “Milonga, let’s get the party started!”: (All levels) $25 |
Garbett Center for Choral Arts, 700 N 200 W
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| 9:00 pm – 2:00 am | Milonga de Primavera (DJ Tommy) $15 | |
| May 26, 2018, Saturday | ||
| 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Patricia Becker. “Awareness Through Movement: in this class we use slow, mindful movements to achieve powerful effects in terms of strength, flexibility, and holistic integration of body and mind. By attending to the improving quality of movement, unnecessary muscular tensions throughout the body can reorganize and release. Awareness Through Movement teaches you the secrets to reducing unnecessary muscular effort and improve your awareness of your whole self in action. This emphasis on sensory learning results in movement and vitality that are more flexible, pleasurable and free from aches and pains” ($10) Please BYO yoga mats, towels or blankets |
Garbett Center for Choral Arts, 700 N 200 W
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12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
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Guille & Gabi “ABC on Tango music for dancers”: (Int) $25 | |
| Rod & Jenny “Get hooked: internal and external leg wraps and ganchos” : (Int) $25 | ||
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2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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Guille & Gabi “Sacadas: a simple way to master them” : (Int) $25 | |
| Rod & Jenny “Change of directions – various fluid movements/elements” : (Int) $25 | ||
| 4:00 pm – 7:30 pm | Asado Spring Party & Part-Alternative Open-Air Milonga (DJ: Guadalupe) $20 (Bring food / drink for the POTLUCK and receive 50% off admission) | Pavilion Circle off Bonneville Blvd |
| 8:00 pm – 2 am | Grand Ball (DJ: John Miller) Demo: Guillermo & Gaby, Rod & Jenny, and a group performance of all stars $25, | Garbett Center for Choral Arts, 700 N 200 W |
| May 27, 2018, Sunday | ||
| 11:15 am – 12:45 pm | Brunch & Learn: Intro to Tango DJing – a Guide for DJs and Dancers Alike, by Tommy Smith. $10 – not included in the pass |
Garbett Center for Choral Arts, 700 N 200 W
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1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
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Guille & Gabi “Giros: turning and turning them on!”: (Int/Adv) $25 | |
| Rod & Jenny “Boleos – some unexpected” : (Int/Adv) $25 | ||
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3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
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Guille & Gabi “Made-to-fit-close-embrace: comfortable and fancy”: (Int/Adv) $25 | |
| Rod & Jenny “Mixology – various moves with leg wraps/sacada/boleos” : (Int/Adv) $25 | ||
| 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm | Merienda Argentina con Medialunas + Chacarera Class & Practica by Guille & Gaby ($20) Extraordinary and Unique Argentine Experience: mates and medialunas to eat, drink and chat, mini chacarera WS to have fun and chacareras and tangos to dance | |
| 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm | Milonga Flor de Malvaloca (DJ Rod) Demo: John & Jesica $20 | |
| 11:00 pm – ??? | Milonga Trasnochanda (DJ Serena) $10 | |
| May 28, 2018, Monday | ||
| 3 pm – 4:30 pm | Mystic Hot Springs Afterparty: Fremont Indian Petroglyphs | Fremont Inidan State Park |
| 4:30 pm -7 pm | Mystic Hot Springs Afterparty check-in & soak |
Monroe, UT
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| 7 pm – midnight | Mystic Hot Springs Afterparty: Asado dinner and Monroe City Pavilion Milonga | |
| Midnight – ??? | Mystic Hot Springs Afterparty: soaking under stars | |
| May 29, 2018, Tuesday | ||
| All day | Afterparty sightseeing tour and Sunset Dance | on the road! |
MAESTROS
Our dear friends, internationally renown Guille and Gaby!
GUILLERMO CERNEAZ is one of the most creative, fun, and multi-dimensional tango dancers in the current world of tango. Born & raised in Buenos Aires, Guillermo started dancing tango at the age of 19. He has been teaching tango for over 17 years in Buenos Aires and around the world.
GABY MATALONI, also a porteña, has been connected to the world of Dance since her childhood. At the age of 21, moved by the desire of learning more about her own culture and traditions, she discovers Tango, finding in it her real passion and vocation.
This pair is fully committed to transmit Tango dance and its culture in a simple and fun way. Since 2014 they partnered up to teach and perform in several festivals and workshops around the world. San Miguel Tango Festival in Mexico was their first one together, and the kick off of some great and intense experiences together such as Portland Tango Festival 2015, Slat Lake City Spring Festival 2016 and 2017 and Natural Tango Festival 2016 and 2017, where they’ll also be taking part in the 2018 and 10th and closing edition of the festival!! They’ve also taken part in Oniria, a Tango full length theatre production that was on stage as part of Natural Tango Festival 2016: it featured both national and international renowned artists and included the live painting of a life size mural on stage and the dancers being fully integrated into the images and story of it!
In these years, Guille and Gaby have developed together a teaching style that not only involves high quality technical information, but also focuses on making the process enjoyable, fun and accesible to every student. Their lessons are distinguished by their charisma, accuracy and a high energetic level. We learn better when we have fun! As performers, their energy and vibe also shows in every dance they do: from deeply emotional Puglieses to crazy fusion alternative dances, going through really milongueras milongas, they succeed at transmiting the escense of Tango and the Argentinian culture itself. Tango can be fun, and they show it can!
All in all, through these years of working together, Guille and Gaby have settled the bases of their own teaching and dancing styles and have many students that follow them to keep growing and sharing and having fun and dancing while they learn with them. Don’t miss this opportunity to keep working hard while having fun and learing the whole culture of Tango!
And, if you want to see some of their work, here is a little sneak-peack into Guille and Gaby’s Tango World:
ROD & JENNY
JENNY TETERS
As an artist, musician, and Latin dance instructor of many years, Jenny found her true calling in dancing sharing her understanding of tango. With athleticism and grace, she flows effortlessly through complex movements, always finding a strong connection to the music and her partner. Her athletic background and focus on tango’s core movements combine to create a visually poetic expression of the music and her partner’s lead. Her years as a salsa dancer also contribute a distinctive flavor that is both engaging and entertaining.
Jenny has studied with many of the traditional masters of tango in an effort to refine and develop her technique and style. In turn, she works with numerous students, helping them establish a personal style to become strong tango followers in their own right. Her quiet encouragement and easy instruction have helped to advance a new generation of talented tangueras in the Chicago area.
ROD RELUCIO
Rod has been dancing all his life, and has performed in various venues around the States. Although his background has been mostly in hip hop and street dancing, he has fully committed himself to Argentine Tango. One can still see the lasting influence of street dancing in his innovative and original tango style. It is also easy to see the coexistence of traditional tango movements and philosophy working in symmetry with a newer nontraditional influence; the end result is an eye-catching and entertaining performance.
Rod has studied extensively with the masters in Buenos Aires and currently spends much of his time teaching in his native Chicago. His popular group classes are taught with humor and with an eye on encouraging and nurturing individual artistic styles; while at the same time stressing the core movements and strong values of traditional tango. His infectious energy and love of the dance have created a large following of students in Chicago and the surrounding area.
Jenny and Rod started dancing together in 2009; they annually go to Buenos Aires to train with world-renowned teachers and dancers. By fusing their other background styles in dance, their partnership generates a unique tango. Their group and private classes have become very popular in Chicago
Patricia Becker from San Diego
Patricia Becker is an actress, dancer and choreographer from Argentina. She has an extensive dance background going back to her childhood, when she studied ballet and modern dance.
She started dancing Tango in Cordoba, Argentina in 2004, in 2009, living and working as an actress in New York City she rediscovers the love for Tango. She was able to understand the depth and uniqueness of this dance and a passion for exploring its secrets was born. Since that moment she never stop learning. She had the opportunity to train with some of the most prominent and acclaimed tango teachers, while also studying other body and movement disciplines to further develop her understanding of human body mechanics. Feldenkrais has become one of the techniques used in tango classes she teaches.
Key focal points of Patricia’s teaching are to develop an understanding of how to move the body naturally and effortlessly, as well as the connection and unity between dance partners.
In the last few years she has worked alongside key figures such as Oliver Kolker, Alex Krebs, and others. She’s systematically invited to several festivals in the US tango scene.
Feldenkrais® group classes (Awareness Through Movement) use slow, mindful movements to achieve powerful effects in terms of strength, flexibility, and holistic integration of body and mind. By attending to the improving quality of movement, unnecessary muscular tensions throughout the body can reorganize and release. Awareness Through Movement teaches you the secrets to reducing unnecessary muscular effort and improve your awareness of your whole self in action. This emphasis on sensory learning results in movement and vitality that are more flexible, pleasurable and free from aches and pains.
We are excited to welcome back DJ John Miller and Jesica Cutler!
Welcome back DJ and tango music researcher Tommy Smith from Boise!
Tommy discovered tango in early 2012. Since then his love for Argentine tango has grown into an obsession as he seeks ever increasing depths of knowledge. His skills and interests run the full spectrum: teaching, DJing, performing, and organizing. To educate and motivate beginning DJs, progressing DJs, and those interested in tango music, he offers semi-regular DJ workshops. Festivals he has DJ’d at include Montana’s Tango Uprising and the Salt Lake Tango Fest.
With a long history of teaching and tutoring engineering and math, Tommy brings his analytic and organized teaching style into the tango classroom, striving to present concepts that both reinforce each other organically and are accessible to students of all levels. He teaches comfortable and connected social tango, emphasizing versatility, thoughtfulness, and musicality.
Serena Lembach from San Diego
Anibal Troilo said “El tango siempre te espera” (Tango always waits for you.) This is surely the case for Serena Lembach, who first stumbled onto tango during a BsAs visit with a soccer group in 1986.
A single couple all in black on a tiny stage. The music grabbed her soul. The connection and passion was palpable.
Returning home; no tango in sight, sick kids; life got in the way. Fast forward decades. Once she started she never looked back, classes and milongas several days a week. always the music driving the quest.
Serena took the love of the music to djaying, and is busy in San Diego being house DJ for Toca Tango Milonga, as well as guest DJing at other milongas and practicas across the Western US and Mexico. Just as you only know a people when you know the language, you only know tango when you know the music.
She finds joy in seeing dancers embrace the music and grow in their ability to be one with the music.