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Argentine Tango Weekend Workshop
September 17-19, 2010

You will remember Ney and Jennifer from the first Tucson Tango Festival in 2009. We are so lucky that they had a change in their European schedule which was pushed back by one week (Our Week) so they can now come to Tucson and grace us with their presence and teaching talents.

World-renowned tango dancers and teachers Ney Melo & Jennifer Bratt started in the New York City and Buenos Aires tango scenes, learning from the old milongueros and dancing every night in the milongas. They went on to teach and guide young dancers in the art of Villa Urquiza style Tango in 2003. In 2007, they relocated to San Francisco and opened their studio “TangoVida San Francisco”. After three marvelous years there, they moved to South Beach and opened “TangoVida Miami” in 2010.

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November 12-16, 2010

Brigitta is an incredibly gifted teacher of Argentine Tango. With a degree in Body-Mind Centering and over twenty years of experience teaching and performing tango around the globe, she is one of the most inspiring and innovative artists in the tango world today. In class, she has the knack of unlocking her students’ creativity and making tango fun and exciting at any level. In the early 1980s, Brigitta discovered tango in Buenos Aires, studying with such legendary dancers as Virulazo, Juan Carlos Copes, Antonio Todaro, Pepito Avellaneda, Gustavo Naveira, and Eduardo Arquimbau. Her studio, Tanzart, has been a pillar of the tango community in Berlin, Germany since 1987. Most recently, Brigitta collaborated with four other women to create the internationally acclaimed dance company “Tango Mujer,” weaving argentine tango together with contemporary dance and theatre for sold-out audiences in NYC and Berlin in 1998, and on tour in the US in 2000.

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Thank you for visiting TangoJo.com! The purpose of this site is to assist you in finding information on Argentine Tango instruction and events in Tucson, AZ.

Argentine Tango Instruction: Why, how, where and when to learn and dance Argentine Tango with Jo & Rusty in Tucson, AZ.

Calendar of Classes and Events: Lists many of the Argentine Tango activities happening in Tucson, AZ

Tango Resources: Such as music, clothing, shoes, etc.

Contact Jo: Please feel free to contact me if you would like any additional information on dancing Argentine Tango in Tucson or anywhere else for that matter.

Periodically, Rusty and I offer weekend immersion workshops at our home studio here in Tucson, AZ. We have found that a more intense immersion process is helpful in the learning process. Being immersed in Argentine Tango over a weekend results in the integration of concepts and techniques. Your body begins to adopt the muscle memory it needs to dance confidently and competently with your partner and the music.

Our immersion workshops usually consist of 2 days of a related topic for a total of four 1.5 hour Argentine Tango classes:

These workshops are kept small and intimate to nurture a higher degree of one-on-one attention between students and instructors and to lay the foundations for social interactions and growth amongst the group. The group you learn with become your home dance community out in the world.

Click here to see our scheduled upcoming Argentine Tango Immersion Workshops in Tucson, AZ

In reality, welcome to a new life full of human connections and personal growth – all through the process of learning and dancing Argentine Tango. Argentine Tango is sophisticated, elegant and passionate and will quickly find its way into your heart and soul.

Argentine Tango is a unique and special dance that improvises, grows and evolves upon the dance floor of the traditions developed in Buenos Aires. These 20th century traditions are the basis of a current world-wide phenomenon of dancers that cross racial and political boundaries. Tango is a true encounter of peace and cohesion and connection that we humans, in our current social and political climates, are finding extremely hard to find elsewhere in our lives.

Tucson is a very active tango community offering a variety of weekly group classes, practicas and milongas. We love to dance Argentine Tango and dancing Argentine Tango in Tucson is easy to do. Tucson hosts one major Festival per year and hosts a variety of Master Tango instructors from Argentina and around the world. Our tango community is welcoming and open and we are always excited to meet new people taking their first few steps into this elegant and passionate dance.

We are here to encourage and support your Argentine Tango learning experience. Feel free to contact us with any questions you might have and we will do our best to assist you.

Jo & Rusty