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Originally Posted by mshedgehog  I'd like to read that, I've never taken one of their classes, but everyone who's taken a class of theirs says they teach well. I went to one of the workshops they organised with Miguel Angel Zotto, and the organisation was good. I get the impression that they'd be good for someone transferring from jive or swing. I think Alexandra is a ballet dancer.
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Re: Beginners Tango Boot Camp, 26/27 Apr, Brighton. Stefano Fava and Alexandra Wood.
It was fantastic! Stefano and Alexandra are excellent dancers and very good teachers. They both have very strong firey temperaments (well with an Italian and a red head you couldn't expect much else!) and they both spark off each other to great effect. Very entertaining at times.
They usually charge £30 for a 2 hr workshop so if you consider that for £119 we got 14 hrs of tuition over 2 days, 2 evening dances, lunches, dinner with wine, tea/coffee/snacks/drinks all day, a t-shirt and a DVD it was fantastic value. Warren had everything very well organised - it all ran very smoothly with no hiccups at all and no waiting around for anything. There were only 40 people in total and it was well gender balanced so everyone was dancing almost all the time. Everyone was very friendly and we all got on really well.
Really the only slight fly in the ointment (and I don't really know what you'd do about this) was that there were several people who had no dance experience at all in any dance form and they were really struggling. By the end of the first day, they'd reached saturation point which wasn't so bad for the followers but for the leaders, the 2nd day was really too much. This meant that half of the Sunday, everytime I got to dance with one of them, I couldn't practice any of the steps we'd just been shown because they couldn't remember them in order to lead them! So we'd end doing a sort of shuffle round in more or less the right direction like the slow dance you do at the end of a disco!
That aside though, (a minor point) it was a very enjoyable weekend and we all really felt like we'd learnt something worthwhile. I think I could probably follow most basic moves now - not with much finesse I grant you but at least I can get round the floor without making a complete idiot of myself which is really what I was aiming for. I'll try and put some of the advice above in this thread into practice now (now I know what you're all talking about!)
Thanks very much to Warren and Ruth for all their hard work putting it all together - looking forward to the follow up one in a few weeks. See you all in Buenos Aires!
