Tango Boot Camp 26th & 27th April 2008

[Yliander]

liking the look of this - really hoping to that I will be able to fit into my budget and schedule!

[jemessex]

would be great if a few forumites were there.
After speaking with 'bootcamp' enrolement officer, I was informed that there are just a few places left.....so you had better be quick.
Hope to see some of you ...

[Yliander]

Originally Posted by jemessex

would be great if a few forumites were there.
After speaking with 'bootcamp' enrolement officer, I was informed that there are just a few places left.....so you had better be quick.
Hope to see some of you ...

decision decisions!

[Brighton Belle]

I know its been a while since anyone put anything on this thread but is anyone going to this Tango weekend camp?

I've seen the teachers and they look fabulous! I can't imagine any of us are going to look anywhere close to this by the end of one weekend (in fact I know we're not!) but doing the intensive workshops should make for a good grounding. I know other people who've tried to learn this dance piece-meal have told me this logical approach is the best way to do it.

I'm signed up but I don't know anyone else who's going. Anyone out there? I think they've got a couple of places left although I understand its pretty full.

[JonD]

So, how was it? I'm curious!

I ended up doing the Tango Tangk last weekend - I'd planned on just going to the milongas but, as I was staying in a B&B locally, got a call on Saturday morning asking me to step in for a poor guy who'd had to rush off to be with his sick father. It was great fun and I learnt a lot; Jenny & Ricardo really are very good teachers.

[Brighton Belle]

Originally Posted by JonD

So, how was it? I'm curious!

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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 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.

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!