Hello all, 
WINNERS OF 2008 U.S.A. TANGO CHAMPIONSHIP
Hola Milongueros
Hola Amigos
The Route:The Parade will kick off at 1pm at 28th and Broadway. Then we will boogie our way down Broadway, hula, swing and irish step our way past Union Square and into University Place. At Eighth Street we will Salsa, Tango and Waltz East into Saint Marks Street. Our House, Techno and Disco floats will have afternoon shoppers wigglin as they watch us get down in the heart of the East Village. A straight shot from there brings us to DanceFest in Tompkins Square Park.
At DanceFest we will come together and celebrate watching free dance performances, be able to take free dance lessons and enjoy a Dance Party.
Dr. Ninah Beliavsky cordially invites you to a
Imagination, Cognition and Language Acquisition:
The Program will include a violin-piano recital by Yuri and Daniel Beliavsky
and a special performance of Argentine tango by
Ninah Beliavsky
Lexa Roséan and Daniel Rafael.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
St. John’s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Jamaica, NY 11439
Refreshments will be served
Admission is Free
St. John’s College
For More information contact Dr. Ninah Beliavsky beliavsn@stjohns.edu
אורחים מיוחדים במסיבת פורים - נינה בליאבסקי יחד עם דניאל רפאל ולקסה רוזין במופע מיוחד טנגו ארגנטינאיDear Friends,
The Book Celebration- Concert and Dance -has been rescheduled.
Please save Saturday, March 29, 2008, 6pm.
Stay tuned for more information and details.
DUE TO THE SNOW STORM, ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY WILL BE CLOSED TODAY. THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN APRIL. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER DETAILS.
Dr. Ninah Beliavsky cordially invites you to a
Imagination, Cognition and Language Acquisition:
The Program will include a violin-piano recital by Yuri and Daniel Beliavsky and a special performance of Argentine tango
by Ninah Beliavsky and Lexa Roséan.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
St. John’s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Jamaica, NY 11439
Refreshments will be served
Admission is Free
St. John’s College
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For More information contact Dr. Ninah Beliavsky beliavsn@stjohns.edu or (718) 990-5262
You are invited to a very special and unique Milonga.
On Sunday afternoon, September 16, a gathering of brave and spirited tangueros will dance across the East River on the Willamsburg Bridge. There is no charge and everyone is invited. I hope you can join us.
Let me put this in context. I am a tanguero, but I am also an artist by profession. I am working on a series of performances across the country that involve Argentine Tango. The project is called “Tango Intervention”. It involves dancing tango where tango is not expected. In the public realm this acts as a gentle intervention, a brief interruption in the normal business of life. It confuses and amuses people and generally leaves them with a smile. I ask for nothing from the public, and the only thing I give (other than the joy of tango) is the web address (www.tangointervention.org). On the web the performance is re-contextualized in a framework relative to the history/sociology of the specific geographic place where the dance took place, and also related to the history/sociology of tango. In this way the project has two very different sides, one on the street and one on the web. It is multifaceted – like tango.
I have done 5 tango interventions so far, in Tampa, Chicago, and Seattle. They all went very well and were great fun for the participants and for the public. Now I’m doing a Tango Intervention in my old hometown and I would love to have you participate.
The Tango Intervention in New York will be from 12noon to 2pm. It is an official part of Conflux, a performance art festival that the Village Voice called a “network of maverick artists and unorthodox urban investigators…making fresh, if underground, contributions to pedestrian life in New York City, and upping the ante on today’s fight for the soul of high-density metropolises.”
The Tango Intervention for Conflux will consist of a band of tangueuros dancing from the Tenement Museum on the lower East Side across the Williamsburg Bridge to Conflux headquarters at Luna Lounge in Williamsburg - where I will be buying the first round of drinks.
On the web site the action will be contextualized within the history of immigrant re-migration from the crowded tenements of Manhattan to the green fields of Brooklyn when the bridge opened in 1903. The web site will also make a nod to the migration of artists and others from Manhattan to Brooklyn in more recent times. Like tango itself, this project asks questions about ‘place’ and belonging and longing and fulfillment. On the street (or the bridge) however, it will basically be a crazy mobile milonga moving through the air above the East River.
If you are at all interested I invite to explore this website. If you would like to participate or just want more information please click here for more details. If you still have questions please email me at tangointervention@gmail.com, or call me at 813 843 4921.
Having danced often in New York, I know there are a lot of great dancers in this city who also happen to be just crazy enough to enjoy something like this. I look forward to hearing from you and dancing with you!
Embrazos,
Robert
The site says that Volunteers are also needed!
So if you are interested in this project but are not an Argentine Tango dancer, you can still be involved. Please contact: tangointervention@gmail.com
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Eduardo Goitia, 43, and Cyrena Drusine, 25, are unlikely finalists at the World Tango Championships being held in Buenos Aires.
Eduardo was born in the Bronx in a family of immigrants from Puerto Rico. He is an architect at the top New York design firm Mancini, Duffy and lives in midtown Manhattan. Cyrena is from a Russian émigré family that ended up in Manhattan. She is an NYU graduate student studying performance arts from an anthropological perspective.
Perhaps the most intriguing fact about this couple is that they have only known each other since this past April when they met at a milonga, or tango dance hall, in Buenos Aires.
In these contests, partner synchronization is considered one of the most important facets of the judging process.
Speaking about the night they met, Eduardo told ABC News, "We danced believing each that the other was Argentine. Not until we sat down and chatted did we realize we were two New Yorkers. So we exchanged phone numbers and started dancing as a couple in New York in May."
The rest is history.
In July the couple won the United States championships in New York, which carries among its prizes an invitation to the annual event in Buenos Aires, the birthplace of this exquisite dance.
The World Championships brings together close to 500 couples from 154 cities to compete in the main event during an 11-day spectacle replete with dance shows, tango orchestra performances, specialized classes, seminars and other happenings revolving around the tango.
"It's a thrill to dance in this competition with all the historical significance of Buenos Aires," said Eduardo, in a short break while waiting for the semi-finals to begin. Eduardo and Cyrena are vying for top honors in ballroom, one of the two categories of tango dance style at the championship (the other category is stage).
Stage is the more stylized and choreographed version, while the ballroom category is the more traditional, neighborhood-style tango that developed in Buenos Aires in the early part of the 20th century.
"We actually danced in both categories at the New York festival. We came in first in ballroom and third in stage. But here we decided to concentrate on ballroom dancing. It's more traditional, especially here in Argentina."
In the ballroom semi-finals, the contestants go in groups of 10 couples and are asked to dance in counter-clockwise circles while a panel of five judges rates each of the couples. Three recorded tango tunes are played for each grouping of 10 couples. The music is not prearranged, so the couples cannot plan their dancing according to any specific composition.
The judges look at factors including how the couple first walks out onto the dance floor, their general appearance and ambience, their elasticity, their rhythm and dancing in harmony with the music, and even to how they relate to each other.
