Anais y Lexa - 2nd Tango

!st NYC Queer Tango Festival
Farewell Milonga - Teachers Performance
Red Bean Studio 10/10/10

Don José Marie
Carlos di Sarli
1954

Anais y Lexa - Tango

1st NYC Queer Tango Festival
Farewell Mionga - Teachers Performance
Red Bean Studio 10/10/10

Tormenta
Carlos di Sarli y su Orq Canta: Mario Pomar
08/09/54

LIBERTAD@Lafayette - LIVE MUSIC & Performance

LIBERTAD@Lafayette with LIVE MUSIC & Performance

Wednesday Aug 11 2010
8:00pm - 1:00am
Lafayette Grill
54 franklin Street bet. Broadway & Lafayette
New York, NY

LIBERTAD@LAFAYETTE ARGENTINE TANGO
$12 INCLUDES FREE BEGINNER TANGO LESSON @ 8pm with Lexa
Intermediate/Adv Tango lesson 8:30-9:30pm with Eva Carrozza
($5 extra for intermediate class)

......This week, Eva Carrozza continues as our guest teacher and has
some beautiful tango moves in store for you.

DJ Lexa
AND LIVE MUSIC SET WITH Burleigh
Performance at 11pm with Eva & Dante Polichetti
Hosts Magdalena y Lexa

Full bar and diner available, ample seating

Lafayette Grill 54 Franklin Street
(bet. Broadway & Lafayette)
Subways 6, N, Q, R, W, A, C, E, 1, 2, 3 J, M, Z to Canal Street
212 732 5600
www.lafayettegrillandbar.net
free parking available

Alicia Cruzado y Lexa TANGO

Opening of LIBERTAD @ Lafayette 9Jun2010

Every Wed @ Lafayette Grill
54 Franklin (bet. Broadway & Lafayette) NYC

Los 33 Orientales Carlos Di Sarli

Alicia Cruzado y Lexa Milonga

Opening of LIBERTAD @ Lafayette
Every Wed @ Lafayette Grill
54 Franklin (bet. Broadway & Lafayette) NYC
La Milonga Que Faltaba Edgardo Donato

LIBERTAD @ Lafayette

Opening June 9 with special guest teacher Alicia Cruzado.
Performance with Alicia y Lexa
DJ Lexa
Your Hosts - Magdalena y Lexa

LIBERTAD @ LAFAYETTE on Wednesdays
Lafayette Grill
54 Franklin Street
(bet. Broadway & Lafayette) 212-732-5600 - free parking available
$12 admission includes free glass of wine
8pm beg lesson
8:45pm Intermediate lesson
Milonga till 1am
DJ Lexa
Hosts Magdalena y Lexa

Nos vemos

Darina y Lexa Tango y Milonga

Lafayette Grill
Apr 10 2010

Milonga del Cielo in February-Chacarera, Chinese New Year, Candombe!!!

Milonga del Cielo has some wonderful Tuesdays in store for you this month.

Tuesday Feb 9
8:30PM SPECIAL CHACARERA CLASS
Come and learn this beautiful Argentine folkloric dance from an expert. You'll never have to sit out the chacarera again. And if you've already had some lessons - come and brush up your chacarera with this special class taught by Genoveva Baez. Genoveva started dancing folklore at age of 10 and by the age of 15 she was already part of a traveling dancing group.
Participated many times in tv shows as well as in the international fiesta de la Vendimia in Mendoza Argentina.
She taught folklore in different private schools in Argentina.
The class will be one hour and inbetween the tangos, valses, y milongas, we will dance many chacareras (and Genoveva will dance a samba for us too).

Tuesday Feb 16
Chinese New Year Milonga
Wear your Qipao / Cheongsam or wear RED for good luck for the New Year. Ivy will have Special Chinese feast for the New Year and even some Chinese tangos along with our Argentine favorites!

Tuesday Feb 23
"Like the beatbeatbeat of the 'tambor'
When the jungle shadows fall
Like the tictictoc of the stately clock
as it stands against the wall..."
That's right- I'm calling youyouyou!
It's time once again for Cielo's "Let's Pretend it's SUMMER" Milonga. Last year we took you to Hawaii with authentic hula performance & you tango'd with tiki gods & live Hawaiian swing cortinas. This year we're going to the steamy hot jungles of Africa and the sexy beaches of Uruguay to learn about an ancient beat that heralded the birth of tango.
Live Candombe performance from Uruguay. Live drumming cortinas and show with Arturo Prendez. Featuring Tambor Piano, Tambor Chico y Tambor Repique!!!
Dress for the heat.
Men - take half off get half off on house drinks.

Milonga del Cielo
Heavenly Bamboo Pavilion
10 East 39th St (Madison & 5th Ave)
8:30pm beg tango lesson
9:30pm-1:30am Milonga
$14 includes class, milonga, and sushi & Chinese buffet
$8 milonga only
Host & DJ Lexa plays a mix of traditional, alternative, and nuevo
tangos and she also is happy to take musical requests.

Parking on the block
A few short steps from Grand Central 4,5,6 trains

Full bar and we have Sports Wii -
Tennis, Baseball, Bowling, Golf, Boxing AND
WE TANGO
Same Sex/Opposite Sex Dancing Welcome

Cielo Tango Performance Jan 12 2010

Alicia Cruzao y Aldo Romero
Jan 12 2010
Una Emoción Ricardo Tanturi/Campos
gracias to Miguel Alvarez for wonderful filming

Cielo Vals Performance Jan 12 2010

Alicia Cruzado y Aldo Romero
Jan 12 2010
Francia D'Arienzo
gracias to Miguel Alvarez for wonderful filming.

Cielo Milonga Performance Jan 12 2010

Alicia Cruzado y Aldo Romero
Milonga Performance at Cielo Jan 12 2010
gracias to Miguel Alvarez for wonderful filming.

Cielo Milonga reopens Tuesday Jan 12

Feliz Ano Nuevo Milongueros!
Cielo will be closed this coming Tuesday Jan 5. We're taking a break to rest up from all the New Year festivities. Please join us on Tuesday Jan 12. Special performance by Alicia Cruzado y Aldo Romero.
Milonga del Cielo
Heavenly Bamboo Pavilion
10 East 39th St (Madison & 5th Ave)
8:30pm beg tango lesson
9:30pm-1:30am Milonga
$14 includes class, milonga, and sushi & Chinese buffet
$8 milonga only
Host & DJ Lexa plays a mix of traditional, alternative, and nuevo tangos and she also is happy to take musical requests.

Parking on the block
A few short steps from Grand Central 4,5,6 trains

Full bar and we have Sports Wii -
Tennis, Baseball, Bowling, Golf, Boxing AND
WE TANGO
Same Sex/Opposite Sex Dancing Welcome

Cielo Chanukah Milonga 2009

Itsik un Shpitsik Glick performing Yiddish Swing
(Lexa Roséan & Arturo J. Perez Saad)
Song: eishes chayil Barry Sisters

Cielo in September

Milonga del Cielo in September 2009
"Do you remember how we danced that night away"

We've got something special planned EVERY Tuesday in September
Heavenly Bamboo Pavilion
10 East 39th St (Madison & 5th Ave)
8:30pm beg class with Lexa *Special class on Sep 15
9:30pm - 1:30am milonga
Chinese buffet & sushi served till 11pm
Host & DJ Lexa

$14 includes class/dinner/milonga $8 milonga only

September 8
Fiesta de Cumpleaños para el hijo de Lexa
That's right! My son - Ruben - the darling of the tango - is turning 16. Come tango the night away with El Guapo del Milonga with birthday cake & champagne.

September 15
One Year Anniversary of Cielo Milonga
Special class (all levels) with Helen La Vikinga.
Helen "La Vikinga" has been teaching tango since 1992 in Sweden, and since 2005 in Buenos Aires. Helen works with the Argentinian tango as a dance, as an expression, but most of all as a communication and as a connection to the other, both in the leader and in the follower role. Helen teaches from traditional tango to "queer" tango and everything in between. The most important is to be able to communicate to the other and enjoy the TANGO!

She started early to dance both roles in the tango and became well known as La Vikinga at the traditional milongas in Buenos Aires for dancing the 'man´s" role. Helen has been organizing in Sweden, the milonga Libertango and in Buenos Aires the milongas La Vikinga (one of the first alternative milongas in Bs As), Italia Unita, Bien Pulenta and Mano a Mano (open minded traditional milonga). In her own tango school, Escuela La Vikinga, she teaches both group and private tango & milonga lessons alone or with Javier Guiraldi.

Beside dancing and organizing tango Helen designs and produces La Vikinga Shoes and Sneakers.

PERFORMANCE WITH La Vikinga & Lexa! Champagne!

September 22
Mabon Milonga
Come and Celebrate Autumn. Ritual Tango Ceremony and Harvest blessing for Prosperity bestowed on all dancers by High Priestess and Witch Lexa. Mix of traditional. alternative, & nuevo sets.

September 29
Milonga Chai
If you make it to this milonga - you've been sealed in SEFER HA'CHAIM (the Book of Life). The Jewish New Year & Yom Kippur having concluded - Baile Chai at Cielo. Yiddish cortinas/Yiddish, Russian, Polish tangos and traditional Argentine tango sets. We are also celebrating the birthdays of Michelle DeBlasi and Jean Migdal and wishing Lexa a Bon Voyage as she heads off to Hamburg Queer Tango Festival.

Also in September...Allegorical paintings of tango, magic & girls...

The Art of Con Artist continues to hang at Heavenly Bamboo Pavillion and it is for sale at recession prices. 10 E 39th St (Mad/5th Ave), NYC









Lexa and Gayle










Love and Lightning











Moon Kite

















Naked Tango Practice
















Taking Her to the Cross








Nos vemos en Cielo!

Drunk Tango

Performance at the U.S. Tango Championships - Lexa & Gayle performing as the 2008 champions
Performance @ Stepping Out Studios, NYC July 24, 2009
Milonga is Donato Ella es Asi
One detail that can't be seen is that when Lexa sits down towards the end, she is reading a book called
"Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" (with title also in español).

Lexa Roséan and Gayle Madeira

Photos from Drunk Tango
Performance at the U.S. Tango Championships
Photos by Kai: http://kaipix.com/projects/usatangochampionship2009/000/index000.html

Milonga de la Familia

Four Seas Players 39^th Season Spring Performance

In Cantonese with English Subtitles

Milonga de la familia

Playwright: Kaiyu Sun Director: Katen Ho

featuring Lexa Roséan & Gayle Madeira

Show Times

Sat. May 9& 16, 2009 at 3:00pm & 7:00pm

Sun. May 10 & 17, 2009 at 3:00pm

Location

Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center – Recital Hall

466 Grand Street, New York, NY 10002

Admission

$12.00 at the door, $6.00 senior citizens

$10.00 by reservation via phone or email

Reservations

Phone (718) 831-1998 Mon.-Sat. 9am-6pm

Website http://www.4seas.org

On a Sunday afternoon, a widow waits for her two daughters and younger brother to join her for a family dinner. Under the quiet surface there are tensions and conflicts between the family members but everyone is used to the predictable situations they have to face each day. An unexpected guest drops in and the revelry that she brings with her throws the family off balance. What does the visit of this stranger mean to the family and herself?

About the Title

Milonga is not a fixed location or a stationary being. It is made by people, music and the interaction between them. Family is the same, only that in this case love is the music. Milonga is something we live. Family is something we make.

Click on image to enlarge.

Lexa Rosean & Gayle Madeira Milonga Performance at Practilonga-939 (NYC)

Valentine's Day 2009

Lexa Rosean & Gayle Madeira Tango Performance at Practilonga-939 (NYC)

Valentine's Day 2009

Inauguration Tango Performance

Inauguration Tango happened in New York City at the Cielo Milonga on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. Bill and Hillary Clinton (a.k.a. Lexa Roséan and Gayle Madeira) made a special appearance along with various Monica Lewinsky's. After a bit of a fray between Hillary and one Monica, Hill pulls herself together in time for President Barack Obama to appear and dance with her.
The Cielo Milonga is every Tuesday night, @ the Heavenly Bamboo Pavilion (10 East 39th St btwn Mad & 5th Ave). There is an 8:30 beginning tango class and dancing from 9:30pm - 1:30am. $14 includes Sushi and Chinese buffet