The Practice

Dates - 2010

The Practice is experimenting with a new time and place this term. The practice will take place on Sundays at St Pauls between 2pm and 5pm on the following dates.

Sunday 17th January
Sunday 31st January
Sunday 14th February
Sunday 28th February
Sunday 14th March
Sunday 28th March

Venue

Price

Contact

Private Lessons

Private lessons will be on offer most dates, and the availability of tea and cake remain the same. After this term the success of the experiment will be judged and a decision on whether to keep to the new format or revert to the old will be made.

Contact details for all teachers offering private lessons.

We get a lot of requests for private lessons, and usually have some trouble to find a time when we are free and there is a suitable floor that we can use. At the Tango Mango in Totnes, teachers give private lessons during the practice and this works very well, so we have adopted the idea for Cambridge. Two teachers are usually available for classes while the practice is taking place. Classes take place in the same hall as the practice.

How will it work?
Decide which of the teachers you would like to work with, and send them an email (details below) to see if they have a free slot on the date which you would like to have a lesson, to discuss what you want to do in your class and to arrange price. Lessons can be booked for a half-hour, or for the whole hour. You can book a lesson alone, or with partner. It may be possible to arrange a lesson by turning up on the night to see if someone if free, but of course they may well have people already booked, so it is best to book in advance.

Other Stuff

The practice exists to provide space to experiment and try things learnt in classes/courses before trying to dance them in the milonga. Line of dance is relaxed and unlike on the social dance floor you can try something, stop, figure out what went wrong and try it again! The dancers who regularly come along range in experience from recent beginners to people who have been dancing for years. The practice has a relaxed, friendly atmosphere, especially nice if you aren’t yet feeling so confident on the social dance floor yet. Most often the music we play is by Di Sarli, D'Arienzo, Calo, Fresedo or Tanturi and we try to play some specials towards the end. We also have free tea and coffee (a unique, added bonus) and biscuits.

If you are working on something that has been taught before and you catch us in a spare moment we are happy to answer tango questions, offer some advice or help you figure out what’s going wrong. You don't have to come with a partner, though of course you can if you want to. Quite often there is an imbalance of either leaders or followers especially at the beginning, so if you have something in particular you want to work on, it may be worth finding a partner in advance.