Tango Music Seminar

Tango Music Appreciation Seminar: Introduction
By Mariano Laplume

Friday 10th March 7 - 8.15 pm

By Popular Demand we are Re-Running this Seminar on Friday 10th March!

Designed to help tango dancers understand and connect more to the music and through this understanding, improve their dance.

This introduction is important as the foundation for the Tango Music Appreciation Seminar Series.
In following sessions, having created the grounding with this knowledge, we start using the body more to reinforce the theory.

Format: Like a talk, rather than dance lesson.
Music experience: You don't need to have experience as a musician.
Contents: We discuss specific tango music elements and how these elements connect with each other to create the genre (Tango Music) and style. We use examples of different orchestras and some visual aids, to see how the music is created by movement.

PRICE:         £12 (registration email will give instructions for payment)
TIME:         10th March 7:00 - 8:15 pm
ROOM:       Band Hall (Tango Garden Milonga hall)
ADDRESS:  93 Guilford St, London WC1N 1DN
TUBE:          Russell Square
 
ADDITIONAL NOTES:  Register required. No partner necessary. Open Level

More dates to come as part of this series. Join our mailing list if you'd like to be kept informed.

Mariano Laplume
Professional Tango Musician & Dancer

Prior to being a professional tango dancer, Mariano had a very exciting and successful career as a Tango musician. He had the talent and good fortune to play first as a violist then violinist in:

• The Academic Orchestra of Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires (Classical Music)
  
• Orchestra Tipica Imperial (Tango Orchestra)
• Orchestra of Tango Styles of Academia Nacional del Tango
  
• after which he cofounded and became very well know as the energetic violinist of the internationally renowned and much loved Sexteto Milonguero.

During his career as a Tango Musician, Mariano has played in more than 60 milongas, festivals and concerts in Buenos Aires/Argentina and over 100 more around the world.

"It was great to hear the tango music and different aspects of it explained by a professional musician! It should almost be compulsory for everyone in London Tango"


"This was an excellent eye opener... essential knowledge"

"very informative, good humoured and insightful..."

"Really useful insights into the styles... it has unlocked some ways to put more expression into each dance"

"Now I know better what to listen for..."

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