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    • Hermanas de Tango: Basic Argentine Tango/Milonga classes in Portland ME

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    Beginner tango and milonga classes - no partner or experience required (6 registrants minimum to run the class). Both ongoing beginner and those new to Argentine Tango will enjoy this class to get your started and keep you going on the tango journey. Please bring shoes with non-rubber soles, or socks you don’t care too much about. Even if you have taken a beginner class before, it’s always good to re-examine the basics from a different perspective. Everyone will gain technique, styling, balance and connection from this class. For more information on what is happening in the Portland and environs Tango community, please visit  http://PortTango.com

    ***3/10 and 4/7 we will be meeting at 131 Spring st. instead of the school!!!***

    Bring your registration payment to the first class, or send your $84 registration payment by check to (please include your email, phone number - mobile is best - and the name of the class for which you are registering) :

    Emma Holder

    222 St. John st. Suite 204

    Portland ME 04102

    or use paypal: (be aware that paypal assesses fees, so the price is slightly higher: $87)

     
    No refunds or transfers please. If you unexpectedly cannot make a class you have paid for, please talk to Laura or Emma to do some one-on-one practice time at a post-class Wednesday practica. We’ll catch you up : )
     
    About the teachers:
     
    Emma Holder: A global citizen, Emma currently lives in Portland Maine, but travels and dances everywhere she can. She was captured by Tango in 2003 and has been addicted to it ever since. Her approach emphasizes the importance of connection and communication within the tango partnership and how it can translate further into life experiences. With unimpeded connection, anything is possible! Emma also performs and teaches Belly Dance and Latin dance under the name Adira. Her radio show Shaken and Stirred features music and lively topics to shake things up a bit: Fridays 10:30 - noon  http://wmpg.org locally in Portland ME 90.9/104.1 FM.
     
    Laura Balladur:   Laura took her first ballet classes at the tender age of 3 and danced her way through school with various classes in ballet, jazz, and modern. She even did a short stint in synchronized swimming! In her twenties, she went back to ballet, studied the Cecchetti method, and taught toddlers in exchange for pointe classes. In 2001, while spending a second year in France researching her doctoral thesis, she discovered Argentine Tango. She took classes at a school created by Claudia Codega and Esteban Moreno and since then, has taken classes and workshops with many teachers including Geraldine & Javier (Buenos Aires), Cecilia Gonzales (Buenos Aires), Brigita Winkler (Berlin) & Thomas Howlin (Buenos Aires, Montreal), Felipe & Rosa (San Francisco), and more locally, Hsueh-tze Lee (Boston), among many many others. Laura frequently travels to Boston, New York, Montreal, and Buenos Aires for advanced workshops and social dancing.
    Argentine Tango is a social dance – not about steps, but about connection. In tango, this connection is facilitated by a mental attitude, which then translates to the all important “walk.” As a famous saying goes: “It takes 20 minutes to learn a figure, it takes 20 years to learn how to walk.” In her teaching, Laura brings attention to this essential aspect of the dance, emphasizing posture, connection, attitude, and that most essential aspect of tango, the walk.