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Tango Mastery Weekend with Ariel Barrionuevo & Noelia Sorokin in Cedar Rapids

Tango Workshop with Ariel Barrionuevo

Join us for a weekend of immersive Tango instruction and dancing with world-renowned guest instructor Ariel Barrionuevo & Noelia Sorokin!

Date: Friday, September 13th to Sunday, September 15th

About Our Guest Instructors:

Ariel Barrionuevo

Ariel Barrionuevo is a highly acclaimed Tango dancer, instructor, and choreographer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. With over 27 years of experience, Ariel has performed and taught worldwide, sharing his passion for Tango and its cultural heritage. He is known for his unique teaching style, which emphasizes technique, connection, and musicality.

Noelia Sorokin

Noelia Sorokin, also from Argentina, brings more than 20 years of expertise in teaching the Milonguero style of tango. Her deep understanding and skillful instruction of this intimate and improvisational style of tango adds a valuable dimension to the workshop. Together with Ariel, they offer a comprehensive and enriching tango learning experience.

Workshop Schedule:

Levels: All levels, from beginner to advanced

Friday:

  • 18:30 – 20:00: Fundamental technique for Tango dancing (all levels)
  • 20:00 – 22:00: Practica

Saturday:

  • 10:30 – 12:00: Basic turning movements in both directions (all levels)
  • 13:30 – 15:00: Introduction to Waltz, basic movements and musical interpretation (all levels)
  • 15:15 – 16:45: Elemental traspié milonga (all levels) or Milonga of stumbling in speed (intermediate/advanced)
  • 19:00 – 23:00: Milonga

Irina Aniri! Saturday’s milonga DJ

Get ready for a night of unforgettable tango with DJ Irina Aniri, known throughout the Midwest for her expertly curated sets!

    ✨ Perfect blend of traditional and modern tango

    ✨ Emotionally charged tandas

    ✨ Ideal pacing for dancers of all levels

Sunday:

  • 10:30 – 12:00: Technique for volleys, highlights, pivot, and ornaments (intermediate/advanced)
  • 13:30 – 15:00: Movements for exhibition, stacking, off-axis, taken out with screw, glides with sweeps (advanced)
  • 15:00 – 17:00: Practica

Pricing Information:

Item Cost Students*
1 Workshop $30 $24
3 or more Workshops $25 each $16 each
Friday Practica $10 $8
Milonga $15 $12
Weekend Package (All workshops, practica, and milonga) $150 $135
Leader and Follower Full Package (when pre-registering together) $275 $250

Best Value: Weekend package for $150 (saves money compared to individual pricing)

Special Offer: Leaders and followers registering together get the full package for $275! (Requires pre-registration BY 6PM September 12th)

*Student Registration: Must pre-register using promo-code “StudentsRock” by 6PM September 12th and present student ID.

Payment forms: Cash, personal check, or Venmo

Tango Mastery Weekend with Ariel Barrionuevo and Noelia Sorokin in Cedar Rapids

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn from two Tango masters and take your dancing to new heights!

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Private Lessons:

Take your Tango to the next level with private lessons from Ariel Barrionuevo!

  • Times: Available Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
  • Monday: Available upon request
  • Private Lesson Cost: Individual $100 per hour & couples $120 per hour
  • Scheduling: Email Justin Kline
Tango Mastery Weekend with Ariel Barrionuevo and Noelia Sorokin in Cedar Rapids

Workshops & Milonga Location:

Click here for directions: 260 33rd Ave SW B, Cedar Rapids, IA

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a Tango master and take your dancing to new heights!

Catherine & Craig Tango Connection Workshop – February 29th, 2020

By Cedar Rapids Classes

The theme of the two classes is deepening the conversation in the dance. Class 1: Connection and Collaboration Connection and Collaboration will help leaders and followers deepen their abilities to be aware of their partner, improvise with each other and the music, and deepen somatic communication through games and exercises. Class 2: Awareness and Agency Expanding on the Connection and Collaboration class, Awareness and Agency explores pivots, pasadas, and the molinete in the context of deepening the conversation between leaders and followers. We will look at how pivots can be an avenue of expression for followers, a variety of entrances into the pasada, leaders and followers using different rhythms in the molinete. We’re excited to welcome Catherine Young and Craig Rypstat in Iowa, they’ll share their vision of Argentine social tango in a refreshing and unpretentious way.

The theme of the two classes is deepening the conversation in the dance.

Class 1: Connection and Collaboration

Connection and Collaboration will help leaders and followers deepen their abilities to be aware of their partner, improvise with each other and the music, and deepen somatic communication through games and exercises.

Class 2: Awareness and Agency

Expanding on the Connection and Collaboration class, Awareness and Agency explores pivots, pasadas, and the molinete in the context of deepening the conversation between leaders and followers. We will look at how pivots can be an avenue of expression for followers, a variety of entrances into the pasada, leaders and followers using different rhythms in the molinete.

Morning yoga class offered by Dre Merello- Yoga for yummy tango- cultivating subtle space in our breath & spine.Powerpoit Catherine1

Jesica Arfenoni and Adam Cornett – Tango Workshop – November 16th-18th, 2018 – Cedar Rapids

By Cedar Rapids Classes, Cedar Rapids Milonga

Friday Nov. 16th
7:00- 8:15 pm- Tango Musicality (all levels)
Practilonga following the class

Saturday Nov 17th
1:00 pm- 2:15 pm- Mind bending walking Patterns
2:30 pm- 3:45 pm- Couples Technique
Milonga w/Performance – 7:30 pm- 11:30 pm

Sunday Nov.18th
1:00 pm- 2:15 pm- Turns w/ Sacadas
2:30 pm-3:45 pm- Vals

5 Classes + 2 milongas $150, if paid before Nov. 10th $135, Couples $ 280 or paid before Nov. 10th $ 255, Students $75
1 class $35, two or more $25 each
Friday Practilonga $ 10 – Students $5, Sat. Milonga $ 15 Students $7
For more info. email pvahanian@gmail.com or call#585-978-0909

Jesica Arfenoni- World Tango Champion 2013 & Adam Cornett- US Champion will be sharing their talents with us this November. Jesica learned from the famous teachers in Argentina and she was part of many dance Companies, “Tango mas Tango”, “tango Viaje al Sentimiento,” Ballet Folklorico Neuhen Aunquen” among them. She has been teaching and performing around the world for more than 8 years. She is a very experienced dancer and instructor, with a very distinctive and unique style.
Adam Cornett has a deep and varied background in kinesthetics and movement that he applies to his dancing, ranging from study in the martial arts, to formal education in the fields of medicine and massage therapy. His teaching style is grounded and tactile, as he experiences tango as a physical, reactionary dance. His aim is to make the dance feel good, as well as look good. He encourages his students to be creative, inventive, playful, and musical, as these are the qualities he cherishes most about tango.

Exciting new locations for Cedar Rapids!

By Cedar Rapids Classes, Cedar Rapids Milonga

We have exciting news for our Cedar Rapids classes… we will be holding classes and dances at:

  • Iowa Brewing Company on the 3rd Thursdays of every month – dance, taste & mingle
  • Event space upstairs at Raygun on the 4th Thursdays of every month – learn, mingle, shop and dance
  • Cannon Dance Studio on other Thursdays
  • Milonga at Cannon Dance Studio on the 3rd Saturday of each month