Announcing: Tango Speed Dating™ - a whole new way to meet people!

Before you even have to think about what to say…

tango. chat. switch partners!

by Author and Tango Teacher, Gabriela Condrea

 

Forget clicking between profiles full of essays and 2-year-old pictures, hoping to get “favorited” and winked at.  This tango speed dating event is a whole new way to interact with real people, live, in-person – a chance to connect through simple partner games using body language before you ever have to say anything!  In-between games, you’ll get a quick chance to introduce yourself and chat, before you switch partners!

Social Tango: Emphasizing the "social" in social dancing

Author and tango teacher Gabriela Condrea is taking tango to the streets - well, bars and swanky lounges, to be more specific - with a mission to use tango as a means for helping people connect.  Expanding upon her playful teaching style and the metaphor of tango for relationships and partnerships developed in her book When 1+1=1 and her classes ("Yoda" calls her Richelle), her newest projects highlight the "social" aspect of this social, improvised folk dance.  Come see for yourself and stay tuned for the newest developments!

tango games + socializing = Tango Happy Hour™

 

Before you even have to think of something clever to say, Tango Speed Dating™ 

Anything and Everything

Some people confuse “anything” with “everything”

Some people confuse “anything” with “everything,” and while they’re busy doing everything they don’t do anything.  “To be successful,” told me Daniel Gelbart last weekend, “you have to do only one thing at a time. No-one ever succeeded—” “Multitasking?” I interject.  “Yes.” 

And it’s true.  You can’t have your cake and eat it too; you can’t do everything. 

We live in the land of opportunity, a place of possibilities,

I'm sorry, Your tax dollars can't help you

I can safely say that my path has been shaped by adversity and the strategy of flowing like water.  Whenever I come across a roadblock, an obstacle in my way, of course my initial reaction is frustration.  But in hindsight (which is hard to foresee amid the gloomy fog), I realize that these closed doors have been the spur of creativity.  Whenever I hear a "No," a "Wish I could help," the more frustrating it seems, the more it pushes me to think outside the box, to invent a way to get past or around it. 

My latest obstacle: posting in public places.  I’ve come across several public institutions that do not have a community board, a place for members of the community to post flyers about their projects and their work. 

Pumpkin Time!

Pumpkin carving,
pumpkin pie,
pumpkin seeds,
pumpkin soup,
pumpkins,
pumpkins,
pumpkins!


I lived four years hopping hemispheres from summer to summer (leaving each fall) and as lovely as that sounds (and I do miss it - I have myself turned around now, going winter to winter),

Shopping Cart Tango FLASHMOBS!

Because you can dance anywhere! -- ¡Porque se puede bailar en cualquier lado!

No need to learn a choreography -
just improvised, embraced
or with a shopping cart
tango, tango, tango!

Onlookers captured our game of improvised interlacing in photos and videos (to share, I presume ) as we hugged and danced and played with our fancy feet behind shopping carts. One lady even joined the group and grocery shopping took on a whole new life! Thank you so very much to everyone who made it to our 2nd Shopping Cart Tango FLASHMOB. I hope you had as much fun as I did!

Our NEXT one is Sept 12th, 2013: https://www.facebook.com/events/230069623812315/

Come join us!

The Shower

I get ideas in the shower, often.  People have suggested "solutions" to this problem (we have this need to "fix" things) - pen and paper on the counter, a recording device, waterproof crayons - but I think that the reason I get ideas in the shower is precisely because I can't write them down.