The good news: We have a very clean, and well polished dance floor for our weekly milonga at Kelly’s. The stick is due to a recent manicuring and not a beer and food sloshing.
The good-ish news: A newly finished floor can be sticky AT FIRST. But after some wear, it will be lovely.
According to one tanguero in California with sticky polish experience: “When the floors were redone …they were sticky at first as well. As the polymer finish cured over a couple of months the surface continued to harden and became delightfully fast…Be patient and protect your knees for now, the floor will probably cure into a nice surface in a while. Good luck.”
The not-so-bad-and-potentially-beneficial-to-your-technique news: The floor’s present state might deter you from executing excessive pivots, but it’s a perfect opportunity to work on your milonguero style which is less pivoty, more embrace and walk.
In the meantime, we will explore safe, and non-floor-damaging ways to improve your weekly milonga experience. Got questions? Ask one your NHTC organizers. We’re here to help!
So join us tonight!
Tango Tuesday with the New Haven Tango Club starts at 8:00pm at Kelly’s.
Kelly’s Restaurant & Bar
196 Crown Street, New Haven
www.kellysnewhaven.com
Kelly’s is providing NHTC with a great space FOR FREE, so remember to show our gratitude by ordering from the bar/menu (no matter how small the item) and demonstrating grace and gratitude in our interactions with the staff and fellow customers. Remember, we want them to want us, and we also want to avoid charging a cover.
So dance, drink, and be merry!
The NHTC
April 19, 2011 – 12:06 pm
The sticky floor has been taken care of.
So join us tonight!
Tango Tuesday with the New Haven Tango Club starts at 8:00pm at Kelly’s.
Kelly’s Restaurant & Bar
196 Crown Street, New Haven
www.kellysnewhaven.com
Kelly’s is providing NHTC with a great space FOR FREE, so remember to show our gratitude by ordering from the bar/menu (no matter how small the item) and demonstrating grace and gratitude in our interactions with the staff and fellow customers. Remember, we want them to want us, and we also want to avoid charging a cover.
So dance, drink, and be merry!
The NHTC
So….YTF 2011 is now just a fabulous memory and your feet have begun to regain a little of the feeling they lost sometime around 4:00am at the all-night milonga. Your desperately trying to remember that helpful tip you received from Cristina & Homer/Alex & Shorey/Rebecca & Eric….., and you’re still drifting off to sleep each night blissfully recalling that oh-so wonderful unexpected tanda you had with that person from Boston/NYC/New Hampshire/Portland/DC…wait! Was he from New Haven?….
So what’s a tanguero/a to do while in the throws of a festival “Tangover“? The cure for tangovers is to have a little of the hair of the dog that bit you!” And lucky for you, it’s Tuesday!!!
So join us tonight.
Tango Tuesday with the New Haven Tango Club starts at 8:00pm at Kelly’s.
Kelly’s Restaurant & Bar
196 Crown Street, New Haven
www.kellysnewhaven.com
Kelly’s is providing NHTC with a great space FOR FREE, so remember to show our gratitude by ordering from the bar/menu (no matter how small the item) and demonstrating grace and gratitude in our interactions with the staff and fellow customers. Remember, we want them to want us, and we also want to avoid charging a cover.
So dance, drink, and be merry!
The NHTC
With Yale Tango Fest 2011 just a few days away, NHTC would like to take this opportunity to connect our local dancers with some handy tips and insights into navigating and enjoying a tango festival. Be this your first festival or your 50th, here are a few links with information that will likely enhance your festival experience. Mind you, these are opinions, and like tango shoes, everyone has at least 2 if not 100 of them, but they come from folks with a lot of credibility in the tango community. Enjoy:
“From learning to doing: Making the transition from class to milonga”, by Tango Mercurio.
http://www.tangomercurio.org/ar-milonga.html
“Etiquette Article: The do’s and don’ts of inviting and accepting”, by Ney Melo
http://www.close-embrace.com/invitingetiquette.html
“Tango manners”, by Tine Herreman
http://www.tangomuse.com/TangoManners.html#Traffic
Now that you’ve read up, come dance with us tonight and put some of that new found knowledge to good use.
Tango Tuesday with the New Haven Tango Club starts at 8:00pm at Kelly’s.
Kelly’s Restaurant & Bar
196 Crown Street, New Haven
www.kellysnewhaven.com
Kelly’s is providing NHTC with a great space FOR FREE, so remember to show our gratitude by ordering from the bar/menu (no matter how small the item) and demonstrating grace and gratitude in our interactions with the staff and fellow customers. Remember, we want them to want us, and we also want to avoid charging a cover.
So dance, drink, and be merry!
The NHTC
Yale Tango Fest 2011 is fast upon us. Time to start focusing on how to dance well (and dance safely) in tight spaces.
Can well executed walking be more thrilling than a gancho? a boleo? or a volcada? Yes. Yes! and YES!!!! Come test out your simple yet compelling steps and musicality tonight with the New Haven Tango Club. [Keep in mind, this is a milonga, not a practica. So please refrain from teaching on the floor. ]
Tango Tuesday with the New Haven Tango Club starts at 8:00pm at Kelly’s.
Kelly’s Restaurant & Bar
196 Crown Street, New Haven
www.kellysnewhaven.com
Kelly’s is providing NHTC with a great space FOR FREE, so remember to show our gratitude by ordering from the bar/menu (no matter how small the item) and demonstrating grace and gratitude in our interactions with the staff and fellow customers. Remember, we want them to want us, and we also want to avoid charging a cover.
So dance, drink, and be merry!
The NHTC
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