Contact Tango in London
in 2024
No session in May
Thursday 6 June
Thursday 11 July !
Thursday 1 August
Thursday 5 September
Thursday 3 October
Thursday 7 November
See you there!
Contact Tango in LONDON
We usually meet on the first Thursday of the month @ The Ringcross Community Centre in North London, a short walk from Caledonian Road, Holloway Road or Highbury and Islington stations. These sessions started on the 1st of February 2024. Curiously, on the 1st of February 2009, I also started my monthly sessions @ the Siobhan Davies Studios near Elephant & Castle, which ran for 4 years and were called 'Tango Release'! I could not have imagined a better start!
25 Years ago I offered a Contact Tango workshop at the Camden Arts Centre. Now, I am back where I began, in North London. I am looking forward to sharing my dance with you!
The next sessions are:
No session in May !
Thursday 6 June 2024 *GUEST ALERT! This session is facilitated by Kathy Krick*
Thursday 11 July 2024 Please NOTE this is on the 2nd THURSDAY of the month!
Thursday 1 August 2024
Thursday 5 September 2024
Thursday 3 October 2024
Thursday 7 November 2024
7-8 PM: CLASS. I will offer a few ideas to get us in focus and moving.
8-9 PM: jaMilonga. Is it a CI Jam? Is it a Milonga? Neither and both! DJ Shuffle will 'play' an eclectic mix of music (from one of my playlists) to inspire and accompany our dance. Requests are welcome. No cortinas!
Kathy Crick teaches Improvisation, Contact Improvisation, and Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London. She is interested in improvisation as an integrated technical, compositional and performance practice, considering the layers of play between structure and spontaneity. Over a period of thirty-five years, Kathy has worked variously as a performer, collaborator, and teacher with artists from the fields of dance, theatre, music and moving image. She has contributed to many Dance and Performing Arts programmes in Higher Education in the UK and in independent community settings. Other influences include studies in education, psychology, shiatsu, anatomy, and somatic practice.
Join these fun, creative partnering sessions, inspired by and rooted in Tango Argentino and Contact Improvisation techniques. Contact Tango emerged around 25 years ago in Europe and is now danced and enjoyed by a niche group of enthusiasts on three continents, most recently in Argentina and the USA. If you enjoy dancing in partnership to music, tango or CI or neither or something else, these sessions are for you!
Please arrive at 6.30 PM if you wish to warm up. Space is also available from 9 to 9.30 PM for warm-down.
Please note: practice shoes or socks are recommended. No rubber soles.
Please take care of yourself and others when dancing. Always opt for gentler and safer options. Take creative risks rather than physical risks!
Have a question? Send me a message: info(at)adrianapegorer(.)com or on 07974 619 570
Admission: £15 Please book online using the button below.
You can change the amount to suit your situation (£8 to £15). Invoices are available on request.
ADDRESS: The Ringcross Community Centre
60 Lough Road, Islington, London, Greater London, England N7 8RH, UK
Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/DQcYt9iCTtzQcBq28
Kathy and I performed an improvised duet at the TangoDiferenteLondon2012, which also included the teaching and demonstration dancing by Queer Tango London and Freedom Tango (Peter Baldock).
The event was supported by the Big Dance Micro Grant Award and it welcomed visually impaired people.
Little video from first session in February:
What is Contact Tango?
Check these links:
Tango Diferente 2012 video by Adriana Pegorer
Tango Diferente 2013 video by Tobias Funke
Wuppertal Contact Tango Festival 2016 video by Adriana Pegorer
Why ContacTango? Contact Quarterly Winter/Spring2020 Vol.45.1
Join the Facebook group CONTACT TANGO AROUND THE WORLD for more details on International Festivals and workshops.
Adriana Pegorer is an interdisciplinary dance artist interested in the interweaving of forms. She has devised and performed several experimental works that mix choreography with improvisation, videos, and new technology.
She belongs to the first generation of Contact Tango practitioners, having started to mix Tango and CI during her BA in Dance and Related Arts at Chichester University (1998-2001). She choreographed 'Adagio, con brio' in 2005 and revisited that duet for a quartet in 2008. Her monthly Tango Release sessions in London ran from 2008 to 2013, and her International Tango Diferente research week in Ponderosa (Berlin) ran from 2012 to 2015.
She has taught and performed at festivals in the UK and abroad, including Germany, Sweden, Spain, Italy, France, Belgium and the USA.
She has taught Tango Argentino courses at the City Literature College in London since 2016.
Her writings include 'Performing Gender in Milongas of Buenos Aires' (2008); 'Tango Diferente: Exploring Tango and CI at Ponderosa' (2013), ‘It Takes Two to Win' (2015), ‘Why Contact Tango?’ (2020).
