TANGO GODDESS SECRETS - PAULA DUARTE IN LEEDS
A day to move, connect, and let your inner tango goddess shine.
Saturday, 31 January 2025 | 12:00 – 5:00 pm
Both roles welcome!
* Additional date for private lessons (optional) Sunday 01.02.2025
For bookings (private lessons only) Contact Paula on [email protected] or +447845037563
Tango Goddess Secrets - Paula Duarte in Leeds Saturday 31.01.2025
Join Paula Duarte in Leeds for a special afternoon, where you will be rediscovering tango, deepening technical understanding, and improving the relationship with your own body.
This signature workshop is designed for dancers who want to connect more deeply with themselves and others, enhance their technical understanding, increase self-awareness, build self-confidence, and attune to their own power.
What’s happening on the day?
We’ll start by coming together in a shared circle, creating a space to safely open the day and connect with ourselves and with each other before stepping onto the dance floor. From there, the day will unfold through a beautiful mix of technical and somatic work designed to bring balance, presence and technical clarity.
Programme Saturday 31.01.2025:
1. Opening Circle & Sharing with a Partner
Exercises to gently opening the day to ground, connect, break the ice and and tune into your own body.
2. Somatic Exercises
Simple but powerful body-awareness practices to release tension and open up natural movement, preparing the body and mind for the chore of the workshop.
3. Walking Technique
A complete technical breakdown of the walk, one of the most important elements of the Argentine Tango for elegance, precision, comfort, stability and connection with partners.
4.Ochos, Spirals & circularity
Understand the principles of dissociation, how to increase range of rotation, while maintaining stability.
Learn how to apply these concepts practically and contextually.
5.Giros & Turns
Deconstructing one of the most technically rich figures of the Argentine Tango. Understand how to turn around your partner effortlessly.
Break
6. Standing leg versus free leg
Understanding the roles of the standing leg and free leg, for solid stability, styling and decorations.
7. Melodic Decorations
Exploring melodical decorations, increasing control of the body, applying different variations in the proper music context and learning how to best communicate your needs with the leader when requesting time is needed
8. Rhythmic Decorations
Connect with your playful side by exploring rhythmic decorations and variations, adding personality to your dance and obtaining confident styling options for the dance floor.
9.Somatic Closing & Relaxation
Coming back to the body, integrating everything we’ve learned with breath, stillness, and presence.
10. Closing the circle
We’ll end the day together in a circle of sharing and gratitude, celebrating what we’ve discovered on the dance floor.
Register via [email protected]