Tango Bootcamp for Beginners
No partner needed, no experience needed. For students, postdocs, and their significant others - and others if there is room.
Famous Tango Bootcamp
Registration for the first Tango Bootcamp of 2010 is now open!
Wednesday nights - taught by Robin Thomas from New York
January 20 - February 24, 7-8:00pm
(six week series - you must attend every class!)
Pre-registration required
Sorry! Now full for women. Get on our email list to be notified about our next bootcamp series. Men, click below to sign up.
Special offer for undergrads this semester! Take the YTC Bootcamp for free!! You still must register ahead of time to reserve a space and you must bring your campus ID to the first class.
Undergrads and postdocs: $30 for the whole series
Non-students: $60 for the whole series
Bootcamps always fill up fast! Don't wait!!
WHAT and WHY
The Yale Tango Club meets every Sunday night at GPSCY's to dance tango and socialize. It's a great party with real DJs! Wednesdays we have a class series with famous teachers from New York and some Sundays we also offer classes by famous traveling teachers from all over the US, Canada, Argentina and Europe. We don't compete, we just dance to have fun. To participate in our club, you need to learn the basics of Argentine Tango, so we created the Tango Bootcamp for total beginners. Ask around, everybody on campus has heard about our famous Tango Bootcamp.
The Tango Bootcamp is a short series of intensive basic training to get you ready for our Sunday night social dance floor. We'll teach you walking, rocksteps, the cross, ochos, basic turns, musicality and intro to close embrace tango.
WHEN
January 20 - February 24, 2010
Bootcamps are a six class series and you will need to attend all classes. If you can't attend all classes see below for options.
Note: Please come 15 min early for the first class so we can take care of registration details and start on time.
WHERE
Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street. Directions here.
SIGN UP REQUIRED
Bootcamps are usually booked full between 12 and 48 hours after announcement, and sometimes faster for one gender than for the other. We take special care to have perfect gender balance so that everybody always has a partner to dance with. Sign up now!
COST
Series are $30 for students and $60 for non-students.
Special offer for undergrads this semester - take Yale Tango's bootcamp for free! You still must signup ahed of time to reserve a spot and bring your campus ID to the first class.
The club is not able to accept payment for bootcamps on the first day of class. To register and confirm a space you must pay online with a credit/debit card or paypal account at the time of registration.
WHO CAN JOIN
Open to Yale students, postdocs and their Significant Others by priority. Other people may join in the event that there is space left.
WHAT IF YOU MISS A CLASS?
Important: The material in the bootcamp is cumulative so if you miss a class you have to make it up before joining the next class. This is so the whole class isn't slowed down and we can make rapid progress. Email the club to discuss your options, including dropping in during the next bootcamp.
MORE INFO
1. What to bring, what to wear
- wear comfortable clothes, light shirt or airy top in case it gets hot.
- bring sturdy, snug-fitting shoes with leather soles if you have some, they are easier to pivot in.
- ladies, wear shoes with closed toes (for protection) and that fit snugly so you don't step out of them.
- shoes that aren't so great for dancing: sneakers (unless for guys if they don't have leather soled shoes), flipflops, clunky platform shoes, open-toed sandals, shoes without heel straps or (better) heel cups. Don't worry too much about looking stylish, dance shoes have to be functional first.
2. Sample lesson plan (subject to minor changes):
1st lesson
Tango Walk - forward, sideways and backwards
Tango Embrace
Rocksteps
2nd lesson
Ochos
Getting into ochos (2 ways) and out (2 ways incl cross)
Musicality: pauses
3rd lesson
Basic giros (turns) in parallel and crossed feet
Musicality: Syncopations
4th lesson
Ocho Cortado
Tying it all together
If you are not a student, postdoc, etc.
The Yale Tango Club will give priority to students, postdocs and their significant others registering for the tango bootcamp. If you are not a student or postdoc, you will be waitlisted until a few days before the start of the bootcamp, at which point we can give out the remaining spots in the course. Just for your information, for recent bootcamps, we had students remaining on the waiting list and as a result we were not able to accommodate any non-students. However, please feel free to come to our Sunday night practica to see what tango is all about. We recommend other tango instruction options below.
The Yale Tango Club is a student club and its mission is to bring entertainment and socializing opportunities to the student population broadly defined, to include undergraduate, graduate, professional, and postdoctoral students, as well as their significant others. We are committed to making sure tango instruction is available to our demographic through our offerings of free or inexpensive classes. Our activities are supported by the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS). We also encourage students to sign up for the Argentine Tango Class at the Yale Gym.
In addition we are pleased to welcome other members of the Yale Community and local dancers to the Yale Tango Club. However due to the overwhelming popularity of our bootcamps and the fact that we have limited time after our day jobs as Yale students, we are unable to offer instruction to non-students and you are encouraged to take the Argentine Tango class at the Yale Gym, or seek instruction from Judy Phelps in Milford. Once you know the basics, you may join the Tango Club (please see our membership information here).
