This was the Orchestra Styles Series Spring Season 2024 before Milonga Central Vienna. Here you find the follow up materials and videos. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to write me. 🙂
Osvaldo Pugliese, 4 May
Do you already love Pugliese? This intensity, these universal emotions embodied by the music, the strong contrasts between free and rhythmic sections, regularly an unexpected turn that catches us as a surprise.
My impression is that in many communities there are 2 groups of dancers – one that loves Pugliese and one that thinks this music is too complex and demanding for the milonga.
Come and learn to love Pugliese! And if you already do love him, you’ll love him even more. 😉
Saturday, 4 May @Milonga Central
19:30-21:00, Bäckerstraße 16
25 euro (including milonga entry), for students: 20 euro
Let us know that you’re coming. 🙂
Handout for the workshop.
Previous Editions: Juan D’Arienzo, 20 April
No party without this music. There cannot be too much of D’Arienzo at the milonga. Or can there? What is it that makes this music so perfect and popular for dancing? His famous beat for sure has something to do with this. D’Arienzo’s marcato in 4 is providing clear structures as well as drive as stability enjoyable for dancers of all levels.
But I’d say we do D’Arienzo injustice to reduce it to just this. In this session you’ll learn about what means musical reduction, intention an application of effectful pausas. And – although D’Arienzo is more known for his variaciónes at the end we’ll also see some beautiful contracanto structures.
Saturday, 20 April @Milonga Central
19:30-21:00, Bäckerstraße 16
25 euro (including milonga entry), for students: 20 euro
Again Milos Avramovic will be present to give live demonstrations on the bandoneon during the workshop + a live tanda during the milonga.
Aníbal Troilo, 9 March
Troilo is always one of my favourite moments at the milonga. The colours of his music are the most contrasting ones in the tango repertoire. Soft, strong, playful, dramatic, even aggressive sometimes, abstract, reduced, dreamy – he uses everything.
As Pugliese he likes to surprise us and to continue differently then we might expect. I guess that’s why some people label this music as challenging. Speaking about myself I can only say that I like to be surprised and that I find this very inspiring for dancing. Maybe it helps to have an idea what the surprises might look like… 😉
First Edition about Di Sarli:
Di Sarli was my first love in tango music. Probably also one of the first orchestras I got exposed to in the classes. I still love this music, although now in different way I suppose. How is this possible that the same music is appealing to beginners as well as to advanced dancers equally? What is your first association with Di Sarli? Do you like more his instrumentals or his recordings with singers?
The workshop will be about what defines the orchestra style and how this matters for dancing. The first part will be a lecture, the second practically applied on dancing.
Di Sarli – Workshop Handout
Focus songs were Charlemos & Patotero sentimental
Playlist with all tangos of Di Sarli with Roberto Rufino 39-41.
Videos on my channel related to Di Sarli: