ALICIA PONS
WORKSHOPS @ Alberto's
Sunday, February 19
3:00-4:30 p.m. Movement & Energy Flow
Movement as a journey.
How we produce and transmit movement -
partner to partner, dancer to floor.
5:00 - 6:30 p.m. The Ocho Cortado
Exploring the creative concepts
At the door: $30 each workshop
Pre-registration by Friday, February 17:
$50 for both workshops
e-mail: espiritulibretango@yahoo.com
Full details of Alicia Pons visit to the San Francisco Bay area, February 9-19, 2012
http://www.mayumix.com/2012_Alicia_Pons.htm
Alicia Pons, a teachers of teachers, is an elegant and accomplished dancer with refined technique who teaches authentic milonguero style tango in close embrace.
She is famous for her beautiful, precise and playful footwork, and a strongly sensual connection with her partner, creating a dance of great subtlety and beauty, with movement that is deeply expressive of the music.
Alicia exemplifies communication and presence in the dance, and this is the focus in her teaching for both men and women. The dance becomes the creative conversation between the two partners. She emphasizes the woman's ability to not just follow, but to be an equal partner in the dance, contributing inspiration and musicality. Her ability to imbue the role of the woman with verve and style has made her one of the most sought after female partners in Buenos Aires milongas.
On the dance floor, Alicia is without equal.
Alicia taught for several years with Cacho Dante, with whom she frequently performed. She was trained in classical dance from an early age, and her first tango teachers wereGraciela Gonzalez, whose women's technique has shaped her precise footwork, and the late Pedro "Tete" Rusconi, one of the most renowned milongueros of his generation.
As a teacher, Alicia emphasizes the connection between the partners, and in particular the woman's ability to not just follow, but to be an equal protagonist in the dance. Her knowledge of the mechanics of what makes the dance work in the "milonguero" embrace is unique.
Alicia is one of only a handful of teachers of Argentine Tango who teaches this particular style of tango, and she is the only teacher who teaches what she teaches.
Even in Buenos Aires, Alicia Pons is unique in what she teaches. Alicia teaches the "authentic" style of tango danced in the traditional clubs in central Buenos Aires, such as El Beso, where it is danced in a very close, chest to chest embrace and there may be up to 160 dancers in a 90 square foot area.
