Our farewell to the space here in Noord... AND part 2 of the guided práctica with Cande and Lucas (approach them with your questions and requests for instruction) including a mini-class “Resources to dance in close embrace”.
Entrance only €5 + donativo (high hat) for our teachers.
✨⚜️CANDE & LUCAS✨⚜️
Cande and Lucas are professional dancers and teachers, immersed from birth (Rosario and Cordoba) in the culture that produced tango. They perform with El Cxuce tango company (directed by Vanesa Villalba and Facundo Piñero). Their classes focus on the development of self-awareness and technical language, promoting a deep understanding of the body and its mechanics, to foster movement autonomy, expand expressiveness, and enhance effective communication with the partner. Cande and Lucas teach in Spanish or English.
🔥Free entrance for you (and you only) if you bring some soul in need with you who has never been to La Chispa before!
La Chispa Tango Práctica:
📍A práctica, not a milonga. No cortinas.
📍Less advanced/skilled/experienced dancers practicing with more advanced/skilled/experienced dancers - as was done in Buenos Aires in the Golden Age of tango. Two beginners practicing together usually means doubling the mistakes and perpetuating bad habits. Plain bare reality. This ‘knowledge transfer’ also allows the supposedly better dancers to test and transfer their understanding and skills. Teaching is learning twice.
📍Be careful giving feedback, be sensible.
📍Practice with more than one person as La Chispa is community-focused, though of course this does not mean you need to practice with everyone! Change around a bit, with whomever you feel comfortable practicing.
📍Use mirada/cabeceo or be more direct but respect boundaries.
‘PRACTICA’-LITIES:
💰Entrance fee €5 - in CASH! Free entrance for you (and you only) if you bring someone with you who has never been to La Chispa before!
🍷BYOD: Bring Your Own Drinks – and snacks!
LOCATION: Gedempt Hamerkanaal 149, 1021 KP Amsterdam (Weagree offices). Indication: is on the former Stork HQ and factory site aka Kromhouthal in Amsterdam-Noord.
BY BICYCLE / WALKING: at the backside of Central Station (Muziekgebouw side), take the ferry to IJ-Plein. Off the ferry, go straight ahead on the Meeuwenlaan. After some 800 m passing the DIRK supermarket, turn right. At the end of that street, in front of Foodmarket, cross the parking area diagonally to the left. Ring the doorbell at 149 (Weagree). Alternatively, it is some 14 minutes walking from the ferry.
BY METRO: 52, NOORD-ZUID LIJN; exit at Noorderpark. Walk via the Johan van Hasseltweg, Meeuwenlaan, Hamerstraat – then walk past the gates to the bell board for no. 149.
BY CAR: always park on the streets outside the gate – free after 19:00h; €1,60 p/h before 19:00h. Either tune your GPS on Boorstraat 3, 1021 JZ Amsterdam - park on the street and walk to the other side of the building, or go to Gedempt Hamerkanaal 149, 1021 KP Amsterdam but do not drive beyond the gate - park on the street and walk past the gate.
✨What is La Chispa?
La Chispa is a social tango práctica inspired by the Golden Age tradition. Dancers of all levels are encouraged to learn from each other, with more experienced dancers supporting those with less experience—just as it was in the prácticas of Buenos Aires. There are no rigid structures, just a space for exploration, learning, and community.
Abrazo,
André, Asta, Becky, Iulia, Sabrina, Willem
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