🎶 Gainesville Tango - Weekend with Andrés Amarilla – July 19-20 2025
FRESH from BUENOS AIRES! 🇦🇷
Join us for another fabulous weekend of tango structure, rhythm, and classic sequences! 4 workshops + Milonga + private lessons with tango maestro Andrés Amarilla. We are so grateful for his thoughtful tailored-teaching and presence for our growing Gainesville and surrounding community of dancers! Beginners join us for the Pre-Milonga workshop and Milonga on Saturday evening!
This weekend is all about navigation.
We’ll explore five essential structures that let you dance fully without needing space. Each class focuses on movement that stays in place—using pivots, changes of direction, and compact sequences to keep things musical and efficient. These are tools built for the social floor, especially when the line of dance is tight and every step matters.
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🔵 Hamacas: Control Through Change of Direction
Rocking steps to reset, redirect, and stay on axis
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🟢 Medialunas: Turning Without Traveling
Compact pivots that generate motion without distance
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🟠 Ocho Cortados: Interrupt and Resolve Clearly
A reliable structure to end, redirect, or re-enter movement
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🔴 Cadenas: Controlled Loops of Movement
Three-step snippets to untangle cross system situations
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SATURDAY July 19
📍 Heartwood Soundstage
📍619 S. Main Street, Gainesville, FL
SUNDAY July 20
📍Rosa B. Williams Center
📍 524 NW 1st St, Gainesville, FL
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🗓️ SATURDAY @ Heartwood Soundstage
💬 Schedule
• 11:00–4:00 — 5 Private Lessons
(2 left at 1:00, 2:00)
• 5:00–5:30 — Registration
• 5:30–7:00 — Workshop 1
• 7:00–7:30 — Break
• 7:30–9:00 — Pre-Milonga ALL levels Workshop 2: (Beginners Welcome!)
• 9:00–12:00 — 💃 MILONGA with DJ Andrés!
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Experience the music and positive vibes in a professional recording studio at our beloved local HEARTWOOD Soundstage listening room! Can you guess what kind of floor we dance on?
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🗓️ SUNDAY, July 20 @ Rosa B. Williams Center
💬 Schedule
• 11:30 - 2:30 — 3 Private lessons
(1 left at 12:30)
• 2:30 — Registration
• 3:00-4:30 — Workshop 3
• 4:30 - 5:00 — Break
• 5:00 - 6:30 — Workshop 4
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💲 Pricing
Pre-Registration by 7/18/25 midnight via Venmo payment:
https://venmo.com/u/Miha-Kim-1
• Milonga + Pre-Mil workshop: $28
• Milonga Only: $18
• Pre-Mil Workshop Only: $18
• All other Workshops: $35 each
• 💥 Full Pass discount (All Workshops + Milonga): $125
CASH ONLY At the Door:
• Milonga + 1 Pre-Mil workshop: $30
• Milonga Only: $20
• Pre-Mil Workshop Only: $20
• 💥Full Pass discount (All workshops + Milonga) $130
• 🥟 Picadillo EMPANADAS 🥟 $5
• 🍺🍷 Cash Bar at Heartwood SS 💵
📲 Questions / Privates DM us here
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Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Andres Amarilla began dancing tango in 1987 at age 11. While still a child, he studied with and performed in the dance companies of three of the greatest tangueros of all time: Gustavo Naveira, Juan Carlos Copes, and Rodolfo Dinzel. After 10 years of intensive immersion in the music, culture and movement of traditional Argentine Tango, Andres became part of a small group of young people seeking to push the limits of the traditional art form. Together, they analyzed and codified the movements, sequences and rules of traditional tango and began to play with the “grammar” of the tango language, thereby developing uncounted new sequences of movements, and giving birth to a new means of teaching, dancing and thinking about tango. This way of analyzing tango has become the basis of most good tango pedagogy in the world today.
A greatly sought-after teacher, Andres has taught in more than 70 cities worldwide, including Istanbul, Beirut, Warsaw, Gdansk, Moscow, Sydney, Brisbane, Belo Horizonte, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Vancouver, Montreal, and New York, among many others. In 2008, Andres and his dance partner, Meredith Klein, founded the Philadelphia Argentine Tango School. Until Covid-19, Andres was splitting his year between Philadelphia and traveling to teach in other parts of the world.
https://andresamarilla.com/
https://www.philadelphiatangoschool.com/andres
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🚗 PARKING INFO:
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Street parking is free at Rosa B. Williams Center.
🎤 Support our LOCAL venues for live music, art and events at:
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☕️ EATS at South Main Station including Tinker Restaurant, coffee and books at The Lynx!
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