Register for Jesica and Maxi's classes here: www.cutangomusic.org/tickets
2013 World Tango Champions Jesica Arfenoni and Maximiliano Cristiani are back in CU!
Join us for two days of dance workshops with Jesica and Maxi followed by a milonga partnered with the 2025 CU Folk and Roots Festival featuring live tango orchestra music by Rodrigo Avalos and Heyni Solera with Bandoneon Massacre and guests.
Private lessons slots are also available; for booking, email
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We are pleased to have Chicago Dance Supply as our shoe vendor. They will have many dance and practice shoes available for purchase on Saturday and Sunday.
Schedule as follows:
Saturday
1:30-2:45 pm: Fluency (Intermediate/Advanced)
How to find fluency in the dance, from the continuation of movements, using resources that allow not to interrupt the dance from the interpretation and the mark. Rebounds, alterations, continuation of dissociated and associated movements. We will work with advance sequences.
3:00-4:15 pm: Social Dance (All Levels)
Resources for social dance, musicality and how to dance in reduced space with complex sequences.
5:00-6:00 pm: Rodrigo Avalos at the 2025 CU Folk and Roots Festival (Gallery Art Bar, 119 W Main St, Urbana, IL 61801
9:00 pm-12:00 am: Milonga featuring live orchestra music as part of the 2025 CU Folk and Roots Festival and performances by Jesica and Maxi to live music (Hotel Royer, 210 S Race St, Urbana, IL 61801)
Sunday
10:00-11:30 am: Female Lead Practica
12:00-1:15 pm: Full Connection (All Levels)
Resources to improve the connection in the couple, optimize fluency, divide the responsibilities of leader/follower using different connection engines. Demystify nonfunctional formats that block our fluidity.
1:30-2:45 pm: Vals (Intermediate/Advanced)
“Alteraciones”, “musicality changes”, centrifugal force in complex sequences
Prices:
Workshops (per class): $35 (at the door)/$30 (preregistration)/$20 (student)
Milonga: $30 (at the door)/$25 (preregistration)/$15 (student, non-dancer)/FREE with CU Folk and Roots wristband (see below for link)
Bundle: $125 for all 4 workshops, practica, and milonga
Beginner bundle: $75 for 2 all-level workshops, practica, and milonga
Pre-registration open now at www.cutangomusic.org/tickets
Purchase a CU Folk and Root Festival wristband here: folkandroots.org/
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