More about Veronica

Veronica has been dancing tango since 2000 and actively teaching and performing since 2007. She lives in Paris and is one of the founders and teachers of Tango Mon Amour, a group of five professionals from Paris and Lyon. She teaches in Paris and travels regularly to others cities of France and the rest of Europe. Veronica has Russian origins, but started dancing tango while living in The Netherlands. Her experience in modern dance and classical ballet allowed her to build a solid technique, further enriched by her experience with various bodywork techniques. She has worked with different partners, performing and teaching in France, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Norway, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK and USA. Veronica is an elegant dancer with a strong personality and a refined sense of music. In her teaching she emphasizes musicality, connection in the couple and the quality of movement. She is also a popular tango blogger, often invited to give conference about the topics she touches upon in her writing. Her essays on tango are translated in 16 languages and shared by tango people all over the world. She recently published a collection of nineteens essays in a book called ​WHY TANGO​ that is available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.fr/Why-Tango-learning-dancing-argentino/dp/1517189470/ 
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Essays: http://www.verotango.com/p/essays.html
Videos: http://www.verotango.com/p/performing.html
Veronica on Tangofolly: https://tangofolly .com/biography/veronica-toumanova/ 

Special Tango Workshops by Veronica Toumanova

Sunday 16 September 2018: 12-3:30pm
On Sunday 16 September we have the pleasure to host Veronica Toumanova for a couple of workshop in Cambridge. Veronica has been highly recommended by several of the best Tango dancers in Europe. She is well known for her Tango essays which have been translated to 16 languages. She recently published a collection of nineteens essays in a book called ​WHY TANGO​.

​Check out her performances and pay attention to her impecable technique and musicality. Follow the link to her page: www.verotango.com/p/performing.html

Prices per Workshop: 
  • Early Bird (before 13th September) £20 General, £15 Students.  
  • After 13th September or pay at the door £25 General, £20 Students.
  • Limited number of places please book early to avoid disappointment.  

Venue for all Workshops: Hills Road Sports & Tennis Centre, Purbeck Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PF, goo.gl/maps/8cQi7HWMfXE2

Sunday 16th September 2018

12pm-1:30pm. Workshop 1. Introduction to musicality. We all have an idea of what it means to be musical, but what does it mean to be a musical dancer? Can one become a musical dancer without prior experience with dance or music? Can one deepen one’s musical sensitivity beyond a basic sense of rhythm? What does it mean to truly dance? In this workshop Veronica will give you a basic understanding of tango music and how it is expressed through movement. You will also get a better feeling of the difference between just moving your body and dancing to music. Veronica will take you through various layers of musical complexity, such as rhythm, tempo, phrasing and accents, using simple vocabulary of steps and pauses.


1:30pm-2pm. Break. Drinks and food can be ordered at the bar.

2:00pm-3:30pm. Workshops 2. A musical walk. Walking is considered to be the core element of tango, but walking together in close embrace especially is a technique that sometimes takes years to master. In this workshop we will revisit some of the basics of a comfortable walk, such as posture and grounding, but we will also specifically concentrate on how to use the music for a walk that is connected, smooth and aesthetical. If you participated in the previous workshops with Veronica some of the basic techniques in this one will ring a bell, but in dance we need to repeat things many times before our bodies integrate the new way of moving.

Ilgin Tetikcan & Hamdi Ceylan

Saturday 14 April: Masterclasses + Performance
We are very excited to host Ilgin and Hamdi as part of their tour in UK this year. They will teach two workshops and we will have the pleasure to enjoy their amazing performance at the Milonga in Wolfson. The schedule for the workshops is shown below. ​

Prices per Workshop: 
  • Early Bird (before 13th April) £20 General, £15 Students.  
  • After 13th April or pay at the door £25 General, £20 Students. 
  • All tickets are free for Wolfson Members but registration is required. Enter discount code WOL18 at checkout. You will be asked for your Wolfson card at the workshops. ​

Venue for all Workshops, Milonga and Performance: ​ Seminar Room, Wolfson College, Cambridge, CB2 9BW

Saturday 14 April 2018

12pm-1:30pm. Workshop 1.  Theme: Gancho in Giro

1:30pm-2pm. Break. Sandwich, Tea and nibbles provided for people staying for the second workshop.

2:00pm-3:30pm. Workshops 2. Theme: Man and Woman Sacadas

8-11pm Milonga + Performance by Ilgin and Hamdi + Special DJ Radu

Natasha Lewinger and Haris Mihail in Cambridge!!

Sat 24 & 25 March: Masterclasses + Performance at the Special Edition Milonga.

We are very excited to host Natasha and Haris as part of their tour in Europe this year. They will teach three workshops and we will have the pleasure to enjoy their amazing performance at the Milonga in Wolfson. The schedule for the workshops is shown below. ​

Prices per Workshop: 
  • Early Bird (before 19th March) £20 General, £15 Students.  
  • After 17th Mar or pay at the door £25 General, £20 Students. 
  • All tickets are free for Wolfson Members but registration is required. Enter discount code WOL18 at checkout. You will be asked for your Wolfson card at the workshops. ​

Venue for all Workshops: ​ Lee Hall, Wolfson College, Cambridge, CB2 9BW

About Natasha & Harris

Natasha and Haris are internationally recognized teachers and dancers known for their connection, elegance, musicality, dynamics and quality. They both love social dancing specially the milonguero style. Their philosophy: "The most important thing in tango for us is the connection. We are crazy about technique but only as a medium to improve the connection and feelings that will allow us to adapt to every body and every style. We believe in dancing as one body with four legs, the centaur. Communication between us is the key for our tango. Listening to the leader is as important as listening to the follower. Open your mind, close the embrace"

Saturday 24 March 2018

6pm-7:30pm. Workshop 1. Turns in close embrace working in dynamics and centrifuge force. This ticket includes entrance to Special Edition Milonga and Performance by Natasha and Harris.

​7:30pm-11pm. Special Edition Extended Milonga with Performance by Natasha and Haris and music by DJ Aytek

Sunday 25 March 2018

12pm-1:30pm. Workshop 2.  Atypical crosses. Different combinations. 

1:30pm-2pm. Break. Sandwich, Tea and nibbles provided for people staying for the second workshop.

2:00pm-3:30pm. Workshops 3. Styles. Milonguero and Salon. Theorical and practical workshop. Working in one sequence adapted for both styles.

Private Lessons

Natasha and Haris are available for private lessons during that weekend. Cost £60/hr with one teacher, £100/hr with both teachers. Please contact us to book a lesson.

From Buenos Aires, Argentina! Masterclasses with Champions: Matias Batista & Silvana Prieto

We are thrilled to welcome Matias Batista and Silvana Prieto, Buenos Aires Metropolitan Champions 2016, to Cambridge. Their passionate and detailed style of dancing and teaching is very inspiring and not to be missed. Please come along and experience it for yourselves and give them a warm welcome to Cambridge during their UK-Europe Tour.

Prices per Workshop: 
  • Early Bird (before 20th February) £20 General, £15 Students.  
  • After 20th Feb or pay at the door £25 General, £20 Students.

Venue for all Workshops: Polonia Club, 231 Chesterton Rd, Cambridge CB4 1AS, https://goo.gl/maps/dveTXBrs5LN2

Limited number of places. Please book early to avoid disappointment. 

Sunday 25 February 2018

12:00pm-1:30pm. Workshop 1. Giros and Enrosques: differences between giros and enrosques, couple technique.

1:30pm-2:00pm. Break. Sandwich, Tea and nibbles provided for people staying for the second workshop.

2:00pm-3:30pm. Workshop 2. Adornos (embellishments) and musicality : when and where to use them and some examples.
Friday 27th October 2017

Ladies Technique with Agnieszka. 7-8pm at St Matthew's Primary School. 

First Workshop for Improvers: 8:30pm-10pm at St Matthew's Primary School. Theme TBC

Saturday 28th October 2017

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Themes: 
Workshop 1 – OPEN LEVEL Spiral turns with centrifugal force. Rolling in the embrace and making comfortable salidas . This class gives you some important tango technique base but it is also a must have for the 3rd class.

Workshop 2– OPEN LEVEL How to feel and express more with the embrace. We will look for answering the questions like “Should there be any pressure in the upper body and how many pressure should I give to my partner?”. How to use particular part of the body to embrace and how to really use it to interpret the music.

Workshop 3 – INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCE After learning the technical tools and high sensitivity in the 1st and 2nd class we can start to dance a sequence. Let’s create different qualities from the step and the turn. What would you say about dynamic turn, with calm steps? Or maybe romantic turn with a dynamic steps? Let’s freely express different emotions with the same movement.
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Times:
​Workshop 1:St Matthew's Primary School https://goo.gl/maps/nbUWs9sX1Wm from 12-1:30pm
Sandwich Lunch Break 1:30pm-2pm
Workshop 2: St Matthew's Primary School https://goo.gl/maps/nbUWs9sX1Wm  from 2pm-3:30pm.
Workshop 3: YMCA, Cambridge. https://goo.gl/maps/ZcrqNSMUcmJ2 7pm-8:30pm

Sunday 4th June 2017

Ladies Technique Workshop with Agnieszka. Dance Studio at YMCA, Cambridge https://goo.gl/maps/ZcrqNSMUcmJ2  8-9pm. This workshop is £20 General, £15 Students.

Miriam & Dante - 25th-26th February 2017

​MIRIAM & DANTE have become known for their passion for teaching and dynamic and expressive performances. They are currently based between London and Oxford, and as well as teaching weekly classes in Central London, are directors of the biggest tango school in the UK. They were finalists in the World Tango Championships in Buenos Aires in the category of Tango Salon (de pista) in 2015.  
​Miriam and Dante will teach and DJ in Cambridge on Saturday 25th and 26th February 2017. 

Saturday 25th Feb: Workshop "Different types of rhythmic walking for tango, milong and vals" (All Levels) 7:00pm-8:30pm. Then Milonga with DJs Miriam & Dante until 11pm. Seminar Room, Wolfson College. £15 General, £10 Students, Free Wolfson Members (includes Milonga). No need to pre-register. Pay at the door. Milonga only £5 (£4 students, free W.M.)

Sunday 26th February 2017 

​ Workshop 1. Vals: displacement in vals using circular movements for the dance floor. 11:30am-1pm. Location: Parkside Community College (Entrance is near 27 Parkside, Cambridge, CB1 1JE) https://goo.gl/maps/C8Q76mxb4NL2 There is a parking lot at the venue.

Sandwich Lunch for people taking both workshops only 1:00pm-1:30pm.

Workshop 2. Milonga: musical options for giros in Milonga. 1:30pm-3pm. Location: Parkside Community College (Entrance is near 27 Parkside, Cambridge, CB1 1JE) https://goo.gl/maps/C8Q76mxb4NL2 There is a parking lot at the venue.

Please do sign up in advanced for the Workshops 1 and 2 as there are a limited amount of places. 

More about Miriam & Dante

Miriam & Dante: "We have been working on our pedagogy over the last eight years and have developed a unique method for learning, using a lot of conceptual explanations as well as detailed technique and often some anatomical explanation. We have found certain ways of explaining both movements and body awareness which improve student's dancing and enjoyment significantly - we have also had the opportunity to study with some of the important maestros in Buenos Aires and have adapted and adjusted key concepts based on our own twelve years of dancing experience and professional training. Our backgrounds and our trajectory are quite different from most dance couples and this has given us a unique pedagogical approach - which we are always excited to share with our students. Our teaching approach has been described as inspiring, warm and constructive and we enjoy discovering the best way to analyse your movements and clearly explain technique to each individual student in the best way for them. We look forward to sharing our your tango journey with you!"

Ewa & Marek - 11th March 2017

Marek & Ewa have been teaching together since 2010. They are resident teachers at Carablanca Club (London). Marek has been teaching for over 15 years in Chicago and Paris as well as other European cities prior to moving to the UK. Ewa also teaches at Tango Space and is an established DJ, regularly playing at London as well as European events. Together they teach traditional tango based on fundamentals of embrace, posture, and walk. 
Their philosophy is to teach students to develop sensitivity and awareness of the body, essential for a harmonious connection with their partner. They also emphasize floor craft and musicality, concentrating on distinguishing the dance vocabulary and expression according to particular orchestras.

​Ewa & Marek will be teaching an improvers Workshop "Rythmical vs melodic tango. Movements in close embrace." on Saturday 11th March 2017, 7pm-8:30pm. Then Ewa will DJ from 8:30pm-11pm at the Milonga (Lee Hall, Wolfson College).

No need to pre-register. Pay at the door. £15 General, £10 Students, Free Wolfson Members (Includes Milonga). 

Milonga Only £5 (£4 students, free W. M.).

​Rene & Hiba in Cambridge - Saturday 4th March 2017

Rene & Hiba bring together more then 25 years of dancing and teaching experience. They have been working together since 2008 when they founded the TANGO-FEVER dance school in London.

They will teach on Saturday 4th March at 7pm-8:30pm Wolfson College, Seminar Room. Level Improvers/Intermediate. The theme of the lesson is "Playing with dynamics in planeos".

​Then they will DJ at the Milonga until 11pm. No need to register. Pay at the door. Workshop + Milonga = £15 general, £10 Students, Free for Wolfson Members. Milonga Only = £5 general, £4 students, Free W. M.