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The Venue
Whittington park community center is our new home for our event.
We will be using 2 halls over the weekend for our dancing. See be program below to know where you will find us.
The Program
Thursday, 20 November
17.00 - 18.30 Open drop-in class by Adriana Hocking Hall
19.00 - 23.00 Milonga: DJ Claudio Tedesco (UK) Hocking Hall
Friday, 21 November
14.15 - 17.30 Warm up class by Adriana, focusing on improvisation + practica with your favourite music Upper Hocking Hall and Burges
20.00 - 24.00 We visit the local milonga at Bishopsgate Institute (Entrance fee 10 Pounds with pre-registration, 45 min by subway from our venue)
Saturday, 22 November
12.00 - 16.00 Milonga: DJ Amanda Upper Hocking Hall and Burges
19.30 - 23.00 Milonga: DJ Lucas (NL) Hocking Hall and Lounge
Sunday, 23 November
14.00 - 18.00 Milonga: DJ Julija (BE) Upper Hocking Hall and Burges
19.00 - 23.00 Milonga: DJ Eleonor (UK) Hocking Hall and Lounge
Extra - Included
Snacks and drinks throughout the event.
Extra - Not Included
On Friday evening, before the milonga, we propose to share a meal at a restaurant right in front of the evening milonga venue. It's an Italian place called Pizza Express As I will have to make a group reservation, you'll be asked in the registration form if you intend to join.
On Sunday morning, we propose a group visit to the Tate Modern Museum, for a guided tour of one of the running exhibitions (tba).
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Julija and I met Adriana in Brussels in 2017, at the early start of Totally in Tango. We were fascinated by her ideas and propositions. It took many years, but now we found a space to collaborate.
Adriana Pegorer is an interdisciplinary dance artist. In 2024, she started the Double Role London Practica, a horizontal space where fluid connections are made while dancing without the limitations that a class or a milonga may impose.
She belongs to the first generation of Contact Tango practitioners. Her training in Tango Argentino and Contact Improvisation began in the 1990s and she curated the first International meeting in 2012 near Berlin.
Adriana has taught Tango Argentino on her own since the beginning, dancing both roles also at Milongas, driven by necessity and …inspiration!
She has devised, performed, and produced experimental works mixing choreography with improvisation, dance videos and new technology. She holds a BA in Dance and Related Arts (2001) and an MA in Dance Anthropology (2024). Her work has been shown in Argentina, USA, Canada, Buenos Aires, China and Europe.
Her academic writings include "Performing Gender in Milongas of Buenos Aires" (2008),"Tango Diferente: Exploring Tango Argentino and Contact Improvisation at Ponderosa", (2013); "It takes two to win"(2015), "Why Contact Tango?" (2020) [also translated in Spanish and German] and "Female Tango Leaders"(2024).
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