Looking Ahead: Travel Update Feb/Mar 2011

I am excited to announce that I've got a lot going on over the next few weeks, starting tonight. Here are the details:

Tonight, Feb 21, I will performing at Luna Tango Salon with the wonderful Rebecca Shulman. 

From this Friday Feb 25, I will be in Saint Louis for two weeks, Starting with a "Connenction / Technique / Musicality Bootcamp" over the weekend. I will also be teaching Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Visit my website or Facebook for details.

March 5th I will be DJing at one of my favorite milongas in Chicago "Los Besos Milonguita". Before the the Milonga I will be teaching a class on "Social-Dance Friendly Boleos".

After Saint Louis I head to Kansas City for the "Spring Fling Tango Thing" Mar 11-13. I am DJing the All Night Milonga and teaching the Beginner Bootcamp with Janey Smith.

Back to NYC to DJ at the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant Milonga on April 1st.

I then head out to the West Coast - Santa Barbara - for some Argentine Tango Fun in the California Sun! More information will be available soon.

Tangamente,

Eli

The Long Road Home

It's official. I will finally return to Brooklyn, New York City.

I have a few loose ends (weekly classes, private lessons and Workshops in Minneapolis) to tie up before I start the journey, but as it stands here is the current plan:

Jan 28: Last day in Minneapolis

Jan 29: Fly to Kansas City

Jan 30: Workshops in Lawrence, KS

Feb 2: DJ @ CODA in Kansas City, MO (Tentative)

Feb 3: Amtrak from Kansas City to Chicago

Feb 5: Perform at Milonga ñ Grand Opening, Chicago

Feb 6: DJ @ Los Besos Milonguita, Chicago

Feb 9: Amtrak from Chicago to Portland, OR

Feb 11: Arrive in Portland

Feb 11-16: Portland Valentango!

Feb 17: Fly from Portland to New York LGA

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Details of Weekly Classes in MSP:

Wednesday Classes at Social Dance Studio

* 7:00: Foundations 2/3, Topic: "Rock the Boat"

* 8:15: Intermediate: Topic: Musicality & Connection

Thursday Classes at Manzanita Escuela de Tango

* 7:00: "Essential vocabulary"

* 8:00: "Technique for Everyone"

Bringing you up to speed...

Welcome to my blog.

This might be a long post as I intend to let you know where I am at now so that you wont be lost as I make subsequent posts.

Back at the end of January of this year (2009) I quit my day-job in accounting to embark upon a journey in Argentine Tango Land. A "career change", some might call it, though i have come to find it more of a journey than a change of jobs. So I left NYC for Minneapolis to teach, perform, DJ, etc and thus it began - a life on the road.

Incidentally it was during my initial time in Minneapolis that I developed an interest in the Japanese language. More about my Japanese studies to come...

As I write this today I am currently in Minneapolis. I've been living out of the same suitcase since mid July. I started out in Chicago, was based there for about 2 weeks, and made weekend trips to Milwaukee and Champaign, IL. I took Amtrak down to Kansas city (12 hour ride - via Saint Louis). I spent about a week living in Lawrence, KS and the next 2 in Kansas City. While in Kansas City I got involved in Salsa Dancing. Yes, most of my tango friends said I had turned to the dark side", though my Tango Mentor, Robin, said it was a good idea, that i would learn some things that are applicable to certain types of motions in Tango. I made two weekend road trips From KC/Lawrence to Saint Louis. From Kansas city I went back to Chicago (Amtrak, 8 hours) for the weekend, before heading to Minneapolis via Megabus. I've been based out of Minneapolis since the beginning of September. I went to Madison, WI for a weekend, spent a Saturday evening in Rochester, MN and traveled back to Chicago the last two weeks spending only Monday and Tuesday there. This I think is probably the most far out thing I've done so far - spend two days a week in a city that is 8 hours away. if you know me me you know that I always say that I live in the "Tango Timezone", so it was quite a feat for me to make it to the bus Megabus stop in each city by 7am.

I am now wrapping up my stay in Minneapolis, though I expect to be back in a few weeks. Some exciting things are going on I will post accordingly.

That's all for now.