Classes in two groups were held in the packed large dance hall of BOK-MCC. More than 50 people took part in both the workshops and the milonga (including 18 participants from the Czech Republic). The next project meeting will take place on Saturday, July 12. It will be led by: Aleksandra and Tomasz Rutkowscy.
The inaugural classes were led by an outstanding pair of instructors from Warsaw: Piotr Wożniak and Iga Zagrzejewska, who established a wonderful rapport with the workshop participants throughout the classes and milonga.
The woman representing Cafe Tango recommends dancing to mature people. “You cannot take the easy way out in tango,” says Lucyna Wojniłowicz-Plechowska. “You have to rely on intuition; tango cannot be learned by heart. It is a dance without a smile, very intimate and personal. What happens on the dance floor happens only between two people. In tango, men are 100% right. They anticipate the next move, plan the strategy, and have to know what will happen in a moment. In this dance, a woman trusts her partner completely, lets herself be led and seduced. She follows him and is his adornment. If something goes wrong, it is only his fault. The woman is supposed to look alluring and beautiful; she is supposed to shine, while he must win her applause and even guarantee it. A woman can completely surrender to her partner. He takes care of everything, while she receives the applause.”
The members of the Cafe Tango association spent two years preparing for the international project. “In 2012, we went to the Czech Republic as a family, looking for dancing groups in that country,” says Wojniłowicz-Plechowska. “Tango is not as popular in the Czech Republic as it is in Germany. Eventually, in Jablonec nad Nysą, we found a good dance school with a talented instructor who took part in dance competitions and international courses. However, they danced more rumba, cha-cha and the salsa popular everywhere. Only after several trips did we manage to persuade Jablonec to take up tango,” says the satisfied Cafe Tango member.
The Polish-Czech project, co-financed with European Union funds, allows the residents of Bolesławiec to visit the Czechs, form friendships and get our neighbors dancing. “Tango comes much more easily to people who are just learning than to those who already dance and have developed certain mannerisms,” Wojniłowicz-Plechowska says of her experience.
“Cafe Tango – Polish-Czech Dance Workshops” is a project coordinated by Dariusz Uściński. The project provides for five workshop meetings to be held from June to October 2014. The partner of the Bolesławiec Cultural Center in the “Cafe Tango” project is the city of Jablonec nad Nysą.
“The ‘Cafe Tango – Polish-Czech Dance Workshops’ project is co-financed by the European Union under the European Regional Development Fund and by state budget funds with the support of the Nysa Euroregion.”
(commissioned information: BOK-MCC)