Also, during the upcoming month of March, the ATANH will not be hosting a milonga on the second Saturday of the month as we usually do. However, the 4th Annual ATANH Ball is being held on the 5th Saturday, March 29th instead.

Location:???????? ????? ????????

The Mill Pond Center for the Arts
Roberts Barn Dance Studio
50 Newmarket Road, Durham, NH

Events:

- Bernardo Monk Tangoedfa Quartet. Concert starting at 6:30pm, followed by a break.
- Free beginners lesson at 8:30pm.
- 4th Annual ATANH Ball starts at 9pm with the Bernardo Monk Tango Quartet providing live music for the first hour, and then we will have recorded music as well.

Tickets:

Concert Only - $20.00/$15.00 for ATANH members
Milonga Only - $20.00/$15.00 for ATANH members
Concert and Milonga - $35.00/$25.00 for ATANH members
All can be purchased at the door.

This is a rare opportunity to hear and dance to a world-class tango band!

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The event is being sponsored by the Argentine Tango Association of New Hampshire, WSCA Radio - Portsmouth and WSCA’s Tango Tales radio program, as well as the Mill Pond Center for the Arts in Durham.

Hope to see you there!

Sincerely,
Mark Tuson
ATANH President
P.S. We will be sending a set of directions, announcing the instructor for the beginners lesson, and informing folks of the many door prizes folks who attend can win soon!

More info:
Bernardo Monk website
Mill Pond Center for the Arts
WSCA Radio - Portsmouth??????
Tango Tales radio show

Seacoastonline.com: Brazil native takes the lead in local dance classes

It started as a way to meet new people, maybe make a few friends. But lessons in tango led to a husband, a passion and a part-time career.

Adriana Pinto, 40, started taking lessons at 26 while living in her native Brazil.

“I didn’t dance before that. …; I just started at a dance studio. I took everything, every rhythm. But I fell in love with the tango.”

Read the rest of the article at Seacoastonline.com.

See the Schedule of Events for more information on Adriana’s new Thursday night beginner tango series in Portsmouth, NH.

Mar 29: Mill Pond, Durham (Ball and Annual Meeting- 5th Saturday)
Apr 12: Mill-Around, Manchester
May 10: Mill-Around, Manchester
May 31: Portsmouth Ballroom, Portsmouth (5th Saturday)
Jun 14: Mill-Around, Manchester
Aug 9: Queen City Ballroom, Manchester
Sep 13: Mill-Around, Manchester (NH Tango Fest)
Oct 11: Portsmouth Ballroom, Portsmouth
Nov 8: Let’s Dance Studio, Concord
Directions to where to dance tango in NH.

Location:
Let’s Dance Studio
5 North Main St
Concord, NH

The studio is located at 5 North Main Street, almost on the corner of Pleasant and Main, and just up from there on the left. The entrance is at street level, and the studio is up a gently rising set of stairs on the second floor.

Cameron Bennett has been teaching AT lessons at Let’s Dance Studio for awhile now, and we are excited about bringing the milonga to this location, and appreciate this studio’s support of AT in their area.

Parking:
Main Street (meters are free on weekends)
Garage parking on Warren St, State St, and Storrs St

Time:
7:30 PM - Complimentary Lesson
By Dan Allegretti & Judit Noyes
8:30 – 11:30 PM - Milonga

Cost: $10 – Members
$15 – Non-members
$5 – Students with ID card

The remaining 2008 ATANH schedule:

Mar 29: Mill Pond, Durham (Ball and Annual Meeting- 5th Saturday)
Apr 12: Mill-Around, Manchester
May 10: Mill-Around, Manchester
May 31: Portsmouth Ballroom, Portsmouth (5th Saturday)
Jun 14: Mill-Around, Manchester
Aug 9: Queen City Ballroom, Manchester
Sep 13: Mill-Around, Manchester (NH Tango Fest)
Oct 11: Portsmouth Ballroom, Portsmouth
Nov 8: Let’s Dance Studio, Concord

Directions to where to dance tango in NH.

2nd and 4th Sundays of February from 6-8PM

In March we will return to the normal schedule of 1st and 3rd Sundays.

Again, if you need directions, go to portsmouthballroomstudio.com or call me:

Peach 603-772-7662 or Walter 603-964-9436 with any questions.

Please join us.

Peach and Walt

This Saturday, January 11th, Zandy Clark will be teaching the complimentary lesson at 7:30pm, talking about sacadas. Dancing starts at 8:30pm and will go to 11:30pm. The lesson is free.

The milonga is $10 for ATANH members, $15 for non-members, $5 for students with school id. The location is the Mill-A-Round Dance Center in Manchester.

Also of note:

Schedule Changes: Things will be changing this year with the ATANH’s 2nd Saturday of the Month milongas. We will be visiting some dance studios who have been supporting Argentine Tango here in New Hampshire by offering lessons at their locations.

The schedule so far for 2008 is as follows:

Jan 11th Mill-A-Round
Feb 9th To Be Announced (TBA)
Mar 8th Mill-A-Round, 4th Annual ATANH Ball and Annual Meeting
Apr 12th TBA
May 10th Mill-A-Round
May 31st Portsmouth Ballroom
June 14th Mill-A-Round
Aug 9th TBA
Sept 13 Mill-A-Round 2nd Annual ATANH TangoFest
Oct 11 Portsmouth Ballroom
Nov 8 TBA

Feel free to contact me at markatuson@aol.com with questions or concerns.

Sincerely,
Mark Tuson
ATANH President

Mondays, 8 weeks, STARTING JAN 14
Mill Pond Center, 50 Newmarket Rd, Durham, NH

$80/$50-student
contact: elmira@toast.net

also:
TANGO PRACTICA
for 8 weeks, Jan 14- Mar 3
Mondays, 9pm-10:30pm
Mill Pond Center, 50 Newmarket Rd, Durham, NH
elmira@toast.net

AND…

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11
6-WEEK CLASS: BASICS OF AT
7-8PM
LET’S DANCE 5 Main St, Concord, NH
I’ll be back for 6 weeks starting at the top. Come back for a refresher, or tell a friend who’s interested in starting out new.
$75 pp in advance/$90 on the night of the first class

I hope you all had wonderful holidays and happy new year to you. Hope to see you soon on the dancefloor.

Best Wishes,
Cameron

Details: http://manchestertango.blogspot.com/

Happy New Year! I hope that everyone had a wonderful passage to 2008 with loved ones and friends!
We will be offering a new series of Tango lessons at Ballet New England starting on January 10 (6 Thursdays). Here is the information:

Beginning Tango: 6 weeks - Thursdays
6:15pm to 7:30pm
$90 paid in advance

Continuing Tango: 6 weeks - Thursdays
7:45pm to 9pm
$90 paid in advance

Where?
Ballet New England
The Connie Bean Center
135 Daniel Street
Portsmouth, NH, 03801

No partner necessary. Leather shoes sole recommended. Please dress comfortably.

Note that you have to pre-register for this series. Please send a check payable to:

Adriana Pinto
89 Charles Street
Rochester, NH, 03867

If you have questions, please write to this address, or call me at:

(617) 816-1967 - cell phone

Hope to see you there. Let´s have a wonderful group to start 2008 with great and positive energy!

Adriana Pinto
adriana@havetotango.com
www.havetotango.com

Cost is $40.00 for 4 weeks.

For those of you new to tango, besides being the name of a tango dance event, milonga is also the name of a specific dance that was sort of the precursor to Argentine tango. The music is a bit faster and more upbeat. The steps are simpler, but it’s very important to step on every beat. Milonga and tango vals are played at all milongas, so it’s nice to have a basic understanding of both them. (Maybe vals next month…)

For those of you in the close embrace class, please note that it is now at 6:45 pm, not 7:00.

Judit and Dan

Peach and Walt, who offer Sunday practicas every other week at the Portsmouth Ballroom Dance Studio, have arranged to have a milonga on Christmas Eve, from 6pm to midnight. Refreshments will be served, accompanying a lovely ambiance and a marvelous dance floor.

If you find yourself wondering what to do that night, just bring your dancing shoes, $7 and show up!

Peach and Walt

Portsmouth Ballroom Dance Studio
948 Route 1 Bypass
Portsmouth, NH
1-603-433-2009
Website: portsmouthballroomdancestudio.com

This is not an ATANH-hosted event, but you may contact Peach with any questions.

We will not be having a lesson this month, but instead we are planning a Pot-Luck dinner. We are hoping there is enough interest with this idea so that we can have some folks bring either a main course, a side dish, a salad, or a desert.

We’ll eat dinner first with some holiday music in the background, and at 8:30 we’ll switch to tango music for the milonga.

The milonga costs $10 for members, $15 for non-members, and $5 for students.

Also, if you bring a dish to the Pot-Luck Meal, then we’ll take $5 off your entry to the milonga as well!

If you are planning to attend the dinner, it would be helpful to know this and send a reply email to markatuson@aol.com indicating what type of dish is intended so some of us on the board can fill in any holes. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Mark Tuson,
ATANH President

November’s free lesson will be provided by Mark Tuson and Diane Troyer entitled “Back to the Basics”. There will be a review of basic Argentine tango principles, and how the details of the 8 Count Basic are even more important than pattern itself. The lesson will provide a review of and practice with the basic elements of tango, yet from a slightly different perspective. This could also be a good lesson for someone brand new to Argentine Tango wanting to learn in a beginner-friendly environment.

Hope to see all of you, and a few new faces, too!

Sincerely,
Mark Tuson
ATANH President

The 1st NH TangoFest workshops and milonga are this Saturday, October 13, at the Mill-a-Round Dance Center in Manchester, NH.

The afternoon workshops are scheduled at 2:15pm and 3:45pm, with a break for dinner at 5pm. The last workshop, from 7:15pm to 8:30pm, is immediately followed by the ATANH milonga, which lasts until midnight.

ATANH is bringing some of the most talented Argentine tango instructors in our area to our first NH TangoFest, and such quality in teaching at an inexpensive price is well worth the trip! The workshops cater from beginners to intermediates, so there is something for everyone.

Schedule:

2:15-3:30pm
Tango: Defining the Elements of Tango
with Ron Gursky
(who teaches in Portsmouth, NH, and in Watertown, MA)

3:45-5pm
Valz: Rhythmic syncopations, changes of direction in a dynamic sequence
with Adriana Pinto and Carl Potvin
(who teach in Portsmouth, NH, and host milongas there and in the Boston area)

5-7pm
Break for dinner

7-7:15pm
Additional registration

7:15-8:30pm
Travel, Turn and Play: A fun traveling turn and some variations
with Ethan Plunkett and Jennie Riley
(who teach in the Upper Valley of NH and in Norwich, VT)

8:30pm-midnight
1st NH TangoFest Milonga with Ethan Plunkett as DJ, featuring a raffle drawing, and a performance by Ethan and Jennie at about 10pm

COST:

- $10 per single workshop session
- $25 for all three workshops if mailed in advance to: ATANH, 1 Essex Drive, Bow, NH 03304
- $30 for all three workshops if you sign up on the day of the event

More info:

- Mark Tuson, ATANH president: markatuson@aol.com

Our 2nd Annual 5th Saturday of the Month Milonga will once again be in Portsmouth, and this time it is set for September 29th at the Portsmouth Ballroom.

Adriana Pinto will be teaching the complementary lesson at 7:30pm. The milonga goes from 8:30pm to midnight.

Cost is $15 for non-ATANH members, $10 for ATANH members, and $5 for students with their I.D.

Portsmouth Ballroom is at 48 Route 1 Bypass, just north of the Portsmouth traffic circle (off of Exit 6 of I-95) in Portsmouth, NH. Their phone number is 603) 433-2009.

Related info:

- Practicas are held at the Ballroom on the 1st and 3rd Sundays, 6-8pm, $5 per person. No partner required.

- Ron Gursky teaches Argentine tango at the Portsmouth Ballroom on Fridays.

- Ron Gursky and Nancy Murphy taught and gave a demo at ATANH’s first milonga at the Queen City Ballroom in Manchester, back in April 2005.

- Adriana Pinto’s website: havetotango.com

September Monadnock “Twilight” Milonga!

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 30th
4-8pm++
at the GAZEBO on Central Square
in KEENE, NH

Hosted by BrAATS founder Judith Schwartz

great music ~ amazing ambiance ~ chocolate

~ please wear appropriate footwear for outdoor dancing
~ bring a sweater in case your tango cools down after sunset….

$5 donation

it is supposed to be a lovely fall afternoon…70 degrees…use the morning to hike monadnock, clean up your garden,paint the back porch, or go for a long bike ride…and then come dance tango ~ still outdoors, one last time, surrounded by autumn in all its emerging vibrant color…

info: diffdrum@sover.net 413-824-8898 or
judithanh@gmail.com 603-357-9919

Milonga de Mis Amores is back in September, in Portsmouth, NH at the Women’s City Club! Join us in this beautiful location on every third Friday of the month.

8:15 to 9:00pm - Beginner / Intermediate Tango lesson
9:00 to midnight - Social dance (milonga)

Refreshments served
DJ: Adriana Pinto

Where:
Women’s City Club
175 Middle Street
Portsmouth, NH

For directions, please call:
Adriana Pinto at (617) 816-1967
or visit our Venues page.

Adriana Pinto’s website: havetotango.com

Saturday, September 22
– a MILONGA at the PAPER MOON DANCE CENTER in MERRIMACK

The original location of ATANH milongas is hosting its own Argentine milonga from 8-11pm Saturday, September 22, and hopes to host it every 4th Saturday. Paper Moon Dance Center is located at 515 Daniel Webster Highway in the Merrimack Commons Shopping Plaza, across from the Dunkin’ Donuts, in Merrimack, NH. Cost is $10 per person, and $5 each for Paper Moon students.

It is a very beginner friendly venue and that there will be a ballroom dance going on in the next room – people can wander back and forth between the two.

Check back here for more updates, such as start time, etc., or e-mail info@papermoondance.com.

Saturday, September 29 — 5th Saturday
– ATANH MILONGA at the PORTSMOUTH BALLROOM!

Our 2nd Annual 5th Saturday of the Month Milonga will once again be in Portsmouth, and this time it is set for September 29th at the Portsmouth Ballroom.

Adriana Pinto will be teaching the complementary lesson at 7:30pm. The milonga goes from 8:30pm to midnight.

Cost is $15 for non-ATANH members, $10 for ATANH members, and $5 for students with their I.D.

Portsmouth Ballroom is at 48 Route 1 Bypass, just north of the Portsmouth traffic circle (off of Exit 6 of I-95) in Portsmouth, NH. Their phone number is 603) 433-2009.

Related info:

- Practicas are held at the Ballroom on the 1st and 3rd Sundays, 6-8pm, $5 per person. No partner required.

- Ron Gursky teaches Argentine tango at the Portsmouth Ballroom on Fridays.

- Ron Gursky and Nancy Murphy taught and gave a demo at ATANH’s first milonga at the Queen City Ballroom in Manchester, back in April 2005.

- Adriana Pinto’s website: havetotango.com

Don’t miss the first-ever ATANH Summer Barbecue which will be hosted at Dan & Judit’s home in Bow, NH. This event will be from 5pm to 7:30pm just prior to the 2nd Saturday of the Month Milonga on September 8.

Food will be BYOB&B (bring your own beef and beverages). We will have a grill available for cooking whatever meats you choose to bring, including veggie burgers if that is what you prefer, and if you’d like to bring something else to share, like a salad or desert, please email me asap to markatuson@aol.com, so we can keep track of what is coming our way.

Tango music will be playing in Dan & Judit’s dance hall just in case you want to dance there, too. If you could let us know in advance if you plan to attend, this would be very helpful, and please RSVP to Judit at jnoyes333@comcast.net as soon as possible.

Directions:
Take Exit 2 on Route 89. Turn LEFT onto Route 13 (Clinton Street). After the lower speed limit and the sharp right curve, you’ll pass Page Road on your left. Take the next right, onto Belaview Drive. Take the next (and only) right, onto Fernwood Place. Then take the next (and only) left turn, onto Essex Drive. Dan and Judit’s studio is about 500 feet ahead on the left. There’s a long-ish driveway with a three-car garage.

Saturday, September 8
– ATANH MILONGA at the MILL-a-ROUND in MANCHESTER

There will NOT be a lesson prior to the milonga this month, but the dance will still start at 8:30pm at the usual spot, the Mill-A-Round Dance Center in Manchester and goes to midnight. This time, after a two-month hiatus, DJ Dan will be back playing the music. Cost is $15 for nonmembers, $10 for ATANH/BrAATS members, and $5 for I.D. card-carrying students.

Friday, September 21
– MILONGA de Mis Amores
at the Women’s City Club, Portsmouth

Milonga de Mis Amores is back in September, in Portsmouth, NH at the Women’s City Club! Join us in this beautiful location on every third Friday of the month.

8:15 to 9:00pm - Beginner / Intermediate Tango lesson
9:00 to midnight - Social dance (milonga)

Refreshments served
DJ: Adriana Pinto

Where:
Women’s City Club
175 Middle Street
Portsmouth, NH

For directions, please call:
Adriana Pinto at (617) 816-1967
or visit our Venues page.

Adriana Pinto’s website: havetotango.com

Saturday, September 22
– a MILONGA at the PAPER MOON DANCE CENTER in MERRIMACK

The original location of ATANH milongas is hosting its own Argentine milonga on Saturday, September 22, and hopes to host it every 4th Saturday. Paper Moon Dance Center is located at 515 Daniel Webster Highway in the Merrimack Commons Shopping Plaza, across from the Dunkin’ Donuts, in Merrimack, NH. Cost is $10 per person, and $5 each for Paper Moon students.

Check back here for more updates, such as start time, etc., or e-mail info@papermoondance.com.

Saturday, September 29 — 5th Saturday
– ATANH MILONGA at the PORTSMOUTH BALLROOM!

Our 2nd Annual 5th Saturday of the Month Milonga will once again be in Portsmouth, and this time it is set for September 29th at the Portsmouth Ballroom.

Adriana Pinto will be teaching the complementary lesson at 7:30pm. The milonga goes from 8:30pm to midnight.

Cost is $15 for non-ATANH members, $10 for ATANH members, and $5 for students with their I.D.

Portsmouth Ballroom is at 48 Route 1 Bypass, just north of the Portsmouth traffic circle (off of Exit 6 of I-95) in Portsmouth, NH. Their phone number is 603) 433-2009.

Related info:

- Practicas are held at the Ballroom on the 1st and 3rd Sundays, 6-8pm, $5 per person. No partner required.

- Ron Gursky teaches Argentine tango at the Portsmouth Ballroom on Fridays.

- Ron Gursky and Nancy Murphy taught and gave a demo at ATANH’s first milonga at the Queen City Ballroom in Manchester, back in April 2005.

That is it for this ATANH Update. Hope to see all of you at these events this September!

– Mark Tuson
– ATANH President

Tango Buenos Aires

Thursday, October 18, 7:30pm
The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, NH
Map and directions

The Music Hall Presents - Born in an Argentine cabaret, this international smash hit, with an ensemble of 25 dancers and musicians, weaves a story of a young couple from the slums whose tango takes them to neighborhood dance halls, cut-throat competitions, and theatrical triumph. These seasoned dancers whirl through tango’s infinite variations with movements as smooth as their slicked-back hair and as sharp as their stiletto heels. It’s “the dance of love!”

“Seasoned and authentic tango company… laced with proud postures and sensual couplings.” - The Washington Post

Tickets:
- $52-$20
- Order online
- Order group tickets

More info:
http://www.themusichall.org/calendar/Event_Detail.asp?EventID=360
The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, NH

But wait, there’s more!

A mini-milonga will be organized by Portsmouth Community Radio, the official sponsor of Tango Buenos Aires Show.

WHERE: New location!
Portsmouth Women’s City Club
375 Middle Street
Portsmouth, NH

WHEN:
OCT 18th, 9:30sh pm, right after show (the Tango Buenos Aires artists are invited, but no guarantee that they will stop by. Could be nice!)

ADMISSION:
$10 general public, $5 students; $8 with a show ticket stub to benefit WSCA radio station.

DJ:
Adriana Pinto

Music Hall performance sponsored by:

Secure Plannning, Inc.
New Hampshire Magazine
Portsmouth Community Radio, home of the Tango Tales radio show
Pierce Atwood
Capezio/Ballet Makers Dance Foundation, Inc.

This months event is ATANH Beginners Night.

If you are familiar with AT, but haven’t tried close embrace previously, Zandy Clark will be teaching Beginner Close-Embrace, and for those of you who are already familiar, he’ll also include a sacada towards the end of the lesson that can be used with Close-Embrace.

Meanwhile, out back, Mark Tuson will be leading a lesson for anyone that is new to AT, and teaching the basic pattern for such beginners.

So … if you are new to AT and haven’t tried close embrace … or … if you are an experienced AT dancer and have a friend that you have been wanting to introduce to AT, then bring them down for the beginner AT lesson, and while they learn the basic pattern step into Zandy’s class for the secada at the back half of Zandy’s lesson.

Oh, and by the way, if you bring a friend that has never done AT previously, then we’ll enter you into a second drawing in addition to the usual drawing that we provide during the milonga.

Hope to see all of you, and a few new faces, too!

Sincerely,
Mark Tuson
ATANH President

Beginning Tango:
6 weeks
Starts on July 5th (Thursdays) till August 9th
from 6:30 to 7:45pm
Cost:
$90 per person for the series (no drop-ins allowed)

No partner required, leather sole shoes recommended.

For more information, please contact us.

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Also:

Continuing Tango:
5 Mondays at 7:30pm
July 9th (Monday after the July 4th week) to August 6th

Ballet New England
The Connie Bean Center
135 Daniel Street
Portsmouth, NH

Cost: $75 for the series

Registration at the Ballet New England.

For more information, please contact us.

Adriana Pinto
www.havetotango.com
(617) 816-1967