PANORAMA 2016

TANGO MEETS ALEXANDERTECHNIQUE - TUSCANY Holiday: 27/5-5/6/2016

Intimate groups, 8 nights, half pension, excursions, open air tango salons
ALEXANDERTECHNIQUE ((AT) --- CAREN BAYER (NYC) 
TANGO --- (Buenos Aires) & YVONNE MEISSNER 

16h Tango/AT lessons, excursions, pool, hot thermal spa, local (outdoor) salons, half pension: ****Country-B&B : 930,- Euro p.p./double occupancy, (some few private apartments: 1080,- Euro p.p.)

CAREN BAYER (NYC) intern. renown teacher in Alexander Technique (AT): http://www.carenbayer.com/ & http://www.alexandertechnique.com/at.htm

Sign up/info: yvonne@tangodesalon.nl 
Organization: www.tangodesalon.eu / www.tangodesalon.nl 
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Here see our past holidays:
2015: https://www.facebook.com/events/1716065881952844/
2014: https://www.facebook.com/events/247165468783121/ 
2014: https://www.facebook.com/events/227083394135430/
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participants from USA, Europe, Asia, Emirates
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INCLUDED: 
HOUSING/FOOD/KIDS:
- 8 nights half pension in ***Country B&B at www.LeQuerciole.com with panorama pool, starting Friday at 17h with champagne/lessons/dinner, ending with breakfast, hotel on Facebook: www.lequerciole.com &https://www.facebook.com/pages/Casale-Le-Querciole-Casciana-Terme/357547890961823 
- double occupancy in apartments with 2 double rooms, kitchen, bathroom shared with one other couple, see http://www.lequerciole.com/en/apartments.html 
- several private apartments available with sleeping sofa for kids: adding Euros 150,- p.p. 
- kids welcome, hotel owner's family keeps them playing with the animals onsite or in the kitchen, economic solutions, reserve time slots
- in case of parking your camper, please ask for conditions: yvonne@tangodesalon.nl 
TEACHINGS:
- 16h AT&tango lessons (17-19h) with 2 international tango professionals & Alexander Technique with Caren Bayer (NYC)... inside or outside on big terrace https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.357559797627299.75727.357547890961823&type=3 *
& https://www.facebook.com/pages/Casale-Le-Querciole-Casciana-Terme/357547890961823?sk=photos_stream
- Participants' exchange AT & TANGO, e-mail your workshop proposal themes!!!! :-) take place 19-19.30h & some mornings 11.30-12.30h: 
EXTRAS:
- 2 x entry Thermal Baths http://www.termedicasciana.com/ 
- 1 x architectural excursion in own cars of participants with tour guide/historian theme Secrets of Italian Architecture / Etruscans
- 1 x wine tasting and wine explanation with typical snacks in family owned factory
- 1 x home made wood oven pizza event lunch / dinner near a Roman Chapel or at http://www.ristoranteilmerlo.it/ 
- 1 x guided tour spaghetti factory small scale family owned
- 1 x guided tour Castello di Lari with Etruscan origins 
- entrance to 2 tango salons in Pisa/Lucca/Firenze/Livorno, mostly (open air) in june, no drinks incl.
- we speak: English, German, Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish (partipants from Dubai, Canada/USA, Vietnam, Austria, Germany, Italy, GB, Netherlands etc. and Italy)
- with permission, slight changes to the program might occur.... :-) 
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OPTIONAL: 
- We offer additional chill-in and Chill-out activities before & after the holiday with workshops in tango schools area Pisa/Livorno/Cecina/Firenze great to make contact with the locals already beforehand, see our last year's autum event: https://www.facebook.com/events/625682524150421/, so please book your ticket for min. 12-14 days!!! Let us know you need your room extra days!!!!!
- optional Shiatzu massage for dancers available for 30,- Euros / 50 min. :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7f7QoeX6H4 &http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20W2K_q3wck 
- special thermal treatments/mud baths/aroma therapy in local spa walking distance in thermal village Casciana Terme
- lunches at Restaurant Due Laghi with antipasti di terra o mare, pasta, dolce (wednesday closed) for a deal as 12 Euros saying you are from the tango group
- 1 afternoon: very special olive oil tasting in family oil factory (Frantoio) with antipasto
- horse riding track through hills of Chianni, different riding levels available
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ADVICE:
- If you can only attend a part of the week or before plus after... let us know asap to block your times.
- Have a look at multy city flights clicking on multi city atwww.momondo.com or www.cheaptickets.com 
- Fly into Pisa or Florence and book a rental car or arrive by train to Pontedera where we can pick you up. Or let us know your arrival to combine you for driving with other tangueros. In Pisa do not book with Gold Cars, they are malafide!!
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ADDRES:
Agriturismo le Querciole
Gianluigi Fagiolini (not the organizer of holiday, do not inform here as they will not pass on your phone nr./e-mail for information!!!)
via Campagna Fichino nr. 90
Casciana Terme 56034 (Pisa) 
http://www.lequerciole.com/en/location.html 
(in Casciana Terme drive direction Chianni and after 300 m at sport fields take left turn into non-asfalt road with sign IL FICHINO, drive 350 m and turn 2nd road to right, you will see an open portico alley)
(walking distance down the hill to Casciana Terme)
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PHOTOGRAPHS:
General: www.LeQuerciole.com 
Pool and territory: http://www.lequerciole.com/en/the-farm.html 
Various rooms in apartments: http://www.lequerciole.com/en/apartments.html 
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MILONGAS: 
Indication of nightly milongas in Tuscany (we are ideally located between Pisa, Lucca, Viareggio, Florence, Livorno) from our last year's holiday:http://agenda.faitango.it/eventi/eventiLista.asp?cat_evento_1=1&cat_evento_2=1&cat_evento_4=1&dt_dal=19%2F10%2F2013&dt_al=28%2F10%2F2013&id_stati=118&regione=Toscana&provincia&titolo&tema=data 
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PRE & AFTER: 
Plan your trip including weekends before/after as we will teach lacal workshops in weekends around the holiday in the area of Pisa/Florence. Good to make contact already with the local tangueros! We are in the area from +- 15/5 till 5/6/2016 for the ones who ordered private lessons before hand.
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LOCALS: (Offerte partecipazione nelle lezioni da 17-19h per i tangueri della zona, chiedeteci le vostre domande in Italiano!)
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FLIGHTS / CAR RENTALS:
Fly into Pisa or Florence airport with Alitalia (or budget: Airberlin, Transavia, Ryanair, Meridiana etc…), ideally with fly&drive for more freedom on free days, please note that renting a car is cheaper (+- 15-20 Euros/day) in Pisa and when booked in advance, don't take Goldcars as we had a terrible experience with them
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CURRICULUM VITAE teachers

CAREN BAYER - ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE, DANCER, TAI CHI CHUAN
Caren Bayer is the director of Manhattan Center for the Alexander Technique, which certified teachers from 2001-2014. She received her certification in London from Patrick MacDonald in1984 and since then, has maintained a private practice in New York City as well as teaching workshops internationally. She has been on the faculty of Pacific College for Oriental Medicine and currently has a teaching affiliation with the New School for Social Research. As a former dancer and longtime student of the martial arts, Caren brings 30 years of movement research to her teaching. 

Caren: My approach to the Alexander technique is a beautiful compliment to Tango. In this method, teacher and student coordinate, listen and move together freely while aligning and restoring the integrity of their backs and center. The fundamental teaching whether for the lay person or a dancer is to unwind tensions that interfere with their natural poise, to gain greater awareness of spiral pathways flowing from the ground up and to. find the precision and comfort that makes dancing easier and more enjoyable.

Manhattan Center for the Alexander technique
http://www.carenbayer.com/

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YVONNE MEISSNER - TANGO dances tango since 1987 and met the Alexander Technique in 1996. Learning tango from the 90ies in the famous Salón Almagro in Buenos Aires with legends like Eduardo Arquimbau, Pepito Avellaneda, Teté Rusconi, Antonio Todaro, Vanina Bilous, Susana Miller, Cacho Dante for tango de Salon apilado, Tommy O’Connel and El Tango Guillermo for milonga con traspie and Canyengue Orillero with Rodofo y Maria Cieri and her teacher Pocho Pizarro. Mostly she is formed by the nameless milongueros in those times who called here bebe’, as by then the young generation Argentinians didn’t dance tango yet, as they only started from 1996.
Since 22 years she teaches tango and internationally performed in festivals next to names like Pablo Veron (Toulouse Festival, France), Osvaldo Zotto & Lorena Ermocida (Sitges Festival, Spain), Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne (Hamburg Festival, Germany), Miguel Zotto (Ithaca New York Festival, USA), Carlos Copello (Hamburg & Sitges Festival), Fabián Salas and Cecilia Gonzáles, (Hamburg Festival, Germany), Nathalia Games & Gabriel Angio (Contesto Brussels, Belgium, being jury members) and Leo Calvelli & Eugenia Usandivaras (Sitges Festival & Toulouse Festival) and Facundo (Vermont Festival, USA). 
Since 1996 she has become famous for her practical analytic teaching with various body work techniques and looks back at 25 years experience in teaching tango. Yvonne is trained in Contact Improvisation, Modern Dance Techniques, Bodynamics and holds titles in Focussing, Somatic Experiencing and Alexander-Technique. From 1996 she has taught all over Europe and from 1999 in the USA/Canada/Brazil/Argentina, since 4 years in Asia. In the USA she was historically the second female professional to be invited without partners due to her didactics in teaching.
Yvonne's style redefines the role of the follower in Tango. Yvonne emphasizes the use of torsion including the use of the hip, synchronization of the movement inside the couple and interaction between lead and follow resulting in a conversation of bodies. She became famous for the rhythmical decorations of her footwork, being taught by the older milongueras in Buenos Aires she witnessed in the 90ies plus Canyengue delivering an unbridled sense of communicative play for the couple.
She partnered emblematic figures like Susana Miller, Cacho Dante (and was their first organizer ever outside Argentina), Rubén Terbalca, Eduardo Aguirre, Ricardo Maceiras (El Pibe Sarandì), Luisito Ferraris, Ana Maria Schapira, Pocho Pizarro, El Pibe Avellaneda and many others of the young generation like Fernando Serrano, Luis Rojas, Sebastian Pereyra, Rolando Valdivia. 

TEACHINGS
Festivals 1998-2015: 
Europe: Toulouse Festival—France, Amsterdam-Festival - Netherlands, Sitges Festival—Spain, Barcelona October Festival – Spain, Hamburg Festival—Germany.
USA: Octoberfest—Portland USA, Valentango Festival—Portland USA, Ithaca Festival - USA, Denver Tango Festival - USA, and Brandon Festival—Vermont USA, Albuquerque-New Mexico - USA, Burning Tango Festival - California USA, Las Puertas Marathon Festival USA – Albuquerque.
Asia: Ho Chi Minh City,Saigon Festival - Vietnam.
Workshops/jury 1994-2015 (returning frequency in cities): Buenos Aires (a.o. Salón Almagro from 1994), Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Enschede, Haarlem, Den Bosch, Haarlo, Bergen aan Zee (Netherlands), Münster, Düsseldorf, Nürnberg, Bamberg, Würzburg, Hamburg, Berlin, Konstanz, Wangen, Bochum (Germany), Zürich, St. Gallen, Engadin, Lausanne (Switzerland), Florence, Perugia, Todi, Bologna, Roma, Genova, Casciana Terme, Pisa, Pistoia, Ponsacco (Italy), Brussels, Antwerp, Gent (Belgium & jury in Brussels (Belgium), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Copenhagen (Denmark), London, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Newcastle, South Hampton, Bristol, Winchester, Cardiff (Great Britain), Toulouse, Montpellier, Paris, Nîmes, Lyon, Montreuil, Enghien (France), Istanbul (Turkey), Oslo, Bergen (Norway), Ireland, Barcelona, Sitges (Spain), Boston, Albany, Ithaca, Rochester, New York City, New Orleans, Miami, Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Port Townsend, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Anchorage, Albuquerque, Brandon Vermont, Denver, Mt. Shastra (USA), Vancouver, Saltsprings, Victoria Island (Canada), Mumbai, Delhi (India), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Bangkok (Thailand), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) Ubud & Denpasar (Bali Indonesia), Beijing & Guangzhou (China), Dubai, Abu Dhabi (Arab Emirates), Johannesburg (South Africa), and of course in Buenos Aires (Argentina).

Videos exhibitions from 2003
Europe / Asia with El Pibe Avellaneda
Tango: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGWmxWVdBrQ 
Valsecito: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgnUUHN2AAQ
Tango: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyBUssEhOsM 
Florence (Itay) with Luis Rojas
Tango: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhmmDf8JISQ 
Florence (Itay) with Eduardo Aguirre 
Tango: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xuJH0UmVEA

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2015

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