Happy December dear dancers,
We end the year with a bit of winter queer tango for you!
- Beginner and Intermediate Queer Tango Series starting on Sunday December 3rd with Céline Tiberghien from Queer Tango Paris, teaching for the first time at Abrazo, and all month long! (Different schedule. Check below.)
- Queer Tango Weekend at the DOME with Céline, December 16 – 17 – a frolic in the forest this winter with dancers from LA, Seattle, Colorado, Spain and the SF Bay Area queer tango tribe. It’s not too late to book a flight.
- Our holiday event of the year, Abrazo, the queer milonga–tucked into our queer
tango weekend, December 16th.
LOCATIONS Locations and schedule are different this month!
12/3 and 12/10 Finnish Hall | 1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley, CA 94702
12/16 – 17 The Dome, 951 62nd St, Oakland, CA 94608
🎉DECEMBER BEGINNER AND INTERMEDIATE QUEER TANGO CLASSES with Céline Tiberghien
SUNDAY SCHEDULE
3:15-3:30 pm Check-in
3:30-4:30 pm Beginner class (12/3, 10, 17)
4:30-5:30 pm Practica
5:30-6:30 pm Intermediate Class (12/3, 12/10) (Requires pre-approval to join)
Classes limited to 22 dancers.
DJ SCHEDULE
12/3 Practica DJ Frida
12/10 Practica DJ Douglas
12/16 Milonga DJ Cat
12/17 Milonga DJ Red Hot
COST
$15-25 Honor System Sliding scale per class, includes practica
$10 Students with ID
Series Discounts
3-week Beginner Series $40-75 honor system sliding scale.
2-week Intermediate Series $25-50 honor system sliding scale.
$5 Practica alone
Honor system sliding scale: We ask that higher income folks pay a higher rate so that folks with less income and students can attend at a lower rate. Thank you!!
Please note, when you pay for the beginner series, the pre-milonga class and milonga on December 16 is free
Walk-ins welcome all month if there is room in the class
REGISTRATION Venmo, paypal, Zelle: info below. Cash, check at the door.
No refund or Exchanges
ABRAZO, THE QUEER MILONGA, our holiday bash at the Dome
If you haven’t danced in a while, if you’ve been taking classes on Sundays but never been to a milonga, if you want to be in the most spectacular room for tango with a gaggle of queer tango dancers, please do mark this date on your calendar and come dance!
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16th
6:00-7:00 pm Beginner Class with Céline, all levels will benefit
Topic: Step-by-Step| Explore dancing tango one step at a time to find different densities in your dance, musical options and greater freedom of movement
7:00-10:30 pm DJ Cat
8:30 pm Birthday Vals
Chacarera break – at some point!
COST
$15-30 Sliding scale (Students $10)
Thanks so much for supporting Queer Tango. Our honor system sliding scale allows us to offer discounts to students and dancers who need it while paying our rent, teachers and DJs.
Queer Tango Weekend with Céline at the Dome
DECEMBER 16 – 17
2 beginner classes, 2 intermediate workshops, a dinner social hour, one grand milonga Saturday night, an evening sunset milonga on Sunday, and a chance to reschedule those other things and give yourself over to tango.
SATURDAY DECEMBER 16th
3:00-5:00 pm Mapping of Tango, part 1* | Intermediate Workshop, requires pre-approval
5-6 pm Dinner break. Bring something to have at the Dome if you’d like, chill and mingle with other dancers.
6:00-7:00 pm Step-by-Step| Explore dancing tango one step at a time to find different densities in your dance, musical options and greater freedom of movement | Beginner, all levels will benefit
7:00-10:30 pm Abrazo, the queer milonga, our holiday event, with DJ Cat Munroe
SUNDAY DECEMBER 17th
1:00-3:00 pm Mapping of Tango, part 2*| Intermediate Workshop| part 1 recommended, not required
3:30-4:30 pm Connection in Tango | Beginner Class, all levels will benefit
Exploring what makes tango so special: the connection and interaction between dance partners.
4:30-8:00 pm Sunset Milonga with DJ Red Hot
DETAILS and COST info is on our website
REGISTRATION FOR ALL EVENTS
Registration is not required for Abrazo events and you can pay at the door.
Please note what you are paying for in the comment section
Venmo: abrazo-tango (Karen Curtis) (No fee for us)
Paypal: abrazoqueertango@gmail.com (We pay a fee)
No Refunds or Exchanges
Abrazo Queer Tango is a volunteer run organization and all donations are accepted, appreciated and go towards keeping our events running.
WORK TRADE is available, fun and very much appreciated – consider using 30 min of your time to help us run our events and contribute to our community. Contact our awesome work trade coordinator, Kim, to sign up: kim.patrice17@gmail.com.
COVID PRECAUTIONS
- Vaccine + booster required
- High quality mask (KF94/N95/KN95) without valves required
- Limited size Sunday classes, and fans out, windows open for all events
📣 MORE QUEER TANGO NEWS
Dance Dance Dance! We encourage you to check out all the great queer tango events available to you! We gather queer tango news, local, across the US and abroad, over here.
Featured event
April 11-14, 2024 Conexion, the Miami Queer Tango Festival
This little gem of a festival features invited queer artists from around the world. Truly, the only queer tango festival in the USA where you can work with so many amazing queer tango teachers. I can’t list them – seriously go look at who will be teaching. There are three days of classes and queer milongas with performances every night. Mira Barakat, one of our local teachers, will be teaching and performing. Word on the queer tango street, a nice Bay Area contingent is attending! More information at https://miamiqueertangofestival.com/
Featured Special
Throughout December, Wooden Table Baking Co is offering 15% off your entire order with the promo code ABRAZO. Everything is made with love by our very own Andrés Ozzuna! He ships all over the country. This is your chance to eat good things, share some holiday goodies with your friends and family and support a queer, trans, immigrant owned business. Check out the goodness that Andrés bakes up!
IT TAKES A VILLAGE And in this case one very talented, persistent, patient person to get Abrazo Queer Tango on Instagram with edited photos, videos, stories, posts, reels — all year long – telling the world about the joys of queer tango. Thank you Elly Fernandez, dancer, teacher, organizer and IG pro, for making sure Abrazo got to be Abrazo on Instagram. If you like what we do over here at Abrazo you can find us on IG thanks to Elly.
Wherever you are in the world, wishing you the warmest embrace this month.
Abrazo Queer Tango 