Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne

[David_on2]

I'm considering their seminar in Boulder, CO this September. I consider myself advanced beginner having taken 100 hours of AT workshops, but with only 25 hours of actual social dancing in milongas around Los Angeles.

For anyone who has taken his seminar, what is your overall opinion of G&G and their style of teaching? Would you recommend them to an advanced beginner with aspirations to teach and perform?

 

[Lilly_of_the_valley]

I'm considering their seminar in Boulder, CO this September. I consider myself advanced beginner having taken 100 hours of AT workshops, but with only 25 hours of actual social dancing in milongas around Los Angeles.

For anyone who has taken his seminar, what is your overall opinion of G&G and their style of teaching? Would you recommend them to an advanced beginner with aspirations to teach and perform?

What are you aspiring to teach? Stage/performance tango?

 

[Mladenac]

Here is the schedule of workshops (scroll down):
http://www.gustavoygiselle.com/english/21_G&GATF_AAsetiembre_2010.htm

usually tango experience is measured in months

Don't go for to advanced classes.
I hope that you are qualified for intermediate classes

Check also federico and ines, and fernando and ariadna classes

 

[Ampster]

I'm considering their seminar in Boulder, CO this September. I consider myself advanced beginner having taken 100 hours of AT workshops, but with only 25 hours of actual social dancing in milongas around Los Angeles.

usually tango experience is measured in months

Don't go for to advanced classes.
I hope that you are qualified for intermediate classes

I would submit, that tango experienced is measured in years.

Also, I agree with Mladenac in saying that if your not an advanced tango dancer, don't do an advanced class. It would be difficult to retain anything if you haven't mastered the basics first. I would submit that the basics are also much harder to learn than anything else in tango. I wrote about this (a while ago) here--> "The intricacy of simplicity" Knowing this will go a long way in your aspirations of teaching and performing.

As for G & G, their very entertaining to watch. Giselle is nice to dance with.

 

[bordertangoman]

I would submit, that tango experienced is measured in years.

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I would submit that tango experience is measured in disappointments

 

[mshedgehog]

I'm considering their seminar in Boulder, CO this September. I consider myself advanced beginner having taken 100 hours of AT workshops, but with only 25 hours of actual social dancing in milongas around Los Angeles.

For anyone who has taken his seminar, what is your overall opinion of G&G and their style of teaching? Would you recommend them to an advanced beginner with aspirations to teach and perform?

I have not taken classes with them but know some people who have, those people being at (deservedly) teacher level with many years experience. To the best of my knowledge they are excellent teachers, but I would definitely not recommend the content of their teaching to you in your current situation.

 

[newbie]

For anyone who has taken his seminar, what is your overall opinion of G&G and their style of teaching? Would you recommend them to an advanced beginner with aspirations to teach and perform?

I've attended several G&G seminars at BsAs and I'd say, don't miss the opportunity, sign up and go. You'll feel you're clueless but that's how all the students will feel too. Also, making the pupil feel clueless is part of G&G's teaching, so it's ok. He will show something and say ok now you do it, two tangos, and everybody will struggle. Then he will give very very detailed info about the step, the history of the step, he will impersonate the old maestro who taught him the step, if necessary he will add a preliminary super-basic exercise, and in the end everybody will suceed, except maybe the super-advanced pros because they are used to dancing their own usual super-advanced pro routines.

Attend the seminar, the info given to you by your usual teacher comes, directly or indirectly, from Gustavo anyway, so why taking a class with a mere middleman when you can get it from the source?