The holidays are upon us! For those of us still in the city its our chance to spend some quality time with family and friends. Well, La Monita is going to make it a quality night for tango as well. What: Holiday Night @ La Monita When: Wednesday, Dec 28, 2011 Where: Om Culture studio, 2210 N. Pacific [...]
Hey Seattle tango peeps, Greg Constantino and Liz Hutchinson will be performing at La Monita on July 20. We hope you guys will be around to cheer them!
Some of you may not know that fellow tanguera Helene Eriksen is an accomplished teacher of the traditional dances of the Balkans as well. This wednesday she will grace us with her performances on Georgian traditional dancing at La Monita. We hope you will accompany us to dicover this ‘other side’ of Helene. Helene is a [...]
Gabrielle Louise – a nationally touring troubadour noted for her poignant lyrics (a two-time John Lennon Songwriting Contest finalist, winner of the Jack Maher Songwriting Award) and lush voice will be performing at La Monita on April 27th. About Gabrielle Louise The daughter of two gypsy [vagabond] musicians, Gabrielle inherited the genetic predisposition to wanderlust [...]
Jaimes and Christa will be performing at La Monita this Wednesday 02/09/2011. Hope to see you all there!
I happen to know this group Pratidhwani which promotes South Asian arts in Seattle for a while now but only recently attended one of their dance shows called ‘Chitrangada’. Frankly I tell you, I was reminded of my own ethnicity and how beautiful and subtle Indian Classical Dancing can be. Tango dancers will definitely appreciate [...]
By now most of you should be familiar with the news of Jaimes and Christa leaving for Sweden sometime next month. This is indeed a great loss for the Seattle tango community. To think about their contribution to the community would take a fair amount of contemplation but lets make an attempt… Jaimes Friedgen came [...]
After belly-dancing its time for another b-dance. Blues!! Fellow tanguero Miles Cohen happens to be a Blues teacher and performer as well. He teaches a weekly Blues dancing lessons and also organises a weekly blues dance coolly called – ‘Back Alley Blues’. Miles discovered partner dancing in 2002, the same year he moved to the [...]
We are glad to announce that fellow tanguera Sarah Kate will be performing Belly dancing at La Monita on the 18th of August. Yeah in case you did not know she happens to be an accomplished belly dancer. More on her… Sarah Kate Moore is a perpetual student of bellydance and Argentine tango. In 2008 she brought her [...]
Folks, we have a special treat coming next week at La Monita. Jeff Chen and Kim Han will be be having their debut performance. Also Sarah Huntting will be debuting as a DJ as well. Hmm… seems like debut season. We hope you will join us to cheer them. For Kim Tango is a necessity [...]