Tango holidays 2019 
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Dates:  1st -7th JULY 2019

Tango holiday in Sweden

​​GOOD FOOD-MOVEMENT-MUSIC-DANCE-FUN-NATURE-COMPANY   ---   FEEDING THE INNER SOUL

More in balance with our environment, planet earth and our own nature.


WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

• Staying in the local red-wooden house, Swedish style.
• WHERE, 300km above Stockholm, 25 km inland from Hudiksvall, a small village called Oppsjø and Svedja.
• Morning FELDENKRAIS, connects awareness, meditation, organisation and potential. PRIVATE sessions with Melinda possible.
• Midday and late afternoon; A personal TANGO, free, expressive, dynamic and truly connecting. But how! Good tango asks for more than steps. A week about the HOW, coming to a joyous and playful expression.
• BEGINNERS in tango, welcome as I will offer a daily class for the locality in which you can join, not just steps but the basic principles learned through play and discovery.
• One SMALL group, 14-18 participants, enough to create an exiting atmosphere
• NATURE, wide open, mysterious, vast silence, lakes forever, woods and midsummer nights.
• COOKING that brings you to life, fresh, organic, taste-and colourful, sugarless and non-processed. This what feeds our body, brain and therefore our soul.
• CAMPING possible, space enough in the gardens of one of the houses

COST-tango, feldenkrais, food and stay, all included,  € 550,00 , when camping € 475.-

And more...

Meet the LOCALS. An Irish night with two wonderful local musicians and my friend the baker and restaurant owner Kristin taking care of the catering and inviting the local neighbourhood.


TRAVELLLING
-TRAVEL; Car, take two days to come all the way. Fly to Stockholm and rent a car with others (I can connect you), or take bus/train to Hudiksvall

-OUTING up in the hills at a wonderful lake and a charming little village with an open air dance-floor on the lake, plus barbecue.

-STAYING LONGER, arriving earlier; possible, but let me know in time.


WHY I LOVE IT
What I love about these weeks is that we need little more then ourselves, some good food and a beautiful environment. It’s all about the quality of life and its enjoyment that can carry us hopefully into a more environmental and satisfactory future. 


TANGO, MORE THAN A DANCE. The Argentine’s call it the psycho therapy for the poor. Don’t worry we won’t analyse all your anxieties and trauma’s but tango, feldenkrais and food are a way into our own self-realisation. Meaning to experience ourselves by developing our ability to sense and feel while we dance and move. Listening is a big tool in this, going beyond right or wrong another. 

Learning by experiment and creating options will take you out of your head and back to real time and personal experience. 

Real improvisation has that wonderful moment when you are in free fall, where control seems to be gone and you rely on more than just yourself. It can be learned, and next to the attention for the wider and breathing embrace and the art of walking that creates an organic and musical dance, these are the main focus points of this week. 

My goal is to create that safe space for you where you can step out of the prison of all your concepts and beliefs, the rules and have to’s that block and limit you instead of opening you up. 


BENNIE BARTELS

I went from being a farmer’s son to become an international modern dancer. From ballet to Argentine Tango. From choreography to improvisation.  I bring 25 years of experience in dance and performing together with a deep insight  in how the way we move connects to the way we are. I like the experiment as well as the cross-over with other art-forms or use tango and movement as a way into understanding communication. More on youtube!

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DAILY SCHEDULE 

10-11.00 Feldenkrais/movement

11.15-12.45 Tango

13-14.00 lunch

16-17.15 Beginners

17.15-18.45 Tango

19.00 Dinner

21.00 Milonga

Individual Feldenkrais lessons possible with Melinda Glenister (see www.melindaglenister.com)


WEEK SCHEDULE

Sunday 30th of June is the afternoon of arrival.

Thursday will be our day off. With an Irish evening organised by my friend who runs the bakery, live music and meeting the locals. 

Friday we spend the day in a beautiful little village up in the hills with an open air dance floor on the lake. 

Sunday 7 Juli midday, check out.