England Tango Festival

Dated Calendar
Picture: Carlos y Maria Rivarola

18-19 Oct 08 Richard Manuel and Maria Solero (passed)

Due to the Credit Crunch, there are major changes taking place at Bylaugh and so there will be no tango for the time being. We look forward to being able to let you know when we can be back with the tutors and dancers that we look forward to so much.

WORKSHOPS - OCTOBER 19th (passed)

Richard Manuel is teaching with
Maria Solero from Rosario, Argentina.

Saturday 18 October
Richard Manuel will be performing his show Tango Tango
in Cromer during the evening.

Sunday 19 October
11.00 - 12.30 Dance technique & Musicality
14.00 - 15.30 Sacadas y change of directions
16.00 - 17.30 Colgadas

Picture: Richard Manuel and Pauline Reibell in 2006

Bylaugh Prices
Two nights for the price of One
£55 per person sharing
Room includes Breakfast
Lunch and Dinner £25 per day
including refreshments as served

The Rivarolas - have now gone to Argentina via Japan

They were not scarey as some people have imagined from their photos.
No - they were quite the opposite - all their students have loved them.
And their dance and their teaching as you know is simply beautiful.
But as before, we are all afraid of returning to bad habits and of loosing that very special connection and interpretation of the music. Rivarola July 2008

Tango at Bylaugh

A splendid venue with homely tango
Ensuite bedrooms and cottages nearby
All the dance floors within the hall
Eat, sleep and breathe tango all day and night
Under one roof, no travelling (except to the seaside)

Bylaugh Tango

It is now some years ago that Stephen and Muffy (Mafalda) first brought and developed a vibrant tango scene to Norfolk and gave it a permanent home

The tango at Bylaugh centres on the music. Music that is the prime force for the dance tango. The dancers use the closed embrace for much of the tango music played. However, as is the tradition, late at night there is added some more adventurous more modern tango music when the embrace becomes more elastic and the dance ...well, you have all seen it ..nuevo.

The students at Bylaugh respond simply to the music and so building their tango moves and vocabulary without ever losing their natural response to the music. And so develops Tango, the supreme couple dance for Improvisation. Picture: Fabian Salas y Carolina del Rivero

Stephen and Muffy teach Beginners and Intermediate dancers at Bylaugh every week and give monthly weekend courses. Most importantly they invite the 'creme de la creme' of professional teachers to Bylaugh - teachers who teach Salon Tango and others who teach techniques capable of salon and the newTango.

Tango is a wonderfully simple dance that is exciting from one's first day - no one ever forgets the exhilaration of their first 'walking as one' using all four legs. It is also becomes a beautifully complex dance and one which becomes a lifetime's experience, a lifetime of learning and of discovery.

Regular Events

1. Week long Tango Holidays - with expert tutors
2. Workshop weekends - great tutors

3. Winter Tango Festival in January
4. Christmas Party - The Casanova Ball

5. Essence of Tango Course for Beginners and Improvers
6. Tango every Thursday evening from 7.00pm to midnight.
7.Argentine Spanish lessons and dinner every Thursday at 6pm.

"Dance as if no one was watching"

Fabian Salas and Carolina del Rivero with students at Bylaugh in 2005

GET TO BYLAUGH WITH EASE

We can arrange transport from Norwich train station, from the airport bus terminus or from Norwich airport - and take you back.

No need to worry about finding this beautiful remote and peaceful venue tucked away in the English Countryside. Just get on a bus, a train or and aeroplane and we will be there to catch you at this end. Sit back and relax, come and thoroughly enjoy yourself. Once you are here it is not like many other places, all the dance floors and all the bedrooms are in the same group of buildings that make up Bylaugh Hall.

Tango at Bylaugh and 'EnglandTango' is run and organised by Stephen and Mafalda Vince with the full time support of Angela Mitchell.
Stephen and Mafalda (Muffy) teach tango at Bylaugh every Thursday night with lots of dancing afterwards and hold periodic weekends developing 'The Essence of Tango'.
The Tango Festival is held every January and the rest of the year enjoys week long tango holidays and weekends both with visiting great teachers plus a number of other special events such as the Casanova Ball and the Valentine Ball.