The Banking Crisis hits our tango
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.
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| 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
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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)
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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.
Programme

Pablo and Maria | 
Juan and Graciana |
Next
Sept 6/7 Richard Manuel and Maria Solero
The Recent passed Programme
There is no tango planned for Bylaugh for the time being. We will email you all as soon as we have something exciting happening. That will be when and if you and we all recover from the effects of the banks induced crisis.
Richard Manuel and Pauline Reibell - September 6/7
We are lucky to secure this intensive weekend. Expect some surprising moves and special music.
Richard and Pauline will be back to continue their 2008 prgramme after their sell-out classes in March.
23 June - 6 July Carlos and Maria Rivarola
Carlos Rivarola is not only famous for the film 'Tango' but many other achievements in the tango world too - and his teaching is for excellence on the salon floor. If you missed his last visit in September 07 - then save a date in your diary this year. One weekend is Intermediate the other nearer to Advanced if not Advanced - some of will do both weeks if we can get the time.
RICHARD MANUEL and PAULINE REIBELL
Richard has been a part of tango at Bylaugh with Eleonora Simoes for the past nearly 2 years and impressed us throughout that time with the precision of their teaching and attention to detail and the students.
Richard typically starts the day with exercises and techniques for body control, and progresses gradually through tango technique to actual examples which seem impossible to begin with. Working seamlessly together he enables the movement to materialise into exciting possibilities for a challenging dance. He attends to everyone in the studio to ensure that they achieve results, pushing their technique to the limit. Having pushed out the bounderies in the studio one can subsequently dance simpler moves more perfectly during the milonga. Now with Pauline, they teach a combination of salon and nuevo tango.
RICHARD MANUEL
His extensive research has brought him to always extend the realms of
tango music as the primary core of his dance. He brings forward his
findings for a most relax state of dancing where elegance meets new
drawings. His teaching focuses on giving freedom to the dancer to create
their own dance, working on the economy of the body and clarifying the
language of leading and following.