Summer Tango Holiday in St Petersburg

August is a time when St Petersburg is at its most lustrous and is irresistible.
You have to take a close look at the city of St. Petersburg. Known as the former imperial capital of Russia, it’s the country’s second most populous city and a gateway to the frigid Baltic Sea.
More than a hundred islands connected by 342 bridges make up the city.
It was Peter the Great’s vision to build a “Venice of the North” where inhabitants could navigate the city just as easily by walkway or waterway.
To better understand Peter the Great’s grandiose dreams, pay a visit to his fountain palace of Peterhof just outside town, which was built from 1714 to 1725.

The mighty Neva cuts the city in two and most festival activity is centered off the Nevsky Prospect (the main street) and the southern side of the river.
While here, you must visit the world­class State Hermitage Museum and the dark fairytale Church of the Savior of Spilt Blood.

The Catherine Palace is located in the Russian town called Pushkin. The town and its imperial residences are known also with the Russian name Tsarskoye Selo, which in english means “Tsar’s Village”.

The daughter of Peter I and Catherine I order to restructure the whole Palace, creating a sfarzosissima residence in the Russian baroque style. She ordered his favorite architect, the Italian Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, to create the famous Amber Room, the most popular attraction of the palace.

Summer days are experiences not to miss in St Petersburg.

Taken form Lonely Planet.

GUIDED TOURS OF THE PALACES ARE ORGANIZED BY SPECIFIC REQUEST AT TIME OF BOOKING.

IBIS*** Hotel (European-standard) offer ibis Kitchen restaurant and bar, conference rooms and an underground parking garage. Guests can enjoy a pleasant stay in the center of the city, at one of Saint Petersburg’s most conveniently located hotels. The city’s main street and the Moskovsky train station are nearby (547 yd./500 m).
Close to the Nevsky prospekt, main city avenue with the Hermitage, museums, restaurants and river boat cruises on the Neva River.

Our teaching uses for the first time in tango the Dalcroze method, an idea of a brilliant pedagogue and musician of the early ‘900 that revolutionized ballet and modern dance and has been used by the greatest dancers of the time.
The method assumes that the musical ear and rhythmic skills should be trained with hearing and with the use of the body.
We apply it to tango, because people who don’t live in South America, tango music is not easy to dance and moreover is not part of the culture.
In addition the method, created to teach the use of the body as a tool for listening to music and vice versa, is perfect for learning the awareness of posture, axis balance and how to use it in complex static and dynamic movements, as they are in tango.
Contamination with Meziéres gymnastics and Yoga allows us to deepen this study, making it natural to run on the complex dynamics time, like the children’s learning.
Execution of movements in pairs, with a great attention to technique and intuitive aspect of connecting with each other, make our method unique and innovative!

The program may have some changes. Languages of lessons are English, Russian, Italian.

The organization of the tour is approximate and will be defined during the booking process. It’s also possible to pay a guide provided by Russian partners.

Julia Zueva

Founder of St Petersburg’s school Tangomania

Julia Zueva began dancing tango in 1998.
In 2000 she founded the first Argentine tango club in Saint Petersburg.
At present Tangomania is one of the leading tango schools in Russia, and the Russian Institute-Correspondent of the National Tango Academy of Buenos Aires.
Julia studied tango with Carlos Gavito, Grasiela Gonzalez, Nito and Elba Garcia, Javier Rodriquez and other tango maestros.
Julia is popular thanks to her unique method of teaching improvisational style, focused on connection, embrace, musicality and classical tango salon approach. Julia together with her partner Alexey Barbolin were the champions of the first Russian Tango Salon Championship.
They also became the finalists of the III World Tango Championship in the Tango Salon Category. Julia was invited to take part in the international tango festivals in Budapest, Tokio, Busan, Oulu as international teacher and to many cities of Russia.
Soloist of Tango Dreams show, joint project with Esquina Carlos Gardel theater, at the Theater of Music and Comedy.
Julia, starting with 2002, organize in St.Petersburg well-known international White Nights Tango festival.
And from 2015 – Tango Navidad marathon in Tangomania.

Andrea Corvinelli

Italian teacher in Bologna

Have been dancing tango for about ten years, studying with passion with various teachers including Emmanuelle Ponthieux y Luca Giacomoni, Alberto Colombo y Mariela Samethband, Sebastian Arce y Mariana Montes, Sebastian Jimenez y Maria Ines Bogado, Sergio Natario, Pablo Veron, Diego Benavidez y Natasha Agudelo, Claudio Forte y Barbara Carpino, Miguel Angel Zotto y Daiana Guspero, Roberta Fersi, Alejandra Mantinan y Aoniken Quiroga.
In 2015 he achieved the diploma “MIDAS (Italian Master of Sport Dance) of argentinian Tango.