Image: Excerpt taken from Boom Magazine "Fuad Elhage, a lecturer of Spanish at UGA, is one of the very few in Athens who teach the Argentine Tango. Fuad started the UGA Tango Club and he has been an instructor for the Project Safe fundraiser, “Dancing with the Athens Stars” since 2015. The Argentine Tango is often confused with Ballroom Tango but it is a very different form of dance. Argentine Tango doesn’t involve sequenced choreography or memorized steps, it is an improvised, spontaneous dance, and is based on variations of walking, turning, and pausing. It is said that the tango is “El amor de tres minutos,” the three-minute love. Because there is no pre-ordained sequence to the dance, and no verbal signals, the leader and follower must be totally in tune with each other and the music to connect and dance in harmony. Stephanie Lynn, a senior IT manager at UGA, was in the audience when Fuad Elhage and Susanna Drennan performed the first Tango dance in Athens at the 2016 “Dancing with the Stars” event. She was so entranced she reached out to Fuad to learn Tango, and now for the last three years, they’ve worked together to expand Latin Dance and the Argentine Tango in Athens. Stephanie and Fuad also organize the twice yearly Milonga Tropical, a Latin dance and workshop event. The next one is planned for Oct. 28 at Hotel Indigo. " Download PDF of Article Read More: Read article
