Tango Panopticon
a Milonga EVERYWHERE in this world
May 1, 2009
JOIN thousands of us… surveilled dancing
If I can’t dance I don’t want to be in your revolution
http://tangopanopticon.com/richmond/
Join all your fellow Richmond VA Argentine Tango dancers for
PANOPTICON HIT and RUN MILONGA!
Held in conjunction with Richmond’s First Fridays Artwalk and MILLIONS of Tango Dancers around the WORLD!
We will meet up and warm up at VCU’s Shafer Court where we will dance on the star medallion
at 6:30 until approximately 7pm… from there we will proceed to dance the route listed below….
COME JOIN US ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE ALONG OUR ROUTE!!!
Be SURE to WEAR BLACK!!!
Tango Location #1
Shafer Court/VCU Campus
http://www.vcu.edu/ramcam/cabell.html for a REAL TIME view of Shafer Court!
YOU will be on the Ramcam LIVE Friday Night!
Shafer Court is located in the Dining Center Commons/ 810 Cathedral Place
surrounded by Shafer and Franklin Streets and Cathedral Place in the heart of the campus.
Park on street or at Parking Garage located across from Landmark Theater at 801 West Main Street.
Tango Location #2
LANDMARK THEATER located at 6 North Laurel Street
Following dancing outside the Landmark Theater we will MOVE our CARS to the
PARKING LOT AT FOUSHEE AND GRACE or on street parking in that area.
This will move us into the heart of the First Fridays Artwalk.
Tango Location #3
DOWNTOWN YMCA located at FRANKLIN & S.FOUSHEE Streets
Tango Location #4
MAIN LIBRARY located at FRANKLIN ST AND 1ST STREET
Tango Location #5
TARRANT’S located at 1 WEST BROAD & FOUSHEE
where we will DANCE and then CELEBRATE with drinks & dinner!!!
The TANGO PANOPTICON event is a FABULOUS way to introduce Richmond art lovers to OUR medium of choice!
There will be THOUSANDS of gallery hoppers out on the streets to witness our
CELEBRATION OF TANGO AROUND THE WORLD!!!
COME DANCE WITH US!!!
Those interested in participating in the Richmond action can contact Niky at this address: niky.davis@verizon.net
Niky, who participated recently in Tango Intervention DC, is putting together a growing group for Tango Panopticon in Richmond, VA. The event will be surveilled by a camera at VCU which also happens to be a live webcam! This is what it was looking at when I visited:
I think a bunch of tangueros done out all in black would look pretty fine animating this star plaza with Argentine Tango! You can visit the web cam site at http://www.vcu.edu/ramcam/cabell.html and you can actually use a java applet to control the camera itself from the webpage.
After dancing for the camera at VCU the Richmond group is going to continue on to tango intervene during the friday night art gallery walk: http://www.firstfridaysrichmond.com …..It should be fine night in Richmond on May First!
Those interested in participating in the Richmond action can contact Niky at this address: niky.davis@verizon.net
6 Comments
Hello Tango Community,
I just wanted to remind everyone to participate in The Richmond Tango Panopticon on Friday May 1st starting at 6:30pm at Shafer Court VCU and traveling along the Art Walk of First Fridays!!! We and other dancers in countries all over the world are celebrating Argentina’s Labor Day with the street dance we all love so much. What better way for Richmond, VA to get on the Tango map than to get out and expose thousands of people to our beautiful dance.
I especially challenge all leaders to come out and participate to assure that all of our lovely ladies get to make part of history be being a part of this event.
Stay tuned for an official map and timeline for this event coming in the near future (Thanks to Marge Burkell and Jude Glass).
Besos,
Niky Davis
Hi Everyone,
The excitement is building and we now have a group from Newport News, VA interested in coming up for the event.
Please note that Marge Burkell who is the originator of the Art Walk portion of the event is available to answer questions via email burkell@comcast.net. She will most likely respond quicker than I due to my job’s crazy schedule this week. I hope to see numbers grow by leaps and bounds over the next few days.
Also, an event schedule for The Richmond Panopticon is on it’s way!!!!
Besos,
Niky
Niky,
Glad to hear it is coming along! Let me know if you have any questions.
abrazos,
_Ro
Hello Everyone,
Here is the schedule!!!!!
We are very happy to say our numbers are growing and we even have some visitors from DC coming down to join us!!!
We will meet up and warm up at VCU’s Shafer Court where we will dance on the star medallion
at 6:30 until approximately 7pm… from there we will proceed to dance the route listed below….
COME JOIN US ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE ALONG OUR ROUTE!!!
Be SURE to WEAR BLACK!!!
Tango Location #1
SHAFER COURT/VCU CAMPUS
http://www.vcu.edu/ramcam/cabell.html for a REAL TIME view of Shafer Court!
YOU will be on the Ramcam LIVE Friday Night!
Shafer Court is located in the Dining Center Commons/ 810 Cathedral Place
surrounded by Shafer and Franklin Streets and Cathedral Place in the heart of the campus.
Park on street or at Parking Garage located across from Landmark Theater at 801 West Main Street.
Tango Location #2
LANDMARK THEATER located at 6 NORTH LAUREL STREET
Following dancing outside the Landmark Theater we will MOVE our CARS to the
PARKING LOT AT FOUSHEE AND GRACE or on street parking in that area.
This will move us into the heart of the First Fridays Artwalk.
Tango Location #3
DOWNTOWN YMCA located at FRANKLIN & S.FOUSHEE STREETS
Tango Location #4
MAIN LIBRARY located at FRANKLIN ST AND 1ST STREET
Tango Location #5
TARRANT’S located at 1 WEST BROAD & FOUSHEE
where we will DANCE and then CELEBRATE with drinks & dinner!!!
The TANGO PANOPTICON event is a FABULOUS way to introduce Richmond art lovers to OUR medium of choice!
There will be THOUSANDS of gallery hoppers out on the streets to witness our
CELEBRATION OF TANGO AROUND THE WORLD!!!
COME DANCE WITH US!!!
OMG!
What a FABULOUS Hit & Run MILONGA we had tonight for the
HISTORIC Tango Panopticon 2009 which coordinated with Richmond’s
First Friday Artswalk!!!
Richmond was represented by over 30 tango dancers who danced five
venues in about 3+ hours and we all had an absolutely WONDERFUL time!
We had people all along our route taking our picture, videotaping our
dancing, and we even had one reporter for Richmond Magazine ask what
the evening was all about! We handed out LOTS of flyers to interested people!
A BIG thanks to EVERYONE that made the night such a SUCCESS!
We should have plenty of video being shared as Ponte, Nathan, V and
myself all taped parts of the evening. Everyone got LOTS of dancing time!
YOU were ALL FABULOUS! Thanks to Jude for helping set up our route and
to Niky who even went the extra mile and coordinated seating for dinner for all of us!!!
Thanks to Joe Ring for DJing the entire evening! The music selection was awesome!
Give yourselves a HUGE round of APPLAUSE!!!!
You ALL deserve it!!!
Salute!
Marge Burkell
Pics and video to come soon- Niky
Hi Everyone,
Here is just a taste of Richmond in low res. video. We will post more tommorow!!!
http://picasaweb.google.com/ndn519lang/TangoAtLandmark?authkey=Gv1sRgCLyT-pzljLKQMA&feat=email#
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