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Continued from Page 1: Teach Me How to Tango become intimate. Once a month, Argentine Tango Club holds an event called the Milonga. The event gives members the opportunity to gather for a night of dancing, eating, and showing off what they’ve learned. “Anybody can go to a club where they can ‘dance’ when they get there, but how cool is it to actually have a dance with style,” said Jamie Lane, a new member of Argentine Tango Club. Lane joined the tango community when his roommate, a graduate student at UB, asked him to go. Lane already enjoyed swing, but wanted to pick up Latin dancing. There are a variety of tango dances and UB’s tango club specifically teaches the Tango Milonga. It can be danced in either a fast or slow tempo, and has a special rhythmic pattern to it. The patterns form because octosyllabic quartets are used and structured in a musical period of eight measures in 2/4, according to Gabriela Mauriño, a dance and music scholar and author of Tango and Milonga: A Close
Club and 1997 alumna of UB, originally learned how to tango in Montréal. “[Tango] classes are a great way to make friends,” Hawrylczak said. “The people who tend to do ballroom dancing and specifically tango dancing tend to be very nice, stable, [and] intelligent people who are looking for a structured outlet.” She has practiced ballroom, country, and swing dance, as well, but always finds herself going back to the tango because of the music that comes with the dance, according to Hawrylczak. The club also sponsors a Tango Boot Camp each year, where students spend a full weekend learning about the form, dance, history, and music of Argentine Tango, according to barefoottango.com. The first day is dedicated to tango beginners and the second day to the experts.
Relationship.
Miles Tangos, instructor of Tango Boot Camp, has taught in London, Amsterdam, Malta, Zurich, and Buenos Aires, and is making his way to 102 Harrison Hall on Saturday, March 10 to teach the tango to the Buffalo community.
Christine Hawrylczak, an instructor for Argentine Tango
Rozia Patham, a provisional graduate student in pharmacol-
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
ogy and toxicology, attended last year’s boot camp.
we want people to listen to our music.”
“When you dance at a Milonga, it’s like you’re flying,” Patham said. “I can’t explain it. It’s a very blissful experience.”
Alongside LoGrasso in Sleep Atlantic is main singer Sean Hayes, bassist Brad Gottorff, drummer Joe Bartolucci, and fellow guitarist Matt Slomowicz.
Mia Jorgensen, president of Argentine Tango Club and a graduate student in anthropology, originally wanted to learn how to salsa. She was persuaded by friends to try the tango first and fell in love with the practice. “I come because it’s a really relaxing dance and, as a student, you really need some sort of outlet so you can get away from your work,” Jorgensen said. “This dance allows you to do that because it’s really about focusing on your partner. It allows you to clear your head.” Whether people join to relieve their stresses or to make new friends, the tango community at UB is still growing and learning the steps. “You can only leave [the tango community] for so long before you’re like, ‘I have to dance again,’” Hawrylczak said. Email: features@ubspectrum.com
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Sleep Atlantic has started to make quite the splash in the local pop punk scene. Their catchy riffs and sing-along lyrics stay lodged in their listeners’ head long after the headphones have been taken off. The Sleep Atlantic faithful is always a fun crowd to watch, dancing and screaming along with Hayes as if the band was a national act making an unexpected stop in Buffalo. “We were in another band, it was like Trapt, that kind of music,” LoGrasso said. “We all loved pop punk, but we just didn’t play it so we were like f*** it, lets just do what we love.” Sleep Atlantic formed in summer 2010 from the ashes of the former band. Bartolucci knew Hayes from UB, and when Hayes saw that they were looking for a singer, Sleep Atlantic was conceived. Since then, the band has recorded new material every couple of months, occasionally at Watchman Studios in Lockport with Doug White, who has recorded bands like Every Time I Die and Gym Class Heroes. Their material is free for download on reverbnation, but the band puts in the legwork to get their material out to a wider
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“We have been to the past two Warped Tours, we haven’t actually gone into the concert but we will walk around the parking lot handing out CDs and everything,” Bartolucci said. “We do it at local shows around here too, but definitely the biggest response we got was from Warped Tour. Not that they come from all over the place for Warped Tour, but they come from places like Rochester and nearby areas like that.”
While the band has only been around for just over a year, their sound is sure to grab the attention of labels. The band has an idea of what they want to do; they just want to make sure that all the loose ends are taken care of beforehand.
This D.I.Y. work ethic has earned them a spot playing alongside bands like The Swellers, Fake Problems, and Rust Belt Lights. Next month Sleep Atlantic will be playing the biggest show of their short career: Chris Conley, front man of pop punk gods Saves the Day, will be playing a show at Club Infinity. Club Infinity is one of the largest venues in Buffalo, and with Conley headlining, there is a good chance of the show selling out, giving the band some much overdue exposure. Recently, the band shot a video for their song “None of My Friends Listen to Marvin Gaye.” Sleep Atlantic wanted to use this an opportunity to show its essence, so naturally the video captures them throwing a house party and playing a small house show for their closest friends. “That’s probably the most fun we have had with this band,” LoGrasso said. “Basically, trying to describe our band as having fun and getting drunk with your
“We have a plan in general, but we have a lot of getting ready to do because you don’t get a second chance when you are presenting yourself to a label,” LoGrasso said. The band cares more about supplying their fans with good tunes and good times at their show than anything else. This dedication to their fans will undoubtedly pay off for Sleep Atlantic in the future. In a scene where bands are excommunicated and labeled “sellouts” at a lightning pace, Sleep Atlantic has the attitude that will keep them in good standing with their fans. “It makes all of our practices and struggling to sell tickets worth it, being there and seeing everyone have a good time makes us have a good time,” Bartolucci said. Sleep Atlantic is quietly making a name for themselves around the local music scene. It is just a matter of time till the national scene takes notice. Seize the opportunity to see Sleep Atlantic headline a local show before they start headlining national tours. Email: arts@ubspectrum.com
Continued from Page 12: The Buffalo Bulls Shuffli’n Crew “I get questioned about how I started and why,” Mack said. “[They say] ‘You’re a football player, a big guy. Why are you singing and playing the guitar?’ I grew up [around music] and wanted to be different. So I picked up the guitar.” The four have different musical preferences. Sales prefers the lyricism of Lupe Fiasco, while Zordich relates to the traditional rock of Bruce Springsteen. Petit likes the neo-soul of Erykah Badu and the experimentalism of hip-hop duo OutKast. Mack enjoys listening to Mac Miller. The musicians find ways to blend their different tastes when they perform together in jam sessions, strengthening their bond in the process. Zordich recalled playing a Pearl Jam riff under a Sales freestyle during a campfire gathering with members of the football team.
Zordich looked back on the experience and its influence on his teammates fondly. “All the boys were together,” Zordich said. “They loved it and thought it was cool. I know [junior linebacker] Scott Pettigrew is learning to play the banjo now…and he’s all excited.” The 2011 Buffalo football team had 102 players on its roster. It wouldn’t be farfetched to say many other talents are being developed by these college athletes. “Everybody has a bunch of talents,” Zordich said. “We’re not just football players, you know.” Email: sports@ubspectrum.com
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