July 23: David and Tatiana: Tango Vinyasa

David Sasha Tonn and Tatiana Smirnova Lounge premiere!

They are hot, they are fabulous, and now also engaged!

DJ Tine

8.30 Class with David and Tatiana. Upper Level, included with admission.

Topic: Tango Vinyasa: using the body spiral to enhance your stability and dynamic

Midnight performance.

More about our stars:

Trained dancer, vinyasa yoga instructor, martial artist and actor… David is intense and yet playful as a performer and teacher. He loves to share his enthusiasm for both flexible technique and improvisation with his students. Some of his tango influences and teachers over the past ten years include: Chicho Frumboli with Lucia, Eugenia and Juana, Sebastian y Mariana, Pablo y Dana, Ezequiel Farfaro and the traditional styles of the Pugliese and Balmaceda families. He has performed with a number of respected followers in the US, Canada, Europe and Argentina including: Tatiana Smirnova, Mariana Dragone, Mariana Galassi, Rachel Greenberg, Karina Romero and Nina Tatarowicz.

Tatiana’s creativity started to develop from childhood, in Moscow. She was enrolled in an olympic gymnastics program studying with a master of russian rythmic gymnastics and ballet, and in parallel she also began her study piano and musicality. After she left Moscow, she continued her studies of music until this day, and her carried on with studies of ballet, ballroom and modern dance basics. She then furthered her knowledge of the human body with intense study of the art of Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido, as well as yoga. When she arrived to New York to pursue her graduate studies in biomedical research, she discovered her passion for Argentine tango. She has studied with such masters as Mariela Sametband, Moira Castellano, Gaston Torelli, Dana Frigoli, Murat and Michelle Erdemsel.