This week, fasten your seat belts for an awesome midnight performance by the superstars Carolina del Rivero & Donato Juarez from BsAs!
Class by Nigel Smith (Paris/Montreal/US).
DJ Tine
More about our stars
Carolina del Rivero and Donato Juarez combine in their art exceptional technical and interpretive qualities, where musicality; elegance and precision intersect in a point of true originality. As teachers, Carolina and Donato enchant and inspire with their energy and passion.
Carolina del Rivero started dancing at the age of 6. She studied ballet at the world-famous Teatro Colon (the most renowned opera house in Latin America) and later modern dance on at the famous “Taller de Danza Contemporanea del Teatro San Martin”. She discovered tango in 1995, and since the year 2000 Carolina has travelled arround the world giving workshops and exhibitions. Every year since 2001, Carolinahas been on the faculty as a master teacher and dancer in the “Congreso Internacional de Tango Argentino” (C.I.T.A) -the world's largest annual tango event that takes place in Buenos Aires every March.
Applying all her artistic knowledge from other dances, she brings to tango, style and elegance, as well as a profound understanding of the technique and dynamics of the dance, and also of the woman’s role in it. She is one of the most renowned master teachers and performers in the world of Argentine Tango.
Donato Juárez is one of the most talented of the new generation of tango dancers in Argentina. Musical, elegant, precise, driven, Donato teaches tango as he dances it: with energy, passion and sensitivity. From his hometown of Mar del Plata in Argentina, he has been part of a group of enthusiastic young dancers that has continued to tirelessly explore the intricacies of this dance. He has studied with many renowned teachers who were quick to notice his impressive technical skills.
Donato has taught at international tango festivals in the United States, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, Europe (Italy,Spain, Holland, Belgium, Greece, Switzerland, Finland), and Mexico and has performed in many theaters in Argentina. He taught and performed with Cecilia Gonzalez, in the 2006, 2007 and 2008 International Argentine Tango Congresses (CITA) in Buenos Aires.
Nigel Smith
Nigel was born in Montreal, grew up in Canada and the US, and lives in Paris, where he dances, teaches, DJs and sings opera. He has taught tango all over Europe, as well as in Egypt, China and Australia. Nigel says: " Tango is a language spoken all over the world, and each dance is as unique as each conversation you will ever have.
I treat the tango as a language when I dance, and when I teach. My goal is to help dancers express themselves in a personal way. I'll help you build a vocabulary, but learning new things to say is not even half of the work. In a conversation as in tango, what we say is a response to what our partner says, and vice versa. A good conversation is an two-way exchange of interesting, funny, pertinent and surprising interactions, and listening is as important as talking. The same goes in tango! So, along with steps, there's a lot of work on listening: to the music, to each other, even to ourselves."
