Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Jan 29: Marika Landry and Mauro Peralta (Montreal)


This week I am delighted to have Marika Landry and Mauro Peralta from Montreal!
8.30 class, upper level, included with admission.
topic: Corridas & suspensions
midnight performance

DJ Tine back in town!

Looking forward to having you join us!
Tine, host

More about our stars:

After years of travelling round Europe and the United States, Marika Landry and Mauro Peralta decided to form a dancing couple and join the dance school Montreal Gotan. Their aim is the connection and creativity, teaching an updated classical Tango, and giving the students the elements to achieve a personal style.
Marika and Mauro provide their students the possibility of getting a strong dancing communication. Dancers found comfort in the physical space and with their dancing partner, with a great earth connection and movement fluently. With a great physical consciousness, students work on their body control achieving different dynamics in their movements without losing the typical sensuality of Tango.
Further to their pedagogy, they have experience in stage as choreographers and dancers through their work in the companies Karima Tango and Ensemble Montreal Tango. Since March 2009, they travel together in Europe for the first tango festival in Nice, they participate at the second international tango congreso in Toronto and at the first tango festival in Québec city.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Tango Lounge Fri Jan 22: LUNG-KUEI, ORLANDO & ADRIANA


This week, Lung-kuei Lin will DJ and guest-host Tango Lounge

8.30 upper level class by Orlando Reyes and Adriana Salgado (Colombia/ NYC)
performance around midnight.

Join us!

Adriana and Orlando have been professional dancers and teachers in the art of Argentine Tango for over a decade. With a background in classical ballet, they went on to specialize and study Tango in Buenos Aires under the auspices of such world renowned Tango masters as Gustavo Naveira, among many others. In 2005 they became semi-finalists at the third Tango World Championship, held in Argentina. In their native Colombia they are acclaimed in newspapers, magazines, festivals and events, as one the country’s most representative couples.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Jan 15: Raphael Baron & Maude Bouthillette (Montreal), DJ Mike McCarrel (Portland OR)

This week we are pleased to have a class and performance by Raphael Baron & Maude Bouthillette (Montreal), and our DJ is Mike McCarrel (Portland OR)

Raphael Baron (Montreal)
Raphael's playful aproach to tango emphasizes the subtleties of a deep connection and help dancers discover their musical personas, find their own path to surprising their partners and renewing their dance.
Influnced by his extensive background in martial arts and gymnastics, he naturally grew away from parkour into a more improvised and less dangerous lifestyle choice. While he's based in Montreal, he regularly teaches at various tango festivals in the USA and Canada
from San Francisco to New York.
Inspired, amongst others, by Stéphane Villeneuve, Marika Landry and Tomas Howlin, he's one of the most daring tango teacher in Northern America.

Maude Bouthillette (Montreal)
Maude Bouthillette’s approach to teaching tango focuses on connection, body and space awareness as well as the biomechanics of movement.
Her teaching is deeply influenced by her extensive background teaching and performing in gymnastics and in the theater.
She studied extensively with such modern teachers as Pablo Villaraza and Dana Frigoli, Soledad Larretapia and Ricardo Biggeri but her heart is deeply rooted in traditional tango.
Her goal is to produce dancers who exhibit the elegance, strength and precision of traditional tango and who also move with the fluidity of more modern tango.

DJ Mike McCarrel (Portland OR)
One of Portland's rising Stars Mike started djing in 2007 at the PSU Practica. After spending a year refining his knowledge of the music and a three month stay in Buenos Aires he became one of Portland's most popular dj's regularly playing gigs around town and the greater northwest.
Nationally he has Dj'd in Seattle, Eugene and Houston and will be djing at the Grape Escape Tango Festival in September. He is currently the Dj in residence at Milonga Al Norte in Portland and can be heard every 2nd and 4th Saturdays. milongaalnorte.blogspot.com




Sunday, January 3, 2010

Jan 8: DJ Robin Thomas, stars Ana Padron & Diego Blanco

This week at the Lounge:

DJ Robin Thomas returns to make your night.

Ana Padron and Diego Blanco will teach the 8.30 upper level class (included with admission)
"Interchangeable steps in one embrace"

More about our stars:
Ana and Diego's website: Tango4all.com

Award-winning dancers Diego Blanco and Ana Padron are one of the top performing coules in the world today. Their tango is energetic, rhythmical and innovative, and through their fluid moves they fuse tango with the close embrace style of traditional tango.
Tnago for All, the dance company they co-founded, was brought to life to bring this electrifying tango to audiences in America and worldwide.
Ana and Diego command a wide range of dance dicipline from which they tap inspiration for theur movemens. In addition to Argentine tango, these include classical ballet, jazz, African, and Jose Limon, Martha Graham and Jennifer Muller techniques.
Diego and Ana perform in tango productions on national and international stages, and teach in and around New York and the country.

Looking forward to dancing with you in 2010,
your host Tine Herreman