Aug 26: Jenny Frances & Ricardo Oria (Edinburgh/BsAs)

This week Lounge stars Jenny Frances & Ricardo Oria from Edinburgh/Buenos Aires!

830pm classes are included with admission

Upper level with Jenny & Ricardo
Intermediate with Jennifer Wesnousky
Beginners with Paul Pellicoro

DJ Tine

more about our stars Jenny Frances & Ricardo Oria
www.rumbosdetango.com
In classes ...
Their 9 years of teaching together gives them a connection and fluidity in presentation and explanation, which makes the experience for the student fun and informative. Two complementary yet different personalities, they emphasize the dynamic roles of both partners in tango. Their relaxed yet precise teaching style has allowed many tango dancers to find comfort and confidence in their embrace and their movements.
In performance ...
Real tango - embraced, musical, intimate and elegant. They dance with an immediacy, that allows them to express both the serious and playful aspects of the dance. Each tango danced is unique, and anything could happen. Their style of dancing is firmly based in traditional Buenos Aires tango, where subtlety in interpretation and connection come first, and improvisation is everything.
What have they been up to?
Jenny and Ricardo have performed and taught all over the UK, in Europe and in Argentina. Since beginning to work together in 2002, they have developed a reputation as one of the leading tango couples in the UK, where they are known for their expressive and spontaneous performance and their detailed and engaged teaching. In 2003 and 2004 they danced in the sell-out show, 'The Tango Spell' with Pasodos Dance Company in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and in Theatres in Dublin, Palma de Mallorca and Lisburn, N. Ireland, where their dance was described as ‘stunning work of elegant movement and feeling’ (Fringe Report).
From 2003 until 2006, Ricardo appeared regularly on British TV in the BBC1 tango ident. Jenny & Ricardo have performed in some of the most prestigious milongas in Buenos Aires, such as Salon Canning, Milonga10, Porteño y Bailarín and La Milonguita, and they have also danced with Raul Garello’s Orquesta de Tango de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires in the Teatro de la Rivera. They have performed for 20,000 people at the BBC Proms in the Park event in Glasgow, with the Scottish Symphony Orchestra, which was also broadcast live throughout the UK. In 2011, Jenny and Ricardo are teaching and performing in North America for the first time.
Jenny and Ricardo are in demand for workshops and performances and spend a lot of weekends travelling. They are based in Edinburgh, Scotland where they have their tango school and run their Rumbos de Tango Studio night, which will be celebrating it’s 10th anniversary in 2012. In 2003, Jenny & Ricardo organized the first annual Bailongo! tango festival in Edinburgh, to celebrate the flourishing of Argentine tango in the UK. They spend time in Buenos Aires each year continuing their studies, practicing and developing ideas.

Aug 19: Jennifer Wesnousky & Eduardo Goytia

This week Lounge stars Jennifer Wesnousky & Eduardo Goytia!

8.30 classes:

upper level with Jennifer and Eduardo

beginners with Paul

Midnight performance

DJ Tine

More about our stars:

Jennifer Wesnousky

Born and raised in California, Jennifer Wesnousky trained in gymnastics, ballet and jazz throughout her childhood, performing as a member of both the San Luis Jazz dancers and the Civic Ballet of San Luis Obispo. After working and studying in Los Angeles, Spain and Argentina, her pursuit of careers in Latin music and Spanish translation brought her to New York, where, she chanced upon Argentine tango. Enamored, she studied extensively with top tango masters at home and in Buenos Aires, where she traveled annually. Her most influential instructors have included Diego Di Falco, Pablo Pugliese and Mariela Franganillo, with whom she choreographed a children’s tango project for the New York City Center. As a performer, Jennifer has danced at locations and events as diverse as Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing, Joan Lunden’s Camp Reveille, the New York Tango Festival, Latina Magazine’s Poet’s Den and in the independent film, “ParAmor.” She also appeared with the all-female tango ensemble, “Tango por Ellas,” at the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden and in numerous stage productions such as the renowned Turkish musical, “Hisseli Harikalar Kumpanyasi,” at the Beacon Theatre, Valeria Solomonoff’s “Tango por Ellos,” which won the Latin ACE Award 2010 for Best Choreography, and “Borges and Piazzolla Tango” at the Thalia Spanish Theater. As a teacher at Paul Pellicoro’s Dancesport, Jennifer is passionate about taking her students to the next level. She has also been a guest instructor and performer in several of the United States and in Israel. Most recently, Jennifer co-produced, directed and performed in the original show, “Mientras TANGO,” which played to a packed house at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Jamaica, Queens.

Eduardo Goytia is a well-known Tango instructor and performer based in New York City with over 13 years of teaching and performing experience. While he specializes in the Tango Salon style, Eduardo's range of knowledge is broad and he teaches across a wide array of styles including Tango Salon, Tango Nuevo and Tango for stage. He is especially known for his musciality and for understanding how differently Tango Salon, Tango Confiteria, Milonga and Vals should be danced. Eduardo is also recognized for his elegance, long lines (he's 6'1) and for demonstrating a deep connection with his partners.

Eduardo became the 2007 US National Champion in Argentine Tango Salon after which he and his championship partner, Cyrena Drusine, also became the only American couple to ever make it to the finals of the World Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Officially representing the USA in the championships, they were invited to meet with the US Ambassodor to Argentina at the US Embassy and were honored by the Ambassador's presence at the semi-finals, the night Cyrena and Eduardo were announced as finalists.

Eduardo teaches group classes, workshops and privates at the dance studios Dancesport and Triangulo in Manhattan as well as at special events and schools around the city and abroad. Eduardo can be seen dancing regularly at milongas around the city as well as performing with visiting teachers and regular partners on stage, in shows and at special events.

http://tangosalonusa.com/

Aug 12: Eli Leserowitz and Amy Anderson. DJ Ilene

This week we feature Eli Leserowitz and Amy Anderson!

DJ Ilene Marder

8.30 classes:

Upper level with Eli and Amy

Intermediate with Jennifer Wesnousky

Beginners with Paul Pellicoro

More about our stars:

Eli Leserowitz began to dance Argentine Tango in New York City, launching him to what would become his life's passion. From the day he started dancing, he has not stopped for an instant. Eli is an exceptionally creative and sensitive dancer who is in a constant state of fascination with the structure of tango moves and music. Eli's

unmistakable presence and unique style of dance made him one of the most recognizable figures in the milongas of New York.

After dancing for some time in New York, Eli began searching for new tango experiences. He began touring the United States taking classes with the best local teachers and Argentine masters who were visiting the US, and in 2008 Eli made his initial journey to Argentina, where he deepened his understanding of the tango in the milongas of Buenos

Aires. Eli's particular style of dance was borne out of these experiences combined with his extraordinary autodidactic ability.

Eli is a thorough teacher, going to great lengths to convey the fundamental techniques and musicality of a movement to his students. He has an uncanny ability to incorporate the newest moves into traditional dancing. Eli's attitude of being a constant learner makes him an approachable and a widely popular teacher. His enthusiasm for tango is contagious. He has taught in cities across the US including New York, Los Angelis, Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis, Saint Louis, Kansas City and at Universities such as Princeton University (NJ), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Hunter College (NY), and the University of Minnesota.

Amy Anderson has been a professional dancer in Denver, Colorado for most of her career. She did her early training and performing with Colorado Ballet and danced with the company for 5 years. She continued dancing as a professional ballet dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet and David Taylor Dance Theatre but began to branch out into contemprorary ballet and modern dance as well.dancing in such companies as Colorado Repertory Dance and Jan Justis Dance Company. She worked with many choreographers including Milton Meyers, John Mead, Kim Robards, Hannah Kahn, and Jim Clouser to name a few. During this time Amy developed an interest in choreography and began choroegraphing many pieces that were of a humorous intent. Many of them have been performed for years by DTDT but she has also choreographed for Colorado Ballet and Ballet Nouveau.

Amy continues to choreograph, dance Argentine Tango, and has her own Pilates practice at A Living Ats Centre. She has been teaching Pilates for 20 years and specializes in injury rehabilitation and Dance Medicine. She has been dancing Argentine tango for 8 years and has performed in tango festivals in Portland Oregon and Montreal Canada

with Nick Jones as well as dancing her own choreography in The Tango Zone in NYC in August 2011.

In addition to being the founder and director of Woodstock Tango, Ilene has established a reputation as a popular, traditional Tango DJ, who DJ's regularly at milongas in NYC and at festivals (recently Boston & Chicago). She is one of the very few non-Argentines to DJ in Buenos Aires at Salon Canning (three times) and the only one to have DJ’d Porteño y Bailerin. She is a "traditional" DJ, using cortinas, tandas and the most beautiful classic tango ever recorded. (She is also adept at offering some lovely danceable surprises from the modern and alternative tango worlds...). She conducts MEET THE MUSIC sessions to better acquaint dancers with the key orquesta's of the Golden Age, and is available to DJ private parties and events, and more....

August 5: Vanja Modzelewski & Alexis Rosen. DJ Tine

This week Lounge welcomes Vanja Modzelewski and Alexis Rosen!

Vanja and Alexis will teach the upper level class at 8.30.

Topic : Something cool.

There is also an intermediate class by Jennifer Wesnousky.

Paul will take care of the beginners.

All 3 classes start at 8.30pm and are included with admission.

Midnight performance!

DJ Tine

More about our artists...

Alexis Rosen has been dancing Tango for nine years, and teaching for the last four. He first gained notice as an original and creative leader of Tango Nuevo. However, in the last couple of years he has focused closely on close embrace as well. Alexis believes that great dance is built on musicality, connection to the partner, and fundamental movement technique. Many of his classes start with a specific sequence of movements, which are then used to explore those three topics in depth.The first teachers to strongly influence Alexis were Robin Thomas and Mario Consiglieri. While he has learned from numerous other teachers in Buenos Aires and the U.S. since then, the biggest influence on his dance comes from the many great followers he has danced with, including his partner Vanja.

Vanja Modzelewski is a highly experienced dancer in both - open and in close embrace. Her proficiency in the various styles of tango along with her sophisticated musicality has made her one of the better known female dancers in the US. Vanja's dance style is characterized with fluidity and sensual elegance. She has a profound knowledge of movements and partner connection and is a sought after lead who has been teaching group and private classes in tango with a partner and on her own for over 8 years. Currently Vanja is working together with Alexis Rosen. During the past years, among others, she has taught and performed with Constantin Rueger (Germany), Robin Thomas (NY), Murat Erdemsel (Washington, DC), Ney Melo (San Francisco), Hernan Brizuela (Buenos Aires), Armando Orzuza (Buenos Aires) and Junior Cervila (Buenos Aires).