Dec 2: Carolina Jaurena & Andres Bravo

This week Lounge features New York's own, the very popular Carolina Jaurena, partnering with Andres Bravo from Colombia. When Carolina and Andres were on the Lounge floor dancing socially a month or two ago, half a dozen people came to ask me: who's that guy, he is awesome! They look great together, I am sure you will agree, so please come cheer for them at Lounge this week.


There is a class for you at 8.30, no matter your level:

8.30pm upper level class with Carolina and Andres
8.30pm intermediates with Jennifer
8.30pm beginners with Paul
*** all classes included with admission.

DJ Tine

CAROLINA JAURENA: Influenced by her parents, a Bandoneon Master and her mother a Tango singer, from an early age Carolina pursued a desire to perform. Her training includes ballet, salsa, and flamenco to where she now specializes in Argentine Tango. She has worked with some of the most recognized names in the tango world, Jorge Torres, Fabian Peralta, Cesar Coelho and Hugo Patyn. Having been fortunate enough to work with some of the best, it comes as no surprise that Carolina’s career is filled with a long list of dance credits that includes, Tango & Tango at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Tango Fantastico at the Bellearyre Music Festival, on Broadway at Town Hall in the show “Tangos for la Milonga” with Romulo Larrea and in 2005 she traveled to Europe to perform with the Sudwestfalen Philarmonic at the Symphonic Tango night in Hilchenbach-Lutzel, Germany.
In addition, she was also a featured dancer, singer and actress in the Two River Theatre Company production of Blood Wedding and performed in the Buenos Aires month celebration at the World Financial Center. She was also invited to perform at The 10th Annual Orlando International Fringe Festival in Florida, "Tango Summit" with the Panamerican Symphony Orchestra, and "100 años de tango, de Villoldo a Piazzolla" at the prestigious Solis Theatre in Montevideo, Uruguay. She performs regularly with Teatro Si in New Jersey and in New York with Leonardo Suarez Paz's "Cuartetango" and Thalia Spanish Theatre in Queens.
Carolina is also a much sought after performer in television and film, having appeared on such shows as Fox 5 “Good Day New York” with Penny Crone, "Today in NY" on NBC. In 2006 she was a first prize winner on the popular program Sábado Gigante on Univision. However, the height of her professional career was marked by her role as a primary dancer in the feature film Random Hearts directed by Sidney Pollack and starring Harrison Ford. Carolina talents are not just limited to teaching, but she is a much respected and sought after instructor as well.
Over the years, she has been invited to perform and teach at several Dance Festivals including; The Colorado Dance Festival, The D.C. Tango Festival, The Boston Tango Festival, and the "Tango Norte” 2007 Stockholm Tango Festival. Most recently, Carolina was invited to teach at Nashville Tango and performed with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra in Tennessee, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and performed with “Tango Five” at the Einhalden Festival in Germany. Most recently, Carolina performed with the Westfield Symphony Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Evolution Tango Show in Dallas, Texas.

ANDRES BRAVO Andres Bravo represented Colombia at the eighth World Tango Summit held in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina with the Colombia Tango Company
In 2002 became part of the the cast of recognized Argentine Show, Jumeirath Beach Hotel located in Dubai United Arab Emirates for the period of six months. National Tango Champion 2006.2009.
National runner-up in the stage tango Festival 2007,2010
National champion in stage tango Tango Festival 2008, 2009 He has a great recognition as an instructor and as a tango dancer.

Nov 25: Kasia Czech and Tymoteusz Ley (Poland)

This week Lounge is happy to present Kasia Czech and Tymoteusz Ley from Krakow, Poland! Yes, tango is everywhere!

8.30pm upper level class with Kasia and Tymoteusz
8.30pm intermediates with Jennifer
8.30pm beginners with Paul
!!! all classes included with admission.


Performance at midnight
DJ Tine :)


Hope to see you on the dance floor to dance off the holiday meal!
Happy Thanksgiving to you.


MORE ABOUT OUR STARS    Kasia Czech and Tymoteusz Ley 
Their dance is full of passion, emotions, sensuality. They move with a wonderful musicality and fluidity, in unbroken connection. 
    Kasia started her tango experience in Barcelona, where she was taking intensive classes of tango de salon with Argentinean masters Jorge Udrisard and Andrea Ponzetti. Tymoteusz inherited the passion for tango from his parents, also tango teachers. They met at Tango House School in Krakow, where they were taking tango nuevo classes, and soon became teachers. 
    Over the years they studied with Luis Bianchi and Daniela Pucci, Pablo Villarraza and Dana Frigoli, Pablo Inza and Eugenia Parilla, Adrian Veredice and Alejandra Hobert, Jose Halfon and Virginia Cutillo, Ismael Ludman and Maria Mondino, Ozgur Demir and Marina Marques, Mila Vigdorova and Rodrigo Fonti, Esteban and Evelyn Cortez and others. These experiences allowed them to create their own modern, unique vision of tango. 
    Kasia and Tymoteusz are the founders of the “Tango Nuevo School” in Krakow. They teach their students to understand basics of the movements to let them invent more advanced and interesting solutions. They encourage them to look for new possibilities and develop their own style of expressing themselves in the dance. Tymoteusz focuses on expanding creativity of the leader; Kasia works mostly on body awareness in order to improve the following. For both of them it is most important to maintain the connection of the couple and share the emotions of the dance. They teach in Polish, Spanish and English.  
    They taught and performed at many milongas in Europe (Dublin, Barcelona, Warsaw, Krakow, Kiev) as well as at the festivals such as Velvet Tango in Crimea, Puente del Tango in Krakow,, International Warsaw Tango Festival, Tango Impro Festival in Warsaw and Lviv Tango Festival. 
    They also performed on stage with many well-known musicians and orchestras, like German bandoneonist Christian Gerber, Greek singer Jorgos Skolias, Iranian artist Emam, singer Magdalena Lechowska and Aires de Tango Orchestra, Al Tango Orchestra, and many others. Kasia and Tymoteusz took part in the Tango Show at Congress Hall Theatre in Warsaw with sexteto New Tango Bridge with pianist Waldemar Malicki and violin orchestra, as well as in the Project Global Bridge with the precursor of tango nuevo in Poland, Grzegorz Frankowski.
    Kasia and Tymoteusz are popular and active members of Krakow’s tango community. They organize many tango events, milongas and shows.

Nov 19: Santiago Steele & Katherine Gorsuch

This week Lounge features Santiago Steele and Katherine Gorsuch!
8.30pm upper level class with Santiago and Kat
8.30pm intermediates with Jennifer
8.30pm beginners with Paul
>>> all classes included with admission.
Performance at midnight
DJ Tine :)


more about our stars...
Santiago Steele has been dancing Argentine Tango since 1997, and has lived and studied for extensive periods in Buenos Aires, where he trained intensively with some of the world’s leading Tango masters, including Mariano 'Chico' Frumboli, Gustavo Naveira, Pablo Villarrazza, and Dana Frígoli. 
He has been a first-place champion of the California Tango Competition, and as a performer has danced in several Tango shows including renowned choreographer Hector Zaraspe's '¡Tango Tango!' with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, 'Swango,' and 'NY Tango: Piazzolla and Beyond' with the orchestra Avantango. 
In addition to teaching, Santiago hosts workshops and milongas in New York City, including Practilonga-939 & workshop series. 
His personal style combines technique and concepts from both modern and traditional Tango, with an emphasis on connection, natural movement and rhythmic interpretation. 
Santiago is currently available for private lessons evenings and weekends. 

Katherine Gorsuch's hybrid expression of tango is derived from the many dance influences in her life.

Her interest began as a child, exploring various dance forms; ballet, modern dance, and flamenco. At 18, she began dancing tango in New York City. In the last year, she was partnering Robin Thomas, and has also worked with: Adam Hoopengardner, Felipe Martinez, Henry Finkelstein, and Jay Abling.

Katherine has taught at festivals in the US and in Europe and has spent the last few months teaching in Berlin. She is also one of the founding members and organizers of the Hunter College Tango Club, established in 2006. Dancing in Europe, Buenos Aires, and across the United States has contributed to Katherine's inspirational musicality and connection. She brings a youthful energy and sweet madness to the dance floor.

Lounge 11/11/11: Vanja Modzelewski and Alexis Rosen!

This week Lounge is happy to bring you Vanja Modzelewski and Alexis Rosen!
Vanja and Alexis will teach the upper level class at 8.30.
Topic : Something fun.


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).

Fri Nov 4: Adriana Salgado and Orlando Reyes + Adriana's birthday!

This week Lounge brings you the home team: Adriana Salgado and Orlando Reyes!


Not only that; it is Adriana's birthday TODAY!


Tango Lounge offers 3 lessons at 8.30pm, one for each level, so you can learn at your own level with other people of your level, and the price is right too (it's included free with admission)!
* Upper level with our guest artists of the week; this week Adriana and Orlando
* Intermediate with Jennifer Wesnousky
* Beginners with Paul Pellicoro

Midnight performance with Adriana and Orlando



More about our stars:
Adriana Salgado and Orlando Reyes have been professional dancers and teachers of Argentine Tango for over a decade. With background in classical ballet, they went to study Tango in Buenos Aires under the auspices of such renowned tango masters as Gustavo Naveira, Claudio Gonzales, Melina Brufman and Cristina Cortes, among many others. Other influential coaches have been Guillermina Quiroga and Roberto Reis. Adriana and Orlando have danced in numerous critically acclaimed productions.
Their energetic, precise and passionate dancing, their changing embraces, breathtaking jumps and their wonderful connection makes their performances outstanding. Their enthusiasm and love for Tango is palpable and has won them recognition with awards at home where have been acclaimed as one of the best representative couples of Colombia by "Corporacion Nacional de Danza" and Cultural Industry of Dance "Los Danzantes." They were also semifinalists in the 3rd Tango World Championship in Buenos Aires, 2006 and more recently they came in 3rd place at the "Long Island Dance Championship" held in Long Island and sponsored by the NY Salsa Congress.
Currently they teach, coach and perform for DanceSport studio in New York City.