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Hope you had a nice holiday and are ready to start celebrating the coming new year.
This week join Hiro Tanaka and Sabrina Volpi at the last Lounge of 2011!
They will teach the upper level class. There is also an intermediate class by Jennifer Wesnousky and a drop-in beginners class by Paul Pellicoro, all at 8.30pm and INCLUDED with admission.
Happy New Year everybody!!
more about our stars:
Hiro Tanaka:
Hiro is known for his creative style in the NY tango community. His dance is full of imagination that derives from his constant quest for possibilities in tango, and his passion for the dance is infectious.
Having studied with prominent Argentinean professionals such as Carlos Gavito, Gustavo Naveira &Giselle Anne, Dana Frigoli, Gaston Torelli & Moira Castellano, among others, Hiro has acquired his approach toward the dance. Now he is one of the practitioners of a New Generation Tango "SalonTango Nuevo," which comfortably unifies traditional and Nuevo tango on the floor and has become a new trend in Buenos Aires.
Also, Hiro's strong background in Japan's martial arts (Judo and Karate) has given his tango a special flavor to it, focusing more on the energy flow-- beyond mere step sequences on the floor.
Sabrina Volpi:
Sabrina is a native New Yorker and began dancing at the age of three. Her dance background ranges from Classic Ballet, Tap, Jazz, and Pointe to Hip Hop and competitive Latin dances. She was introduced to Argentine tango in October 2007 at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and has been dancing with Hiro for approximately four years.
Sabrina has learnt intensively from top Argentinean instructors in Buenos Aires, Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne, Ezequiel Farfaro, Mario Consiglieri & Anabella Diaz-Hojman, Adrian Veredice & Alejandra Hobert, and others. Sabrina dances with passion and her dance is dynamic and full of positive energy; you often can catch her smiling and laughing on the dance floor! When she’s not dancing, she has an appointment in the research sciences, which she also loves.
This week Lounge stars Eduardo Goytia and Leslie Whitesell!
8.30 classes:
upper level with Eduardo
intermediate with Jennifer Wesnousky
beginners with Paul
Midnight performance
DJ Tine
More about our stars:
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/
Leslie Whitesell is the 2010 winner of the United States Dance Championship Pro-Am Open Cabaret Championship, the Pro-Am World Theatrical Championship at the Ohio Star Ball, the Showcase Challenge at the Wisconsin State Dance Championship and the Pro-Am Cabaret Championship at Millennium Dancesport. She began the ballroom competition circuit in 2009 and won 1st Place Solos at the Nevada Star Ball, Capital Dancesport and NJ State Open Dance Championship.
Leslie began her dance training in 1978 with Grace Clark at the Annapolis Ballet then continued her training at the Baltimore Ballet where she studied with Wendy Robinson, a former dancer of the Royal Ballet in London. Her ballet background also includes training at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, at Goucher College under the mentorship of Violette Verdy, and at the Joffrey Ballet in New York.
Leslie's training in partner dancing includes ballroom and latin dance as well as Argentine Tango, which she studied first in New York and then in Buenos Aires under skillful mentors including Carlos Gavito, Nito & Elba Garcia, Oscar Mandagaran and Guillermina Quiroga.
Leslie is an active performer, combining her ballet background with the versatile styles of Argentine Tango, ballroom, Latin and swing dancing. Her recent performances include a show for the United Nations 2008 and a tour of Dancing With the Stars dinner shows in 2007. In 2001, she was featured with Carlos Gavito in the short film: Una Leccion. She has danced in many events in New York and around the world including Tango y Mas, Avantango, Del Tingo al Tango, shows at the Rainbow Room and at Penn State University.
Leslie's teaching career began in 1997 in New York City where she currently teaches and coaches across her wide spectrum of dance knowledge.
We wish you a very happy holiday season and health, happiness and prosperity in the new year.
Tine and the whole Tango Lounge at DanceSport team (Paul, Lydia, Denise, Nancy, Arturo, Efraim)
This week catch a class with the reigning queen of Aha Moments! Brigitta Winkler (Berlin) will teach and perform with Rebecca Shulman (NYC). Join us!
*** all classes included with admission.
8.30pm upper level class with Brigitta Winkler
8.30pm intermediates with Jennifer
8.30pm beginners with Paul
Midnightish performance!
DJ Tine
More about our stars
Brigitta Winkler is a curious woman. She likes tradition and innovation and has been dancing tango for over 25 years. She currently divides her time between New York and Berlin. Her first stage appearance was in 1986 in Montreal's Tangoshow. She teaches at festivals in the USA, Germany, Italy, and Russia. In 1987 she opened Tanzart in Berlin, which then became Phynixtanzt, her school in Berlin. She studied intensively in the early 1980s in Buenos Aires with Eduardo Arquimbau and Antonio Todaro among others. Brigitta studied Authentic Movement and incorporates a four-year program of Body Mind Centering into her approach. She is also the co-founder of the internationally acclaimed, all woman dance company, Tangomujer. For more information about Brigitta, please visit her website
Born in New York City, Rebecca studied classical ballet all her life and Contact Improvisation and yoga since 1993.
Her tango career began in 1991 with Daniel Trenner, with whom she began to perform and to visit Buenos Aires. Her Tango teachers include Mingo and Esther Pugliese, Gustavo Naveira and Olga Besio, Tete and Maria, Juan Bruno, and Antonio Todaro. She has performed with the finest dancers of her generation, and given workshops across the U.S. Students everywhere seek Rebecca's clear instruction on improvisation, technique, adornments, and musicality. For four years Rebecca taught and translated for Stanford University's Tango Week. In 1998 she taught at the Montreal Festival and for several weeks in Istanbul, Turkey. She has produced half a dozen popular instructional videos, available through Bridge to the Tango.
Rebecca is a co-founder and artistic director of TangoMujer, an all-women dance company which performed at Symphony Space and Town Hall in New York, and at the Podewil Theatre in Berlin in 1998. In 1999, TangoMujer received a National Dance Production grant from New England Foundation for the Arts, which sent the company on tour to seven cities in the 2000-2001 season. In 2003 TangoMujer performed at Jacob’s Pillow, Denver Tango Festival, Queens Theater in the Park, and University of Maryland. In May 2005 they took their show to the Tanzhaus in Dusseldorf, and in 2006 they were a part of Leading Ladies of Tango. (visit www.tangomujer.org)
In January 2002, Rebecca cohosted Bridge to the Tango's visit to Havana, Cuba, teaching tango to Cubans as part of a cultural exchange. In March she danced at the grand opening of the spring season of the Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany. That summer Rebecca was honored for 11 years of contribution to tango in the U.S. In February 2003 she performed in "Swango: the Fusion" and in "Avantango" at Town Hall. In 2004 she gave workshops in Seattle, Portland, Baltimore and Northampton. In 2006 Jaimes Friedgen and Rebecca started the tango scene in Bombay. 2007 saw her teaching at festivals in Denver, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, and St. Louis.
More than a dozen of New York's current tango teachers are Rebecca's former students. Her dance partners after Daniel have included Omar Vega, Metin Yazir, Constantin Rueger, and Evan Griffiths. Every Monday night she hosts and dj's the largest milonga in New York, Luna, which has been running at Dance Manhattan for over twelve years.
This Friday come cheer for the delightful Ana Padron and Diego Blanco (New York/Argentina)!
*** all classes included with admission.
8.30pm upper level class with Ana and Diego
8.30pm intermediates with Jennifer
8.30pm beginners with Paul
Midnight performance
DJ Tine
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 couples 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.
