Friday Jan 6: Carolina Jaurena and Santiago Steele, DJ Tine

Happy New Year! Best wishes for happiness, health, prosperity and great dancing in 2012!


Come get a good start on the first and last ones this Friday at Tango Lounge, where Carolina Jaurena and Santiago Steele will teach the upper level class at 8.30pm and perform at midnight.


Carolina and Santiago's class, as well as Jennifer's intermediate class and Paul's beginners class, are all included with admission.


Midnight performance


DJ Tine


More about our artists

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.

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.