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This week come cheer for London's first performance in NYC! London will be dancing with the elegant Katherine Gorsuch.
8.30pm classes included with admission:
Upper level with Katherine
Intermediates with Jennifer
Beginners with Paul
Midnight performance with London and Katherine
DJ Tine
About our guest artists...
London Hong is surely one of New York's most avid social dancers. He has studied with Orlando Reyes, Maria Elena Ybarra, Robin Thomas, Oliver Kolker and Thomas Howlin. With a little help from his training in martial arts, London aims for elegance and precision in his dance, and looks for the intersection between musicality and connection with his partner. London performed recently with the Dodo Orchestra, and with Katherine Gorsuch at the Yale Tango Club milonga. Look out for this young talent coming to a milonga near you!
Katherine Gorsuch's hybrid expression of movement is derived from the many dance influences in her life. She received her formal dance training at Ballet Hispanico, where she was a member of the Jr. Ensemble. At 18, she began dancing tango in New York City. She initially partnered with Robin Thomas and has most recently worked and performed with Felipe Martinez, Adam Hoopengardner, and Oliver Kolker. Katherine has taught across the US, and in Europe. 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.
This week Lounge welcomes MOMO SMITT from Portland OR. Momo will teach the upper level class on Musicality and perform around midnight with Tine. Seriously.
Midnightish performance by Momo and Tine
DJ Tine
Classes 8.30pm included with admission:
Upper level with Momo Smitt on Musicality
Intermediate with Jennifer
Beginners with Paul
More about Momo....
Momo Smitt started teaching argentine tango through the tango club at Southern Oregon University in January of 2010 - since then he has traveled to over 40 festivals studying, teaching, DJing and rapping about tango. In February of 2011, he released his first concept album (and 9th overall) titled "Tango World" a 17 track tribute to his love for the dance. As a teacher and social dancer, he focuses on connection and musicality. His newest project is co-organizing "Connect 2012" a tango festival where every workshop is focused on connection or musicality. The fest falls on thanksgiving weekend where Momo will be teaching along with Felipe Martinez and Jenna Rohrbacher. For more information visit www.ashlandtangofestival.com
This week at Tango Lounge, join Mong-Lan from Buenos Aires (performing with Stefan from NY) and guest DJ Ramu Pyreddy from DC.
8.30pm classes included with admission:
Beginners with Paul
Intermediate with Jennifer
Upper level with Mong-Lan: "The Secrets of the Tango: Revealed": In my class,we will be working fundamentals such as the tango walk, the ocho, the giro, the voleo; then build up with more complex steps and patterns, in the process, giving you an intelligent way of dancing, understanding and being creative with the tango. Furthermore, we will work on musicality, understanding tango music. The tango above all is a surrender, to the music, to your partner. How do we surrender ourselves, offer ourselves to our partners, surrender ourselves to the music? At the end of the class, you will understand more of the secrets of the tango.
More about our guest artists:
MONG-LAN dances and sings the tango, and puts her heart in each line. Dynamic tango dancer, singer, poet and visual artist visiting from Buenos Aires, Mong-Lan brings 17 years of tango experience, having performed and taught in Argentina, Italy, Thailand, Japan and the U.S. She holds an MFA from the U of Arizona, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford Univ. Visit: www.monglan.com/tango
Check out her new tango video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aeuPnpzmuU
STEFAN has been dancing tango since 1997, and has performed on many stages, to include with the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, the Bajofondo Tango band, & at Festivals sponsored by the Argentine Embassy & the United Nations. Website: www.mundi.com/tango
Ramu Pyreddy is one of the most knowledgeable and sought after tango DJ's in North America and is a featured DJ at most tango festivals in the US. His teaching and dancing are characterized by keen musical interpretation, infectious enthusiasm and a deep love of the music and the dance that is fanatic. Ramu Pyreddy was the founder of the Argentine Tango Club at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - a community well known for excellent social dancing skills, and exciting festivals and events.
This week Lounge welcomes new NYC arrival Yaisuri Salamanca and our favorite Brazilian Daniel Raphael!
8.30pm classes included with milonga admission:
Upper level with Yaisuri and Daniel
Intermediates with Jennifer W
Beginners with Paul
DJ Tine
Performance about midnight with Daniel and Yaisuri
More about our stars:
Yaisuri Salamanca is a dancer whose technique captures two dances that characterize Latin music: tango and salsa. She went from world champion in salsa at 2004 to third place in the Argentinian tango world championship at Buenos Aires in 2008. Yaisuri trained in Argentine rhythms at Buenos Aires under masters like Aurora Lubiz, Olga Besio, Guillermina Quiroga, among others. Furthermore, she has training in classical ballet, salsa and traditional folk dances of Colombia. Those styles enrich her tango training, and performing repertory.
Yaisuri, a Colombian dancer, has been a Principal Dancer for the Tango Vivo and Sonde Luz dance companies. She performed in the Argentina Tango championships in both 2007 and 2008, reaching the five top places in both occasions. She also performed in Chicago for the Salsa Festival in 2002 and in Zürich and Puerto Rico for World Salsa Congress 2004. Among her other accomplishments, she was awarded with the first place at the Official National World Tango Championships in Colombia in 2007, and an official distinction for National and International Achievements by the Medellin City Council in Columbia in 2009.
Yaisuri is passionate about teaching, and was until she moved to NYC a staff dancer for Argentine Tango at the Midnight Tango Company in England. She has also been an instructor in Argentine Tango, Salsa and Latin rhythms at Tango Vivo Dance School in Colombia, as well as being a dance workshop instructor all over the world including Rio de Janeiro (2011), Miami (2011), Harvard University (2010) Tango Society of Boston (2010), New York (2009) and in Argentina (2008).
Yaisuri is also currently studying for a Bachelor of Science in Communication Technology in New York, where she also has her own line of Tango Shoes.
Daniel Raphael has been working as a professional dancer and instructor for more than 12 years, training individuals, teaching groups, and conducting workshops in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and in New York City at DanceSport. He has performed many different dance styles for television and stage that include Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary Dance, Flamenco, Latin rhythms, Brazilian dances and Tango, his specialty.
He has spent the last few years meticulously researching a process regarding the teaching of Tango and the preparation of new dance professionals, developing a personal teaching method based on strong body awareness and concepts and techniques from the fields of psychology and holistic therapies.
His teaching method is committed to the development of self-confidence and focuses on integral health regardless of age. This commitment is based on his own successful training in Ballet (Classic, Modern and Contemporary), Alexander Technique, Yoga, Bioenergetics Therapy, and Ayurvedic Massage.
Daniel’s vast experience allows him to embrace Tango's many aspects, from the old Canyengue style to the contemporary Tango Nuevo.
When Daniel is not travelling, he lives in Rio de Janeiro.
8.30pm classes included with admission:
