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This week, we celebrate our community's talent with NYC favorites Mariana Parma, Hernan Brizuela, and DJ Johnny Tablada.
8.30pm classes included with admission:
upper level with Mariana and Hernan
intermediates with Victoria
beginners with Paul
Performance at midnight
Johnny Tablada spins the tunes and will be your host.
Tine is out of town, back next week :)
Hernan Brizuela, born in Mendoza, Argentina and now based in New York, was drawn to tango from his early years. The musical form and lyrics, the nostalgic aspect, the dance. His teachers were Luis Canan, Cesar Cohello, Rodolfo Dinsel, Carlos Peres, Francisco Forquera, Jorge Torres, Eduardo Parejas, Carlos Magaleta (acting and theater), Ines Kallab (actuation and theater).
Hernan teaches regularly in NYC and at Dance Union in Boston MA. He is regularly featured at milongas and festivals around the Northeast.
Mariana Parma is an instructor, choreographer and performer and has a B.A. in dance from Rutgers University. She has been featured in motion pictures, national commercials and has worked with Broadway choreographers for musical and film productions. She specializes in Latin dancing: Salsa, Mambo, Tango, and Latin American Folk.
Her achievements have included:
-Principal dancer and supervising choreographer in "Todo Tango" at the Thalia Theatre in Queens, NY, in 2001.
-Produced and performed in the off-Broadway dance show Swango the Fusion
-Worked with Hinton Battle, 3 time Tony Award winner, in the musical workshop, The Bronx Casket Company.
-Featured dancer and co-choreographer of the Tango Show at the Thalia Theatre in Queeens
-Featured dancer in the national tour of SWING the Musical from Dec '05 through Jan '06.
She can be seen around the world performing Salsa and Tango.
In 2009, Mariana and her partner Omar Lagos danced at the World Tango Championships in Buenos Aires (salon style), and made New York look great in the semifinals!
http://www.marianaparma.com
Johnny Tablada makes his Tango Lounge debut this week as DJ, and will be your host in Tine's absence. Bringing with him an unrivaled, innate musicality rivaled only by the old milongueros themselves, Johnny loves to cater to the dancers, paying close attention to their moods. Making use of his vast collection of music, he pulls out the most eloquent sequences to create tandas which make dancers' hearts resonate with joy and enthusiasm. As a dancer, Johnny won the 2010 NYC championships, and has performed with Susana Miller and Monica Paz.
This week prepare to be wowed by the Amazing Hugo Mastrolorenzo (BsAs) & Angeles Chanaha (BsAs/NY)!
8.30pm Classes included with admission:
Upper level with Hugo and Angeles
Intermediates
Beginners with Paul
Mind-boggling performance sometime between 11.30 and midnight
DJ/Host Tine
About our guest artists:
Dancer, teacher and choreographer Hugo Matrolorenzo has taught and performed in the Far East, North America and Europe. In Buenos Aires, Hugo danced in the most prestigious theatrrs and won prizes as dancer and choreography in national competitions. He won 3 American championships and placed in the top five of the world championships in the last two years.
Hugo's solid and versatile training have allowed him to take a creative leadership role, and he has developed a teaching method and a choreographic annotation system based on his research into the history and technique of the dance.
His first book "In Search of the Method that Never Was" (a controversial essay on the contradictions in teaching methods) was hailed by the media as one of the most incisive contributions to the genre. It has been translated in English and Japanese. His second book "Tango Dance, the Origin of the Species" (about the origins of tango) is best described as an "ambitious work of research and reflection which achieves a much more credible genealogy than other authors have done before".
Hugo's choreographies, which combine elements with imagination and a sense of the dramatic, have also captured high praise in the press, which cites him as a choreographer with a deep understanding of the tango, in which the coherence of the fusion is unexpectedly brilliant.
Angeles Chanaha was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She started dancing at the age of 5 and throughout her career she has studied a variety of dance styles (Argentine Tango, Folklore, Rock’n’Roll, Ballet, Modern).
Growing up in the heart of real Tango world, she has practiced one particular style - Argentine Tango - to it’s perfection. As a result she has performed with two of the most famous Tango dancers in the world: Miguel Angel Zotto - creator of “Tango X Dos”- and Carlos Gavito -Tony Award Winner from a Broadway hit “Forever Tango”.
Angeles also performed on stage with the renowned singer Julio Iglesias, she has been featured on national TV (channel 11, channel 13), in international films, commercials, and fashion magazines, all related to tango.
From 1998 she was involved in every “Buenos Aires International Tango Festival”, the world’s largest annual event which attracts the best Tango dancers. She has also performed in multiple shows in Latin and South America (including the most prestigious show in Argentina “Senor Tango”) as well as toured around United States. Among other tango orchestras, Angeles has danced for “Los Cosos de al Lao” at the famous “Cafe Tortoni” in the city of Buenos Aires.
In 2003 Angeles created and choreographed the tango show “Tango en los Andes” for “Che Tango Company”, which had a huge success in Mendoza, Argentina.
As a one a kind dancer, Angeles expresses sensuality and elegance, as well as represents woman’s character in Tango.
This Friday come cheer for the delightful Ana Padron and Diego Blanco (New York/Argentina)!
*** all classes included with admission.
8.30pm intermediates and upper level class with Ana and Diego
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.
Tango 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 discipline from which they tap inspiration for their movements. 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.
