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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.
This week, Lounge welcomes Adam Cornett from Portland and Jenna Rohrbacher from Portland/NY. Adan will teach my favorite vals musicality class, and perform with Jenna around midnight.
Classes at 830 included with admission:
Vals Musicality Upper level with Adam
Intermediate with Jennifer Wesnousky
Beginners with Paul
More about our guest stars:
Adam started dancing tango in 2000 when some college classmates dragged him into a class that “needed more leaders.” Since that moment he was hooked on dance. Adam’s main influence was Alex Krebs who, in 2004, offered him to be his understudy. Taking advantage of this offer Adam studied under Alex directly for a year while assisting in all of Alex’s classes. Adam now teaches in Portland and has focused his dance on musicality, connection, and opening the door for playful opportunities.
To Jenna Rohrbacher, dancing tango is an ongoing search for the complete. Balanced by complexity in movement and purity of sensation, her elegant dance embodies the traditional roles of Argentine tango and beyond. In teaching, Jenna encourages students to discover their individual connections to the music as well as focus on laying a foundation of solid technique upon which they can build their dance. Jenna has taught and performed for the last three years around the U.S. with several acclaimed dancers, including Alex Krebs, Robin Thomas, and Dominic Bridge, and has also performed in Europe and Buenos Aires. In September 2010, Jenna wrote, produced, and directed Tango Éxtasis! for the Miracle Theater’s La Luna Nueva festival in Portland; the following month, she taught and performed at Portland Tango Fest. Jenna is currently in New York teaching classes with Robin Thomas and private lessons.
This week, our guest artists are Maximiliano Gluzman (BsAs) and Vanja Modzelewski (NYC)!
Aga and Batt are bringing you a FASHION SHOW of tango apparel, don't miss it! Beautiful skirts and tops. Come ready to shop
Performance and fashion show between 11.30 and midnight.
8.30pm classes, all included with admission, different levels so you can learn with people of your level:
Upper level with Maxi and Vanja, topic: A Fun Easy Move You Can't Live Without!
Intermediate with Jennifer Wesnousky
Beginners with Paul Pellicoro
DJ Tine
THE GIFT OF DANCE FASHION SHOW
Exquisite tango apparel designed to make you feel exceptional on the dance floor will be presented by
Amanda Archuleta - Michael Nadtochi,
Gayle Madeira-Tioma Maloratsky,
Vanja Modzelewski & Maxi Gluzman,
Tine Herreman, Aga Mroz & Swagatam Mukhopadhyay
during a mini Fashion Show at Tango Lounge tonight!
See the online store here: The Gift of Dance
The skirts and tops will be available to try on and purchase.
More about our guest artists:
Maximiliano Gluzman is a porteño dancer who proudly continues the tradition of his home town's social dance.
He learned his first tangos when he was a child, bought his first tango record when he was fourteen, and began to pursue the dance when he was twenty one.
His tango, one of personal identity, inherits the inventiveness of the Buenos Aires tradition and was acquired through years of working with world known instructors, as well as through researching the social tango of the old masters. His subtle firm lead is the result of both practice and countless nights of dancing in Buenos Aires. And through his unique, flowing musicality he has found an endless vehicle for creativity and expression.
Maxi's professional life in tango is divided into two main areas: researching the dance of the old generation milongueros and teaching. Precisely, his teaching is about sharing the magic of the porteno dance with the rest of the world: its technique, its culture, and its mystery. A magic that, as difficult as it is to conceptualize, he has been able to transmit to his students from many countries.
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).
This Friday January 4 we welcome Damian Lobato and Rebecca Shulman.
Upper level class at 8.30 with Damian and Rebecca
Intermediates with Jennifer
Beginners with Paul
All classes included with admission!
Performance by Damian and Rebecca sometime between 11.30 and midnight.
DJ Tine
More about our guest artists:
Damian Lobato started dancing in 1991 with renowned milonguero masters, including "El Pibe Palermo", (the former partner of Carmencita Calderon). After 8 years of dancing this style, he started training with Gustavo Naveira and Mariano "Chicho" Frumboli, and began teaching tango in different cities around Argentina until 2002. In 2003, 2004, and 2005 he was invited to tour Central America and Europe. In 2006, he assisted Fabian Salas in CITA, the annual tango convention in Buenos Aires. Since May 2006, he has been teaching extensively in Europe in such places as Scotland, England, Holland, Italy, Spain and in 20 cities in the USA.
Damian's dance is characterized by a masterful combination of nuevo tango elements with traditional tango aesthetics. Seamless transitions between the various elements and a keen sense of musicality are emphasized in his dance and are applied in his teaching, training, and dancing.
For more information about Damian, please see http://damianlobato.blogspot.com/
Rebecca Shulman
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.
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 NYC's longest-running milonga, Luna Tango Salon and Practica, which was started at Dance Manhattan over 15 years ago.
This week our special guests are the popular Adriana Salgado and Orlando Reyes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krh673zL9Jk
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 in New York City; Adriana is based at Stepping Out and Orlando is at DanceSport.
On Friday Dec 14, come cheer for fresh talent: Luis from NY will perform with Iliana from Bard, sometime between 1130 and midnight.
This is the first time Luis and Iliana perform together, and at the same time it will be the last one before Luis leaves town for an extended trip. So be there to support them :)
8.30pm classes:
Intermediates with Jennifer
Beginners with Paul
DJ Tine
More about our guest artists:
Iliana Maifeld-Carucci is a dance major at Bard College, where she has been lucky to study in numerous styles of dance, making her very versatile with a great basis of technique and knowledge of the body. Through the Bard Dance Program she studies Ballet, Modern, and Flamenco. Outside of her studies, she intensively studies Argentine Tango. A dancer since she was little, she started Argentine Tango on a whim in 2010 and has been hooked ever since. She hopes to continue with a more in depth exploration of Argentine Tango abroad after she graduates in May 2013.
Since 2009 Luis Carpi has become dedicated to pursuing tango. He discovered tango at The University of North Texas where he learned from the local teachers George and Jairelbhi Furlong. After discovering the power of connection and energy, He devoted all of his time to understand this connection and his connection with himself. He started tango with no background in dancing or athleticism. However, thanks to personal training, diligent tango exercises, and soccer, he has come to perform in Texas and have taught workshops in California. I now live in New York and continue to train when and where he can.
Luis Carpi Luiscarpi1989@gmail.com 201-920-9492
