This week, Lounge is excited to present more fabulous New York talent.
Mariana Parma & Omar Lagos will teach the upper level class at 8.30pm and perform around midnight.
Special guest performers:
Ronen Khayat & Jennifer Wesnousky. Ronen is available for private lessons Friday and Saturday.
DJ Tine
More about our artists
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!
Omar Lagos is one of the most sensitive and stylish salon dancers in the New York tango scene. He is a sought-after leader and his partnership with Mariana Parma is a perfect match that makes both partners shine.
Ronen Khayat began his dance career with ballet and modern dance in his native Israel. After training for years in these styles of dance, as well as performing with several companies in Tel Aviv, San Francisco and New York, he discovered Tango, which has become his passion. In both Buenos Aires and New York, Ronen has studied Tango with today's greatest masters. Ronen has performed in such noted shows as Carnagie Hall's Tango Nuevo, Dream of Tango in the Byham Theatre in Pittsburg, Tangos Pour La Milongas with the noted Ensamble Romulolorrea at the Outremont in Montreal, at The Meany Hall Theatre in Seattle WA, and the New York Tango Festival. In 2003, he stared in Broadway choreographer Robert Royston's Swango which was performed in NYC's Swing 46, as well as The Hellen Hayes Theatre. Ronen currently lives and teaches in Israel.
Jennifer Wesnousky Born and raised in California, Jennifer Wesnousky trained in gymnastics, ballet and jazz throughout her childhood. When her pursuit of careers in Latin music and Spanish translation brought her to New York, she chanced upon Argentine tango. Enamored, she studied extensively with top tango masters at home and in Buenos Aires, where she traveled annually. As a performer, Jennifer has danced and taught at locations and events as diverse as cruise ships, Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing, Joan Lunden’s Camp Reveille, the New York Tango Festival, Latina Magazine’s Poet’s Den and in the upcoming film, “ParAmor.” She has also appeared in numerous stage productions. As a teacher at Paul Pellicoro’s Dancesport, Jennifer is passionate about taking her students to the next level. She has also been a guest instructor and performer in several of the United States and in Israel. Currently, she can be seen dancing in “Borges and Piazzolla Tango” at the Thalia Spanish Theatre in Sunnyside, Queens.
PS: Videos of tonight's performance:
