Join us Friday with DJ Hiba from London (first time heard in New York), and the popular Dominic and Jenna from Portland.
Are they sizzling hot or are they super cool? Come decide for yourself!
8.30 upper level class with Dominic and Jenna, included with admission.
Midnight performance
DJ Hiba
More about our artists:
Dominic Bridge & Jenna Rohrbacher (Portland, OR)
To Jenna Rohrbacher, dancing tango is an ongoing search for the complete. Balanced by complexity in movement and purity of sensation, her strong, 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.
In the last three years, Jenna has taught and performed around the U.S. with Joe Leonardo, Alex Krebs, Felipe Martinez, and Dominic Bridge. In the summer of 2008, Jenna taught at the Tango Mango Festival in Devonshire, England with Portland's own Rebecca Smith. In February 2009, she performed with Alex Krebs at the Maui TangoFest, and in the summer of 2009, she performed with Dominic Bridge at Chicago Tango Week as well as in Florence, Italy.
In four years Dominic Bridge became one of the top young tango professionals in the world. In this time, he has performed up and down the west and east coasts, Chicago Tango Week ’09, Italy, and Buenos Aires, as well as in his hometown of Portland, Oregon. Dominic has spent the last year building a tango school and teaching full time in Florence, Italy. When his weekends were free, he took trips around Europe, spending a significant amount of time in Paris, Rennes, Berlin, Bäsel, Siracusa, and Catania. Dominic views tango in the same way he views any language: there are clear structure, grammar, and rules, all of which can be broken when understood. He knows these things form a foundation necessary in communicating in one’s own way. His effectiveness as a teacher grows from his deep understanding of movement and his ability to clearly communicate.
Hiba Faisal (London)
Based in London, Hiba Faisal runs the tango school Tango-Fever with her partner Rene Hellemons, and they are resident teachers at one of London’s leading Milongas Zero Hour at The Dome. Hiba and Rene are one of very few European couples to be invited to teach in Buenos Aires at the famous ‘DNI’ school in 2009 and they regularly teach in European festivals and weekenders.
Hiba's DJing is fresh and light and delightful. She will keep a smile on your face and in your heart, all night long.
