This week help Tine celebrate her birthday! It's on the 23rd so it starts at midnight on Friday. There will be no big to-do. Just fun times with friendly people!
Special guests: Luna Palacios and Michael Nadtochi
Upper Level Class at 8.30pm, included with admission
Performance by Luna Palacios and Michael Nadtochi about midnight
DJ /host Tine
More about our stars:
Luna Palacios
Born in Buenos Aires, Luna Palacios is an authentic young milonguera, tango dancer, who learned tango from some of the most storied figures in Buenos Aires dance halls. But she started dancing tango almost by chance.
Until 2001, Luna was a salsa and swing dancer. She had won several salsa competitions in Buenos Aires and had danced all over the country. One day, her sister Verónica took her to a milonga, where, says Luna, she immediately fell in love: the dance, the music, the magic of that atmosphere was something she had never experienced, but it was the embrace that seduced her and won over her heart.
She soon became the favourite dancing partner of several great dancers: Lucas Galera, Oliver Kolker, “Flaco” Dany Garcia,Horacio Britos (aka: PIbe Avellaneda),Carlos Copello, Aoniken Quiroga, Paulo Bidart, Jorge Pahl , and Octavio Fernandez.
She has travelled extensively to teach and perfom in Argentina and overseas, and has performed at all the major milongas in Buenos Aires: Club Sunderland, Salon Canning, La Viruta, La Baldosa, Glorias Argentinas, El Arranque, and Porteno y Bailarin.
Michael Nadtochi
Michael started dancing at the age of ten in Moscow, Russia, and ever since dance was the main focus of his life.
By the age of eighteen as a successful performer/competitor in a global ballroom dance scene, he had won the title of Russian Youth Champion in 1994 and represented his country in a World Championship held in Slovenia.Throughout his career Michael received one-on-one coaching with European and World Champions Allan Tornsberg and Vibeke Toft to ensure the best possible training. Secrets of champions produced strong foundation for teaching students and dramatic competitive results.
Traveling all over Europe (France, Germany, England, Denmark, Norway and other countries) Michael earned international recognition and with his moving to U.S. in 1998 achieved even more success (awarded “Top U.S. National Dance Couple of the Year” in 2000).
Focusing on authentic Latin and South American rhythms, Michael studied Salsa with legendary Eddie Torres and Argentine Tango with the star of “Forever Tango” Broadway Show and Tony Award Winner Carlos Gavito, and at the same time he appeared in stage performances and National TV shows and commercials (Verizon TV commercial, American Express industrial film, “The Guiding Light” TV series, “Latin Fusion” off-Broadway show, “Fania All Stars” concert).
