Tonight, a special class and performance by Cesar Velasquez and Jenny Nolan from Argentina/UK!
8.30pm classes included with admission:
upper level with guest teachers Cesar and Jenny
intermediate with Jennifer Wesnousky
beginners with Paul Pellicoro
midnight performance Jenny and Cesar
DJ Tine
more about our stars:
Cesar Velasquez started learning tango in 1992 and he has been teaching tango for 12 years. He has been teaching and performing tango with his partner Carolina Gonzalez around the UK for the last ten years and they are regularly invited to teach and perform in Grece, Germany, UK, Switzerland, Holand, USA, France, Kenya and Sudan. They have organised and directed London International Tango Festivals Tango Extravaganza UK since 2007 and Tango Apasionado 2010. Additionally, Cesar has worked extensively as a dancer and choreographer in acclaied theater productions in the UK and Latin Aerica, as well as for the BBC. Some of Cesar's teachers in Argentina include Tango stars as Gustavo Naveira, Roberto Herrera, Raul Bravo and Mingo Pugliese, Natalia & Gabriel Angio, amongst others.
Jenny Nolan (Sayer) has been dancing since she was 4 years old. In 2004 she swapped her pointe shoes for tango shoes and began her tango journey. She has made frequent trips to Buenos Aires to train with Chicho and Juana, Sebastian Arce, Gustavo Naveira and Eugenia Parilla.
She has given regular workshops and performances across the UK, Europe and Buenos Aires including performances with Tanghetto and The Tiger Lillies. In 2005, she received her masters, with honors, from the Performance Studies program at CSSD in London.
Jenny then received funding from Chisenhale Dance Space to create a piece that fused tango with performance art. She performed this work across the UK, as well as in Montenegro and Belgrade.In 2008 she choreographed and performed a Tango for the BBC which advertised the Film 4 Argentinean Film festival.
