8.30pm upper level class with Brigitta Winkler
8.30pm intermediates with Jennifer
8.30pm beginners with Paul
Midnightish performance!
DJ Tine
More about our stars
Brigitta Winkler is a curious woman. She likes tradition and innovation and has been dancing tango for over 25 years. She currently divides her time between New York and Berlin. Her first stage appearance was in 1986 in Montreal's Tangoshow. She teaches at festivals in the USA, Germany, Italy, and Russia. In 1987 she opened Tanzart in Berlin, which then became Phynixtanzt, her school in Berlin. She studied intensively in the early 1980s in Buenos Aires with Eduardo Arquimbau and Antonio Todaro among others. Brigitta studied Authentic Movement and incorporates a four-year program of Body Mind Centering into her approach. She is also the co-founder of the internationally acclaimed, all woman dance company, Tangomujer. For more information about Brigitta, please visit her website
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.
Rebecca is a co-founder and artistic director of TangoMujer, an all-women dance company which performed at Symphony Space and Town Hall in New York, and at the Podewil Theatre in Berlin in 1998. In 1999, TangoMujer received a National Dance Production grant from New England Foundation for the Arts, which sent the company on tour to seven cities in the 2000-2001 season. In 2003 TangoMujer performed at Jacob’s Pillow, Denver Tango Festival, Queens Theater in the Park, and University of Maryland. In May 2005 they took their show to the Tanzhaus in Dusseldorf, and in 2006 they were a part of Leading Ladies of Tango. (visit www.tangomujer.org)
In January 2002, Rebecca cohosted Bridge to the Tango's visit to Havana, Cuba, teaching tango to Cubans as part of a cultural exchange. In March she danced at the grand opening of the spring season of the Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany. That summer Rebecca was honored for 11 years of contribution to tango in the U.S. In February 2003 she performed in "Swango: the Fusion" and in "Avantango" at Town Hall. In 2004 she gave workshops in Seattle, Portland, Baltimore and Northampton. In 2006 Jaimes Friedgen and Rebecca started the tango scene in Bombay. 2007 saw her teaching at festivals in Denver, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, and St. Louis.
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 the largest milonga in New York, Luna, which has been running at Dance Manhattan for over twelve years.
