Tango Lounge Milonguero Edition
$12 / $10 student, includes classes at 8.30
DanceSport, 22 West 34th Street, 4th floor, New York.
Tonight, performances with
Maria Olivera & Gustavo Benzecry Saba
Susana Miller & Johnny Tablada
Class by Jennifer Wesnousky (intermediate) and Paul Pellicoro (beginners)
Tango Lounge this week is part of the
NYC Milonguero Weekend
Friday-Sunday April 27-29 2012 in New York City
Our world-renowned guest artists from Buenos Aires are unparallelled in knowledge, experience and entertainment:
Susana Miller
Gustavo Benzecry Saba & Maria Olivera
Oscar Casas & Ana Miguel
Workshops in tango, milonga and vals for pre-intermediate to advanced tangueros, plus two great milongas with performances. A fun, relaxed weekend for dancing, sharing, making new friends and embracing old ones. All in celebration of the Milonguero style.
Registration is open, and rolling nicely. Space is limited and classes will be small.
A full pass (6 classes + 2 milongas) is yours for $170; a half pass $110 (online).
Per-class classes available now $36 online.
Couples discount.
Don't have a partner (yet)? Register now so we can balance each class and make sure everybody is partnered up.
You don't need a partner but if you prefer to team up, you can find one like this:
We reserve the right to limit walk-ins depending on class size and gender balance.
We will rotate (optional for couples).
Request a private lesson here: http://www.
Tango Lounge Milonguero Edition!
Friday April 27 DanceSport 22 W 34th St. With full bar
with performance by Gustavo & Maria, Susana & Johnny, and DJ Tine Herreman
Otra Milonga Milonguero Edition!
Saturday April 28 at the Basic Ballroom 335 W 36th St, 5th floor. BYOB ok
with performance by Oscar & Ana and DJ Yesim la Turca .
All workshops will be at Stepping Out Studios and Chelsea Studios on West 26th Street (1 block between the two locations).
Who is coming?
See on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/
The NYC Milonguero Weekend is hosted by the dynamic duo of Tine Herreman and Sarah La Rocca. We are very excited !
More about our stars...
Susana Miller
Susana Miller is the most prominent teacher in the world of the “milonguero” style of tango or what Argentines call “apilado”. This style is danced in the crowded clubs of central Buenos Aires. It is strictly a social style that emphasizes musicality and the connection between partners. Susana has researched and studied the dancing of the older milongueros, each of whom has created their unique style of tango. She has been able to decipher their distinct vocablularies and choreographic combinations, and is gifted in her ability to convey these to students.
Susana encourages students to employ more rhythm in their dance, to discover their own dance vocabularies, and to learn how to shape and shrink these in space. For women, she encourages active following, in which the woman interprets the messages that the leader's body and the spirit are sending. Clarin, the major Buenos Aires daily paper, called her one of the four most important influences on contemporary tango, along with Miguel Angel Zotto, Gustavo Naveira and Gerardo Portalea.
Susana is a native of Buenos Aires and has been dancing and teaching tango since the late 1980s revival of social tango. She founded and operates her own tango academy in Buenos Aires, and is the owner of one of Buenos Aires'most popular tango club, El Beso. She has made annual teaching tours to the United States and Europe since 1994. She will facilitate students' improvement of posture, axis, grounding, breathing, balance and sensitivity to the lead and follow roles. She aims to encourage dancers to develop their own unique improvisational styles through knowledge of the music, space and body. Her classes will emphasize step quality and rhythm. Rather than predetermined patterns, she will impart a choreographic vocabulary that allows dancers to creatively shape their own language.
Maria Olivera & Gustavo Benzecry Sabá
Gustavo Benzecry Sabá was born in Buenos Aires and raised in Palermo area. He came to Tango at the end of the 1990’s. His experience as a teacher in other fields allowed him to trespass the limits of showing “movements” to place himself as a reference of Tango dance not only as a physical activity but moreover as a philosophy.
He teaches regular classes at Salón Canning and Workshops in several milongas of Buenos Aires, as well as Workshops and lectures in the US and Europe, where he takes part of international tango meetings and Festivals.
As a dancer, Gustavo stands out for his agility and most of all for his endless creativity, which he bases in the ability of dominating the techniques and exploring the possibilities he’s being offered through the embrace and the release of the emotions.
Maria Olivera was born in Buenos Aires and raised in San Telmo, within a family of “tangueros”. When she was in her twenties she felt inspired by her deep love for the music and the poetry of her childhood and decided to start dancing it. She first studied with Gustavo, and soon after she became his assistant in class and later on his partner. Her method combines the passion and love for the dance with a deep knowledge about anatomy and kinetics that she acquired from other disciplines such us yoga, stretching and Pilates. Maria regularly teaches at Salón Canning and leads Workshops in other milongas and dance studios of the city. She also tours the world being part of Seminars, Festivals and performances.
Her hallmark as a dancer is the Speedy and expressiveness of her feet, which she combines with the elegance of her walking and posture.
