8.30pm Classes included with admission:
Intermediate and up with Daniel and Jennifer
Beginners with Paul
Performance around midnight
DJ/host Tine
DANIEL RAPHAEL
Daniel has been working as a professional dancer and instructor for more than fourteen years, training both individuals and groups and conducting workshops in Brazil, Europe and the United States. He has performed many different dance styles for television and stage including Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary Dance, Flamenco, Latin rhythms, Brazilian dances and Tango, his specialty. He has spent the last few years meticulously researching the process of teaching Tango and the training of new dance professionals. He has developed a personal teaching method based on strong body awareness and concepts and techniques from the fields of psychology and holistic therapies. His teaching method is committed to the development of self-confidence and focuses on integral health regardless of age. This commitment is based on his own successful training in Ballet (Classic, Modern and Contemporary), Alexander Technique, Yoga, Bioenergetics Therapy and Ayurvedic Massage. At the end of 2009, Daniel began incorporating modern techniques from the field of Somatic movement such as Feldenkrais and Topf Technique to continue his search for the most pleasant and healthy way of dancing. Daniel’s vast experience allows him to embrace Tango’s many aspects, from the old Canyengue style to the contemporary Tango Nuevo. After living in NY for three years, where he made a considerable impact with his expertise and progressive technique, Daniel joined the Midnight Tango show in the West End, London, which came to be one of the most successful musicals in the UK in 2012.
JENNIFER WESNOUSKY
Born and raised in California, Jennifer Wesnousky trained in gymnastics, ballet and jazz throughout her childhood, performing as a member of both the San Luis Jazz dancers and the Civic Ballet of San Luis Obispo. After graduating from U.C.L.A. and working and studying in Los Angeles, Spain and Argentina, her pursuit of careers in the international music industry/live entertainment promotions and Spanish translation brought her to New York, where, she chanced upon Argentine tango after a ten-year dance hiatus. Enamored, she studied extensively with top tango masters at home and in Buenos Aires, where she traveled annually. Her most influential instructors have included Diego Di Falco, Pablo Pugliese and Mariela Franganillo, with whom she choreographed a children’s tango project for the New York City Center. As a performer, Jennifer has danced at locations and events as diverse as Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing, Joan Lunden’s Camp Reveille, the New York Tango Festival, Latina Magazine’s Poet’s Den and in the independent film, “ParAmor.” She also appeared with the all-female tango ensemble,“Tango por Ellas,” at the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden and in numerous stage productions such as the renowned Turkish musical, “Hisseli Harikalar Kumpanyasi,” at the Beacon Theatre, Valeria Solomonoff’s “Tango por Ellos,” which won the Latin ACE Award 2010 for Best Choreography, and “Borges and Piazzolla Tango” at the Thalia Spanish Theater. Jennifer was also chosen by Madonna’s choreographer to perform at the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project which Madonna hosted at the Roseland Ballroom. As a teacher at Paul Pellicoro’s Dancesport, Jennifer is passionate about taking her students to the next level. She has also been a guest instructor and performer in several of the United States and in Israel. Most recently, Jennifer was able to combine her live entertainment industry and performance backgrounds to co-produce, direct, co-choreograph and perform in the original productions, “Mientras TANGO” and “MIENTRAS TANGO 2012” which, along with the renowned Octavio Brunetti Tango Quintet,” played to packed houses at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center.
