Lounge Jan 21: Carlos Paredes & Diana Giraldo

Friends, join us at Tango Lounge this Friday for a jaw-dropping performance by the dazzling and highly entertaining Carlos and Diana from Colombia!

Upper level class by Carlos ad Diana 8.30pm, included with admission.

Classes for intermediate by Jennifer and for total beginners by Paul, also at 8.30. Something for everybody!

DJ Tine

ABOUT CARLOS & DIANA

YOUTUBE

Carlos and Diana have been dance partners for more than 8 years. Their dance background includes diverse disciplines ranging from Ballet to Salsa to professional Breakdance.

Among the maestros that have influences their Tango dance, they count Miguel Angel Zotto, Aurora Lúbiz, Luís Grondona and Mirta Sol.

They are the organizers of several national tango festivals in Colombia, and have been featured performers in numerous stage shows and tours with such distinguished orchestras as Los Reyes del Tango, Sexteto Mayor, Color Tango, and La Tubatango.

In 2006, they were champions in the Stage Category at the Campionato Mundial de Tango in Bueno Aires.

New Year's Eve at Tango Lounge!

Join us for a great night of tango and a midnight toast to 2011!

Tango Lounge presents: New Year's Eve at the Lounge!

10pm Dec 31 - Last (wo)man standing Jan 1.

DJ Tine

Traditional floor and alternative room.

Watch the ball drop and lift your champagne glass for a toast at midnight. Other than that, uninterrupted dancing all night.

$25 per person (includes champagne)

Cash bar, fine wines, interesting drinks

Tapas and delicious food available

Happy New Year!

Tine

host/DJ

Christmas Eve Dec 24: Lounge closed!

Merry Christmas!

Thank you for your support this year. Please join us for New Year's Eve!

Tine

Host

Dec 10: Marika Landry and Mauro Peralta!

This week at Lounge study with Mauro Peralta (BsAs) and Marika Landry (Montreal), and be blown away by their performance!

8.30pm Class with Marika and Mauro, included with admission

Midnight performance

DJ Tine

More about our stars...

Marika Landry & Mauro Peralta are one of the newest couples on the North American scene. They are instructors at the Gotan dance school in Montréal and have been featured performers with notable orchestras such as Ensemble Montréal Tango.

Marika Landry was drawn to dance at an early age, studying jazz, modern and classical techniques. Marika Landry has 24 years of dancing experience, committing in the last eleven years to the argentine tango. In 1998 she finished her studies in modern dance in the Dance School of Quebec and decided to dedicate herself to the Argentine tango. In 2001 she went to Mexico City to teach and dance with Gregorio Garrido. Back to Montreal in 2003, after a two years tour round North America, she gave lessons on Argentine tango in said City, involving herself in the opening of the school Tango Fabrika with Bulent Karabagli.

Since 2004, she is internationally recognized due to her capacity as dancer, teacher and her technique Workshops for the women all round North America and Europe. In 2006, she met Robin Thomas. With him she participated in several festivals in the United States. In 2008 she opened her own dance company under the name Karima Tango. On the same year she participated in the first project of tango therapy in Canada, together with psychologist France Potvin. Embracing now a new turn in her career, since March 2009 she began a new promising project together with Mauro Peralta.

Mauro Peralta committed to argentine tango in 1998, in Buenos Aires. He trained hard with several teachers and at the same time trained in modern dance, classical dance, jazz, yoga and gym. He has taught extensively

and performed to great acclaim in Argentina and abroad.

After years of travelling around Europe and the United States, Marika Landry and Mauro Peralta decided to form a dancing couple and join the dance school Montreal Gotan. They aim for connection and creativity, teaching an updated classical Tango, and giving their students the elements to achieve a personal style.

Marika and Mauro help their students develop strong communication in their dance. Dancers learn to become comfortable in the surrounding space and with their dance partner, while using a strong earth connection and fluid movement. Using keen physical awareness, students work on their body control, achieving new dynamics in their movements without losing the sensuality of Tango. They have stage experience as both choreographers and dancers through their work in the companies Karima Tango and Ensemble Montreal Tango. Since March 2009, they have traveled together in Europe for the first Tango Festival in Nice, and they have participated at the second International Tango Congreso in Toronto and at the first Tango Festival of Québec City.

Fri Dec 3: Damian Thompson & Aga Mroz

This week at the Tango Lounge:

Damian Thompson (Australia) & Aga Mroz (NYC)

Upper level class 8.30, included with admission

by Damian Thompson

Performance around midnight.

Resident DJ Tine will play this week.

More about our guest stars:

Damian lives, dances and teaches in Australia, and is travelling around the US and Canada. He focuses on technique to foster greater connection and freedom for both leaders and followers. He was a big hit last time so he's back!

Read Damian's teaching blog at http://tangotechnique.blogspot.com/

and watch him dance here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtC274rrGSk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-_4K8oQSaU

Aga Mroz lives and dances in NYC. Her understated elegance will charm your socks off! Tonight is her debut with Damian.

Nov 26: Dominic Bridge and Katherine Gorsuch

Join Dominic, Kat and DJ Tine at Lounge this week!

Dominic Bridge (Portland OR and Italy) will teach the upper level class at 8.30pm, and perform at midnight with Katherine Gorsuch (NYC)

More about our stars...

In four years Dominic Bridge became one of the top young tango professionals in the world. In this time, he has performed up and down the west and east coasts, Chicago Tango Week ’09, Italy, and Buenos Aires, as well as in his hometown of Portland, Oregon. Dominic has spent the last year building a tango school and teaching full time in Florence, Italy. When his weekends were free, he took trips around Europe, spending a significant amount of time in Paris, Rennes, Berlin, Bäsel, Siracusa, and Catania. Dominic views tango in the same way he views any language: there are clear structure, grammar, and rules, all of which can be broken when understood. He knows these things form a foundation necessary in communicating in one’s own way. His effectiveness as a teacher grows from his deep understanding of movement and his ability to clearly communicate.

Katherine Gorsuch's hybrid expression of tango is derived from the many dance influences in her life.

Her interest began as a child, exploring various dance forms; ballet, modern dance, and flamenco. At 18, she began dancing tango in New York City. In the last year, she was partnering Robin Thomas, and has also worked with: Adam Hoopengardner, Felipe Martinez, Henry Finkelstein, and Jay Abling.

Katherine has taught at festivals in the US and in Europe and has spent the last few months teaching in Berlin. She is also one of the founding members and organizers of the Hunter College Tango Club, established in 2006. Dancing in Europe, Buenos Aires, and across the United States has contributed to Katherine's inspirational musicality and connection. She brings a youthful energy and sweet madness to the dance floor.

Nov 19: Nigel Smith and Katherine Gorsuch

This week join Nigel and Kat for a great class at 8.30pm and midnight performance!

DJ Tine

More about our stars:

Nigel Smith

Nigel was born in Montreal, grew up in Canada and the US, and lives in Paris, where he dances, teaches, DJs and sings opera. He has taught tango all over Europe, as well as in Egypt, China and Australia.

Nigel says: " Tango is a language spoken all over the world, and each dance is as unique as each conversation you will ever have.

I treat the tango as a language when I dance, and when I teach. My goal is to help dancers express themselves in a personal way. I'll help you build a vocabulary, but learning new things to say is not even half of the work. In a conversation as in tango, what we say is a response to what our partner says, and vice versa. A good conversation is an two-way exchange of interesting, funny, pertinent and surprising interactions, and listening is as important as talking. The same goes in tango! So, along with steps, there's a lot of work on listening: to the music, to each other, even to ourselves."

Katherine Gorsuch's hybrid expression of tango is derived from the many dance influences in her life. Her interest began as a child, exploring various dance forms; ballet, modern dance, and flamenco. At 18, she began dancing tango in New York City. In the last year, she was partnering Robin Thomas, and has also worked with: Adam Hoopengardner, Felipe Martinez, Henry Finkelstein, and Jay Abling.

Katherine has taught at festivals in the US and in Europe and has spent the last few months teaching in Berlin. She is also one of the founding members and organizers of the Hunter College Tango Club, established in 2006. Dancing in Europe, Buenos Aires, and across the United States has contributed to Katherine's inspirational musicality and connection. She brings a youthful energy and sweet madness to the dance floor.