25-27 november 3 spacial days of tango, newcastle

 

Friday 25: Class with Santiago & Sandra

Time: 19:30 - 20:30

From 20:30 and until late there will be milonga organised by Tango-on-tyne

Place: "The Boathouse", Ouseburn Regeneration Centre, Quayside,Newcastle Upon Tyne,NE6 1BU 

Price: £5 for class and milonga

 

 

Saturday 26: Milonga with performance by Santiago & Sandra

Time: 20:00 - 23:30

Place:  Dexters Grosvenor Dance Centre, Chillingham Road, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne,NE6 5LL (the Milonga is organised by Robin Cooper)

Price: £6

 

Sunday 27: Workshops with Santiago & Sandra

Themes:

Workshop I: THE ART OF SHARED IMPROVISATION…THE MOST TRADITIONAL TANGO SALON SEQUENCES

Elegant promenades (crossed system, traspié, change of direction), salidas (simples, crossed system, with decorations and ochos. Original variations).
Cadence, dynamics, musicality.
Guidelines and sequences for the improvisation.

 

Workshop II: MILONGA LISA, TRASPIE and VALS

Posture, rhythm. Walks (different possibilities), sequences of milonga lisa and milonga traspié (with ochos, voleos).
Walking style and «suspended» steps, the turn and different sequences for the vals

 

Time:

Workshop I: 12:00 - 13:30

Workshop II: 13:45 - 15:15

 

Place: Newcastle Companions Club

NOTE: If you are travelling by car allow yourself some extra time before the workshops start since there is often difficulty in finding parking on Sundays.

 

Price:

One workshop (any) £15

Two workshops (both) £25

 

Satiago's and Sandra's CVs

Santiago has been a part of the Buenos Aires professional tango scene for the past 15
years.
With a modern jazz and contemporary dance background, he studied tango with some of the
world's finest masters including Pepito Avellaneda, Raul Bravo, Pupi Castello, Jorge Dispari,
Nito and Elba and Carlitos Perez.
Santiago toured the world with some of Argentina's most famous shows such as Tango
Emoción (2004) directed by Mora Godoy, Tango x 2 (2005) directed by Miguel Angel Zotto,
Fernández Fierro Orchestra (2003), Francisco Canaro Orchestra (2005), Los Reyes del
Tango Orchestra (2008).
He also performed at the VIII International Festival Cultura Paiz in Guatemala (2004) and
toured the UK with the ArtLATino company's tango show Romance d'Carnaval (2006).
Between 2000 and 2010, he worked in the most significant dinner-show theatres in Buenos
Aires, including Señor Tango, La Ventana, Michelangelo, Taconeando, Café Tortoni,
Piazzolla, Esquina Homero Manzi and Madero Tango.
He also performed in musicals such as Por las calles de Madrid (Teatro Astral, Buenos
Aires) and Confesiones de Marilin (Centro Cultural San Martin, Buenos Aires).
He was part of the contemporary dance company El escote directed by the renewed
Argentinean choreographer Roxana Grinstein and performed in the modern jazz dance
company Danza Hoy, directed by the great dancer and master Adolfo Colque.
He was featured in a few TV programmes including Canal 26 Los grandes valores del tango
(2005) and BBC's Strictly Come Dancing (2006).
In 2010 he was a judge in the World Tango Championship, Argentina.

 

Sandra is an Italian professional tango dancer with extensive teaching experience in
Argentina and in Europe.
With an artistic gymnastic and ballet training background, she devoted hersfelf to the practice
of conditioning for dance and the study of pedagogy.
Sandra started her professional tango career in Buenos Aires at the beginning of the last
decade, after having studied with some of the world’s finest dancers such as Lorena
Ermocida, Gachi Fernandez, Alejandra Mantiñan, Milena Plebs, as well as Raul Bravo, Jorge
Dispari, Nito and Elba, Carlitos & Rosa Perez.
Throughout the years, she complemented her tango dance training with courses in
contemporary and jazz at the renowed dance institute Gurquel-Lederer in Buenos Aires.
Between 2006 and 2009 she ran the SantangoEstudio (Tango school, reharsal space and
B&B) in the heart of the tango neighbourhood Almagro.
Assistant Director (2008) in the prestigious dinner-show theatre Esquina Homero Manzi,
directed by the famous tango dancer and choreographer Gachi Fernandez, she kept on
performing in private events around Argentina.
She has toured around Europe with Santiago (England, France, Italy) to teach and perform
the most traditional style of tango salon, milonga traspié and vals, as well as the more
acrobatic and spectacular stage tango.

 

VIDEOS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWGRrxzGtyQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkj_j2SKbxE
BBC - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuDFLvpQ41g