2nd
New Orleans TangoFest
August
15 - 17, 2003
at
the DOUBLE TREE HOTEL
300
Canal Street
"Live From The Tango Belt"
A TANGO EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME
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2nd
New Orleans TangoFest at
the DOUBLE TREE HOTEL "Live From The Tango Belt" A TANGO EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME |
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GUILLERMINA QUIROGA |
ALBERTO CATALA |
ALBERTO PAZ |
ERIC LANOIX |
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fabulous beginners and challenging intermediate/advanced workshops |
three nights with the friendliest local and visiting dancers |
optional choices for dinners, shows and graduation showcase |
| Memorable moments on film
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| Photos courtesy of Anie Garaudy, Warren
Mc Croccklin, Adam Hoppengardner, Bob Diaz, Ulises Cervantes and Flash Gordo |
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10:45 am beginner 12 noon - LUNCH - 1:15 pm 1:30 pm beginner 2:45 pm beginner |
10:45 am intermediate 12 noon - LUNCH - 1:15 pm 1:30 pm intermediate 2:45 pm intermediate |
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9:30 pm - "Live From The Tango Belt" show and open dance |
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10:45 am beginner 12 noon - LUNCH - 1:15 pm 1:30 pm beginner 2:45 pm beginner |
10:45 am intermediate 12 noon - LUNCH - 1:15 pm 1:30 pm intermediate 2:45 pm intermediate |
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9 pm graduation showcase and open dance |
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GUILLERMINA QUIROGA and ALBERTO CATALA Guillermina Quiroga started as a ballet dancer and her professional career found her on stage as a performer in important works such as Carmina Burana, Coppelia, Principe Igor, Aida, Don Quijote and others. In 1988 she entered the world of the milongas in Buenos Aires becoming the partner of choice of the seasoned milongueros, particularly Puppy Castello. One year later she was awarded the coveted "Hugo del Carril" first place trophy in the first edition of the prestigious tango tournament sponsored by the municipality of Buenos Aires. Thus begun her professional career as a tango dancer. A career that earned her soloist and prima ballerina billing with the Julio Iglesias world tour, the orchestras of John Mauceri, Luis Bacalov, maestros Jose Colangelo, Mariano Mores, Beba Pugliese, Orlando Tripodi, Juan Jose Mosalini and Color Tango, and the critically acclaimed shows Tango x 2, Tango Argentino, Forever Tango and Malambo. More than fifty countries and on the most prestigious stages she has received the accolades of both critics |
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public for her exquisite, pristine and authentic performance of the Argentine
Tango dance: Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, Gershwin
Theater on Broadway, Town Hall in New York, Hollywood Bowl, Universal Studios
Amphitheater, Harvard University, Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, The Kremlin
in Moscow, Herodes Athicus at the Partenon in Athens, Luna Park, Teatros Opera,
Gran Rex, Metropolitan, Lola Membrives and San Martin in Buenos Aires.
She was recognized with a special mention at the Tony Awards for the best choreography, for Lo Que Vendra, the company grand finale of Forever Tango. She choreographed Libertango for the 1997 Ice skating World champions Gritsuk-Platov, who obtained the gold medal in Nagano, Japan a year later. She also choreographed Fantasia de Tango for Cassano Dancing in 1997, El Choclo for the Japanese Ballet Johnies, Oblivion for Tango Magic, and various compositions for the Julio Iglesias World Tour 1997-98-99. Alberto Catala is a milonguero of the new generation so successful that for seven years he has been teaching and performing exclusively in Buenos Aires, at the most prestigious salons of the city of Buenos Aires. He has been followed by loyal crowds of learners from academy to academy, such as Cristal, Gricel Norte, Canning and many others. He has been recognized as one of the most distinguished "maestros de tango" at Sin Rumbo, The Cathedral of Tango, where he gives exhibitions on a regular basis. Early in August, he and Guillermina will make their official debut in front of a demanding audience at Salon Canning in Buenos Aires. Theirs is the union of two strong and distinctive personalities complementing each other and fusing the stage, the milonga, the salon and the fantasia in a major display of talent and variety. In another facet of her talented career, Guillermina has already been featured on the silver screen, claiming as her credits, Naked Tango, Oratorio a Gardel, Funes - un gran amor, Despues de la tormenta, Tango, and Marie Galante in Buenos Aires. She just made her Hollywood debut as an actress and choreographer in Valentina's Tango. Bringing together her multifaceted talent as a dancer, teacher, choreographer and actress, she has produced her own show, Los tangos de la cabala, where the mystic and mystery of the tango, the enigma of human relations and the magic of the movies interweave and intertwine on stage. |
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ALBERTO PAZ and VALORIE
HART
Alberto Paz and Valorie Hart have earned a reputation as one of the brightest minds in the field of Argentine Tango teaching. They are praised and acclaimed as the foremost Master Teachers and historians living in the United States. They teach and dance the traditional and authentic concept of improvisation developed by the originally masters in the late 1930's and practiced by dancers in the social settings of the Buenos Aires milongas. ALBERTO grew up in the streets of Buenos Aires, becoming a successful businessman in California over a thirty year period before he got the call of the tango twelve years ago under the inspiration and tutelage of Eduardo Arquimbau, Carlos Copello, Orlando Paiva and the late Rodolfo Cieri before traveling to Buenos Aires in 1997 and becoming one of a handful of disciples of legendary grand master of tango Mingo Pugliese.
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fifteen career as an internationally recognized event designer in New York
before being drawn to the tango. As an artist she possesses a natural sensitivity
for the Argentine Tango, the music, the dance and its culture. Graciela Gonzalez
was her first mentor. Esther Pugliese contributed greatly to her formation
in the authentic Argentine style of dancing, and she developed a unique quality
for dancing and teaching in a journey which begun in 1995 alongside ALBERTO.
ALBERTO and VALORIE now reside in New Orleans, and together they have given master classes, lectures and workshops in cities across America, from Anchorage to Miami, from San Francisco to New York, and hundred of cities in between. They have been instrumental in developing new communities, training qualified local teachers and encouraging efforts to preserve, foster and educate on the core social and cultural values of the Argentine Tango. They are at the top of their form as master teachers teaching and practicing the traditional and authentic concept of improvisation. Gustavo Naveira has called ALBERTO "an old milonguero with a modern mindset for the dance." Mingo Pugliese said, "ALBERTO possesses one of the most impressive powers of improvisation in the world." ALBERTO and VALORIE encourage dancers of all levels and all ages to explore the possibilities of dancing with freedom on the spur of the moment, with confidence and an educated understanding of the music and structure of the dance. For that, they bring years of research, experience and actual results applied to their widely recognized clear and fair methodology for teaching the core concepts of the structure of the dance. In addition, they publish El Firulete, the Argentine Tango magazine, and are the authors of the inspirational series TANGO, OUR DANCE which is available on line at Planet Tango's website. The contents of their workshops always focus on the TOOLS for successful improvisation (clockwise and counterclockwise trajectories, changes of front, changes of direction), the CODE of the tango (turns/giros with displacements/sacadas and enrosques), and the traditional and modern ways to BREAK the code without breaking the rules. Challenging, but rewarding. |
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