Antón Gazenbeek
Is a professional dancer, teacher, and
choreographer of Argentine Tango. He has studied with the
best tango maestros in Argentina and danced with two of the top female tango dancers in the world:
Guillermina Quiroga and Alicia Monti. He is a well rounded,
versatile dancer with training in social as well as stage and
performance tango and is adept at all forms of tango from the
Canyengue of the 1890s to the Tango Fantasia of the 1950s to the
Tango of today. He has studied extensively social tango and
milonguero style with the best milonguero maestros of Buenos Aires
.
Antón has performed at Lincoln Center in New York City with
Carina Losano, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, World Tango
Festival and in the
shows of Club del Vino, Chiquilin Tango, Esquina Tango, and Milonguisimo in Buenos Aires and in the world premiere of the new
work of Luis Bacalov “Misa Tango” in Harvard University with
Guillermina Quiroga as well as at the World Tango Festival 2005
and 2006. He is the Artistic Director of his own
company and show “Siempre Tango” with which he has made
presentations in Japan and the United States. He has given
exhibitions in the most prestigious Buenos Aires milongas such as
Sunderland, Sin Rumbo, Salon Canning, Nino Bien, Porteno y
Bailarin, Gricel, among many others and taught classes in Sin
Rumbo (Villa Urquiza), the Escuela
Argentina de Tango, Unitango Academy, and Tango Brujo. In Buenos
Aires, he is protege and assistant to the renowned maestro Raul
Bravo, creator of the "Todaro-Bravo Tango System" together with
Antonio Todaro. Antón is considered one of the most authentic
proponents of this style of dance and proudly keeps it alive
today.
He has given workshops, classes, and exhibitions in San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Boston, Tokyo, Kyoto, Kobe, Fujisawa,
Nagoya, Seoul, Shanghai, Detroit, Houston, San Antonio, San Diego,
New York City, and numerous other cities around the world. In
addition to performing in shows and milongas, Antón has performed
tango on television on channels such as Telemundo, Univision, ABC,
The Tourist Channel, The Travel Channel, and NHK Japanese TV.
Antón teaches all styles of tango, milonga and vals from salon
tango to tango fantasia. He specializes in historic styles of
tango from all time periods and is especially adept at the style
of Antonio Todaro and the milonguero style tango of the 1940s and
1950s as well as "Tango al Reves”. He is also available for
choreographies and coaching.
Antón is also a highly respected tango historian with many years of investigation into the history
and roots of tango dance and music. He has presented lectures on
the history and evolution of the dance in universities such as
Carnegie Mellon as well as
produced a number of film documentaries filmed on location in
Buenos Aires .
In 2006 he was invited to coordinate the series of historical
lectures at the World Tango Festival where he also gave historical
presentations together with Maria Nieves,
Gloria and Eduardo, among other tango legends.
Contact me at:
antontango@yahoo.com
Natalie Laruccia
Is a professional Tango dancer, teacher, and
choreographer with an extensive background in classical ballet,
theater, ballroom dancing, and salsa. It is through her
Argentinean grandfather, who was a tango dancer and actor in the
silent films during the time of Carlos Gardel in the 1920s and
1930s, that she has such a strong feeling for the tango and
interprets it so very well. She has realized an extensive study of
Tango with some of the greatest maestros of Buenos Aires.
She has given workshops, classes, exhibitions and tango shows
while on tours throughout Japan and the U.S. where she has worked
in such cities as Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, Kyoto, San
Francisco, New York City, San Diego, Detroit, Houston, San
Antonio, Boston, among others. She has participated in numerous
shows in Buenos Aires such as Esquina Tango and Milonguisimo, and
performed in all the major milongas of Buenos Aires including
Sunderland, Sin Rumbo, Salon Canning, Porteno y Bailarin, Gricel,
Glorias Argentinas, Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires, etc. In Buenos
Aires, she is protege of the renowned maestro Raul Bravo, creator
of the "Todaro-Bravo Tango System" together with Antonio Todaro.
Together with Antón, she is considered one of the most authentic
female proponents of this style of dance and proudly keeps it
alive today.
Natalie has performed in the World Tango Festival 2005
and 2006 and has appeared dancing tango on television programs broadcast all over
Latin- and North America on channels such as ABC, The Travel
Channel and has filmed tango commercials for The Tourist Channel
which are currently being aired worldwide. She has also appeared
on NHK Japanese TV as well as Univision and Telemundo Mexican TV.
Natalie is well known and respected for her strong interpretation
of tango and her forceful personality in the dance.
Natalie is also a recognized photographer. Her work can be visited
at:
http://www.larucciaphotography.com/
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