Teachers
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Sara Westin & Juan Pablo Canavire
Sara is a positive, happy and stubborn young lady that was born 1990 in Stockholm. She started dance when she was four years old and when she turned eleven years she entered to The Royal Swedish Ballet school in Stockholm. Sara knew very early that she wanted to be a professional dancer. During her last year in school she went for a trip to Buenos Aires, together with her mom that dances tango, but Sara was only going to take some ballet and contemporary classes. Passing some time in DNI Tango school, the young, talented tango teachers convinced her to at least try Argentinian tango…and she was stuck. She graduated school in 2010 and decided to go back to Buenos Aires for 10 weeks that year. Those planned 10 weeks turned out in 7 months of studying tango in DNI Tango School and a contract in the DNI Tango Company.
Juan Pablo was
born in 1984 in the North of Argentina. At 18 years old, he had his
first contact with what is his passion today, TANGO. For three years he
formed part of the company ‘Pasión y tango’ in hometown Jujuy. To
enrich his dancing he began training in other styles and techniques at
the Norma Fontella Superior School of Dance: contemporary, classical
ballet, partnering and folk dance.
Wanting to deepen his studies, at 21 years old he travelled to Buenos
Aires to fully dedicate himself to dance. Here he found infinite styles
and ways of teaching tango. His search lasted three years until one day
he arrived at DNI Tango. After taking his first class he felt that he
had found the right place, that the search was over. And during more
than a year and a half, the ‘Jujeño’ went every afternoon to the studio
to take classes, share mate and spend time with the company/family of
the school.
Both were part of the DNI Buenos Aires under the leadership of Dana Frigoli and Jonny Lambert for almost seven years. During this collaboration they were doing huge process as dancers, artists and teachers, sharing many projects at festivals in Buenos Aires, celebrated tours around the world and productions as "La Musa del Capricho" and "Dos: Lo que se Disuelve".
In 2016 Sara & Juampi fullfilled another dream, directing the School of DNI Tango Stockholm in Sara's home country Sweden. "We are happy to have the possibility to share with you our experience, the energy and passion that we bring with us from the DNI Tango School in Buenos Aires, with the direction of Dana Frigoli and Jonny Lambert. We want to help and inspire beginners, people of all different ages, and also professional tango dancers. We want to do this in a fun way, that is nice and good for body and soul."
dni-tango.eu
Class language: Spanish, English
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Nicholas Jones and Diana Cruz's artistic partnership gives shape and life to the concept of Natural Tango Studio in Denver.
As enthusiastic teachers, choreographers, performers, dj's, dance
festival organizers and musicians, Nick & Diana are invited to
dance events, tango festivals and workshops around the world.
They host the annual NaturalTango Festival in Denver, CO, bringing
world renowned artists to create a special event that pulls a important
dance crowd from all over the world.
They have created and performed at various Dance Productions such as:
"Tango Times" with Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne; the "Tango Zone"
in New York; "Piazzolla, En Sus Palabras" with Parasol Arts; "Oniria
Tango", directed by Miss Cruz.
They have been teachers and performers at tango festivals and special
workshops in the United States and Canada, as well as in Buenos Aires,
Argentina. They are constantly touring, teaching and performing in
Europe, Australia and Asia.
Both are are musicians for the Orquesta Típica Natural Tango, that they
founded in 2009 and that has since evolved into one of the most
exhilarating and coherent tango orchestras in the States. They are
also invited as performers other bands and orchestras.
As dance teachers, Nick & Diana share, unreservedly, their
technique and structure so that each individual student can ultimately
reach their own expression in the dance. They believe that the goal of
a teacher is to give everything away to the student, while the goal of
the performer is to hide their secrets so they can enamor and bedazzle
the audience. Nick & Diana do both with fluid ease and grace.
Diana has dedicated her life to understanding, creating, performing and teaching body movement.
Her discovery of Argentine Tango has given her yet another turn in the
never-ending, cyclical journey of exploring new ways of moving and
expressing. Diana incorporates her multi-disciplinary techniques
(Ballet, Contemporary Dance, Modern Dance, Latin American Folk Dances,
Pilates, Yoga, Singing and many Tango Dance styles) into one cohesive
dance. She uses these techniques to create powerful, musical, unique
performances. Her understanding of biomechanics gives her an astute
approach as a movement teacher.
Joining the Orquesta Típica Natural Tango, as a singer, has been an important addition to her artistic career.
Originally from Asunción, Paraguay, she began her dance studies in her
home country, the process of dance-learning placed her in various
Performing Arts schools around Argentina, Brazil and Chile. As a
professional dancer, she joined several ballet companies. She holds a
degree in Psychology from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, a study
that has enhanced her understanding of the human mind and body
interaction. Also she has received a Comprehensive Pilates Teacher
Training Certification.
Diana has created her own line of Tango shoes for women, Cruzartango,
which is a continual exploration of organic and ergonomic dance shoes.
Nicholas has been dancing & studying dance since 1996 and
emphasizes that he never stopped being a student. Nick's main focus is
Argentine Tango, he is also a competent Lindy Hop & Blues dancer.
He was one of the first North American tango dancers to have been
invited to teach and perform at a festival in Buenos Aires (Pulpo's
Tango Week).
More than simply a musical and technical performer of many Argentine
Tango styles, he deeply enjoys creating unexpected moments and pieces
for audiences. As a teacher, Nick displays his extensive knowlegde and
experience of professional and social dancing with great dynamism and
humor.
Nick first picked up the bandoneon in 2002. “From the first note,
playing the bandoneon is a visceral experience. It is the only
instrument I have ever played, that makes me need to play it.”
Initially using the instrument to improve his musicality in dancing and
to expand his knowledge of the inner working of tango music, it soon
expanded into playing live shows for other people to dance to.
Over the years he has organized 4 different ensembles that culminated
in the Orquesta Natural Tango. Since then he has focused on polishing
the sound and building the repertoire of the Orquesta. “When the
orchestra plays, I want the dancers to go crazy! Tango is
fantastic, energizing, alive and dynamic. We often loose site of
this when listening to the old scratchy recordings. The orchestra
brings tango back to vibrancy.”
Nick also holds a degree in Creative Writing. He is also an accomplished painter.
www.naturaltango.com
Class language: Spanish, English
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We discovered Raquel & Ricardo through their didactically
well-done and beautifully danced tutorial videos on the internet, and
it soon became clear that we wanted to invite them to teach at the
camp.
Raquel: "I have been dancing since I can walk. I started ballet at the
age of four, tried many solo dances. In 2003 I met Tango Argentino, and
immediately fell in love with it dancing it daily. Since 2005 I teach
Tango. In 2009 Ricardo and I went to Buenos Aires to improve my
technique and simply to live, breathe and dance where the Tango was
born. For one year we practiced every day, took classes with renown
teachers and - of course - danced through the night. Many Milongas
invited us for shows. Back in Cologne, we reopened our Tango school,
but also taught on festivals in Germany and abroad.
I love to inspire people for Tango, to support them in finding their
own style. Also, in Bs As I was stoked by the Pilates method. This
wholistic body training helped me to improve my posture by harmonising
and strengthening my body, to sharpen my body awareness and to minimize
my muscular imbalances. Since September 2017 I am a certified Pilates
bodymotion trainer for Matwork."
Ricardo:
"Couple dances were always part of my life. As a young man I was
intensively dancing Salsa for nine years. But it was only when I
discovered the world of Tango in 2001 that I had found 'my' dance. The
more intensive I dealt with Tango for teaching it, the smoother it
became for me. Since 2004 I dance, practice and work with Raquel. We
gave lessons and danced shows in Germany as well as abroad, worked as
coaches on the film set and, also, danced ourselves into the finals of
the 2009 world championships in Buenos Aires.
In
my lessons I am inspired to take care for the individual needs of the
learners. It thrills me to see dancers advance in their process. The
Tango needs some patience indeed, but the joy of dancing it doesn't
necessarily depend on the dancing level. Tango is great fun from the
very beginning."
"Our classes: We focus on elegance in connection with a precise
technique. We are very accurate, but also very patient and the class
atmosphere is usually easy and with fun."
www.tango-argentino-koeln.de
Class language: German, English
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Tango turned her into a dancer.
It was first the music of tango and then the dance itself that made me
dance. I dived deeply into the world of tango in Basel. Its passion
brought me to the point of life where I decided to get a professional
dancer.
Contact Improvisation is a wonderful dance working
with the physical contact between you and your partner. Contact
Improvisation is a process in which you learn, forget, accept, realise,
digest and release. It's basically about open observation in the dance
without judging. Can I allow, can I let go, let the dance and the
movement grow? By impovising I get the chance to learn something about
myself: how do I act, how perform.
Using different body work techniques we will raise awareness for our
body tensions and how to use them more intentional. Thus, we train our
bodies through body perception.
We will deal with basic elements
of contact improvisation such as following the point of contact (slide,
roll, reach), weight (sharing the weight, leaning and falling), physical
listening (leading and following), centre (centre-to-centre connection
and lifts). I am looking forward to you!
Class language: German, English
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