:: FESTIVAL TEACHERS 2022 ::
↓ Ezgi & Ezgi (Turkey)
↓ Carlos Blanco & Rey Flores (Mexico City)
↓ Astrid Weiske (Berlin)
↓ Brigitta Winkler (Berlin/NYC)
↓ Ray Sullivan & Luis Vivas (Miami)
↓ Katia Abbondanzieri (Genf)
↓ Lucas de Buenos Aires (BA/Boston)
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:: Ezgi & Ezgi (Turkey) :: Ezgi Turmus started to tango in Istanbul University Dance Club in 2004. She worked with many diffrent tango teachers. She was interested in both roles of tango and she performed in many organization. After graduate she came back to Samsun and founded her own comunity which called TangoSam and started to teach. Than she went to Buenos Aires for a while and countinued to improve herself and again came back to Samsun for teaching. Ezgi Sarıkaya started to dance tango in at TangoSam 2012. She became an assistant. They teach and dance together in their school and they decided to became partner for Istanbul Mundial de Baile 2017 competition as a queer couple. They competed in the final and the placed 8th. They still teach tango and perform in many diffrent cities. |
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:: Carlos Blanco & Rey Flores (Mexico City) :: Carlos and Rey have over 10 years experiance as tango dancers and other dance disciplines. In 2016, they decided to work together and form a dance partnership which has a great public recognition. Since then, they have played an active role as dancers and instructors, in the tango scene in Mexico, traditional and queer as well as collaborating with international festivals and presenting their work all over Mexico, the US and Europe. Through their dance they like to enlarge the visibility of the LGBTIQ community in the tango and to generate space free from homophobia. |
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:: Astrid Weiske (Berlin) ::
For more than 25 years Astrid has been dancing Tango Argentino and is well known and respected in the tango communities worldwide as an excellent leading woman and excellent teacher. She has developed strong sensitivity in leading, great creativity in improvisation and playful musicality which stand out as key elements in her dance. But Astrid is recognized also for her skills as a follower which greatly expands her knowledge and understanding of the dance. |
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:: Brigitta Winkler (Berlin/NYC) :: Brigitta (Berlin/NYC) is one of the world's most renowned teachers and innovative dancers of tango, inspiring legions of dancers worldwide with her creative approach and musical esthetics. She founded or co-founded the internationally acclaimed Tanzart and PHYNIXtanzt schools in Berlin, TangoMujer, and the Tango Teacher Training Network in North America.
Brigitta discovered tango in 1980. In Buenos Aires, she studied with legendary dancers, including Juan Carlos Copes, Antonio Todaro, Pepito Avellaneda, Gustavo Naveira and Eduardo Arquimbau. She was among the first to teach tango in both Europe and the United States during tango's current revival. Brigitta co-founded the highly respected Tanzart studio in Berlin in 1987, the internationally acclaimed performance company Tango Mujer in 1996, and co-created the Teacher Training Networkwith Tom�s Howlin in 2008. In between world travels, Brigitta teaches regularly in NYC and PHYNIXtanzt in Berlin. |
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:: Ray Sullivan and Luis Vivas (Miami) ::
In the 2000s, back in the United States, while directing Miami Contemporary Dance Company and teaching for Miami City Ballet, he began teaching Tango mixed with contemporary movement techniques and he choreographed the full evening ballet, “Tango Undressed”, an evening of contemporary dance set to music by Astor Piazzolla. The North American cast performed to sold out houses and acclaim in North America, Europe and Argentina. In 2004, together with Luis Vivas, he began to explore same gender tango and the beginnings of Tango Queer. Through classes, practicas, interventions and social action he began to push Tango Queer in Miami and abroad, and in 2016 they co-founded Tango Out. Today Tango Out has taught more than 300 community classes, presented more than 25 national and international queer tango artists, produced social interventions for protections of the LGBTQ+ community and produced CONEXION, Miami‘s International Queer Tango Festival, receiving national acclaim, foundation support, the Key to the City and an official proclamation from the commissioners of The City of Miami Beach naming April 7-10, 2022… TANGO OUT Queer Tango Days in Miami Beach. For more info about Ray Sullivan’s dance career and current programming, visit www.RaySullivanDance.com
Luis Vivas is the co-founder of Tango Out in Miami and is a co-organizing manager for CONEXION, Miami‘s International Queer Tango Festival. |
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:: Katia Abbondanzieri (Geneva) :: Katia Abbondanzieri (Tangueradelcirco), physiotherapist in Geneva since 1996, has been dancing tango as leader and follower since 2010. Her passion for studying and understanding the body since she was a child led her to teach anatomy in various natural therapy schools in Switzerland, France and Belgium for more than 20 years. Her classes in palpatory anatomy, movement anatomy, therapeutic stretching and classic massage are popular with novices eager to understand how their bodies work, as well as experienced therapists who want to deepen their knowledge through their practice. She also teaches Argentine tango singly or in couples so as to encourage listening and feeling with awareness and subtlety. She set up Anatomy for Tango, to provide biomechanical responses to tanguero(a)s eager for body knowledge, to understand and feel the anatomical subtleties that allow harmony and fluidity in their tango, in both roles. Katia is now invited in several countries of Europe with Oscar the squeleton, to bring its knowledge in the field of biomechanics and pathology of Tango. Since 2 years Katia is co-organizer of the Queer Tango Marathon in Geneva. |
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:: Lucas de Buenos Aires (Boston/Buenos Aires) :: Lucas De BuenosAires was taught tango in true porte�o fashion, first by family in Buenos Aires, and then in its milongas. A lifetime later, that knowledge and passion continues to be explored and shared. Lucas continues to study both in Buenos Aires and through frequent travel, seeking exposure to everything from traditional canyengue to intercambio/fusion.Since beginning to teach in Buenos Aires, Lucas has brought tango to the people of Barcelona, Berlin, Boston, Gothenburg, London, Mexico City, Milan, New York, Paris, Portland, Reykjavik, Rome, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, The Hague, and Zurich. An avid follower and leader, this versatile dancer has been a guest artist, repeat instructor and performer at International Festivals in Berlin, London, Mexico, New York, San Francisco, Montreal, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, at both the "Festival Internacional de Tango Queer " and "The Marathon," the Portland Alternative Tango Festival, and most recently in St. Petersburg, Russia. Lucas De BuenosAires specializes in original and creative classes, such as "World Cup Tango (Tango lessons from F�tbol)", "Can't even Think Straight (Navigation for switch dancers)", "Boleos for Boys", "What's up with Biagi?" and the well known "First Steps to Tango Heaven" in Berlin. A consummate club kid since the age of 13, Lucas has never shied away from adventure. Lucas continues to seek opportunities for creative expression and made a first appearance on the big screen in a 2014 feature film. |
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