Marcela Durán in Atlanta - May 2026

Name: Marcela Durán in Atlanta - May 2026
Start: 2026-05-29T18:15:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-31T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Aatma Dance Studio

Schedule

Fri, 29 May, 2026 at 06:15 pm to Sun, 31 May, 2026 at 04:00 pm

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Location

Aatma Dance Studio | Tucker, GA

We are excited to announce that Marcela Durán is returning to Atlanta for a full weekend of workshops! Do not miss the opportunity to learn and study with this amazing maestra. She will be teaching a set of wonderful workshops on musicality, technique and connection; with a special women's technique workshop to kick off the weekend. From Friday to Sunday, we will learn and enjoy her teachings through 6 workshops and 2 Milongas - with amazing DJs Marcela and Harvey Schwartz. This promises to be a weekend of workshops and dancing you will not want to miss.
Register today at:
https://www.madreselvamilongaatl.com/event-info/marcela-duran-in-atlanta-may-29-31-2026
All workshops and milongas will be at Aatma Dance Studio 3308 Laventure Dr #170, Chamblee, GA 30341
Friday, May 29
6:15pm to 7:15pm - Women's Techinque workshop The Woman’s Voice, The Power of The Follower The Poetry, The Humanity and The Grace of This Dance. What we dance. What is inside the follower's roll.. The power of the follower to create beauty and freedom.
7:30 pm to 8:45 pm – Workshop I: It's All About The Connection, dancing in a dynamic close embrace.. The Elegance, Passion and Secrets of the Gavito/Duran Style of Dance
Madreselva Milonga Especial
9pm to 12am with DJ Marcela Durán
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Saturday May 30
1 pm to 2:15pm – Workshop II: Apilado Technique, for social dance. Essential Elements from Head to Toe of Marcela's and Gavito's Unique Style.
Break 2:15 to 2:45pm
2:45pm to 4:00pm – Workshop III: Vals: fun variations with changing of dynamics and musicality
Regular Madreselva Milonga
8pm to 12am with DJ Harvey Schwartz (DC)
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Sunday, May 31
1:00 pm to 2:15 pm – Workshop IV: Spirals and circular movements in a dynamic close embrace
Break 2:15pm to 2:45pm
2:45pm to 4:00pm – Workshop V: Dancing different orchestras: Pausing and musical tension, variations of speed applied to a social dance sequence

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Marcela will be available for privates as well. Just email [email protected] to be connected with them about scheduling privates.

Cost:
Full package (6 classes, 2 milongas)
$225 per person for entire weekend
$400 per couple for the entire weekend
$45 for the women's technique workshop only

Each milonga will be available for pay at the door entrance ($20) for those who cannot participate in the workshops.
Please message us with any questions.
Payment can be made via:
PayPal: [email protected]
Zelle: [email protected]
Cash/Check on site: email us at [email protected]

We hope to see you there!

About Marcela Durán:
Known as “The Woman of Tango”, she is an icon of the tango scene around the world. Marcela Duran, internationally acclaimed as a master teacher, is also the iconic performer of the Broadway show Forever Tango.
She has increased viewers' interests in learning the tango through her presence and style, and is an influential mentor of many Argentine tango teachers and social dancers worldwide. She and her partner, Carlos Gavito, developed a unique and dramatically close tango embrace in which both dancers leaned forward against each other.
Marcela's first connection with the tango was through her father, a bandoneon player, in the tango orchestras in Rosario, Argentina, where she was born. She has worked as a dance teacher for the Argentine Government, specializing in modern dance and tango. She started to dance the tango in 1988 at Salon Canning. She has spent many years walking the tango and dancing with the great milongueros of that time and has absorbed and learned the essence of tango.
Following her dreams to spread the tango around the world, she came to San Francisco to perform with Forever Tango in 1994. She also performed at the Strand Theatre in London in 1995 where she partnered with the legendary milonguero Roberto "Alemán" Tonet. Subsequent to her engagement with the show in England, she danced for ten years with Carlos Gavito performing two classics of the show: "S.V.P" and "A Evaristo Cariego". With Gavito, Marcela performed for the series Evening At The Pops with the Boston Pops Orchestra broadcast by PBS. She was part of the original cast members at the Broadway premier of Forever Tango at the Walter Kerr Theatre in June 1997 when the show was nominated for the Tony Awards and Drama Desk Awards for Best Choreography. Marcela performed at the Spoleto Festival in Italy and toured through USA, Canada, Europe and Asia with the show. She has also performed at the Colón Theatre Opera House in Buenos Aires in 1999. In 2000, she became the World Champion of the Dance Sport Championship (International Dance Organization) on Argentine Tango.
She and Gavito taught Argentine Tango together, around the world for ten years, sharing their passion for dancing. They were the perfect example of how one can dance the tango on stage without losing the essence of this popular and beautiful art form.
She was also a member of the cast in the Broadway Production of Forever Tango at the Shubert Theatre in 2004 and at the Walter Kerr Theater in 2013. During the period of her association with the show she has performed and taught in 100 cities around United States, Canada, Italy, Portugal, England, Greece, Israel, Turkey, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Shanghai, Indonesia, Mexico, Central and South America.
Among all the reviews and comments on her remarkable career, a phrase from the review of the San Francisco Chronicle on December 24, 2010 on her performance with Forever Tango, immortalize her name as one of the Great Divas on the History of Tango.
”The patina of a great tango dancer can be found in the remarkable Marcela Duran. With her partner, they are the least sensational couple on stage, yet they’re almost worth the price of admission.”