Tango Workshop Series with Guillermina Quiroga & Mariano Logiudice

Name: Tango Workshop Series with Guillermina Quiroga & Mariano Logiudice
Start: 2024-08-04T13:00:00-07:00
Location: 210 N 1st Ave, Arcadia, CA, United States, California 91006

Schedule

Sun Aug 04 2024 at 01:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

210 N 1st Ave, Arcadia, CA, United States, California 91006 | Arcadia, CA

Schedule & Programs:
Sunday, August 4
1:00pm-2:15pm Workshop #1 Tango Technique: Turns (Molinete)
2:30pm - 3:45pm Workshop #2 Vals: Rhythm and Fluidity, Turns
Sunday, August 11
1:00pm-2:15pm Workshop #3 Ochos & Arrastres
2:30pm - 3:45pm Workshop #4 Enrosques & Boleos
Sunday, August 18
1:00pm-2:15pm Workshop #5 Sequences & Embellishments for social dancing
2:30pm - 3:45pm Workshop #6 MIlonga Lisa and Traspié
Sunday, August 25
1:00pm-2:15pm Workshop #7 Colgadas for social dancing
2:30pm - 3:45pm Workshop #8 Rebounds, displacements and changes of directions
Fees & packages:
1 workshop $35
2 or more workshops $30 per workshop
Full package (8 workshops) $220
Full package early bird by July 30 $200
Private Lessons: Single or Package
1 x $140
3 x $400
5 x $650
Plus floor fee(s)
Available at the Sonata Room before the Sunday workshop and on Tuesday, August 6, 13, 20 & 27 from 11am - 3pm

GUILLERMINA QUIROGA is considered one of the best female tango dancers in the world. She has influenced the role of the woman in the tango in a way that very few women have done so.
Her career as a tango dancer, choreographer, teacher, artist of multiple talents it placed her on the more prominent places in the tango scene.
In her dancing career, she’s been a soloist with the Julio Iglesias World Tour; she has performed along the Luis Bacalov, Mariano Mores and Color Tango orchestras; and she’s taken part of critically acclaimed shows like Tango x 2, Tango Argentino and Forever Tango on Broadway. She’s been featured in many films: “Naked Tango”, “Marie Galant”, “Assassination Tango” and “Valentina’s Tango”. She has also produced her own show: Tango, Historias Breves. Ms. Quiroga, ‘a queen of tango since the last century’ is considered by The New York Times ‘the Fonteyn of tango’. The NY based newspaper says that ‘the spell of her style begins in her stance. She has a marvelously composed persona and memorably elegant posture’. The LA Times says that Guillermina ‘is famous for fusing traditional tango steps with hyper-flexible leg extensions and athletic lifts. An engaging stage presence and a formidable talent.
Luis Bravo, the creator of “Forever Tango,” says, “She is the best dancer around. I’ve worked with so many talented dancers over the years, but Guillermina is the one I most admire. She has everything . . . honesty, technique and sensitivity, and she will never go onstage unless she’s 100%.”
MARIANO LOGIUDICE started to study Karate at the age of 7, and was doing it for many years; after reaching high standards (he won more than 70 competitions) and working seriously in this discipline he got the maximum prize becoming a World Champion in 1998 in Orlando, FL,USA . He graduated as a National Professor of physical education. After retiring from competitions he dedicated his life to the teaching in Physical education and Sports at high school, and became a judge in many important competitions around the world.
In the meantime he discovered Tango, and started to study very intensively this new passion. He learned from a very prominent teachers in the Tango world as Raul Bravo, Juan Pablo Barbutti, Guillermina Quiroga, Andres Cejas, Olga Besio, Demian Garcia, Julio Balmaceda, among others.
He has worked as a tango teacher in Tanzba, Buenos Aires , Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires, Club Gricel and Salon Canning. For the last four years Mariano has been teaching and performing in Europe, Asia, and many cities in United States with Guillermina Qurioga.
He graduated from the University in Argentina as a Psychologist, with the Thesis “Tango y vejez” (Tango and elderly) which explores the psychological benefits of the tango dancing on the elder people. He received a lot of compliments and special mention from the university judges with his work, and was pleased to keep going further on that path.
This, inspires Mariano to investigate more and leads him into creating a new activity that is a mixing of tango dance and physical education; together with Guillermina they start a new discipline, the union of tango dance and psychology, as therapy for people with physical and emotional needs.
As Guillermina’s partner, Mariano has taught and performed at the Tango Festival in Napoli, Italy March 2016; International Tango Festival in Shanghai, China, July 2016; Tangofest NYC 2016, in New York, USA, June 2016; Boston Tango Festival June 2016 and 2017; ATUSA, San Francisco International Festival and Championship, USA, April 2017 ; Hudson Tango Festival, NY,USA, May 2017 and New Jersey Tango Festival, NJ,USA, May 19-2017.
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