Mariel Robles and Gonzalo
Alonso began teaching tango together 1999. After intensively developing
their tango and teaching in the province Santa Fe they moved to
Buenos Aires 2003. Mariel has her background in classic and spanish
dances and Gonzales in tango, salsa and mambo.
They have been teaching
tango at Estudio
Tango Elite Argentino between 2003-2004.
As members of the cultural and pedagogic leading group they participated
in the creation of Estudio DNI 2004 until 2008 in Buenos Aires.
Now they have continued teaching on their own developing their tango
dance and pedagogy further focusing on the social aspects of the
tango, musicality and dynamics. They have participated in several
international tango festivals in Buenos Aires and abroad and have
been teaching tango and giving performances in other countries for
example Venezuela, Mexico, China, Sweden, Spain, Brazil and Germany. They are appreciated
for their musical creativity, their deep knowledge of the dynamics
of movements and their fantastic ability to teach and always develop
their pedagogy. Their embrace (abrazo) is mature and a sign of the
depth of their warmth, their sensuality, social abilities and charming
personalities. They are known for their brilliant teaching creating
a relaxed athmosphere based on mutual respect, always making efforts
listening to the individual needs. >>Website >>Videos
Mariel Robles and Gonzalo Alonso
Charlotte Rivero (Stockholm)
Charlotte teaches queer tango in Stockholm and is the founder of
queertango in Sweden. Charlotte had a presentation about her concept
queer tango pedagogy/teaching at the international dance research
conference NOFOD, Stockholm January 2006. She runs her own queertango
school, Tangoverkstan - Roles in Motion, in Stockholm and organizes
Stockholm International Queer Tango Festival. Charlotte has also
been teaching at different parts of Sweden, in Oslo and the queertango
festivals in Hamburg, Buenos Aires.
Recently she worked as an invited guest teacher with tango &
gender/queer theory for the National Academy of Mime and Acting
in a gender project. She is also a guest teacher at University College
of Dance. The
emphasis in teaching is based on dynamic movements, presence in
the moment, connection and communication with awareness of power
relations and gender structures. The pedagogy is based on gender/queer
theory, norm critcal thinking and problem based learning.
This year Charlotte was invited guest choreographer and dancer in
The Threepenny Opera where she and other dancers from Tangoverkstan
made a tango performance during the Pimp's Ballad taking place at
a brothel. >>Tangoverkstan
Sabine Berge (Stockholm)
Sabine, originally from
Germany, has been teaching together with Charlotte at the birth
of Tangoverkstan and at Stockholm Pride 2006. They also made performances
at the Pride Festival. Sabine is since a long time an appreciated
instructor and tango profile in Stockholm.
Actor, dancer and choregrapher, living in Berlin, worked several years for tv and cinema, since 2008 very active as a freelancer in the theatre- and dance-scene, developing his own work. He learned Tango (amongst others) with Maria Jose Gonzales and Mariano Garcés, but also influenced by DNI and 'Los Dinzel', with passion for the follower-part, danced and developed several shows, teached at the Queer Tango Festival in Copenhagen 2009 and organizes Gay-Tango-Events in Berlin. He is interested in an open and free way of communication and improvisation in Tango, not only by changing roles, but also through giving space and freedom inside each role. >>Website
Martin Schick
Jorge Arbert (Argentina/Netherlands)
Artist born in Neuquén-Argentina, studied theatre and dance, national price from de Antorchas Foundation with the street opera Albatri and selected for a study grant in dance for the National Foundation of Art.
Since 2000 lives and works in Amsterdam, making many different works as maker, performer and teacher of tango and dance-theater, developing the interaction with
the audience.
His work is based in the fusion of the different disciplines: theatre-tango-modern dance.
Since 2008 organize, for first time in Amsterdam, workshops of Queer Tango (changing roles).
He performed his solo “Distant Love …” in the Tango Queer Festival Buenos Aires, in Rotterdam and in Amsterdam.
In the workshop we will play with different steps of tango, improvising solo, duo and grupal. Tango, movement and emotion.
Jorge Arbert
Claudia Mai (Germany)
Claudia Mai started Tango teaching in 1989 in Bremen, her native city in Northern Germany. Located in Hamburg now, she has also been living in Paris and Barcelona for a while, enjoying different styles of Tango dancing and creating her own style – elegant, playful and sometimes humorous, but always with a deep sensation of the music. Her most influential Tango teachers were Antonio Todaro, Pablo Veron & Teresa Cunha, Eric & Jeusa, Esther & Mingo Pugliese and Gustavo Naveira. Claudia had several performances, mainly as a leader, in Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Cologne, Hamburg and other places. She supported Tango shows and festivals in organisation and public relations. Her absolute favourite dance besides Tango is the Milonga! >>Website
