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Warm Regards, Nina ******************* Contact: Nina Pesochinsky Erich Stein Communications 303/722-4343 [email protected] Pablo Pugliese to perform and teach Argentine Tango at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. June 3, 2001, New York - Pablo Pugliese, one of the world's most respected dancers and teachers of Argentine Tango, is to perform and teach at the prestigious Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts outdoor event "Midsummer Night Swing" on Saturday, June 30, 2001 at the corner of 63rd Street and Columbus Avenue. Pablo will teach a beginner level Argentine Tango lesson at 6:30 PM, which is included in the modest admission price the Lincoln Center charges for the event. The lesson will be followed by his performance with an Argentine dancer Melina Brufman. The evening will also feature live music of Pablo Mainetti Quintet, thus bringing the most authentic Argentine Tango mix to the Lincoln Center's kaleidoscopic tribute to the world's social dances. Pablo Pugliese began to dance tango at the age of nine. Pablo's parents, Esther and Domingo Pugliese, are among the most honored and respected dancers and teachers of Buenos Aires. When they were invited to teach at The Stanford University, Pablo's father was unable to travel and Pablo went in his place. The enormous popularity of the duet of Pablo and his mother Esther began his brilliant teaching career at the age of fifteen. Today, at 20, he is considered to be an astonishingly beautiful dancer and an exceptionally good teacher. Traditionally, Argentine tango is improvised; i.e. the movements are invented in the moment. Pablo absorbed very early the high quality of technique and understanding of the dance his parents manifest. As a young dancer, Pablo was featured in several television shows which were broadcast all over the world, performed at the age of eleven at a prestigious ceremony in honor of the tango legend Carlos Esteves ("Petroleo"), and had numerous performances with tango shows at the major theatres of Buenos Aires such as Teatro Presidente Alvear (1991), Juan Carlos Cope's show "Tango, Danza y Juventud" at the Astral Theatre (1993), and at Teatro San Martin with the Tango Express Dance Company and the orchestra of Daniel Binelli, a bandoneon player of Astor Piazzola (1998). Actively pursuing his training in modern dance at the Alvin Ailey Dance School, Pablo adds to this enormous expertise his own authentic search for the new interpretation of the dance, his passionate artistic expression and the boundless energy of his youth. "Midsummer Night Swing" series originally began in 1989 as a gift from the Lincoln Center to the City of New York. With live music and dancing under the stars, featuring dances such as swing, salsa, jigs, reels, Cajun, polka, rock'n'roll, zydeco, country, and TexMex conjuno, it became a great success and grew into an annual event, which lasts five weeks and draws more than 800 people a night. It is held outdoors at the corner of 63rd Street and Columbus Avenue with crowd often spilling into the public spaces in front of the Metropolitan Opera House and beneath the porticos of New York State Theatre. For more information, please contact Nina Pesochinsky at Erich Stein Communications, 303/722-4343 or [email protected].
