Argentine Tango Workshop with Yvonne Meissner and Eduardo Aguirre
Minneapolis, MN July 10th - 15th, 2002
Four Seasons Dance Studio 1637 Hennepin Ave, Mlps, MN
Sponsored by Tom and Tonya Smith
For registration or more information, call Tonya @ 952-431-1658, or e-mail:
[email protected]
Class Schedule
July 9 9:00pm Welcome/ Demonstration Dance
July 10 6:00-8:00pm Walking like a cat and the power of your feet,
timing exercises
July 11 7:30-9:30pm Torsion and movements, challenging hip/torsion
July 13 11:00-1:00pm Rhythmical tango of the fourties, Part 1
1:30-3:30pm Rhythmical valses de Canaro & D'Arienzo,
Part 1
July 14 1:30-3:30pm Rhythmical tango of the fourties, Part 2
4:00-6:00pm Rhythmical valses de Canaro & D'Arienzo,
Part 2
July 15 7:30-9:30pm Special follow up, to be announced
All classes are two hours long.
Private Lessons are also available!
Bio's
Yvonne Meissner (Amsterdam) started to dance tango in 1987. From 1990-93 she
studies Tango Fantasia (Vanina Billois, Gustavo Naveira), and after that Tango
de Salon (Pepito Avellaneda, Susanna Miller, Tete y Maria) and Canyengue (Pocho
Pizarro). From 1995-97 she forms herself with contact improvisation, various
techniques of Modern Dance and Alexander technique. She teaches the use of the
torso and torsion, synchronisation of the movement of the couple and
interaction between lead and follow resulting in a conversation of bodies. Thus
dance becomes the image of a milonguero: dancing tango becomes one heart with
four legs.
March 1994 Yvonne Meissner was together with her partner the first organiser to
bring the "No-name"-milongueros like Cacho Dante and Susanna Miller to Europe.
She teaches and performs since 1994 in first Holland, Belgium and Germany while
she had a salon and schools in different towns in Holland. From 1996 she
teaches internationally alone and with different partners (1989 Sitges
festival). With Pocho Pizarro she works one year and teaches in different
festivals (1999 Hamburg, 1999 Toulouse) together with Natalia Games y Gabriel
Angio, Gustavo Naveira y Giselle Anne, Osvaldo Zotto y Lorena Ermocida, Pablo
Ojeda y Beatriz Romero, Louis y Marta Grondona). With Eduardo Aguirre next to
Miguel Zotto (2000 Ithaca Festival USA). Besides internationally workshops, she
taught alone in festivals (1999 Toulouse festival, 2001 Portland October
Festival, 2002 Portland Valentines festival and Portlands October Festival).
She has taught and performed in different salons in Buenos Aires. She has been
interviewed by radio, television and reviews. During the past 6 years she has
taught all over Europe from Scandinavia till Turkey, France till Austria, alone
and with partners. She partners Eduardo Aguirre since october 1999. In 2002 she
will travel to the US 3 times, alone and partnered.
Eduardo Aguirre (Buenos Aries) is one of the most interesting authentic
milongueros of the older generation of Buenos Aires, where he is a member of
honour in the most famous milongas like Salon Almagro and others. From
1991-1996 he taught in Salon Almagro. From 1998 till 1999 he taught at Nino
Bien and other salons. In 1994 the television channel only dedicated to the
transmission of tango 'Solo Tango' has dedicated a series of interviews on him
and didactic lessons on tango de salon; he has been performing in different
salons and the Teatro Alvear. For December in Buenos Aires he was invited for
another video production together with his dance partner Yvonne Meissner.
His dance is extremely vivid and includes unexpected changes of direction with
staccato that in the next second turns into incredibly soft moves, playing with
quick and slow tempi all the time. He teaches movement schedules that can be
used in a salon. Their speciality is the dance of the rhythmical valses of
Canaro and DArienze, of the thirties. Rhythm and pauses, turns and staccato
become a challenging game in between the couple. Eduardo Aguirre teaches 5
times a week in Istanbul, Turkey in one of the finest Conservatories of the
country. Weekly he teaches 100 students Tango de Salon. He appeared twice in
Turkish Television with an interview, once with his partner. During his tours
from 1999-2001 with his partner Yvonne Meissner many times he visited France,
Turkey, Austria, Germany, England, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Italy and the
United States (Rochester, Miami, Boston, New York, Ithaca, Albany and New
Orleans). In 2002 they will tour Europe and the United States (Portland and San
Francisco) again while giving summer long tango teaching holidays.
