Ernest Williams
Presents
ARGENTINE TANGO
with
SHARNA FABIANO
In her first appearance in Virginia Beach to teach one day of workshops
WHEN: Saturday November 8th
1pm- 2:30 - Essential Tango Basics
2:45-4:15 - Intro to Tango Musicality
4:30- 6pm - Intermediate Tango Technique
WHERE: Dancerama dance studio
404 S. Parliament Drive suite 204-B
Va Beach, VA
COST: $20 for any 1 workshop
$30 for any 2 workshops
$45 for all 3 workshops
The Essential Tango
"The tango is best envisioned as an intuitive, non-verbal language, with all of
the nuances, regional accents, and inside jokes associated with spoken
language. As partners become increasingly sensitive to each other's leading and
following signals, the music becomes the context of a private, intimate
conversation."
Sharna
Sharna s BIO
"Sharna is one of the rare non-Argentines to have understood the tango
instinctively at a deep level. This, plus her far-reaching knowledge and skill
with both the follower's and leader's roles, has made her a uniquely special
tango dancer, on the dance floor, in performance and in her teaching."
-Jeff Anderson
Sharna is among a formidable new breed of tango dancers who have mastered both
leading and following roles interchangeably. She is recognized in the most
respected tango communities around the world and has pioneered new developments
in tango such as improvising to contemporary music, exchanging roles, and
altering the dance embrace. Sharna's insight is informed by a movement
background of modern and classical dance training, yoga, gymnastics, and
contact improvisation as well as her extensive explorations of social dance
culture in various parts of the world.
Currently based in Washington, DC, Sharna operated the Boston Tango School from
1999-2001, hosting many visiting Argentine artists and directing several group
stage performances in the area. Sharna was also instrumental in the development
of Providence Tango, Rhode Island's young and energetic tango community. She
has also taught in Canada, Iceland, and the Netherlands and appeared with
Daniel Trenner at the Miami Tango Congress in 1999. Most recently, she taught
tango as part of a U.S.-licensed cultural exchange of social dances in Havana,
Cuba produced by Dance Traveler Inc.
Sharna studied tango intensively in Buenos Aires and appears on instructional
videos with two of Argentina's most popular young teachers, Jose Garofalo and
Mariano "Chicho" Frumboli. Among her most influential teachers she counts
Rebecca Shulman, Daniel Trenner, Brigitta Winkler, Pablo Veron, Gustavo
Naveira, Pedro 'Tete' Rusconi, and Graciela Gonzalez. She is praised by
audiences for her stunning performances, in both roles, and by students for her
lucid instruction of movement technique, of leading and following skills, and
of musical interpretation.
In May 2003, Sharna became the newest member of the internationally acclaimed
all-woman tango dance company TangoMujer. This summer she performed with the
company at the prestigious Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and at the Queens
Theatre in NYC.
For more information on the workshop, contact Ernest at 757-630-5949 or
[email protected]
For more information on Sharna, visit www.sharnafabiano.com
