Greetings from The Tango House, Nick Jones & Tara Fortier are hosting Norberto Esberez & Luiza Paes at The Tango House and at The Mercury Cafe in Denver, April 7th - 13th. If you have questions or want to pre-register call Nick Jones @ 720-280-4403 or [email protected]. The complete schedule is available at www.thetangohouse.com, and is included below along with a biography on this wonderful couple.
Chas Gale ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NORBERTO "EL PULPO" ESBEREZ and LUIZA PAES FIND A NEW PERSPECTIVE!! The Argentine Master NORBERTO ESBREZ has seventeen years of professional experience as a dancer, tango teacher and choreographer. Pulpo's obsession for the dance in his words: "The more one knows, the more interesting it becomes to acquire more knowledge, since each element can be placed in more complex parameters." Tara Fortier and I (Nick Jones) apprenticed under Pulpo and Luiza for three months while we lived in Buenos Aires. Through studying with them I found MY dance. Every time I step on the dance floor, I use their techniques: walking, ganchos, sacadas, barridas (drags), parradas (stops) and lifts. In every sense of the word, Pulpo and Luiza are our TEACHERS! Class prices and links to The Tango House and the Mercury Cafe addresses are listed below. April 7th Thursday Private lessons available. 8:00 Special women's leading workshop Location: TBA April 8th Friday Private Lessons Available Mercury Cafe Classes: 7:00-8:00 PM Dance == Communication 8:00-9:00 PM Natural movement and flow (special prices: $5 per class!!!) 12:00 Midnight: Performance at Mercury Cafe Milonga April 9th Saturday The Mercury Cafe 1:00-2:15 Building Suspense: Suspension 2:30-3:45 Hugging Legs: the Ganchos of El Pulpo 4:00-5:15 Kissing Feet: Barridas and Sacadas 8:30 pm - 2:00 AM The Tango House milonga http://www.thetangohouse.com April 10th Sunday The Tango House 1:00-2:15 Crazy Eights: The "ocho loco" 2:30-3:45 Ohh! the Possibilities: Changes of Direction 4:00-5:15 The End of Foreplay: Advanced Combinations April 11th Monday Private Lessons Available The Tango House 7:00-8:15 Followers intensive with Luiza 8:30-10:00 Performing Tango: class size limited April 12 Tuesday Private Lessons Available Classes: To be announced For directions to the Tango House look on http://www.thetangohouse.com For directions to the Mercury Cafe look at http://www.mercurycafe.com All classes except the Friday classes at the Mercury Cafe are $25 per person; or $100 for five classes. Private Lessons are $80 for one, $75 each for two, $70 for three, $65 for four, $60 for five. The classes at the Mercury are $5!!! Student Discount: 20 dollars a class or 5 classes for 65 dollars. If you have questions or want to pre-register call Nick Jones @ 720-280-4403 or [email protected] BIOGRAPHY The Argentine NORBERTO ESBREZ has seventeen years of professional experience as a dancer, tango teacher and choreographer. He worked for the most important theaters and show-places in Buenos Aires, such as: Teatro San Martin, Teatro Astral, Teatro Opera, Cafe Tortoni, El Viejo Almacen, La Ventana, Casablanca and many others. Norberto is the third generation of tangueros in his family. He carries eighty years of tango tradition and history. His grandfather and father were bandoneon players. Julio Esbrez, Norberto's father, was among the most talented and respected tango musicians of his time. For almost two decades Norberto has devoted himself to Dance and carefully researched and developed a very personal technique and style. His tango steps were first practiced with Rock'n Roll and from there comes this spontaneous, playful style. His movements are done continuously, very round and smooth. Complex sequences of ganchos, sacadas and enganches are totally improvised. The fluidity of his style and his ability with the legs was perceived in such way at the milongas of Buenos Aires that he was given the nickname "El Pulpo" (the octopus). The deep understanding of the legwork in tango also made him known in Buenos Aires and all over the world as "The King of Ganchos". Tirelessly studious, he is constantly discovering and adding new movements to the tango vocabulary such as: enganches, enredadas, suspension, the ocho 'loco', cruces con cambio de peso and other figures that he hasn't named yet. Today he's considered the most creative of the tango dancers. Pulpo's obsession for the dance could be defined like this according to his own words: "The more one knows, more interesting it becomes to acquire more knowledge, since each element can be placed in more complex parameters." He lived for 7 years in Brazil where he taught throughout the country as a member of the "Academia Argentina de Tango". He first lived in Rio de Janeiro and then moved to San Paulo, where he ran his own dance studio and held a weekly milonga. He organized twice a big tango event there: Gran Salon Tango de San Paulo. In 1999 with much success Norberto began traveling to teach tango and give exhibitions in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Holland and Russia with Luiza Paes. Since then they have been based in Buenos Aires traveling all over the world during most of the year. They were part of the teaching staff in the II, III and VI CITA (International Congress of Argentine Tango, in Buenos Aires), respectively 2000, 2001 and 2004. They were teachers at the Tango Magia Festival, in Amsterdam (2000), Portland Festival (1999, 2001, 2002) and have been part of the Las Vegas Tango Festival teaching staff since 2001. In Buenos Aires they have a teaching group at La Catedral with a regular group of native students and with students from all over the world that come to learn tango in Argentina. They have also filmed a series of three instructional videos with "Bridge to the Tango" (now "The Tango Catalogue") which is distributed on the Internet. LUIZA PAES, his partner, has studied music since she was age six. For many years she has worked in musical education and vocal technique. In 1998 she began to study and dance tango with Norberto in Sao Paulo. Tango became then, a new form of musical expression for her. She started working as Norberto's assistant at his classes in his studio in Sao Paulo. Later on she became his partner. She traveled to the United States, France, Holland, Germany, Italy and Russia to teach tango workshops with Norberto, being also his translator. Since then they have been traveling all over the world teaching. In March of 2000 Luiza taught with Norberto at the II CITA (International Congress of Argentine Tango) in Buenos Aires and one of the classes at the Congress was led by her with great success: "Musical Interpretation." Luiza has been teaching also a special class for women. She works technique for all levels emphasizing the leader and follower's role, improvisation and the ability of a! dapting, which is what a tango dancer has to develop in order to follow different styles.
