Fridays La Belle Epoque Tango Club 
@ Ukranian East Village Restaurant

Friday June 20 
Host: Rosa Collantes

A Tango night with Live Music
By TITO CASTRO & PANCHO NAVARRO 



TANGO CLASSES BY ROBIN THOMAS

7:15 pm Introduction to Tango/ Beginners 
8:15 pm Intermediate level

DJ: ROBIN THOMAS

open dance floor - until 2:30 am

Performances by Robin Thomas and Kyla Mares





$12- ($15 with the classes included)
/ $ 8 (Students with ID & members) 

Ukrainian East Village Restaurant
140 2nd Ave ( between 8th & 9th St) 212-924-7077


Hector "Tito" Castro was born in the town of 9 de Julio in the province of 
Buenos Aires. At age three, his family moved to the neighborhood Villa 
Pueyrredon in the capital. He began his bandoneon classes and general music 
education at age 14 with Eladio titoBlanco, who was the first bandoneon in the 
D’Arienzo orchestra. A few years later, Tito began his professional career 
playing with neighborhood orchestras like Horacio Vacarezza’s and Marcos 
Bagnolo’s. At age 18 he started playing in the Osmar Maderna Orquesta, Simbolo, 
where he stayed for three years. He continued with the Lucio Demare’s and 
Fulvio Salamanca’s orchestras and substituted bandoneon players ir Hector 
Varela and Juan Sanchez Gorio. He has accompanied in two occasions the 
Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa at Carnegie Hall and tenor Placido Domingo 
at the Washington Opera and the Metropolitan Opera House in NY. Tito toured 
Japan and Hawaii in 2004 and 2005 with Japanese tango
 singer Anna Saeki, with whom he has also performed at Carnegie Hall and at the 
famous jazz club Blue Note in NYC. Recently he participated in the recording of 
her new CD, which was presented to the audiences in Japan and Korea tour in 
December of 2005.



Francisco "Pancho" Navarro's masterful playing is illuminated by an 
encyclopedic knowledge of popular, folkloric, and classical music of Latin 
America.
Francisco is from Mendoza Argentina, and lived in Chile and Mexico before 
coming to New York. In Mexico he worked with many major Mariachi groups, and 
won first guitarist at Mexico's Festival Ranchero de la Cancion for three 
consecutive years.His playing can be heard on the soundtracks of "Mambo Kings" 
, "Flawless", and "Frida" as well as numerous recordings, including "Bamboleo" 
with Celia Cruz, & Willie Colon, "Guasasa" with Johnny Pacheco, and "WEA Carobe 
Tito Nieves En Otra Onda"..


Robin Thomas
A well-known and respected dancer and DJ, Robin's enthusiasm for Argentine 
tango can be seen most clearly in his wholehearted dedication to teaching. He 
believes that it is very important for students to dance simply and musically 
from the very beginning. Building that strong base of connection and musicality 
early, Robin believes, will allow even very new beginners to feel comfortable 
and confident on a crowded dance floor and will also lead to a more 
comprehensive and fluid understanding of more complicated techniques later on. 
Robin's teaching style reflects this philosophy, and his students appreciate 
the humorous but still down-to-earth way he presents the material.

Robin's travel schedule is a busy one, reflecting his growing popularity as a 
teacher and tango DJ. Recently, he has taught in Portland, Denver, Ann Arbor, 
Washington DC, Seattle, Berlin, Edinburgh, San Diego, Providence, Pittsburgh 
and at the universities, Yale, Princeton, and Cornell. 

On the rare occasion that he is neither teaching or DJing, Robin can always be 
seen on the dance floor, either working to expand his own understanding of 
Argentine tango, or simply enjoying the connection he works so hard to share 
with others. 

He also hosts a popular milonga, Nocturne, once a month.

For more info, visit his site: www.robinthomastango.com


www.robinthomastango.com
www.myspace.com/robinthomastango




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