School of Traditional Argentine Tango

Claudio Villagra & Romina Levin, FOREVER TANGO stars

Claudio took his first steps at an early age, and his roots come from his grandfather, Hector Contreras, followed by Juan Aurelio, JCCopes, Virulazo, Antonio Todaro, Pepito Avellaneda, Gloria and Eduardo, Dinzel, N. Guichanduc, teachers who contributed extensively to their training.

After dancing in various tango shows in Buenos Aires, such as CASABLANCA, LA VENTANA, Michelangelo and El QUERANDI, began his international career ..

Has gone through several important stages in the world like Walter Kerr and Marquis on Broadway New York, staying in for 2 years, Olympia in Paris, Teatro Colon, Luna Park, Astral and Cervantes in Buenos Aires, National Auditorium and Fine Arts Teatro in Mexico.

Working with recognized orchestras like Osvaldo Pugliese, Mariano Mores, Sexteto Sur, El Arranque, Sexteto Mayor, among others.

Romina trained in tango with Osvaldo Zotto, Lorena Ermocida,Mingo Pugliese and Gachi Fernandez. She performed in the film “Homenaje” directed by Bebe Kamin

She formed part of the cast of the important Buenos Aires “Casas de Tango”: La Ventana, Señor Tango, La Esquina Carlos Gardel, El Viejo Almacén and Taconeando.

She performed in the show “Solo Tango” directed by Dolores de Amo and Juan Fabri in the Buenos Aires Lola Membrives Theatre.

In 2003, she joined Tango X2 Company, performing in “Tangos Una Leyenda”. She has given master classes in the International Festival of Tango in the Buenos San Martín Theatre. In 2005, she toured with the company Tango Seduction directed by Gustavo Russo.

Cast member of Forever Tango directed by Luis Bravo and touring the USA and Puerto Rico. She has now returned to TANGO X2 Company to perform in“La Historia”. As lead dancer for two years and MIGUEL ANGEL ZOTTO company.

Claudio Villagra

Romina Levin

Contact them at http://web.me.com/claudiovillagra/villagralevin/TANGOS_HEART/TANGOS_HEART.html.

Anton Gazenbeek is a professional dancer, teacher, and choreographer of Argentine Tango as well as historian and author. He has has performed in all the major milongas of Buenos Aires as well as on tour in Japan, Korea, China, Germany and the United States. He has partnered some the top female tango dancers in the world including Alicia Monti, Guillermina Quiroga, Susana Rojo and Carina Losano. He is a well rounded, versatile dancer with training in social as well as stage and performance tango and is adept at all forms of tango from the Canyengue of the 1890s to the Tango Fantasia of the 1950s to the Tango of today. He is the Artistic Director of his own company and show “The History of Tango" and is the Co-Director of the School of Traditional Tango and a well known proponent in the same-sex dance community where he has taught queer tango classes to the LGBT and Straight communities.
one of the most successful tango dance schools in New York City. He is co-director of Rainbow Tango, a group offering same-sex LGBT friendly tango classes, parties and events and has organized milongas at the LGBT Community Center as well as as Splash Bar.In addition to this, performing in shows and milongas, Antón is an author and historian and has countless articles published as well as his first book "Inside Tango Argentino", the first in a series of three books on the evolution of tango.When not dancing, Anton dedicates his time to writing, researching and modeling through which he has done campaigns for Emporio Armani, Calvin Klein, Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Andrew Christian.

Anton Gazenbeek

Contact Anton at www.antontango.net, antontango@yahoo.com, Tel: 917-373-7444.

Sergio Segura is Argentine Tango shows and events producer. He is a graduate of information technology from the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE) in Buenos Aires. For over 17 years, Sergio specialized in project leadership for important banks and financial institutions. In 2004 he met Antón Gazenbeek and they started a project related with the investigation about tango dance and its preservation. Sergio has created The Argentine Tango Cultural Tour with which he promotes authentic and traditional Argentine tango in the United States and Asia. This tour brings together different events related with history, dance, teaching, music, photography, art, and film documentaries.
Sergio has produced the multimedia show "The Anthropology of Tango Dance" which was presented with great success at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX and Yonkers public library, also has produced "Soles Ablaze" and "Epocas de Tango" shows. Due to his ability to lead projects, Sergio has become an important producer in the world of tango. He has been working as Public Relations for the New York Summer Tango & Film Festival. He also was collaborating with The Argentine Tango Society as a Company Director of the successful iTango Show 2007 tour. Sergio has produced 5 Tango Teaching DVDs, which have had great success, and sales all over the world, film documentaries. He was also sponsor for Club Sin Rumbo, the mythical, 87 year old milonga in the Villa Urquiza neighborhood in Buenos Aires.
With Anton Gazenbeek he has created "The Tango Preservation Project", one of the largest video collection of tango dance videos in the world. They developed the PEMC Tango dance system and they created "The School of Traditional Argentine Tango" based in New York City, where they teach strictly traditional tango foundations. As a photographer, he has done photo shoots with some of the most important tango dancers in Argentina and the world, and has given exhibits in Buenos Aires and various other cities around the world. He has produced postcards and some of his photographs have been included in the October 2007 issue of the Harvard University magazine ReVista.

In 2009, he has created the "Rainbow Tango", a group offering same-sex LGBT friendly tango classes, parties and events and has organized milongas at the LGBT Community Center as well as as Splash Bar. This is a steady group which has been growing up very fast.

Sergio Segura

Contact Sergio at www.sergioseguraproductions.com, sergioseguraproductions@gmail.com,

Tel: 917-373-7446. Watch Sergio's videos here

Lexa Rosean has been dancing Argentine tango since 1995. She taught at DanceSport in NYC (2002-2004) and continues to teach privately. In 2008, she won the U.S. Stage Tango Championship and placed 3rd for 3 years (2007-2009) in a row in Salon for dancing the lead. She also made history being part of the first same sex couple to be officially invited to dance in the Mundial in Bs. As. Lexa taught, dj'd and performed in Queer Tango Festival in Hamburg, and hosted a queer milonga in NYC's famous Rubyfruit bar. Lexa currently dj's and co-hosts LIBERTAD Milonga at Lafayette Grill every Wednesday night. http://tigerstango.blogspot.com

Lexa Rosean

Contact Lexa at Tigerstango@gmail.com 917 841 1771

Lucas DeBuenosAires was taught first by family in Buenos Aires, and then in its milongas. A decade later,
the knowledge continues to be passed around, explored, and shared. Since beginning to teach in San Telmo five
years ago, Lucas has brought tango to the people of Berlin, Boston, Buenos Aires, Gothenburg, New York,
Paris, San Francisco, Seattle and Stockholm. This versatile dancer has been a guest artist, instructor, and/or
performer at the International Queer Tango Festivals of Stockholm, San Francisco and Buenos Aires (both of them). Entranced by the richness of Argentine tango, Lucas continues to explore both in Buenos Aires and through frequent travel, seeking exposure to everything from canyengue to intercambio/fusion.

"A consummate club kid since 13, many dance styles raging from Butoh to Flamenco have fascinated me, but none have shaken me to the core as Tango has. Talk to me through ilovetango.com." - Lucas

Lucas DeBuenosAires

Contact Lucas at: LucasDeBuenosAires@gmail.com www.ilovetango.com

Sarah La Rocca. Tango dancer, comes from a long and eclectic dance and theatre background. An interest in improvisation led her to discover Argentine Tango in 1995. So enchanted by Tango was she, that she quit her job, sold all her stuff, gave up her apartment and moved to Buenos Aires. Little did she know that tango was not just another dance, but an addictive lifestyle and sub-culture. She has studied several styles of Tango with many of the most important teachers and dancers, including Fabian Salas, Gustavo Naveira, Julio Balmaceda, and Corina de la Rosa. Sarah's feet have clocked thousands of miles gracing dance floors all over the world. Despite her many performance credits, improvisation and dancing socially remain her primary love and focus. Towards that end, Sarah produces and hosts the famous All Night Milonga, NYC's most popular Tango event.

Sarah La Rocca

Contact Sarah at http://www.myspace.com/allnightmilonga

Maximiliano Gonzalez was born in 1976, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Maximiliano studied acting, and worked as a performer. He also studied voice with various, well-known teachers who specialize in tango. Having studied Afro-Yoruba ritual and African Dance, he obtained a license to teach several genres of Central American and Caribbean dance (Salsa, merengue, son, rumba, etc) under the supervision of the national Ballet of Cuba. Simultaneously, he studied tango under the guidance of some of the world’s best teachers: Rodolfo Dinzel (los Dinzels), Miguel Angel Zotto, Gustavo a Michelle Naveira, Raul Fernandez, Monica Alcala, and others. He became a certified Argentine Tango teacher under the guidance of the director of the University of Tango, Rodolfo Dinzel. In addition to directing several dance and tango performances, Maximiliano has also taken part in important workshops as a coach, both nationally and internationally.
Maximiliano began teaching and dancing in Baltimore, where a new and lively tango community is in the process of developing. Maximiliano also was part of the staff of guest teachers for the John Hopkins Ballroom dance club at John Hopkins University since 2003. After teaching several workshops and special classes, he created “La Tangueria Argentine Tango Club” with Argentine tango followers in that University. “La Tangueria” holds a progressive program of Argentine Tango Activities for in-campus and out-campus members. Argentine Tango holds an important place in Maximiliano’s life. His dancing is a blend of the new and traditional, with elegance and dynamism, while at the same time, relaxed, comfortable, enjoyable, and accessible to everyone. In addition to his dancing talents, Maximiliano is also a singer and interpreter of the songs of tango, coming from a family with long line of musicians who played in many most famous tango groups during the “golden era” of tango in Argentina .

Lately, in his work as coach and instructor, Maximiliano is exploring the evolution of style within the couple interaction in tango dance. Combining elements from other dance resources such as contact improv, modern dance, and energies of movement, Max and his students enjoy experimenting within the tradition of tango.

A new focus, called Open Role Exchange, is a relaxed and deep complex system of role interchange. Open role Argentine Tango classes, that focus on leading and following in the partner dance without specific gender roles, appeal to many cross sections of the tango community, and the dance community as a whole. "The good thing about open roles is that students have more understanding and feeling for the dance." Promoting open role exchange as as 'Queer Tango' in the gay community provides opportunities for all people to comfortably express their dance and themselves through tango as a social venue and an art form.

Maximiliano Gonzalez

Contact Maxi at http://Maxitango.googlepages.com Tel 443-794-1139

Helen "La Vikinga" Halldorsdottir, born in Iceland, but living abroad for 22 years, in Sweden, Chile and now the last 5 years in Argentina. Helen works with the argentinian tango as a dance, as an expression, but most of all as a communication and as a connexion to the other, and both in the leader as in the follower role.

Helen has been teaching the last 10 years in Europe, Argentina and USA with German Gentile, Daniel Rodriguez, Martin Maldonado, Javier Guiraldi, Jorge Pahl, Max Gonzalez, Alejandro Andrián...

She teach from traditional tango to “queer” tango and everything in between. The most important is to be able to communicate to the other and enjoy the TANGO!. Helen started early to dance both roles in the tango and became well known as La Vikinga at the traditional milongas in Buenos Aires for dancing the “men´s” role.

Helen has been giving exhibitions with dancers as Laurant Durcalec, German Gentile, Ellinor Westrup, Daniel Rodriguez, Jonathan Frolich, Martin Maldonado, Maurizio Ghella, Javier Guiraldi, Leonardo Sardella, Jorge Pahl, Alejandro Andrián, Jorge Torres, Lexa Rosean, Maxi Gonzalez, Batt Johnson... http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists

In her own tango school, Escuela La Vikinga, in Buenos Aires she teach both group and private tango and milonga lessons.She has been organizing milongas in both Sweden and in Argentina. In Malmoe, Sweden, the milonga Libertango and in Buenos Aires, Argentina the milongas La Vikinga (one of the first alternative milongas in Argentina), Italia Unita, Rough, Bien Pulenta (the first gayfriendly and smoke free milonga in Argentina) and Mano a mano (open minded tradicional milonga).

Beside teaching, dancing and organizing tango Helen do design and fabric her own shoe brand; La Vikinga, both Shoes and Sneakers! http://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Vikinga-Shoes/39513879494

Helen "La Vikinga"

Contact La Vikinga at www.lavikinga.com

Matt Grubler and Mandi Messina- Bronze medal USA Tango championship

Are thrilled to be a part of the School of Traditional Argentine Tango. Over the last few years, Matt and Mandi have consistently trained in both social and performance styles of tango under the tutelage of Sergio Segura and Anton Gazenbeek. This past July Matt and Mandi had the tremendous honor of representing the school at the 4^th USA Tango Championship where they took home bronze medals in the Stage Tango Competition. Currently they are continuing they're devotion to the art of Tango as teachers for the school.

Matthew Grubler

Mandi Messina

Contact them at mandimes@gmail.com & mgrubler@yahoo.com

Walter Perez began dancing Tango in his hometown, Buenos Aires, 1993. What began as a kind of therapy soon became a seductive way of life. Since then, he has dedicated his career to studying Argentine Tango and the broad spectrum of Latin dances. Walter has trained in various styles and techniques with renowned Tango instructors such as Juan Carlos Copes, Graciela Gonzalez and Rodolfo Dinzel. He also trained in salsa casino, merengue, cumbia and bachata with caribean teachers. He started salsa break on 2, in Argentina in 1998 with Jimmy Anton.

Integrating dance techniques used in Ballet, Jazz, Modern Dance, and Acting, a unique fusion of style and skill has blossomed.

Walter has performed with several dance companies, arts centers, and theaters. He has additionally participated in several Television variety shows and special events. Walter’s credits include working as the choreographer and choreographer’s assistant for several companies and shows.

In 2000,he moved to NY to continue his training and dedicated full time as a professional dancer. A year later, he started to learn West Coast Swing, participating in several venues around USA, taking workshops with the best teachers like: Mary Ann Munez, Robert Royston and Mario Robau.

He was featured as principal in a national commercial for Coldwell Banker.

His latest accomplishment is as a featured dancer in the Romartis Production of “ Tango first century” directed by Romulo Larrea ; touring around Quebec , Canada; different theatres in California and ending in NYC at the Town Hall theatre on June 5, 2009.

Walter Perez

Contact Walter at wallyperez@hotmail.com

Marc SFQueerTanguero (aka Marc Vanzwoll) is recognized as a queer tango resource, organizer and activist in the San Francisco Bay Area GLBT/Queer Tango community. Generating activity in the Castro neighborhood, he promotes queer tango awareness through performances and organized events, and is in the process of creating classes for gay men as well as queer tango socials. He co-organized and co-produced the 2010 International QueerTango Festival San Francisco, and was Chief Editor and Designer of its newsletter for the past two years. Over the last year he has co-organized and co-produced the QueerTango Café milongas, and developed the Volunteer Teacher program at the QueerTango Café San Francisco to acquaint mainstream teachers to the GLBT tango community. He campaigned, and collaborated with the Bay Area Argentine Tango Association, to bring about the first same-sex tango performance at Tango in the Square. He is passionate about Queer Argentine Tango, and encourages everyone to participate. To this end, he has performed queer tango to both GLBT and mainstream audiences (In San Francisco at Pride 2007, Tango House, TangoLand, Watcha Doin’ Wednesdays, Sundance Saloon, Pena Pachamama, and in Sacramento at the Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus "Unity: 25 Years of Music and Dance!"), and has won several pro/am queer tango dance competitions within the San Francisco Bay Area.

Marc SFQueer

Tanguero

Contact at: sfqueertanguero@yahoo.com http://www.queertango.freehosting.net

Chris Vasquez. From his hometown of Buffalo, New York to Buenos Aires, Argentina, Chris Vasquez has been recognized for his passionate interpretations of the tango. The New York Argentinian Consulate awarded Mr. Vasquez the honored “Best Singer” prize during the International Tango Music Competition; and in Colombia, South America he was a finalist at the Medellín International Tango Festival.

In New York City, he has performed at: The Museo del Barrio, The Argentinian Consulate, The French Consulate, The Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, The Americas Society, as well as at Caramoor Center for Music and The Arts, The Park Theatre and Union County Performing Arts Center in New Jersey. In Washington, DC, at the National Building Museum, he shared the stage with tango dance star, Pablo Veron. He has sung to audiences at The Nashua Symphony’s Fanfare, and at the prestigious Mary Seaton Room at Kleinhan’s Music Hall in Buffalo, NY.

Mr. Vasquez has partnered with many great tango musicians including Hector “Tito” Castro and his Quartet, Francisco “Pancho” Navarro, Fernando Otero, Pablo Aslan, Octavio Brunetti, el Cuarteto de Tito Ferrari and many others. With the Long Island Symphony under the baton of Maestro David Wiley and on many occasions as guest soloist with the Americas Vocal Ensemble directed by Nelly Vuksic, Mr. Vasquez has revived Astor Piazzolla's masterpiece “Balada para un Loco.”

Chris Vasquez has created several tango shows including the acclaimed: The Son of Tango: A Tribute to Carlos Gardel, To Live, To Love, To Tango! and In the Clubs. He recorded a tango CD titled Carlos Gardel...then and now. To keep alive the legacy of the legendary singer, Carlos Gardel, Mr. Vasquez created an educational performance piece called The Tango Singer: The Life and Music of Carlos Gardel which he has performed at the NYC Tango Festival, The New Americas Program at The Queens Public Libraries, the NJ Public Libraries and which continues to tour to colleges and universities.

Chris Vasquez

Contact Chris at www.myspace.com/chrisvasquezmusic Squez15@aol.com (917) 414-3796

DJ Yesim La Turca is a dynamic DJ who plays the best of traditional tango while seeking out unusual and beautiful alternative songs. Her vast library gives her an almost unlimited tango vocabulary, and she seeks, above all, to inspire dancers.

Since she began DJing, her dedication and skill have been recognized not only by New York, but by the portenos of Buenos Aires. Her Buenos Aires gigs include Confiteria Ideal, Porteno Y Bailarin, Salon Canning, and the Plaza Dorrego outdoor milonga in San Telmo.

She has become a fixture in the New York tango scene, where she regularly plays at all major venues including her own three milongas that she hosts/co-hosts with Sarah La Rocca. Furthermore, she has dj’d several events in DC, Cleveland, Providence and she is the resident dj at Toronto’s New Year’s Eve Milonga.

Yesim’s career as a dancer has followed this same adherence to classic Buenos Aires traditions; she has studied with Jorge Firpo, Flaco Dany, Graciela Gonzalez, Olga Besio, Deigo & Negracha, Osvaldo Zotto & Lorena Ermoncida, Gustavo Chidichimo, and Omar Vega, among others. Her passion for classic milonguero and salon style have set her apart both as a follower and as a leader, earning the respect of several of her teachers, who condoned her leading socially in Buenos Aires, often with their partners.

Yesim brings this same precision, passion, and musicality to her students, who benefit from her undiluted Argentine tango education.

Yesim "La Turca"

Contact Yesim at www.yesimlaturca.com

Ilene Marder, "La Rubia Del Norte", is one of New York’s most popular and respected Tango DJ’s regularly working at milongas and festivals in the USA, Canada and Buenos Aires. She is known for her "good taste" in selecting the best music for dancing, and for her ability to energize and read a crowd, responding with just the right music at the right time. She is one of the very few non-Argentines to DJ two of the most famous milongas in Buenos Aires - Salon Canning (three times) and Porteño y Bailerin, with standing invitations to return.
She frequently plays the milongas of NYC including the All-Night Milonga and La Nacional, and guest DJ’s in various cities, including Boston, Chicago, Toronto and Miami, among others. She plays beautiful, traditional tandas with cortinas, concentrating on music primarily from the mid '30's to mid '50's, with a few modern gems when appropriate. Her monthly "Milonga Bohemia" in Woodstock is known as the most happening NY milonga outside of NYC, and she presents a popular monthly "El Baile! Tango-Salsa-Swing Afternoon Dance Party" in various locations in the Hudson Valley.
Ilene is also known for her innovative and informative Meet the Music series, designed to better acquaint dancers (and all who love tango) with the key orchestras of the Golden Age of Tango.
She is the founder/director of Woodstock Tango, a 6 year old dance community hosting classes, workshops, milongas and special events featuring outstanding guest artists from Buenos Aires and NYC. In November 2007, Hudson Valley Magazine named Woodstock Tango the “BEST PLACE TO LEARN ARGENTINE TANGO IN THE HUDSON VALLEY”.
Devoted to music from the age of seven when she began studying flute, Ilene has intensely focused on la musica de tango, regularly traveling to Buenas Aires to attend music classes (Academia Nacional del Tango), learn from the DJ’s, dance, and talk with milongueros about the music.

Ilene Marder

Contact Ilene at info@WoodstockTango.com.

DANCES OF VICE is the art of nightlife once again revived. The creation of Shien Lee, Dances of Vice began in New York in 2007 as a venue showcasing an exotic melange of art, performance and music influenced by that special time in history, the 1920s and 30s. Since then, it has blossomed to include Victorian and Rococo themed events with a New Romantic flair, attracting a sordidly splendid menagerie of elegant dandies, aesthetes, dreamers and ne'er-do-wells who gather in shared enthusiasm for the music, fashion, culture, and beauty of times forgotten.

The grand vision that is Dances of Vice is more than the name implies; it is the Dance of decadence, of opulence and glamour, and the unique bringing together of today's new romantics through themed evenings that combine Art, Music, Spectacle and Dance. Dances of Vice incorporates a myriad of magnificent influences of the past in Dadaistic celebration of the liberating effects of beauty, fantasy and surrealism.

Dances of Vice events have regularly appeared in the New York Times, SPIN Magazine, NBC, Village Voice, Time Out NY, New York Post, and L Magazine. Recently, Dances of Vice has also been featured by NHK Japan, Imago Magazine, MTV News, Deathrock Magazine, Gothic Beauty Magazine, and Gothic & Lolita Bible.

Shien Lee

Contact Shien at shien@dancesofvice.com www.dancesofvice.com

Istanbul-born Elif Onural discovered tango in New York City in 2002 and took her first classes with Robin Thomas in 2004. Since then she has been dancing regularly at milongas both in New York and in Istanbul. Elif studied with many world renowned tango teachers such as Metin Yazir, Jak Karako, Silvina Valz, Rosa Collantes, Olga Besio, Federico & Ariadna Naveira and Graciela Gonzales. In 2008, after dancing for four years as a follower, Elif took classes from Robin Thomas and Kyla Mares for leading. With her clear moves and musical technique, Elif has become one of the most desired and respected dancers in tango community not only by men but also by women. She has been giving private classes since 2009. The grand opening of her bed and breakfast - La Cumparsita- serving exclusively to tango community will open in Brooklyn in 2011.

Elif Onural

Contact Elif at elifonural@gmail.com

The Strictly Tango Dance Company comprising of 4 couples performs authentic Argentine Tango at the highest level of excellence. Having performed at countless events, parties, shows and including the New York City Tango & Film Festival, Dance Parade, Argentinean bicentennial celebration these dancers give a show to remember. With choreography and costume design by Anton Gazenbeek their dazzling style is full of speed, power and precision.
Our dancers Matthew Grubler and Mandi Messina have taken part in dance competitions where they have taken away the bronze medal and wowed with their performances. All styles of tango are performed including playful milongas, smooth waltzes, acrobatic modern dances and pure tangos.

Strictly Tango

Strictly Tango at sergioseguraproductions@gmail.com sergioseguraproductions.com 917-373-7446

SIMONE ASSBOECK arrived to the U. S. From Germany with an extensive dance background. She began Ballroom dancing when she was seven, and has competed successfully in the International Latin and Standard divisions. Her achievements and titles ranged from German State Champion, to finalist in the European dance community, to the most prestigious of all competitions in the world, England's 'Blackpool' competition.
She devotes herself full-time to the Competitive Ballroom Dance community as a professional teacher/coach and judge (Privately and through Stepping Out Studios, NYC).
A Masters degree in Physical Education, majoring in Modern Dance and Rehabilitation, round out her dance expertise.
Simone is the Artistic Director of "Rhythm Locura", and the NORTH AMERICAN FEMALE VICE-CHAMPION, NEW YORK STATE VICE-CHAMPION, and NORTH AMERICAN FEMALE SHOWDANCE CHAMPION having won all 1st places at the 2008 5-Boro Dance Challenge.
Simone had the honor of officiating the oath in the opening ceremony of the GayGames 2010 and judging all the dance competitions and is happy to be a part of the Queer Tango Festival.

Simone Assboeck

Contact Simone at Simone@dancetogethernyc.com or 917-459-3990

Los Chantas are a multinational tango ensemble based in New York City. Their repertoire draws from the great Argentine tango tradition from the “guardia vieja” to the present. The group has been playing in milongas, theaters, clubs, and other venues in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and beyond since 2003. With original arrangements of songs by Gardel, Troilo, Salgán, Piazzolla, and others, and a playful, improvised style, Los Chantas infuse classic tangos with new life and unique flavor.

Emilio Teubal » Piano

David Hodges » Bandoneon

Sergio Reyes » Violin

Pedro Giraudo » Double Bass

Los Chantas

Contact them at 917.514.5952 info@loschantas.com www.loschantas.com

JP Jofre and his Tango Quartet : One of the true young masters of the bandoneon, JP Jofre and his Tango Quartet will play the greatest songs from the golden age of Tango. His director JP Jofre has been part of some of the most important Tango Shows from Buenos Aires in New York City such as Tanguera the Musical, Romper el Piso , Tango Connection, etc. Brimming with energy, JP Jofre’s music has been getting the attention of the international press and captivated audiences at the recent Heineken Jazz Festival in Puerto Rico, where he played alongside such stars as Paquito D’Rivera. Reviews have also noted JP Jofre’s exquisite abilities as a player of tango’s quintessential instrument: the bandoneon.
His skills as a performer have earned Mr. Jofre Argentina’s highly competitive National Arts Grant to study with legendary Astor Piazzolla's Sextet bandoneon player, Mr. Julio Pane in Buenos Aires.

"...dramatic rendering of Jobim on the bandoneon...”, -The New York Times

"...Back after playing the night before with Paquito D'Rivera, Jofre impresses us again with his mastery on the bandoneon in a piece with tango flavor..." -Puerto Rico Jazz

"JP Jofre has transformed himself into a bandoneon player of International reach", -Diario de Cuyo

Juan Pablo Joffre

To Contact Juan Pablo Joffre: www.jofremusic.com http://www.myspace.com/JPjofre