Learn the Shim-Sham!
Learn the Shim-Sham!
Six total Tango Workshops!
April 30th and May 2nd
Location: Olympia Eagles
805 4th Ave E Olympia, WA
$25 per workshop
$60 for 3 workshops
Thursday April 30
(Included with April all-access pass)
Workshop 1: 6 pm
The CYLINDER of the EMBRACE as our shared space for dancing:
The arms and the back as a communicative tool to travel through space together and not so together
Workshop 2: 7 pm
Tango Magicians: creating the visual effect in SACADAS for both roles
Workshop 3: 8 pm Fusion for all partner dancers
A lab all about real CONNECTION in PARTNER DANCING: an investigation on the path of the energy and the transformation into movement.
Saturday, May 2nd
(included with May all-access pass)
Workshop 4: 12 pm
The body mechanics of the UPPER & the LOWER BODY in Tango partnership:
Understanding how Torsions, Spirals & Pivots work for each role. Applying in OCHOS variations and BACK SACADAS
Workshop 5: 1 pm
The issue of the FREE LEG!
.The in-between line of it being free but alive to dance!
.Investigating the dynamics for playing with it consciously
.Applying in ganchos / boleos
Workshop 6: 2 pm
The art of dancing TOGETHER: an investigation of what leading and following means. Creating a team by listening to each other.
Bio
This porteña tango dancer, born in Buenos Aires in 1985, has been connected to the world of dance since her childhood. Gaby’s first steps were based in jazz and sports aerobics, and she later moved into different international rhythms such as hip hop, salsa, axè, theater dance and lindy hop. At the age of 21, moved by the intention of learning more about her own culture and traditions, she discovered tango, and with it, her true passion and vocation. She started studying with different tango teachers in several schools in order to find her own style. Amongst her teachers, Chicho Frúmboli and Juana Sepúlveda, Alejandro Larenas and Marisol Morales, Bruno Tombari and Rocío Lequio, Pablo Rodríguez y Corina Herrera, Moria Castellano, Dana Frígoli and Corina de la Rosa stand out.
After earning a degree in pharmacy from the University of Buenos Aires, Gaby decided that her true professional path was definitively bound together with dancing and so she became fully dedicated and committed to teaching and dancing tango. Since then, she has been giving regular lessons at different milongas in Buenos Aires, such as the well-known Viva la Pepa Milonga, La Mandrilera Milonga and La María Milonga, of which she has also been co-creator and organizer. She is now also working with regular Tango lessons along with Natalia Viola in their DaleTango project.
Apart from her experience as a teacher, Gaby has performed at several milongas, including Milonga 10, Maldita Milonga and La Mandrilera Milonga with Flaqui Figueroa.
With Guillermo Cerneaz, her current dancing partner, Gaby has participated in San Miguel Tango Festival 2015 in Mexico and in Portland Tango Festival 2015, Salt Lake City Summer Tango Festival 2016 and Natural Tango Festival 2016 in the USA. They have also given Tango Workshops and performed in several cities in the US, incluiding San Diego, Chicago, Boston, NYC, Minneapolis, Boulder and Seattle.
As a tango teacher, Gaby is fresh and relaxed, prioritizing the students’ comfort during the process and making for an enjoyable experience. At the same time that she deepens the technical aspects of this dance for the students, she also emphasizes the social side of it, its improvisation essence and the connection with another, imparting useful tools for applying at the milonga.
She is a passionate dancer, joyful and intense, combining her milonguera embrace along with strength and technique to build up the Tango Argentino performer that she is.
