ARGENTINE TANGO IMMERSION with Leonardo & Olga Suarez-Paz at Peridance 

May 4 & 11, 7-8:30 PM 

In each class, participants will work on “forward center,” shared balance, walking technique and the use of disassociation to produce movements from leading to embellishments.  Focusing on improvisational lead and follow and musicality we will explore dynamics, styles and steps from basics to giros (turns), sacadas, voleos and ganchos. Find out why artists such as Pina Bausch, Paul Taylor and Julio Bocca have been inspired by Tango and how you can use tango music and dance to enrich your own creative practice. 

Workshops are taught by award-winning multidisciplinary artists Leonardo & Olga Suarez-Paz, co-directors of Nuevo Tango Arts, PIAZZOLLA100 Festival and the Nuevo Tango Ballet. Leonardo & Olga continue their 4 generations of tango legacy through performances on world’s renowned stages from Teatro Colon Opera House and Centro Cultural Kirchner in Buenos Aires to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Passionate about education, Leonardo is an Official Academic Representative of “Academia Nacional del Tango in Buenos Aires.” Leonardo and Olga were the Dean’s Artists-In-Residence at NYU and hold guest teaching positions at NYU, Columbia University and The Julliard School’s Night Division among others. They are thrilled to share this curriculum for dancers with the Peridance community and the larger dance community of New York City.

REGISTER AT PERIDANCE

$30 per workshop per person $50 for both workshops 

$50 per couple per workshop (2 people attending together & dancing opposite roles - lead & follow)

Learn more about Leonardo & Olga Suarez-Paz: www.nuevotangoarts.org