Dear Ladies and Gentlemen of the Tango,
I hope this e-mail finds every one of you well. Many thanks to everyone
who has travelled to Colorado this past weekend. It was a great event!
I am very pleased to announce a one day intensive in Denver with Pablo
Pugliese on September 29th, 2001. Do not miss this rare opportunity to
study with Pablo, since he rarely travels outside of New York!
Pablo will teach intermediate/advanced level classes and the schedule is
below. There will be no private lessons due to the short duration of his
visit. As always, the classes will be perfectly gender balanced and the
registration due date is Tuesday, September 18th. The classes are limited
to 36 persons each due to the intense nature of the technical material that
will be taught and the studio space required to accomodate it.
DANCERS OF ALL LEVELS!!! I ENCOURAGE YOU NOT TO MISS THIS EVENT!!!
There are no more teachers, other than Mingo and Esther Pugliese (who
currently do not travel) who can bring to you the legacy of the great
Petroleo (Carlos Esteves).
What Pablo teaches has become an encyclopedic knowldge in AT technique. He
explains everything according to the rules of logic and everything works in
both the intimate setting of a milonga and in an enormous space of a stage
performance. The technical precision Pablo teaches in class has never been
surpassed by anyone (except his father). Over the last 20 years, the
Pugliese technique has become accepted as the foundation of all classical
tango training.
I encourage everyone of you to take these classes. You may not feel like
you are dancing at the level of the class, and you may not learn every
little bit that is taught. However, in order to grow, a dancer MUST take
classes that are above their level. Dancers who keep taking classes that
are at "their " level, remain at that level indefinitely.
Because the classes are gender balanced, it is very easy to accomodate
dancers who feel they are stretching themselves and partner them with other
dancers with complimentary technical ability and speed. The advanced
dancers will have a glorious day of superbly intense technical work and all
dancers will get a good dose of Pablo's energy, creativity and charm.
Schedule of classes:
Saturday, September 29, 2001
12:00 PM 12:30 PM Registration
12:30 PM 2:00 PM Tango II - Intermediate Part
I
2:00 PM 3:30 PM LUNCH BREAK
3:30 PM 5:00 PM Tango II Intermediate Part II
5:30 PM 7 PM Tango II -III Intermediate/Advanced
Registration:
The registration deadline is September 18, 2001. To ensure proper gender
balance for the classes, they are open on drop-in basis only to persons who
either arrive with a partner or are able and willing to dance both the lead
and the follow parts .
Please e-mail me directly if you would like to receive the registration
materials.
Location:
The Art Project Studio, 1411 Ogden Street (between 14th and Colfax). The
parking is on the street, in the small parking lot belonging to the studio
or across Ogden St. at the school parking lot.
Cost:
All classes are $25 per person if pre-registered before September 18, 2001,
$65 for all three classes, $30 per class drop in after the registration
date. There is a 15% discount for professional dancers, dance teachers
(including Argentine Tango teachers with established ongoing classes), high
school and college students and dancers over 65 years of life experience.
Please do not hesitate to contact me at 303/329-7944 or via e-mail if I can
answer any questions you may have.
My very best regards,
Nina
About Pablo Pugliese:
Pablo Pugliese began to dance tango at the age of nine. When his parents,
Esther and Domingo Pugliese, were invited to teach at The Stanford
University, Pablo's father was unable to travel and Pablo went in his
place, thus beginning his brilliant teaching career at the age of
fifteen. Today, at 20, he is an astonishingly beautiful dancer and an
exceptionally good teacher.
Pablo's parents, Esther and Domingo Pugliese, are among the most honored
and respected milongueros of Buenos Aires. They are the last students of
Carlos Estevez ("Petroleo"), a revered master who reinvented the tango in
the 1940s. The Puglieses dancing and teaching is special not only because
of their importance in the cultural history of tango, but also because of
the integrity of their knowledge and their ability to present to their
students the structure of the dance according to the rules of logic. Their
technique works equally well for everyone from awkward beginners to the
stars of the stage.
Traditionally, Argentine tango is improvised; i.e. all the movements are
invented in the moment. The Pugliese's instruction always emphasizes this
improvisation, making it easy for the students to understand the
interchangeable parts of any phrase of movements.
Pablo absorbed very early the high quality of technique and understanding
that his parents manifest. He observed their teaching in countless classes
and practice sessions, and gradually began to help them. As a young
dancer, Pablo was featured in several television shows which were broadcast
all over the world - "Pablo, L'Incognito Du Tango" (1992), "Te Acordas
Cesar" (1994), and "La Aventura Del Hombre" ( 1994). Among his early dance
accomplishments was his first performance at the age of eleven at a
prestigious ceremony in honor of the tango legend Carlos Esteves
("Petroleo"), numerous performances with tango shows at the major theatres
of Buenos Aires such as Teatro Presidente Alvear (1991), Juan Carlos Copes
show "Tango, Danza y Juventud" at the Astral Theatre (1993), and at Teatro
San Martin with the Tango Express Dance Company and the orchestra of Daniel
Binelli, a bandoneon player of Astor Piazzola (1998). Pablo has also
performed in every prestigious tango club in Buenos Aires - Club Almagro,
La Galeria del Tango, Club General Belgrano, Taller El Cantaro, Club
Glorias Argentinas, and many more. He won a gold medal in Torneos
Juveniles Bonaerenses Championship organized by the Ministry of Government
and Justice of Buenos Aires and auditioned and was selected to dance for
Alan Parker's film "Evita". And the list goes on
To this enormous expertise, Pablo adds his own authentic search for the
new interpretation of the dance, his passionate artistic expression and the
boundless energy of his youth.
