SHARNA FABIANO has over twenty years of dance experience, the last decade of which has been devoted to the cultural study of Argentine tango. She is regarded as an innovator who has remained connected to the tango's roots while exploring its ever-changing modern aesthetics and vocabulary. Based in Washington, DC, she travels frequently as a guest instructor around North America and Europe. In 2003, Sharna joined the internationally acclaimed TangoMujer Dance Company, a group of all-women tango dancers based in NYC, and in 2006 she established Sharna Fabiano Tango Company in Washington, DC. She has performed her work at the prestigious Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and in NYC, San Francisco, Berlin, Dusseldorf, and Hamburg, Germany, as well as in DC. Sharna was named to Dance Magazine's "25 To Watch List" for 2008. Her written articles on the depth and mystique of social tango have been widely read and translated into several languages.
ISAAC OBOKA is an extraordinarily gifted young tango dancer from Denver, Colorado. With the smooth, effortless quality attributed to the most sophisticated social dancers, his tango is full of surprises, originality, and humor! For the past several years, Isaac's passionate quest for the heart of the tango has taken him to hundreds of dance floors across the US, and to Buenos Aires for an intensive study of three months, where he was greatly inspired by the innovative dancing of Argentine artists Chicho Frumboli/Eugenia Parrilla and Sebastian Arce/Mariana Montes. Since his return to the US in early 2006, he has taught and performed in over a dozen cities including NYC, Denver, Montreal, and Toronto. He is now based in Washington, DC. More on Sharna & Isaac at http://www.sharnafabiano.com/. Milonga Picante Sat., Dec. 29, 9:30-1:30am 3519 Butler St. (Robs Place) DJ Greg Messina $10 Workshop Schedule - Saturday, Dec. 29 Wilkins School, 7604 Charleston Ave. ===================================== Noon-12:15pm: Registration 12:15-1:30pm: 1. PLAYFUL & PRECISE TANGOS (All levels). Exercises to improve your tango on both a technical and an expressive level. 1:45-3:00pm: 2. PARADAS INTO COLGADAS (Int). The class starts by helping everyone create variations of a more familiar element (paradas) and then provides tools for transforming them into small colgadas. 3:15-4:30pm: 3. SOCIAL STYLE VOLCADAS (Int./Adv). Simple combinations which of single axis spins and/or volcadas with traditional close embrace elements (e.g. ocho cortado, grapevine turn). Cost: $20/workshops, $55 for all 3 workshops Pay at the door. Private Lessons with Sharna & Isaac are available after the workshops and on Sunday. Please contact Trini to schedule. For more info, contact Trini at [email protected] or at 412-521-1476. PATangoS - Pittsburgh Argentine Tango Society Our Mission: To make Argentine Tango Pittsburghs most popular social dance! http://patangos.home.comcast.net/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
