[Tango-A] NA-E:La Belle Epoque@Ukranian Restaurant, 6/20, DJ Robin, Class by Robin and Kyla, NYC

[robin thomas]

Fridays La Belle Epoque Tango Club 
@ Ukranian East Village Restaurant

Friday June 20 
Host: Rosa Collantes

A Tango night with Live Music
By TITO CASTRO & PANCHO NAVARRO 



TANGO CLASSES BY ROBIN THOMAS

7:15 pm Introduction to Tango/ Beginners 
8:15 pm Intermediate level

DJ: ROBIN THOMAS

open dance floor - until 2:30 am

Performances by Robin Thomas and Kyla Mares





$12- ($15 with the classes included)
/ $ 8 (Students with ID & members) 

Ukrainian East Village Restaurant
140 2nd Ave ( between 8th & 9th St) 212-924-7077


Hector "Tito" Castro was born in the town of 9 de Julio in the province of Buenos Aires. At age three, his family moved to the neighborhood Villa Pueyrredon in the capital. He began his bandoneon classes and general music education at age 14 with Eladio titoBlanco, who was the first bandoneon in the D’Arienzo orchestra. A few years later, Tito began his professional career playing with neighborhood orchestras like Horacio Vacarezza’s and Marcos Bagnolo’s. At age 18 he started playing in the Osmar Maderna Orquesta, Simbolo, where he stayed for three years. He continued with the Lucio Demare’s and Fulvio Salamanca’s orchestras and substituted bandoneon players ir Hector Varela and Juan Sanchez Gorio. He has accompanied in two occasions the Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa at Carnegie Hall and tenor Placido Domingo at the Washington Opera and the Metropolitan Opera House in NY. Tito toured Japan and Hawaii in 2004 and 2005 with Japanese tango
 singer Anna Saeki, with whom he has also performed at Carnegie Hall and at the famous jazz club Blue Note in NYC. Recently he participated in the recording of her new CD, which was presented to the audiences in Japan and Korea tour in December of 2005.



Francisco "Pancho" Navarro's masterful playing is illuminated by an encyclopedic knowledge of popular, folkloric, and classical music of Latin America.
Francisco is from Mendoza Argentina, and lived in Chile and Mexico before coming to New York. In Mexico he worked with many major Mariachi groups, and won first guitarist at Mexico's Festival Ranchero de la Cancion for three consecutive years.His playing can be heard on the soundtracks of "Mambo Kings" , "Flawless", and "Frida" as well as numerous recordings, including "Bamboleo" with Celia Cruz, & Willie Colon, "Guasasa" with Johnny Pacheco, and "WEA Carobe Tito Nieves En Otra Onda"..


Robin Thomas
A well-known and respected dancer and DJ, Robin's enthusiasm for Argentine tango can be seen most clearly in his wholehearted dedication to teaching. He believes that it is very important for students to dance simply and musically from the very beginning. Building that strong base of connection and musicality early, Robin believes, will allow even very new beginners to feel comfortable and confident on a crowded dance floor and will also lead to a more comprehensive and fluid understanding of more complicated techniques later on. Robin's teaching style reflects this philosophy, and his students appreciate the humorous but still down-to-earth way he presents the material.

Robin's travel schedule is a busy one, reflecting his growing popularity as a teacher and tango DJ. Recently, he has taught in Portland, Denver, Ann Arbor, Washington DC, Seattle, Berlin, Edinburgh, San Diego, Providence, Pittsburgh and at the universities, Yale, Princeton, and Cornell. 

On the rare occasion that he is neither teaching or DJing, Robin can always be seen on the dance floor, either working to expand his own understanding of Argentine tango, or simply enjoying the connection he works so hard to share with others. 

He also hosts a popular milonga, Nocturne, once a month.

For more info, visit his site: www.robinthomastango.com


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