[Tango-A] NA- E: NYC - Norberto "El Pulpo" Esbrez & Stephanie in NYC April 7 - 14!

[Yesim La Turca]

Tango Avant-garde at its best! Founder of "Pulpo's Tango Week" in
Buenos Aires, Norberto "El Pulpo" Esbrez and his partner Stephanie are
visiting NYC for one week only! They will be giving a series of
intermediate/pre-advanced nuevo tango workshops!

"Innovative dancer and teacher of tango nuevo. He is known as El Pulpo
or octopus for his fluid and intricate leg moves. Esbrez created and
named several tango movements including: ocho loco, sentada girada,
elevador, or el elástico. He explored the concept of trap sacadas
(sacadas con agarre) and enganches into innovative variations.

His style is so notorious that when the dancer starts combining
several leg moves that look like Pulpo's it is being called pulpeadas.
Developed the concept of suspension as a tool to generate the control
and fluidity that is part of his dance."   (Wikipedia)

SCHEDULE:

April 9 Thursday: Caminadas Giradas (Walking in turns & Suspensions)
-- 5:30pm - 7pm

April 10 Friday: Sacadas & Pasadas (Displacements) a la Pulpo -- 7:30pm - 9pm

April 11 Saturday: Ganchos (Hooks) -- 12pm - 1:30pm

1:30pm - 3pm Entanglements (Advanced dancers only)


COST:

1 workshop - $ 35
2 workshops - $ 65
3 workshops - $ 90
4 workshops - $ 100


*** Couples optional, yet recommended. Advance registration required
for gender balance. ***

Location for workshops:

Chelsea Studios 151 W 26th Street Suite # 605
New York, NY

Contact: Yesim "La Turca"

Tel: (347) 368 7535

e-mail: laturca.yesim at gmail.com

Limited number of private classes available! Please inquire!


See you at the workshops!

abrazos

Yesim "La Turca"
www.yesimlaturca.com


BIOS:

Norberto “El Pulpo” Esbrez has twenty years of professional experience
as a dancer, tango teacher and choreographer. He is the third
generation of a tanguero family, son and grandson of bandoneon
players. He has worked for the most important theaterss and
show-places in Buenos Aires, such as Teatro San Martin, Teatro Astral,
Café Tortoni. El Viejo Almacen, La Ventana and many others.

Norberto’s style is characterized by creativity and improvisation.
This avant-garde artist, was one of the first to use the expression
“Tango Nuevo” to talk about dance. Since the beginning of his career
he showed his capacity to innovate, creating a very personal image. He
is considered as Rey de los ganchos (King of ganchos).His perfect
understanding of technique enables him to invent and improvise complex
sequences of ganchos, sacadas, enganches, that made him known as Pulpo
(The Octopus). This vision of dance is wonderfully applied when he
performs, always improvising. His dance is based on the communication
and understanding with his partner, and characterized by continuous,
round, soft movements. Today, after 22 years of studying Tango, El
Pulpo manages to combine tango’s close embrace with the leg ability of
Tango Nuevo.

Stéphanie began dancing tango when she moved from France to Buenos
Aires to write her Master´s thesis on the history of the social and
cultural aspects of tango. Since 2004 she has been studying
extensively with maestro Rodolfo Dinzel, with particular interest in
improvisation and role definition in tango dance. She participated in
the creation of tango events mixing dance, music and pictures of
Argentinean and foreign artists in the Club Estrella de Maldonado,
Buenos Aires, and performed in Argentina and Colombia. After she
received as an historian she dedicated herself to dance, also
discovering dance-theater with José Garófalo.

She began partnering with el Pulpo Esbrez in 2008, and they have been
teaching and performing in Brasil, United States, Argentina and
France. They have been teaching together in the Pulpo´s Tango Week
2008.