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Natalia Hills and Jorge Torres
Natalia Hills was one of the dancers of the original cast of the Broadway and London hit "Forever Tango" and the recipient of a 1997 Tony Award and Drama Desk nomination for Best Choreography.
Her Broadway debut was at the Walter Kerr and Marquis Theater. During her association with the company (1995-2005) she performed in major cities throughout North America , Asia , and Europe , as well as for the first and only time on stage at the historical opera house Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires , Argentina .
Born in Buenos Aires , she began her theatrical career at the age of 12 and soon appeared as both a dancer and a choreographer in various national and international productions.
In March, 1995, she debuted in "Forever Tango" in San Francisco followed by the show's successful London run at Convent Garden . That same year she was specifically invited to perform in honor of Princess Diana Spenser at the British Embassy in Argentina .
In the summer of 1998, Natalia appeared in the long-running, popular PBS series "Evening at Pops" with the Boston Pops Orchestra.
In August 2001 she performed with Forever Tango at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Her worldwide performances in 2003 include appearances on NBC's Today Show; with Las Vegas tango Productions; in La Biennale de la Dance, in Lyon-France; and was, by special invitation, featured dancer at the International Tango Festival in Toulouse, France.
In the summer of 2003 she was featured at the Hollywood Bowl as principal dancer in a series of concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic presenting the music of Astor Piazzolla, conducted by Miguel Hart-Bedoya with direction and choreography by Hector Zaraspe.
In July, 2004 she appeared with " Forever tango" on Broadway at New York's Shubert Theater. In October she contracted with Verizon Wireless of New York City to create the choreography for a publicity campaign.
In April 2005 she appeared once more with "Forever tango" at Hollywood's Kodak Theater (home of Academy Awards)
In 2006 she was special guest artists at New York University's Skirball Center with "Tango, Brief Stories" and the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts in Miami-FL, among others.
In July, she appeared on television again, at the very popular "Today Show" on NBC.
In 2007, after her presentation at The Cabaret Theatre of the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville- Connecticut, she performed for the second time at the prestigious Kodak Theater of Hollywood- CA.
In October she performed at Peter Norton Symphony Space, New York City Center and "Le Trainon de Paris" in Paris-France.
 Jorge Torres
Jorge Torres is a world-renowned Tango Choreographer, Dancer, and Impresario of dance productions. He is amazing to behold on the dance floor, as he dances with a quiet and smooth style.
His refined talents and style place him between those outstanding choreographers and dancers of Argentine Tango. Before graduating as a teacher of dances, Jorge began his career in the Theater Colon.He has study with famous dancers and teacher of Argentine Tango such as Norberto Guichanduc, Rodolfo Dinzel, Pepito Avellaneda and Antonio Todaro. He has danced in the most noted tango houses and theaters of Argentina and renowned orchestras of Tango. He Has participated in such shows as "Imagenes", "Tango y añoranzas", "La pesada del tango", " Tangokinesis ", Tanguisimo 91", "Tango Tango", "Viva Tango", "Tango Passion", "Buenos Aires tango show", "Tango Seduccion" and in may of 1995 Jorge Torres occupied the Captain's of the dancers roll in Forever Tango." In 1998 Jorge was nominated for the Tony awards for best choreography.
He was also nominated by the Outer Critics Circle and for four Awards including that of best choreography from the Drama Desk. He has recorded with Karen Kain "A Evaristo Carriego" for CBC, Canadian Broadcasting Company, directed by Luis Bravo. He has coordinated show such as "World Tango Week 2002" in Tokyo and "Tango Legend" summoning the bet figures every year. He has participated as invited dancer next to the Sexteto Mayor in Santiago's Municipal Theater - Chile. He was chosen to integrate the jury of the First World Championship of Argentinean Tango", carried out in the year 2003 in the city of Buenos Aires.
He currently splits his time between teaching in New York and performing in Forever Tango worldwide.
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Lizelot de Stigter
Lizelot is a well known and highly estimated tango dancer and teacher for over 10 years in Europe. Her style and technique are mainly developed through dancing and working with 'living tango legends' like Tété (Rusconi) and Pablo Verón. Several times she was partnering Pablo Verón giving workshops with him in Holland and Germany (a.o. Tangomagía Festival 2005, Amsterdam).
Her teaching is known to be full of fascination for and knowledge of movement. She connects her students with the source of the movement rather then teaching them 'steps'. She uses clear, instructive forms and methodic conception to gain freedom of movement and depth of feeling and experiencing. She offers courses, workshops throughout Europe, Tango-retreats (tango & energy work/ meditation), special events for 'absolute beginners' as well as for (dance)professionals, tango-vacation-weeks, private classes, etc. She teaches all the traditional styles, neo tango, milonga, vals, posture, bodywork and awareness.
Tangosofía means the wisdom of Tango. As all the passionate tango dancers know, this dance is alive! In Tangosofía we come in touch both spiritually and sensually with the beauty of tango. Tangosofía is an approach to learning to dance together deeply connected with our hearts. It is a poetic journey into the inner world, using a great amount of sensing and exploring the truth of the moment we share. It is a way of dancing with natural elegance.
Tangosofía (as it is a word both masculine and feminine) also gives us insight to the masculine and feminine qualities of this dance. In this work we focus on the source of the movement. How is the movement created? In the classes we learn to dance from inside out, sometimes finding a way from outside in, by using the most authentic tango-movements as well as new created movements. But always looking with fascination at the origin...
When we are dancing tango, no matter the level, the true value of this dance lies in the quality of our movement and our awareness and fascination of what is happening in this moment.
Though Tangosofía is a poetic experience, it is also an exact science, since we want to explore the reality of the dance. That is why we do intensive bodywork and fine-tuning in our communication with ourselves and with our partner.
What can we expect to gain from the Tangosofía-approach of learning? Tango is: freedom of movement, natural elegance, true sensuality, fluidity as well as speed or a sense of timelessness, consciousness and development of our (male and female) qualities in the dance, a growing fascination which can take us closer to the essence what we are longing for in our (dancing) life.
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Facundo Posadas
Master of Agentine Tango Salon, Vals Criollo, Milonga Lisa,traspie and milonga candombe. Facundo was born in Argentina and he began to dance camdombe at the age of 3, Dance of the authentic negro colectividad in Argentina and the rhythm most necessary for the interpretation of the authentic milonga. At the age of 13 he was attending dance events where “Tipica & Jazz” was the theme of the evening. ( “Tipica” was the name for Tango, Milonga & Vals Criollo ). At the age of 18 he was a dancer figure in the show of Andy Russell, working at the side of stars like Virginia Luke, Bala Locati, Marchesine and the ballet of Nelida & Ever Lobato.
Facundo participated in several films about the culture of Tango , as a popular & social dance and the contribution of the Afro influence such as “Despabilate Amor “ , “Tango un Giro Extrano” , “Tango the Obsesion” , film of Adam Boucher, “Afroargentinos”, passioned documental history of the Afro-Argentina community, and the “Negro Che” , film of Alberto Masliah, his most well known work, were he performs with his partner Kelly. Facundo is a very charismatic, patient and gifted teacher with over 40 years of experience teaching and performing tango around the globe. He is one of the last most inspiring and authentic masters of the tango world today.
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