A weekend of Tango in the American Riviera
We will explore many of the facets of this profound and beautiful art through Workshops, Private Sessions, a Movie Night, and a Milonga!
Join the friendly Santa Barbara Tango community for a memorable time.
FREE Community Class! Come experience the magic of tango from the hand of one of its legendary masters! And if you are an experienced dancer, come and be a tango ambassador. Help others take their first tango steps.
Workshop: these maestros move with elegance, a kind of precise and fluid movement that is a pleasure to watch. What is their secret? Learn it first hand.
MOVIE NIGHT - Our Last Tango: The story of the most famous tango couple, Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes. Gustavo worked with Copes and knew him well. He will help us gain insight into what happened in that story.
Tea Milonga at Magnetica: A Local’s Favorite, an afternoon of tea, dancing, and making friends.
We are excited to welcome Gustavo Russo and Florencia Lucano. Gustavo began his career in 1988 with Juan Carlos Copes and has since been actively dancing, choreographing, and teaching around the globe alongside Florencia Lucano. Gustavo is featured in some of the most watched tango videos of all time, Mala Junta, danced together with Alejandra Martinan, in the show Tango Pasion.
ITINERARY
Saturday, June 1st
10:30 am - 12:30 pm - Private Sessions
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm - FREE Beginner Class with Gustavo & Florencia
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm - Workshop
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm - Mini Practica
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm - Movie- Our Last Tango
Sunday, June 2nd
11:00 am - 4:00 - Private Sessions
3:00 pm - Tea Milonga at Magnetica
Contact Ale to arrange your Private Session
Gustavo Russo
Gustavo Russo started his career as a professional dancer in Juan Carlos Copes’ 1988 show “Tango Tango” at the Lola Membrives Theatre and was later selected to take part in the First Buenos Aires Biennial, in the category of dance (Tango). In 1989 he starred in the main role of the show “Solo Tango”, by the director Eduardo Rodríguez Lozano. Simultaneously, he worked for the most important “Tango Houses” (those offering dinner Tango Shows) in Buenos Aires: Taconeando, La Ventana, El Aristócrata, La Veda, Che Bandoneón, L´Époque, Michelángelo and Señor Tango among others. During this period and until 1993, he also performed as a dancer in the presentations that accompanied the performances of many well known tango orchestras, such as those directed by José Colángelo, Julián Plaza, Osvaldo Berlingieri, José Basso, Jorge Dragone, Mariano Mores and the Sexteto Mayor. In 1990 he took part in the “Argentina Tango Show” and in 1991, danced in the “Viva Tango” show by Mariano Moreno and his orchestra, with which he later toured the United States of America and Mexico. In that same year, together with his dance partner of the moment, Alejandra Mantiñán, they participated regularly as solo artists in a famous television program “Grandes Valores del Tango”, where he also displayed his skills as a choreographer. From 1990 to 1992, he was part of the cast of Claudia Mores and Rolando Luque’s show, which toured the Argentine provinces and the summer holiday resort circuit on the Atlantic coast and received the “Estelares del Mar” Award for Best Tango Show. In 1992, he joined and later became the star of “Tango Pasión”. He formed part of the original cast of this show, which that same year premiered officially on Broadway and continued dancing in it until 1999. During this time, he toured the five continents extensively with this show, performing at many of the most important theatres in the world: the Deutsches Theatre in Munich, Tonhalle in Dusseldorf, the Hamburger Musikhalle in Hamburg, the Alter Oper in Frankfurt, the Köln Philharmonie in Cologne, the Champs Elysées Theatre in Paris, the Carré Theatre in Amsterdam, the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, the Kremlin in Moscow, the October Theatre in Saint Petersburg, the Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium in Hong Kong, the Yapouto Gotanda Hall in Tokyo, the II Sistina Theatre in Rome, the Irodio Acrópolis in Athens and the State Theatre in Sydney and at Louis II Stadium in Monaco for the Prince Rainiero and Royal Family, among others. In 1994 he participated in the popular French film “Maigret”, in the chapter called “Maigret se trompé”, in which he embodied a Tango dancer, performing a number he himself choreographed. In 1994 he was commissioned from Paris to take part in a show called “Paris, New York, Buenos Aires”, which was presented in that same city and in Gents, Belgium. The same French production group specifically requested his participation once again in 1998 and 1999 as a guest dancer and choreographer for the 2nd and 3rd Tango Festival of Paris. In 2004 he was presented as the star of that same Festival. In the year 2000 he presented Tango Seduccion. This was the first show that he choreographed and directed entirely on his own, as well as dancing in it. The show was acclaimed by international audiences in different countries around the world and was also highly praised by the specialized media. Since then, he has undertaken various successful tours with the show, with his own dance troupe and with Samantha Garcia, his present partner. They have performed in Europe, acting in Russia, Holland, France, Austria, Greece, Czech Republic as well as performing on different stages in other parts of the world such as Korea, Taiwan, Macao, Turkey, Arab Emirates, Israel, Brazil and Chile among others. At present, Gustavo Russo continues working on the creation and production of other shows
WATCH: https://milonguerosallaboard.com/alejandra-martinan-gustavo-russo/
Florencia Lucano
Beautiful young dancer and choreographer, the current partner of Gustavo Russo and travels all over the world with him.
INFO: (805) 455-1906 ale@nomadtango.org