TANGO TEA ON THE THAMES – Tuesday afternoon 20th February!
Tango on The Thames and Queer Tango London join forces to offer a FREE Tango Tea Dance at the Royal Festival Hall!
If you are FREE on the afternoon of Tuesday 20th February, you are also FREE to dance tango at the Clore Ballroom, a wonderful place to dance!
[Thanks for clip, Oksana Veber!]
…or FREE to find out if you would like to learn – and all for FREE!
Absolute beginners welcome!
1.30 pm Beginners/Absolute Beginners with Olga Metzner!
No partner necessary - you will be changing partners constantly anyway! Leather-soled shoes rather than rubber, if you can!
Also 1.30 pm: Intermediate Class with Paula Duarte and Daniel Gini!
2.30 pm until 4.00 pm wonderful, danceable, tango music from DJ, Fabiano Borretti.
Fabiano Borretti
Originally from Brazil, Fabiano is a popular dancer on the London and international tango/queer tango scenes, much in demand as both a leader and a follower. His deep love and study of the music to which we dance – especially that of the tango “Golden Age” - inevitably led to his wanting to share his insights with other dancers as a tango DJ. He has perfected his DJ-ing skills at a number of venues including at Queer Tango London and, most recently, at the popular Tango Bridge Milonga at Tito’s near London Bridge.
Olga Metzner
Olga is a London-based tango teacher and events organiser. She runs TangoBETTER, a community dedicated to improvement and growth of tango in London, UK and Europe. Olga discovered tango nine years ago at university, and has been dancing ever since. She has travelled to almost every country in Europe and further to dance, and discovered many incredible aspects of this dance first hand, such as its unparalleled diversity and acceptance. Four years ago Olga started teaching tango, and for one and a half years she has organised successful international events in London with many people coming especially from abroad. In July 2017 she decided to quit her promising career as an architect in a large UK firm to do tango full-time. Olga’s approach to tango is based on balancing joy and fun, good technique and interesting musicality. She seeks to inspire people to develop within the dance, and believes that the two main pleasures of tango lay in connection to the community and endless opportunities to grow.
Paula Duarte
Paula is an independent London-based tango professional. She is regularly invited to teach and perform at Negracha Tango Club, Tanguito Tango Academy, Tango on the Thames, Pavadita, Titos, Reading Tango Club and Touch of Tango amongst others . Paula performs in several productions from Tango Siempre and Santiago Quarter (currently showing in theatres across the UK). After winning the first place award for best performer at an international dance competition in Spain in 2011 (III Open Show Dance, Andalucia) she has been a member of Tango Companies and productions, with whom she travelled around the world to perform and teach the different styles of the Argentine Tango, such works include “Broken Tango”, “Rea Danza”, “Perfiles”, dancing with the Milton and Romina Tango Company and Compania Nacional Arcos de Buenos Aires.
Daniel Gini
Daniel is an Argentinian Tango dancer and teacher, with over ten years of experience teaching and dancing internationally. Born in Argentina, Daniel took his first steps in Argentinian Folklore, before stepping into the world of tango with his first lesson in his hometown in 2005 and has never looked back. In Argentina he was part of the Tango Ballet and was a teacher at El Esquinazo Tango Estudio in Buenos Aires. He has been based in London since 2014 and has taught for over 3 years at Leandro Palou Tango Adademy.
With all of this under his belt, he founded Tango Integral, a school based in London and Buenos Aires, which adopts a unique approach to Tango by seamlessly incorporating techniques and methods from other dance and art forms, enabling students to reach their highest potential.
