This fabulous tango couple is back in DC! Do not miss their world-famous workshops and performance this June.

Roxana had already listened to Tango music in her mother’s womb. As a young child, she used to go with her to the milonga her grand mother Martita organised in the Congresso district in Buenos Aires. She grew up immersed in Tango, watching the best dancers of the time and learning from famous maestros.

Sebastian discovered Tango when he was 15, after a friend made him join a Tango club. At that moment, without even realising it, he was at a turning point in his life. In 2005, he decided to take part in the Tango World Championship with Ximena Gallichio and they became World Champions.

Sebastian and Roxana united their careers in February 2007. Since then they have taught together and have danced in the most famous milongas porteñas and have taken part in Tango festivals worldwide (Americas, Europe and Oceania).

WEEKEND WORKSHOPS

• Friday Workshop:
  Time: 8-9:30pm
  Location: John Wesley AME Zion Church, 1615 14th St NW Washington, DC 20009
  Topics: TBD
  

• Saturday Workshop:
  Time: 2-5:30pm
  Location: Northwest Sport & Health, 4001 Brandywine St NW, DC 20016
  Topics: TBD
  

• Sunday Workshop:
  Time: 2-5:30pm
  Location: Northwest Sport & Health, 4001 Brandywine St NW, DC 20016
  Topics: TBD
  

These workshops will be role balanced. You don't have to register with a partner, but you are welcome to come as a couple and stay out of the rotation. Registration is limited to 44 people on a first-come first-served basis. Last time we sold out quickly, so reserve your spot in advance.

PRICING PACKAGES

• Weekend Pass (2 1.5-hour classes on Saturday and Sunday): $180

• Friday Workshop Pass (1.5-hour class, before Milonga de Luz): $35

• Full Pass (includes Friday and Weekend workshops - 7.5 hours total): $200

FULL SCHEDULE

Friday June 21st, Workshop before Milonga de Luz
Time: 8-9:30 PM
Price: $35 drop-in or included in the Full Pass ($200)
Venue: John Wesley Church, 1615 14th St Washington, DC
Followed by MILONGA DE LUZ hosted by Tango Mercurio (price not included in the workshop, please pay at the door), 9:30 PM - 1 AM

Saturday & Sunday, June 22nd and 23d, Weekend Workshops
Time: 2-5:30 PM
Price: $180 or included in the Full Pass ($200)
Venue: Northwest Sport & Health, 4001 Brandywine St NW, DC 20016

Sebastian and Roxana's only performance in Washington DC
Saturday night at midnight, at Milonga Uno (hosted by Mark Sakowski)
Venue: Chevy Chase Ballroom, 5207 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20015
Milonga Admission not included in the Workshop pass, please pay at the door.

Monday Drop In Class, June 24th
Time: 8-9 PM
Price: TBD
Venue: Milonga Zandunga; Capital Ballroom, 7800 Wisconsin Avenue (2nd Floor), Bethesda, MD 20814 (hosted by Ramu Pyreddy)

Tango Zen, with Masha Abapolnikova

This course is for tango dancers who want to discover the transportive potential of tango through the internal practice of alignment and presence. This four week series will take you to places and realms of subtlety and nuance that you didn't know existed. Below are some highlights of this series:

• Take your embrace to the next level

• Define and refine the elusive tango connection

• Shift your focus from moves to internal sensations

• Read and sync up with your partner

• Have a happier experience on the dance floor

[[[ Followers Registration Temporarily Closed - Please email us to be put on the wait list. ]]]

When: Sundays, March 3d - March 24th, 3:00pm - 4:30pm.
Where: Balance Gym Downtown, 1339 Green Ct NW Washington, DC - 4th Floor studio

Roles will be balanced. Register here. Leaders registration only at this time.

We are thrilled to announce that the extraordinary Marcelo El Chino Gutierrez will be doing a 3 month residency with Tango Mercurio for the Spring 2018 Session.

Marcelo “El Chino” Gutierrez is one of that unique and lucky generation of tango professionals/ dancers that “came of age” in an era where tango came to a crossroads and renewed itself in the 2000’s.

He benefited both from being able to study with such old school masters as the Dinzels, Nito and Elba, the Rivarolas, Teresa Fernández (Todaro system) and Victor Arne; and from being part of the tango revolution that started with Gustavo Naveira and came to be known as Tango Nuevo. 

What tango is today, in 2014, is a mix of these two: the old and the new; the old understood better thru the new; the new reaching back to the old for tradition; the old reaching forward to the new for inspiration; the old and the new intertwined and made stronger through these interactions and for mutual respect. The best tango professionals of today understand, dance and teach tango based on this dichotomy. 

El Chino started studying tango in 1998. He studied dance and choreography at IUNA (Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte – Buenos Aires) where he received professional training in choreography, Russian and French classical dance, modern dance, jazz and yoga. 
For the past 10 years he has worked on developing and perfecting the teaching system he has become so well known and respected for; a system focusing on stability, groundedness, comfort, natural body movement, core leading, organic leading and following..etc. Just a few classes with him can drastically improve your dancing and change your entire outlook of tango. 

His famous exercises and specialized ideas: “Grounded,” “Standing leg,” “Push the Floor” and “The Horse Ride” exercise. Which has been copied by many others. He provides insightful tips, tools and techniques to help his students achive sel-confidence and self-consciousness to maximize their effort and dance effectiveness. 

El Chino is regularly sought out to teach workshops of his system to groups of professional tango dancers around the world; and is also well known for his ongoing Cobra (teaching women to lead in tango) classes in Buenos Aires. 

To find out which classes Marcelo will be co-teaching this Session, take a look at our Class Schedule page for a full breakdown. 

On June 9th 2017 we have an exceptional treat in store for east coast tango dancers.

Alex Krebs will be playing his bandoneon with members of the Tango Mercurio Community Orchestra on the night of Milonga de Luz on the beautiful stage of the John Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church.

The acoustics will be marvelous and the music will be spectacular. Do come and enjoy this rare opportunity to dance to live Argentine tango music of the highest quality!

Alex Krebs

Alex has been dancing Argentine Tango since 1997 and teaching worldwide since 1998, including performances in Buenos Aires. He has run his all-Argentine tango studio, Tango Berretin, in Portland, Oregon since 2001 and has also studied the bandoneon since 2001 currently directing his sextet.

He is completely fanatic about the dance, and shares his passion with his students. He teaches for the social dance floor, emphasizing the improvisatory side of the dance through a strong communication between the lead and follow and on musicality. Alex tries to give his students the vocabulary necessary so that each person can find their own unique way of dancing -- dancing the tango of their own body.

Weekend Workshops

Saturday June 10th 2017

• Workshop 1
  Topic: Revisiting pivots and torsion: adapting your technique based on the connection
  Level: Intermediate and above
  Time: 2-3:30pm
  

• Workshop 2
  Topic: Musicality - feeling more musical to your partner through varying interpretation and reading expectations
  Level: Intermediate and above
  Time: 3:30-5pm
  

Sunday June 11th 2017

• Workshop 3
  Topic: Molinetes: lead and follow technique
  Level: Intermediate and above
  Time: 2-3:30pm
  

• Workshop 4
  Topic: Milonga
  Level: Intermediate and above
  Time: 3:30-5pm
  

• Musicality Lecture
  Level: All Levels
  Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
  

Location and pricing: $150 for a weekend pass. $130 for full-time students with ID. Everything will take place at: North West Sport and Health, 4001 Brandywine St NW, Washington, DC 20016.

REGISTER NOW

Leader pass - SOLD OUT
Follower pass - SOLD OUT

Alex's travel biography

Boston, Providence (RI), Montreal, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Dallas, Washington D.C., Phoenix, Bellingham, Vancouver (B.C.), Nijmegen (www.elcorte.com), Toronto, Ann Arbor, MI, Pittsburgh, Albuquerque, Eugene (OR), Berlin, Nijmegen (www.elcorte.com), La Fraysinette (France)(www.tangovalley.com), Anchorage, Klamath Falls (OR), Mt. Shasta City (CA), Minneapolis (co-teaching with Florencia Taccetti of Buenos Aires), Munich and Augsburg (Germany), Bologna and Modigliana (Italy), Lund (Sweden), Amsterdam, London, Leeds (UK), Totnes (UK), Cambridge (UK), Bristol (UK), Bylaugh (UK), Edinburgh (UK), Yale (New Haven, CT), Urbana (IL), Sun Valley (ID), Maui, Chicago, Newport, Victoria (B.C), Atlanta, Oxford (UK), Raleigh (NC), Bend (OR), Bellingham (WA), Atlanta, and St. Louis

Videos of Alex

Alex and Luciana Valle
Alex and Evan Griffiths
Alex and Jennifer Olson
Alex and Jenna Rohrbacher
OPB video of Alex and the bandoneon

More about Alex

Alex has been influenced by many people and styles, but influenced early on by Mariano "Chicho" Frumboli (musicality), Fabian Salas (structure of the dance), and Damian Esell and Nancy Louzan (posture, walk, elegance). Studied and danced in Buenos Aires for over six months between seven visits. Co-taught and performed with Luciana Valle (BsAs) in Denver, Austin, San Francisco, Boulder, North Carolina, Aspen, London (UK), Bylaugh (UK), Bristol (UK) and has performed with Luciana in Buenos Aires (Torquato Tasso and Centro Cultural Mora), San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle (at the Benaroya Theater with the New York Tango Trio). Alex has co-taught with Florencia Taccetti (BsAs) in Minneapolis, San Francisco, Albuquerque and Pittsburgh and has performed with her in Minneapolis, Portland, Albuquerque, Pittsburgh and San Francisco and performed in London (with Biljana Lipic), Amsterdam (with Yvonne Meissner), Antwerpen (with Esther Heitzer), Florence (w/Yvonne Meissner), Munich and Augsburg (Germany, with Heidrun Fluk).

Has been invited to teach in Beijing, Moscow, Cape Town, Frankfurt, Aachen, Cleveland, New Zealand, and Antwerpen (Belgium).

Has DJ'ed milongas in Portland, Anchorage, Dallas, Ann Arbor, Augsburg (Germany), Cambridge (UK), Seatle, Victoria (B.C.), Salt Lake City, Boulder, Denver, St. Louis, Minneapolis, and the all-night milongas in San Francisco, Washington DC and New York City.

Questions? Contact Aja Fenn: aja@tangomercurio.org

Tango Mercurio is thrilled to host Eric Lindgren in DC this Spring! 
Eric is a world-renowned teacher and a superb dancer, who brings with him a deep knowledge of tango technique as well as clear and precise language to describe movement, dynamics and musicality.

Eric's Bio

Eric fell in love with Tango in his first class. A month later he had moved to Buenos Aires to pursue the dance full time. In the decade since he has continued to explore the many unique avenues of style, technique, and self-expression that Argentine Tango offers.

Eric has taught, toured, and performed throughout the US and Europe and continues to revisit Buenos Aires regularly as source of inspiration and clarity. Eric is exceptional both for his endless willingness to re-examine his dance seeking new depth as well for as for the unusual breadth of his knowledge and experience. 

In classes, Eric focuses on pursuing presence, ease, expression, and pleasure, as the quickest and most rewarding paths to further our understand of the dance.

Enjoy one of Eric's latest performances here.

Eric's Schedule in DC

Weekend Workshops:
Saturday and Sunday, March 11 and 12
Balance Gym Foggy Bottom
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Registration is required for these workshops

Workshop Themes:

Day 1:
1) The Beauty of Surrender
Simple secrets for luscious movement and cozy connection.
2) Close Embrace Challenge
Expand you Close Embrace comfort zone! In this class, we’ll cover a challenging five-part close embrace sequence. Playing with texture and rhythm, this sequence is sure to entice and challenge both partners. 

Day 2:
3) Powerful Partnership
Finding technical precision, excellence, and pleasure through powerful, expressive following and present, clear leading. 
4) Milonga with a Twist
Working torsion and pivots into our milonga without losing our cool.

Pricing:

Weekend Pass - $100.00
1 Day Pass - $55.00
1 Workshop - $30.00

Student Weekend Pass - $65.00
Student 1 Day Pass - $35
Student 1 Workshop - $20.00

Tuesday, March 7th
Intermediate Tango Elements Class at ESL Milonga
Time: 8-9 PM
Theme: To be announced
Pricing: $15 drop in, $10 for students
This class is a drop in, no prior registration required.

Friday, March 10th
Advanced Couples Only Class at Milonga de Luz
Time: 8-9:30 PM
Theme: To be announced
Price: $20 or use your Mercurio Class card ($10 for students)
This class is a drop in, no prior registration is required, but you are required to come with a partner

Born in California and raised in Oregon, USA, Dominic Bridge discovered his passion for tango in 2005 during his studies in foreign languages and psychology at the University of Oregon. Since, he has given shows and workshops all across Europe and North America, and in Buenos Aires.

In 2008, Dominic spent over a year as the head instructor for the newly-established tango school L’Assocciazione Pablo in Florence, Italy.  By the end of 2008, La Pablo had become one of the most prestigious tango schools in Tuscany.  In the winter of 2011 he took over the instruction for the school Tango Mio, in Moscow.  He has also taught at The 8th Style School of Tango in Seattle under North American tango legend, Jaimes Friedgen, his most influential teacher. 

Passionate about inspiring his students, Dominic always encourages them to go deeper and to find joy both in their process and their successes.  Many of Dominic’s students have gone on to teach tango and several are emerging professional tango artists.

Special thanks to Ramu Pyreddy and Marathon Z for bringing this special artist to Washington, DC.

Dominic's Schedule in Washington, DC

March 8th:
Tango Elements Class at the 18th Street Lounge
Class level: Intermediate
Class time: 8-9 PM
Price: $15 for all, $10 for students

March 10th:
Tango Improvisation Class at Balance Gym Foggy Bottom
Class level: Intermediate
Class time: 8-9:30 PM
Price: $20 drop in or use your Mercurio class package

The internationally renowned Brigitta Winkler comes to Washington DC in January 2016! Mark your calendars, everyone.

BRIGITTA WINKLER BIO

Brigitta is one of the FIRST teachers of Argentine Tango in Europe AND North America in this current tango revival period. She discovered tango in 1980. In Buenos Aires, she worked with legendary dancers, including Juan Carlos Copes, Antonio Todaro, Pepito Avellaneda, Gustavo Naveira and Eduardo Arquimbau. Brigitta co-founded the highly respected Tanzart studio in Berlin in 1987, the internationally acclaimed performance company Tango Mujer in 1996, and co-created the Teacher Training Network with Tomás Howlin in 2008. In between world travels, Brigitta teaches regularly in NYC and PHYNIXtanzt in Berlin.

Brigitta combines over 30 years of international experience in tango dance, instruction and performance with techniques of Body Mind Centering. She is an equally gifted resource for both close embrace and open style tango. Her workshops are insightful, creative, and incredibly fun!  
(See Brigitta's web site www.brigittatango.de for more information)

BRIGITTA'S SCHEDULE IN DC

Thursday, January 7th: Tango Mercurio's intermediate level "Tango Improvisation" class 1.5 hours, 8-9:30 PM at Balance Gym Foggy Bottom

Saturday, January 9th: 2 workshops, mixed level, 1.5 hours each, 2-5 PM at Balance Gym Downtown

Sunday, January 10th: 2 workshops, mixed level, 1.5 hours each, 2-5 PM at Balance Gym Downtown

Monday, January 11th: A pre-milonga class at Milonga Zandunga, intermediate level, 8-9 PM

SPECIAL WORKSHOPS

Saturday workshops:

2-3:30 PM: Shared ochos: turns and swirls. Traditional, useful and sweet (Int Level)

3:30-5 PM: Musical moves in an intimate embrace (Int Level)

Sunday workshops:

2-3:30 PM Entre las mujeres (this workshop is for WOMEN ONLY): Special practice for women to explore the difference and the interconnectedness of roles. Work your shadow. Shine in your strength. (All levels)

3:30-5 PM: Extraordinary every day moves (Adv level)