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The
Dancer
Antón Gazenbeek is a highly talented, young tango dancer,
choreographer, teacher, investigator, and historian. At 13 he
discovered the tango in Holland and since then the music, dance
and history of tango have become his passion. Antón has studied both
social and stage tango with the best master teachers in Argentina
and is an extremely versatile dancer and specializes in the style of
Maestro Antonio Todaro, milonguero style from the 1950s, tango
fantasia from the 1960s, stage tango from the 1980s, and “Tango al
Revés” or “tango doble frente”. The most influential teachers in his
dance have been Maestro Raúl Bravo, Carlos Copello, Guillermina
Quiroga and Nito García, among others.
In 2002 he moved to Argentina to study at close range the roots of
tango culture. Big stars such as Guillermina Quiroga, Alicia Monti,
Susana Rojo, and Carina Losano chose Antón as their partner for
tours, shows, special exhibitions and teaching. In Buenos Aires,Antón has performed in the shows of
Club del Vino (with Horacio Salgan, Ubaldo de Lio), Chiquilín Tango,
Milonguísimo, Por Siempre Tango (TV progam with Silvio Soldan) and Esquina
Tango (with Roberto Pansera & Alberto Podesta). He also has
performed at
the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Lincoln Center in NYC, and the
tango festivals of New York and the World Tango Festival in Buenos
Aires for
2005
and 2006 and has appeared dancing tango on television programs broadcast all over
Latin- and North America on channels such as ABC, The Travel
Channel and has filmed tango commercials for The Tourist Channel
which are currently being aired worldwide. He has also appeared
on Canal 26 Argentina, NHK Japanese TV, South African TV as well as Univision and Telemundo Mexican TV.
As
a tango professor,
he
has given tango classes in the Escuela Argentina de Tango,
Unitango Academy, Tango Brujo and Club Sin Rumbo, as well as in
all the major cities of the United Status, Japan, Korea, and
China. Together with Guillermina Quiroga, he gave seminars and
classes in Harvard University in Boston. All Antón’s teaching is
based on his historic research. He is one of the very few tango
teachers in the world with the ability to explain and demonstrate
the authentic origin of each style he teaches.
He has starred in four tango teaching DVDs which have had great
success worldwide: The Todaro-Bravo Tango System Vol. 1,
Advanced
Tango Figures & Sequences Vol. 2,
Tango Salón: The Fundamentals of
Social Argentine Tango, & Tango al Revés: Tango in Shadow
Position. Antón is also the choreographer, creator and artistic
director of the show “Anthropology of Tango Dance”.
Historian & Author
Antón's passion for traditional tango lead him to start collecting
all types of photographic and video material related to tango.
After nine years, he has put together the largest and most
important tango video collection in the world (now with well over
1,000 videos from all time periods). He has written articles for
many magazines including those of the Asociación de Maestros,
Bailarines y Coreógrafos de Tango Argentino, Explore Dance in the
USA, and Tango Danza in Germany. Antón is a highly recognized
expert on the show “Tango Argentino” and on the life of Antonio
Todaro and is constantly consulted by different types of media
including Balletin Dance and El Tangauta to collaborate on
articles about those topics. Antón gives lectures on the history
of tango with videos from his private collection and has been
invited to give lectures together with big tango personalities
such as Gloria and Eduardo Arquimbau, Maria Nieves, and Juan
Carlos Copes. Recently he gave a presentation for the University
of Carnegie Mellon, invited by the Pittsburg Tango Association. He
is at the moment writing two books on the origins and evolution of
tango and is finishing up two film documentaries filmed entirely
on location in Buenos Aires.
Contact Antón at:
antontango@yahoo.com
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