Ricardo Calvo & Sandra Messina

We are so happy to welcome Ricardo and Sandra back to NYC! They will do workshops Saturday - Monday with a performance at Blue Moon Milonga Saturday January 25th.

Privates are available; please email us at: dancetangonyc@gmail.com

  • Where: 520 8th Av. 16th floor, NYC

  • When: January 25th-27th

Saturday, January 25th: “SoloTechnique & Musicality”

2:00- 3:15 pm - Leader’s technique: Posture and dissociation, walking, pivot, fundamental turn, rhythm

2:00- 3:15 pm - Follower’s technique: Balance, stability, pivots and flexibility

3:30- 4:45 pm – Tango Musicality: rhythms, melodies, pauses, and accents

5:00-6:15 pm – Voleos milongueros: technique, guidance, and musicality

Blue Moon Milonga
Where: Hungarian House 213 E 82nd
When: Saturday, January 25th 8pm-1am

Sunday, January 26th: “Turns”

2:00- 3:15pm - Giro y contragiro (Turn and counterturn): application to dance, improvisation

3:30- 4:45pm - Barridas especiales (Special sweeps): stimulate creativity and connection in the couple

5:00- 6:15pm – Colgadas Milongueras (Off axis colgadas): create inertia with a hang adapted to the dance floor

Monday January 27th: “Rhythms”

7:00-8:15pm – Milonga: Giro con traspié

8:30-9:45pm - Vals: Cross system turns and alterations

Payments:

For electronic payments please leave a note with your role and which day(s). Message or email us to arrange a cash payment. Feel free to upgrade to a full workshop pass anytime as long as we have space!

  • Saturday OR Sunday
    Cash/ Zelle: $135
    Venmo/PayPal: $142

  • Monday
    Cash/ Zelle: $90
    Venmo/PayPal: $95

  • All WORKSHOPS DISCOUNT
    Cash/ Zelle: $300
    Venmo/PayPal: $310

  • Drop in (if available ) $55

  • Zelle/Paypal: dancetangonyc@gmail.com

  • Venmo @DanceTangoNY

Limited: 20 students per workshop

Our goal as organizers is to offer a high -quality learning experience where each participant receives dedicated instruction from the teachers.

RICARDO CALVO AND SANDRA MESSINA

They learned with the great tango masters of the 80 & 90’s, and they have more than 30 years of international experience. Together since 2005, they form a dance partner in a meeting of ideas and knowledge, resulting in a particular dance style that unites traditional tango with their own original creations. With techniques extracted from the observation of the dance, they create a revolutionary method of integral education of Tango using a complete and efficient pedagogy, dedicated to the teaching of amateurs and the training of professionals. They share their time between Buenos Aires and Paris, spreading their art; traveling the world participating in international Festivals and Tango shows. In Buenos Aires and abroad they are considered as one of the leading tango couples and have been awarded as ambassadors of the genre. They participate every year as teachers in the CITA International Festival of Buenos Aires.

RICHARD CALVO

Internationally renowned tango teacher, dancer, choreographer and show director. In 1984 he began his career in Argentina and in 1992 his international career, with more than 100 tours around the world, participating in numerous festivals and shows. A student of the history and essence of Tango, he writes articles and gives lectures all over the world. As an educator, he created a teaching method that summarizes the set of his experiences on movement.

SANDRA MESSINA

Teacher, Dancer and Choreographer of Argentine Tango. With classical and contemporary training. She is a Master Trainer in the GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® method and creator of the GYROKINESIS® Applications for Tango Dancers training course. She began her career at the age of 18 in Buenos Aires and later continued in France, where she settled, dedicating herself to the study of movement and teaching it. At the same time, she participates in festivals and European tours with different companies, discovering innovative projects and ideas combining contemporary dance, Tango and other arts.

What is a workshop?

In a workshop, students work on key tango movements and concepts in a concentrated amount of time. We offer workshops over the course of one afternoon/evening, an entire weekend, or over the course of a month. No partner necessary. Pre-registration is highly encouraged for each workshop to ensure there is proper role balance for each workshop. We will make every attempt to have an equal number of leaders and followers.  

past workshops

past workshops

  • Virginia Pandolfi is recognized in the world of tango, not only for her talent as a dancer, but also for her abilities as a teacher. She is also a milonguera and stands out for having an elegant, authentic and musical dance. Her beginnings were influenced by an apprenticeship linked to stage tango, but over time the direction of her career leaned strongly towards improvisational dance, ballroom dancing, and milonguero style.  She studied ballet from the age of 4 and began tango in 2002. She has been traveling since 2006, teaching and dancing in prestigious festivals and schools around the world. She was a judge at the World Tango Championship and numerous sub-venues in the country and around the world.  Her dance today is the fruit of a path composed of two fundamental ingredients, the love of dance and the commitment to work. In her role as a teacher, her classes are the space to understand tango with these two axes as basic principles for the learning path.  She is the creator and organizer of Mujercitas Tango Festival.

    Es reconocida en el mundo del tango, no solo por su talento como bailarina, sino también por sus capacidades como maestra, es además milonguera y se destaca por tener un baile elegante, autentico  y musical. Sus inicios estuvieron influenciados por un aprendizaje ligado al tango de escenario, pero con el tiempo el rumbo de su carrera se inclinó fuertemente hacia el baile de improvisación, el de salón, el milonguero. Estudió ballet desde los 4 años de edad y se inició en el tango en el año 2002, viaja desde el  2006 ininterrumpidamente, enseñando y bailando en prestigiosos festivales y escuelas del mundo, fue jurado del mundial de tango y numerosas subsedes del país y del mundo. Su baile hoy, es el fruto de un camino compuesto por dos ingredientes fundamentales, el amor a la danza y el empeño por el trabajo. En su rol de enseñante, sus clases son el espacio para entender al tango con estos dos ejes como principios básicos para el camino de aprendizaje. Creadora y organizadora de Mujercitas Tango Festival.

  • A Brief History of Los Totis

    Christian Marquez and Virginia Gomes — now two of the most renowned tango dancers — started dancing and learning the craft together in 1996.

    They were described as brilliant students by their tango teachers — another legendary couple — Natalia Games and Gabriel Angio. Aside from sowing the most effective tactics from this couple, they were also students of some of the most amazing tango masters: Jorge Raul Bravo, Pedro Faraldo, and Mingo y Esther Pugliese. Raul — who is also referred to as the Maestro de Maestros — is a living tango legend. This tango maestro and his skills are unmatched, and passing them down to Christian and Virginia was indeed an inspired idea.

    Los Totis’ style was also mainly inspired and derived from the remarkable moves of the couple mentioned above, Gabriel and Natalia.

    Their specialty was stage tango, and they used flashy, sharp movements to emphasize the essence of Tango in the performance.

  • We started dancing tango in Zagreb, Croatia in 2002 in a small group of enthusiasts curious about this “new” dance. Some five years later we began giving regular lessons at the Tango Argentino Zagreb dance school. Our first and most influential teachers were Pablo Rodríguez and Noelia Hurtado. Later we continued to study with Noelia and Carlitos Espinoza. We also studied with Federico Naveira and Inés Muzzoppapa, Bruno Tombari and Mariangeles Caamaño and Chicho Frumboli and Juana Sepúlveda, among others.

    Since 2014 we are working with tango professionally, holding workshops and performing all over Europe (Amsterdam, Minsk, Florence, Karlsruhe, Genova, Budapest, L´Aquila, Freiburg, Treviso, Poreč, Mantova, Halle, Sevilla, Lisbon, Procida, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Reykjavik etc.). In 2018 we have started to work in North America, Asia and Australia.

  • Their dance careers started long before meeting, then Claudio asked Helena to dance with him and, well the rest is history. Claudio says “After that, love blossomed.” Now they are one of the most sought after couples to perform, teach and Judge at International Festivals, Events and Important Competitions Worldwide. Los Villagra have been touring extensively in all America, Europe and Asia since 2014. They are known not only for their elegance, precision and musicality, but also for their unique signature method “The Spiral Technique” created and developed by them. Every year more and more followers show respect and admiration for their amazing pedagogy that stems from their passion, dedication and respect to all the traditions of Argentine Tango. Although Tango has evolved through the years, Los Villagra remain dedicated to the Tango they know and come to love – the Tango that emphasizes embrace, walk, musicality, feeling and the traditional milongueros codes.

  • Workshops, Privates, and Performance at The NYC All Night Milonga.

    Together since 2009, they believe that the connection, musicality, and technique are the keys to fully appreciate the beauty of Tango. In their classes they want to concentrate on how to be comfortable inside the embrace, based on the logic and naturalness of the movement. They travel all around the U.S. as well as abroad (Canada (BC areas), Mexico, Poland, India, Italy, etc…) to perform and share their tango knowledge at festivals and weekend workshops. With their athletic background and other dances previous to tango, one can easily see the coexistence of traditional tango movements and philosophy working in symmetry with a nontraditional influence, the end result is an eye-catching and entertaining performance.

    In Chicago, their classes are taught with an eye on encouraging and nurturing individual artistic styles while at the same time stressing the core movements and strong values of traditional tango. Their infectious energy and love of the dance has created a large following of students in Chicago and the surrounding area. They are the founders of 312 Movement & 312 Tango, which organizes events (monthly milongas and weekend workshops), djaying, performing, and teaching. When they are in their home town (Chicago), you can easily find them supporting various tango events and social dancing at one of the weekly/monthly milongas.

    Most recent 2022 teaching/performing travels entail - 4th Holiday Tango Weekend (Dallas), Tango Maya Festival (Cancun), Tango on the Rocks (Denver), and various weekend workshops at different cities/communities. They also created an annual festival in July (since 2017) – Windy City Tango Festival.

  • Workshops, Privates, and Performance at The NYC All Night Milonga.

    Sofia Saborido (Buenos Aires) is a delicate and intense dancer, a gem of the new generation of dancers. With great quality of movement and musical richness, she builds dance from a refined and sensitive connection. Highly appreciated for her teaching, she has taught throughout Europe since 2006 during courses, seminars and tango festivals.

    Tango dancer and teacher with a broad background in theater, classical, modern and jazz dance. Great-granddaughter of Enrique Saborido (dancer, musician and composer of very famous tangos such as La Morocha and Felicia among others), Sofia discovered tango at the age of 10. At 12, she joined the young tango ballet “La Plata”. In 2000 she participated as a dancer in the dinner show “La Cumparsita” and on Sundays in the Plaza Dorrego show in Buenos Aires. In 2006 she won fourth place at the tango championships in Buenos Aires. Between 2009 and 2010 she participated as a dancer in the French show “Tango Argentique” presented at the Avignon theater festival. Since 2006 she has developed an intense teaching activity in Europe, being invited to teach in France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

    Pablo Inza (Buenos Aires) is currently a reference in the world of tango thanks to his synthesis of traditional and contemporary styles. Known for his creativity, he constantly seeks to push the boundaries of tango. His great analytical skills as well as the relationship he establishes between movement and music make him an excellent teacher. Both simple and complex, he builds his dance from a very fine connection. Frequently invited to major European and North American festivals, Pablo has traveled the world since 1999 as a choreographer, dancer and tango teacher.

    Dancer, choreographer, director and tango teacher. With training in contemporary dance, theatrical interpretation and directing, he began tango in 1992 with “amateur” milongueros but also with prestigious maestros. He participates as a dancer and choreographer in numerous tango shows both in Argentina and internationally. Since 1999 he has been invited to teach at the most prestigious festivals. As a director, he created: “Radio Cabulero” (at the Bergen International Festival 2002, in Norway), “El arte de amar” (Tangomagia VI 2003, in Holland). In Buenos Aires he directed “El camión” (2001-02), “Matambre” (2003), “Metrónomo” (2004), “Living” (2008) and “En el abrazo” (2012). Between 2004 and 2009 he was director and artistic director of Cambalache (festival which fuses tango with theater and contemporary dance). He is also one of the creators of Practica X (2004-2014) which was among the busiest practices in Buenos Aires.