Tango Fabrika Artists
Bulent Karabagli
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Bulent Karabagli
is a new generation tango dancer and teacher whose style strongly reflects the traditional roots of tango. He makes his home in Montreal and for 10 years has participated in its rich and reputable tango scene. His passion for the dance has also taken him to Argentina and Europe to study with many inspiring teachers. Bulent has become well known for his innovative and improvisational approach to tango as well as his fine sense of musicality and elegance. Bulent also brings to his dancing an extensive background as a visual artist. His paintings and drawings express vibrant colour, simplicity and lyricism of line, humor and the human form. His artistic maturity is now informing his tango. Drawing from these diverse and creative explorations he generously shares his knowledge with students of every level. As a teacher he stresses the importance of investigating the structural foundation of tango, making good contact and communicating clearly, moving smoothly between open and close embrace and developing musical timing. With a keen grasp of these basic elements the dance partners can then find the ease and freedom to bring complexity to their floorcraft and develop their improvisational skills. Bulent likes to encourage in his students, the sensitivity and confidence needed to experiment with tango. The dance becomes more than its steps. The dance becomes creative communication. In addition to teaching Bulent enjoys dj'ing and hosting regular and popular Milongas in Montreal. The music is a cutting-edge mix of alternative and traditional tango, the atmosphere is heartfelt and the dancing is first rate.
Bulent Karabagli
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Mihoko Shiohata
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Mihoko Shiohata
She is the owner and co-founder of Tango Fabrika - a new generation tango dancer and teacher whose style strongly reflects the traditional roots of tango.
Originally from Tokyo in Japan, she has danced Argentine Tango intensively for 8 years. Ms. Shiohata has a genuine passion for dancing and teaching tango, having over 4000 hours of teaching experience. She is reputable for the quality of her teaching and dancing in the tango community.
A well-known entertainment promoter, she has organized several cultural events and tango festivals over the years. One of her most successful event is the annual International Montreal Tango Nuevo Festival.
She started dancing tango with the co-founder of Tango Fabrika, Bulent Karabagli, who was her great teacher and partner. She was also influenced by all the " tango maestros" who were her guest teachers in Tango Fabrika. She keeps perfecting tango skills and striving to delve deeper into Tango. With a special interest in body awareness in movements, she has daily trained herself for a decade. She is increasingly integrating the elements of yoga, pilates, ballet classical and modern dances when teaching tango.
Besides Tango, She has also studied osteopathic medicine since she arrived in Montreal. Giving her difficulties with the languages in the beginning, she realized that she liked more organizing parties than enjoying herself in party events.
Due to her difficult experiences as Japanese living in Montreal, she developed a love for helping people. Seeing people happy especially in her events makes her forget her hardships and obstacles she faces everyday in her life.
Mihoko Shiohata's great love for Tango that led her to start her own Tango school, which is now her sanctuary. She is passionate about organizing and managing the affairs of her schools, and even more so about teaching and dancing Tango.
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TANGO FABRIKA GUEST ARTISTS
Cecilia Garcia y Serkan Gokcesu
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Cecilia Garcia y Serkan Gokcesu
Many within the inner circles of Argentine Tango have been wondering how it will turn out to be, this new constellation made up of a hot Turkish-Argentinean melting pot. They met on the floors of Buenos Aires milongas and felt an instant and unique connection, first in the dance and later in the attraction that grew between them as being lovers. Now they have finally taken the decision to transform a love affair into a professional constellation, working together with tango. It may sound as the most obvious step to take, but taking into consideration that they both on each part have had successful careers working in other constellations, it takes some courage to take the leap into the unknown.
Serkan is renowned for the work he made together with Özhan Araz, his Turkish childhood friend and later dance partner. Two young men that for close to eight years were working and touring together as professional tango teachers and performers at some of the biggest tango festivals in the world, as well as working with dance choreography for television and cinema at home in Turkey. Appreciated for an innovative teaching method, based on the fact that as being two men they shared the dancing roles equally, and as a result had acquired a very profound understanding of the dance. An understanding that usually comes with a respectful amount of years dancing, but something that they obtained in the scope of only a few years. Both coming from the athlete world, being semi-professional sportsmen, helped them in focusing, both physically and mentally, to always reach higher levels, constantly developing.
Cecilia has an impressive dancing background covering everything from traditional argentine folk dance, contemporary dance, contact, aerial, jazz, to tango. She also has a teaching degree for the piano. Maybe this combination can explain her outstanding musical and physical expression, close to being unchallenged by anyone in the competition. Or maybe it can be explained simply by raw talent and gift. However, her dancing style cannot be easily explained, it has to be experienced live. If you have seen her at a performance, you know. If not, you are lucky – you can still look forward to seeing her for the first time. She is already well travelled, starting touring at the age of sixteen when she performed in a group working in Italy and France. Later she has been touring worldwide with various prominent characters of the Argentine tango scene. Not only has she been working as a performer, she has also a genuine experience as a tango teacher, Buenos Aires being her home base.
To mix these two talented dancers can only have one outcome: something extraordinary. While many tango couples argue that they represent something unique, this constellation does not have to argue this case. Just looking at their separate backgrounds you know that the end result of the chemical reaction will not be the ordinary, it will be explosive. Their ambition is high. They want to take tango to a new level, both personally as well as within the tango community. And they know that it will take time. Using their diverse experiences of the dance they want to erase the stereotypes of leader and follower. The want something more intuitive, to see the tango as being a solid trio playing together: the music being the conductor and leading voice, and the couple being the interpreters and accompanying instruments. But the couple does not only interpret the music, but also each other, listening to what the other has to suggest and in turn suggest something back. No defined leader nor follower, instead a constant flow of reaction, action and contra reaction. The base is still tango, but the interpretation and the expression are new every time.
Serkan Gokcesu y Cecilia Garcia
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Javier Antar & Kara Wenham
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Javier Antar & Kara Wenham ( buenos aires )
As one of the principle teachers in BA, we have the highest regard for their teaching and ability. Kara and Javier are known around the world as teachers with exceptional presence, generosity, and effectiveness. Regardless of your level, they will profoundly improve your dance whilst inspiring your latent creativity. As dancers, they manage to be both exceptionally musical and entirely elegant whilst improvising difficult, risky material. Kara and Javier are some of the crème de la crème of Buenos Aires-based younger dancers who, after assiduous study of traditional tango, are now, through their commitment to improvisation, innovation and excellence, bringing tango forward into the future. Don’t miss this chance to study with them locally!
Javier Antar & Kara Wenham
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