Artistes à Tango Fabrika
Bulent Karabagli
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Bulent Karabagli est un danseur et professeur de tango de la nouvelle génération . Son style reflète les racines traditionnelles du tango argentin.
Il fait partie de la scène Montréalaise de Tango argentin, ville dans laquelle il réside depuis plus de 10 ans. Sa passion de la danse l'a fait voyager en Argentine et en Europe, où il a étudié avec de grands danseurs internationaux.
Bulent est reconnu pour son approche innovative de l'enseignement du tango. Il donne beaucoup d'importance à l'improvisation ainsi qu'à l'élégance et la musicalité. Il est constamment à la recherche de méthodes basées sur la structure du mouvement du tango permettant une communication claire , des transitions souples entre danse rapprochée et ouverte ainsi que de la précision dans le rythme. L'articulation de tous ces éléments permet aux étudiants de développer les éléments essentiels du tango, tels la sensibilité, la confiance, la créativité. Surtout elle permet de faire de cette danse bien plus que de simples pas ou d'enchaînements de figures complexes.
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: ARTISTES INVITÉS
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 �zhan 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 cr�me de la cr�me 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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