Modern Tango World #4 (Bucharest, Romania)

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In 2014, he opened his own school in Brasov called Tango Misterio where he now teaches weekly with Veronica Ungureanu. As often as possible, they dedicate time and energy to teaching people in their hometown about Argentine tango and bring ing them into the tango mood and spirit. Besides Veronica and myself, Csongor has also taught classes with his previous partner, Raluca Teodor. My own real tango story began 10 years ago, in June 2006, Cismigiu Park in Bucharest. There, I attended my first class and milonga. I still remember how excited and nervous I was! I was lucky to begin at El Tango. The shool was founded by Alina La Morocha and Catalin Dumitrescu.These were the first people who were inspired to bring Argentine tango to Romania. After spending a few months in Buenos Aires, they opened the first tango school in Romania, El Tango. Together with their assistant teacher, Petruta Vlad, they introduced me to a new magicical world! I am always grateful to them, for these first lessons, and their patience with my first embraces, steps and frustrations. I wanted to discover and learn more tango secrets and essences. In the following years, I traveled around Europe and to Buenos Aires to attend workshops with the maestros. I had seen the old milongueros on Youtube. I wanted to meet them, dance with them in milongas and listen to their stories. During these travels, I became a student of Javier Rodriguez and Andrea Misse, the tango legends. It is to these maestros that I owe the very essence of what I have learned and discovered about tango and tango culture! Thank you always from my heart! I had never thought I would teach tango or dance at exhibitions. But in June 2009, Alina La Morocha, the founder of the Tango Brujo school, chose to leave Romania and left me in charge of the school with Razvan Nineaca, Catalin Valeanu and Diana Dobrescu, Augustin Paun and Oana Ispir. It all came naturally. From 2009 to 2015, I’ve been teaching with Razvan every week after our regular jobs, running to classes and giving it my best energy. We share what we have learned from our maestros as well, as as we are able. We have taken care of Tango Brujo for all these years, with our most dedication and passion. I have adored sharing with people what I had learned, and seeubg how they start embracing, make those the first steps and then grow. It is magical! I find teaching to be a beautiful mission to transmit my love and respect for tango, my knowledge of tango, and my feelings for tango! From April 2015 to December 2015, I’ve been teaching with Csongor every week at Tango Brujo in Bucharest, while we were also traveling to teach workshops in Romania and abroad at several festivals and tango weekends in Italy, Moldova, Russia and elsewhere. We really enjoyed teaching very much! As Csongor likes to say: An important tango teacher was my partner, Laura. From every dance and conversation about tango, I could learn so much. She transmitted to me from her own experience, knowledge from maestros and her travels to Buenos Aires. It was awesome for myself, coming from a hostile dancing scene, the standard dancing. Initially, I had refused to dance with Csongor repeatedly, when he was a beginner. But over time, we danced a lot in milongas and had a fantastic connection for two years. The fiirst tanda we danced together was at a festival with Sebastian Arce and Mariana Montes, in Bucharest 2012, when I surprised him by accepting the cabeceo to tango by Juan d’Arienzo. Our professional tango story as dance partners began in May 2014 when Csongor asked me, during a tango marathon, to dance with him at the European Championship in July 2014. I had never wanted to participate in a championship, but I took it as a nice new challenge and accepted. In the first championship, in 2014, we were in the finals at 10th place. We also received our first few invitations to teach and perform at events abroad. A great coincidence happened in the next year. In 2015, maestros Sebastian and Mariana prepared us especially for the European Championship at Arce Tango Academy. We spent long hours with great devotion in academy. They guided us, practiced with us, and advised us. We will never forget the time spent with them for preparation. We are forever grateful! In preparation for the championship, we also took classes with maestros Neri Piliu and Yanina Quinones in Italy. We also practiced in private for championship with maestros Maximiliano Christiani, Fabian Peralta & Josefina Bermudez. We are very grateful to all of them for preparing us, for guiding us, taking care of us. — 10 —
Over the years, we have taken important workshops with great maestros, such as Stella Misse, Geraldine Rojas, Ezequiel Paludi, Virginia Pandolfi, Sebastian Achaval, Roxana Suarez, Max Van de Voorde, Solange Acosta, Jorge Rodriguez, Liliana Rodriguez, Carlos Perez, Rosa Perez, Jose Almar, Juliana Aparicio, Sebastian Jimenez, Maria Ines Bogado, Ney Melo, Santiago Castro, Antonella Terrazas, Jose Fernandez and Martina Waldman. It has been a fantastic opportunity to work with all these amazing maestros to receive their tango art and knowledge! Do not hesitate to do the same! Therefore, I proposed to Csongor, the youngest tango leader there, to disconnect of the other couples and the existence of a jury, to take the attitude of dancing me in ronda at a festival, connecting with me and the music with the tango. We needed to feel naturally absorbed in our veins. And, we needed to think of the other couples our friends and co workers, not competitors. I transmitted my calm to him, and the vibe to to keep all in balance. I consider it to be important that the woman does this in a couple, for support. maestro Arce agreed to my thoughts. The 2015 European Championship brought us a very challenging, intense, incredible experience! I had always considered the tango championship actually a display of the tango quality, technical knowhow and spirituality. I had previously studied and absorbed a respect for tango essence and culture. All of this was naturally present in the dance and improvisation of each couple on the floor. The three tangos announced during the competition, just before the dance begins, in front of a jury of Argentine maestros. The jurors can give a recognition to the couple whom they consider most accomplished. I never saw it as a competition, in the literal sense of competing. on the dance floor for a cup against other couples. I believe this diminishes from the genuineness of dancing tango, the jury notices it anyways and the result will not be the desired one anyway. I really believe that the jury wants to see people relaxed, who dance for themselves, passionate about tango insights, not about the title! World Tango Championships in Buenos Aires — 11 —
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