Anton
Gazenbeek
is a professional dancer, teacher, and
choreographer of Argentine Tango. He has
studied with some of the best tango maestros
including Raul Bravo, Miguel Angel Zotto,
Carlos Copello, Osvaldo Zotto, Carlos
and Maria Rivarola and danced with two
of the top female tango dancers in the
world: Guillermina Quiroga and Alicia
Monti. He is a well rounded, versatile
dancer with training in social as well
as stage and performance tango and is
adept at all forms of tango from the Canyengue
of the 1890s to the Tango Fantasia of
the 1950s to the Tango of today. He has
studied extensively social tango and milonguero
style with the best milonguero maestros
of Buenos Aires including Nestor Ray,
Nito and Elba Garcia, Victor Romero, “El
Flaco Dany” Dany Garcia, Silivia
and Alfredo Alonso and Carlos and Rosita
Perez.
Anton
has performed in the World Tango Festival
2005 and in the shows of Club del Vino,
Chiquilin Tango, Esquina Tango, and Milonguisimo
in Buenos Aires and in the world premiere
of the new work of Luis Bacalov “Misa
Tango” in Harvard University with
Guillermina Quiroga. He is the Artistic
Director of his own company and show “Siempre
Tango” with which he has made presentations
in Japan and the United States. He has
given exhibitions in the most prestigious
Buenos Aires milongas such as Sunderland,
Sin Rumbo, Salon Canning, Nino Bien, Porteno
y Bailarin, Gricel, Glorias Argentinas,
Club Espanol, Club Ciudad Buenos Aires,
among many others and taught classes in
the Escuela Argentina de Tango, Unitango
Academy, and Tango Brujo. In Buenos Aires,
he is protege and assistant to the renowned
maestro Raul Bravo, creator of the "Todaro-Bravo
Tango System" together with Antonio
Todaro. Anton is considered one of the
most authentic proponents of this style
of dance and proudly keeps it alive today.
He
has given workshops, classes, and exhibitions
in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Buenos
Aires, Boston, Tokyo, Kyoto, Kobe, Fujisawa,
Nagoya, Seoul, Shanghai, Detroit, Houston,
San Antonio, San Diego, New York City,
and numerous other cities around the world.
In addition to performing in shows and
milongas, Anton has performed tango on
television on channels such as Telemundo,
Univision, ABC, The Tourist Channel, The
Travel Channel, and NHK Japanese TV. Anton
teaches all styles of tango, milonga and
vals from salon tango to tango fantasia.
He specializes in historic styles of tango
from all time periods and is especially
adept at the style of Antonio Todaro and
the milonguero style tango of the 1940s
and 1950s as well as "Tango al Reves”.
He is also available for choreographies
and coaching.
Anton
is also a highly respected tango historian
and anthropologist with many years of
investigation into the history and roots
of tango dance and music. He has presented
lectures on the history and evolution
of the dance in universities as well as
produced a number of film documentaries
filmed on location in Buenos Aires
Natalie
Laruccia
is a professional Tango dancer, teacher,
and choreographer with an extensive background
in classical ballet, theater, ballroom
dancing, and salsa. It is through her
Argentinean grandfather, who was a tango
dancer and actor in the silent films during
the time of Carlos Gardel in the 1920s
and 1930s, that she has such a strong
feeling for the tango and interprets it
so very well. She has realized an extensive
study of Tango with some of the greatest
maestros of Buenos Aires including Roberto
Reis and Lucila Cionci, Gustavo Naveira
and Giselle Anne, Raul Bravo, Claudio
Gonzalez and Melina Brufman, Roberto Herrera,
Carlos Copello, Graciela y Jose Luis Cabrera,
Claudia Bozzo, the milongueros Nito and
Elba Garcia, Carlos and Rosa Perez, Coca
and Jose, among others.
She
has given workshops, classes, exhibitions
and tango shows while on tours throughout
Japan and the U.S. where she has worked
in such cities as Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya,
Kobe, Kyoto, San Francisco, New York City,
San Diego, Detroit, Houston, San Antonio,
Boston, among others. She has participated
in numerous shows in Buenos Aires shuch
as Esquina Tango and Milonguisimo, and
performed in all the major milongas of
Buenos Aires including Sunderland, Sin
Rumbo, Salon Canning, Porteno y Bailarin,
Gricel, Glorias Argentinas, Club Ciudad
de Buenos Aires, etc. In Buenos Aires,
she is protege of the renowned maestro
Raul Bravo, creator of the "Todaro-Bravo
Tango System" together with Antonio
Todaro. Together with Anton, she is considered
one of the most authentic female proponents
of this style of dance and proudly keeps
it alive today.
Natalie
has performed in the World Tango Festival
2005 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.
She has also appeared on NHK Japanese
TV as well as Univision and Telemundo
Mexican TV. Natalie is well known and
respected for her strong interpretation
of tango and her forceful personality
in the dance.
Anton
and Natalie are the first Northamerican
tango couple in the history of tango to
be invited to perform in the famous Sunderland
Club and Sin Rumbo and to participate
and perform in the World Tango Festival
in Buenos Aires in which they did a special
tribute to the show "Tango Argentino"
in the presence of the original cast.
This speaks very highly of their skill
and devotion to tango. This is an accomplishment
of which they are very proud.
