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Yvonne Meissner & Eduardo Aguirre
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Eduardo Aguirre has passed away. "Me voy" he said.
Eduardo, a true and very respected Argentinian milonguero, has died. All the sudden, on midday, April 7th, in Amsterdam.
"Me voy" he said to Yvonne. He stood in the front door of their home, and felt that his heart was about to
fail him. He was rushed to hospital for treatment, but there again he
said: "Me voy" and, indeed, he left this world during treatment.
After they met in Buenos Aires, 20 years ago in tango salon Almagro, he
and Yvonne Meissner became friends, later dance partners, lovers and
partners in life.
Eduardo is the beloved
father of his children in Argentina, and for many of us, a great
friend, tango teacher, tango
singer, world traveller, the best pulpo cook, and once a great soccer
player. Eduardo was already 71 years of age (born August 31, in 1938), but still a strong and vivid man and an energetic dancer. As if he knew what was about to
happen, the past days Eduardo
has been visiting milongas in various cities, like Amsterdam, Nijmegen
and Arnhem, to dance and sing till
his very last night. It's not yet comprehensable that we have to say
'goodbye, so long', and
let him go to where we not yet can reach him. Untill then, he'll be
missed dearly.
Video: Yvonne & Eduardo dancing at the Don Tango festival in May, 2005 in Amsterdam
Serie of videos of Eduardo & Yvonne, dancing, teaching.
Goodbye to Eduardo
Many people wrote, and many came to the funeral home on April 11 and 12, to pay their respect.
Later Yvonne and Eduardos relatives will bury his ashes in Argentina, 'su tierra querida'.
Contact:
Personal messages for Yvonne: use her email address.
Online condoleances
A link to a webpage for condoleances may appear here soon.
Proud of having been his friend
Rob Nuijten, editor of Torito's Tango Agenda for the Netherlands
and webmaster of Yvonne & Eduardos webpage
Yvonne and Eduardo's regular group classes in the Netherlands:
Haarlem,
the Netherlands Amsterdam,
the Netherlands Leiden,
the Netherlands
Mondays
Location: Cultureel Centrum de Egelantier
Address: Gasthuisvest 47
2011 EV Haarlem
06-51154841
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19:00 – 21:00 (beginners)
21:00 – 23:00 (advanced)
Location: Het Fijnhout
Address: Lootsstraat 37-39, 1053 NV Amsterdam
Tel: 020-6184768
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Thursdays
Location: Dos bailadores
Perzikweg 2, Leiden
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Curriculum Vitae Tango Argentino
Yvonne Meissner studied contact
improvisation and modern dance at Perron 2 in Amsterdam and the basics
of Alexander technique at Trainingsfonds Moderne Theaterdans in
Amsterdam. Her first tango workshop she received in 1987 from Wouter
Brave and Martine Berghuis. From 1990 she started with regular tango
lessons from Rob & Inez at the Tangoschool Amsterdam. During this
period she took classes with Vanina, Pepito, Gustavo Naveira and other
Argentinian Maestros in the stile of Tango Fantasia. From March 1994 onwards, she increasingly
dedicated her studies to Tango de Salon, the stile which has become
well known as 'Milonguero Stile' throughout Europe. In March 1994 she
and her dance partner introduced Susanna Miller to the Dutch and later
the European dance community. In autumn 1994 Susanna returned to
Holland with the milonguero Cacho Dante. (In that period, too, another
great milonguero couple first came to Europe, Tete and Maria.)
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Teaching, workshops , festivals From november 1994 till 1988 in different
cities in the Netherlands, Yvonne taught weekly lessons with her dance
partners, and from 1994 till 1995 they organized a salon in 'El
Centro', Amsterdam. The characteristics that are typical for her stile
of dancing derive from the Canyengue, which she learnt from her second
mayor teacher Pocho Pizarro from 1994 onwards. From 1996 she takes up
teaching in Germany every 6 weeks while too, teaching activities
brought her to Belgium, Italy and other cities in Germany. From 1994
she organized the video lectures on tango history of Rubén Terbalca in
different European Cities. From 1996 she travels alone teaching tango
and corporal techniques in different European cities, thus regularly
travelling to Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and later France and
Great Britain. In July 1998 she taught in the Festival of
Sitges, Spain, and in august of the same year with Pocho Pizarro in the
Hamburg Festival, which was the beginning of a tour through Europe
until May 1999, when they taught in the Festival in Toulouse. In the
festival of Toulouse she - in addition to the workshops - taught a
4-days series on body techniques for tango dancers. From 1998 until
1999 they taught in Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway,
Great Britain, France and Italy. From October 1999 she partners Eduardo
Aguirre, with whom she taught with in Switzerland, Germany, Turkey,
Austria, Great Britain, Italy, Germany and the United States. She has
visited the US many times and taught from east coast to west coast,
from Alaska to Miami, in various festivals, alone or with her partner,
f.e. in Ithaca Festival New York in 2000, three times in the Portland
Festivals 2001 and 2002, inclusive the Valentine's Festival, in 2003
she taught in the Denver Milonguero Festival. . Teaching philosophy Argentinian Tango frequently is associated
with passion. In the beginning of this century, Europa has been
overwhelmed with images and stories that led to this cliché. The
reality in Buenos Aires gives us a very different impression.
Tenderness and just body communication is an essential means of
expression in daily life in Argentinia. A touch is aimed at listening
to the respond and feedback of the other person, showing respect for
the feelings of the other. There, tango functions as a way of tender
communication in general and starts with a decisive, elegant way of
walking and overall awareness and physical presence in space. These communication aspects became the
philosophy of her teaching, that is based on contact improvisation and
rational explanation with the help of modern dance body techniques to
understand where a movement starts from and consecutively comunicating
it to the dance partner. Central aims of her teaching is the
synchronization of the movent of the couple, thus moving as 'one hart
with four legs', the understanding of everybody's personal movement
charakteristics and achieving the sensation of awareness of the
movement responds of the partner. Yvonne Meissner teaches tango
movement schemes that might be part of figures, though not being aimed
at figures. The emphasis of the body techniques for
tango in her teaching is to unlearn to define movements with the result
of positioning feet with steps. Leading with the chest in the close and
open stile is a guarantee of assuring a couple to be one. The impuls
starts in the chest, being transmitted into the partner and results in
the synchronicity of the feet movement of both dancers. Her teaching is
including music studies. Musical patterns function as the primary
inspiration for the `compas`, that creates movement patterns in space.
The basics of Alexander Technique are being used to redefine the body
use and achieve a posture without the neccessity of muscular tension.
The aims of her workshops are the dynamics of tensionless movement and
the pleasure of interaction in social dancing as a couple entity. For
advanced dancers there will be used techniques to interchange leading
and following while maintaining the same leading position or teaching
of some of the charakteristics of the unpredictible, adventurous
figures and movement schemes on the base of canyengue that characterize
the dance of her teacher Pocho Pizarro, who makes the whole body dance.
Some student's voices about Eduardo
Aguirre and Yvonne Meissner: ---Hedy Miller (Victoria, Canada): ".... Eduardo and Yvonne's teaching combine
the Argentinian passion of a full blood milonguero with the clear body
work explanations of a European, making tango one heart with four legs". ---Gordon White (Saltsprings, Canada): "They have proven to be the teachers that
advanced my tango faster than any teachers and have changed the way I
understand Tango. I have always thought that walking was foremost in
Tango and so have spent most of my time working on that; yet how to
walk well had always escaped me. In a private with Yvonne I feel that I
now feel and understand a foundation for a good walk. Eduardo has shown
me in the living form of a Milonguero a whole new dimension to leading:
service to the music; and the acceleration and deceleration that
thrills followers from around the world." Some student's voices on Yvonne Meissner: ---Evan Wallace (Seattle, US): "As a lead,
my eyes tend to be naturally drawn to the leader whenever watching a
couple dance Tango. Yvonne is unique among follows, however, in that
when I watch her dance, my attention is focused almost exclusively on
her--I am constantly amazed, amused, and delighted by the rhythmical
decorations of her footwork and the unbridled sense of play she brings
to the dance. To watch her dance is to realize that there is a
tremendous amount of freedom in the follower's role to dance--to
really, really dance--that is simply not taught in most Tango
instruction. You have to see it to believe it...Yvonne's style
redefines the role of the follow in Tango."---Clay Nelson (Portland
Festival, US): "...Yvonne Meissner will after her first teaching in
Ocotber Festival as one of the 3 most wanted teachers return to our
Valentine's Festival." ---Dan Boccia (Anchorage, US): "It's now
been a solid week since I dropped Yvonne Meissner (from Amsterdam) off
at the airport after her wonderful visit here in Anchorage. While she
was here, she immediately captured our community's attention and
respect; she inspired and challenged us to pay close attention to the
small details that REALLY matter when we dance. I have rarely been so
thoroughly and convincingly impressed with dance instruction from a
technical standpoint, and a week's worth of perspective has only
increased my appreciation for Yvonne's work. --- Yvonne challenged and
even demanded that we look closely at how we connect with our partners
and how we move. She had the courage to stick firmly to a program of
the simplest, yet most fundamental (and therefore absolutely necessary)
principles of connection and movement. We have never experienced anyone
spending so much time working on developing the embrace and the
connection of the couple, and the principles of movement that are at
the base of truly creative, improvisational dance. Her work has had a
profound, permanent impact on all of us. I could go on and on, but I
haven't even gotten to the best part yet. --- The best part (for me)
was that she had a very clear physical/anatomical reason or explanation
for everything she did. She was thoroughly convincing, in a concise,
organized, and skilled way. There was no veil of mystery. Not once did
we hear something like, "because that's the way it's done in XXXXXX
place", or "because that's the way XXXXXXX person does it". Rather, she
gave us reasons that had meaning immediately, in our current context,
in our current location, and that will make sense anywhere in the world
where we strive to connect with a partner and enjoy a dance, regardless
of our chosen style of dance. She really understands how your body
moves and has the sharp eye of a trained, skilled professional who can
capture the real root of movement problems and can offer clear,
effective guidance for improvement. We became so much more AWARE of how
we move and what it takes to move as a couple. I left the airport with
the undeniable tingling sensation that I had just experienced something
very important, very real, and very worthwhile."
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Training
1987 First tango workshop with Wouter Brave and
Martine Berghuis
1990-1993 Tangoschool Amsterdam, the Netherlands, teachers: Rob and Inez
Classes with Vanina, Gustavo Naveira and others (tango fantasia).
1993-1995 Private classes with Pepito Avellaneda (milonga), Pocho
Pizarro (canyengue), Tete and Maria (tango de salon).
1994-1995 Training on didactics, teaching methods and body techniques
by Susanna Miller (tango de salon apilado)
.
Body techniques and work on posture
1994-1995 Contact improvisation for modern
dancers, Perron 2, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1996-1997 Alexander technique with Tom Clifton Koch, Amsterdam/New York
.
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Teaching/ Shows/ Jury/ Salon
.
1994
Weekly classes Amsterdam, Haarlem and
's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Exhibition Theater festival Venlo with Quinteto Marcucci, the
Netherlands (with Rob Nuijten) and group of Academia de Tango.
.
1995
Weekly classes Amsterdam, Haarlem and
's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.
Workshops El Centro, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Claraklooster, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.
Salon weekly salon El Centro, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Shows 'Canyengue' El Centro, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (with Pocho
Pizarro)
1996
Weekly classes Amsterdam and 's-Hertogenbosch, the
Netherlands (from November with Jan Dirk)
Workshops Azijnfabriek, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands (with Jan
Dirk)
Zollhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany (Solo)
Tangoschule Zürich, Schweiz (with Susana Miller)
Salon El Centro, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (three times a month)
Shows Azijnfabriek 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands (with Jan Dirk)
Volta Amsterdam, the Netherlands (with Jan Dirk)
Zollhaus Düsseldorf, Germany (with Jan Dirk)
1997
Weekly classes Amsterdam, 's-Hertogenbosch, the
Netherlands (with Jan Dirk)
Monthly classes Zollhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany (Solo)
Workshops Dojo, Florence, Italy (Solo)
Lupe, Nürnberg, Germany (Solo)
Centro di Danza Mimma Testa, Roma, Italy (Solo)
Zollhaus Düsseldorf, Germany (with Jan Dirk)
Lupe Studio, Nürnberg, Germany (with Jan Dirk)
Amauta Brussel, Belgium (with Jan Dirk)
Kapel Kontich, Belgum (with Jan Dirk)
Boulevard 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands (with Jan Dirk)
Barrio de Tango, Meyer et Fils, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (with Jan
Dirk)
Shows Salon Regin, Buenos Aires, Argentina, inauguration salon del
miercoles (with Jan Dirk, other milongueros: Tete, Tommy and Adrian
Romero).
'La Beauté du Geste Humaine', Amauta, Brussel, Belgium (with Jan Dirk,
Sergio Molini (Arg.) and Gisela Graef-Marino, Nathalia Games and
Gabriel Angio (Arg.), Eugenia Usandivaras and Leo Calvelli (Arg.),
Nathalie Prudon and Pedro Andrade)
Summer party with Quinteto Marcucci, Zollhaus, Düsseldorf,
Germany (with Jan Dirk)
Amauta, Brussel, Belgium (with Jan Dirk)
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1998
Weekly classes Amsterdam, 's-Hertogenbosch, the
Netherlands (wtih Jan Dirk)
Monthly classes Zollhaus, Düsseldorf, the Netherlands (Solo)
Bárbaro, School Roberto Duclos, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, summer
course (Solo)
Workshops Florence Dance Center, Florence, Italy (with Ruben Terbalca)
Tangoschule Bochum, Canyengue (with Ruben Terbalca)
Zollhaus Düsseldorf, Germany (with Adrian Romero)
ATAK, Enschede, the Netherlands (with Jan Dirk)
Florence Dance Center, Florence, Italy (with Jan Dirk)
St. Gallen, Switzerland (with Jan Dirk)
Zollhaus Düsseldorf, Germany (Solo)
Bridge to the Tango: travel to Amsterdam, Organisation: Daniel Trenner
(USA), (Solo and with Daniel Trenner)
Festival de Sitges, Spain (with Adrián Romero, and Gustavo Naveira,
Giselle Anne, Alejandro Sanguinetti, Natalia Games and Gabriel Angió,
Jorge Udrisard and Andrea Ponzetti, Osvaldo Zotto and Lorena Ermocída,
Pablo Ojeda and Beatriz Romero)
Zollhaus Düsseldorf, Germany (Solo)
Tango-Festival Hamburg, Germany (with Pocho Pizarro, others: Osvaldo
Zotto and Lorena Ermocida, Fabián Salas and Cecilia Gonzáles, Ricardo
Calvo and Marisa Talamoni, Diego Cornella and Pilar Fernandez,
Alejandro Sanguinetti a.o.).
Tour with Pocho Pizarro 1998: Kopenhagen (Danmark), London (England),
Düsseldorf (Germany), Zürich, St. Gallen (Switzerland), Konstanz,
Nürnberg, Düsseldorf, Wangen, Würzburg (Germany), Toulouse (France),
Rome, Bologna, Florence (Italy), Düsseldorf (Germany), Amsterdam,
Nijmegen (the Netherlands)
Exhibition Canyengue, Florence Dance Center, Florence, Italy (with
Ruben Terbalca)
Zollhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany (with Adrian Romero)
Festival de Sitges, Spain (with Adrián Romero)
Festival Hamburg, Germany (with Pocho Pizarro)
Kopenhagen, Danmark (with Pocho Pizarro)
London, London Welsh Center, El Once Club de Tango (with Pocho Pizarro)
Konstanz, Erlangen, Germany (with Pocho Pizarro)
Toulouse, France (with Pocho Pizarro)
Jury Activity Concours de Tango Trophée Amauta, Concours Belge, Amauta,
Brussel, Belgien (Jury with Jan Dirk, Eugenia Usandivaras and Leo
Calvelli (Arg.), and others)
Journalism/translation Translation for the Dutch review 'La Cadena'
Start of a series of interviews with 'Los Grandes del Tango' (for
example: Carmencita Calderon, milongueros as El Tano Guillermo, Ricardo
Maceiras, Pocho Pizarro and others)
Interview by 'Emisora Ona Sants-Montjuïc', Tango para el mundo,
Barcelona, Spain, during the festival of Sitges
Television programm on the festival of Sitges, Spain
Practica April through august 1998: weekly practica 'Barbaro',
Amsterdam, the Netherlands (with Jan Dirk)
.
1999
Workshops Düsseldorf, Germany (Solo)
Nimes, France (with Gilles Kotzebtchouk)
Florence Dance Center, Florence, Italy (Solo)
Konstanz, Germany (Solo)
Escuela Nestor Sanchez, Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina (Solo)
Den Bosch, Harfsen/Enschede, the Netherlands (with Gilles)
Düsseldorf, Münster, Germany (with Gilles)
Cambridge, England (with Gilles)
Düsseldorf, BRD (Solo)
Paris, France (with Pocho Pizarro)
Berlin, Germany (with Pocho Pizarro)
Düsseldorf, Germany (with Pocho Pizarro)
Oslo and Bergen Norwegia (with Pocho Pizarro)
Kopenhagen, Denmark (with Pocho Pizarro)
Festival Toulouse, France (with Pocho Pizarro and Solo: body techniques)
Bridge to the Tango: travel to Amsterdam, Organisation: Daniel
Trenner (USA), (Solo)
Düsseldorf, Germany (Solo)
Lyon, France (with Gilles)
Firenze, Italy (Solo)
Istanbul, Turkey (Private classes, solo)
Düsseldorf, Germany (Solo)
Konstanz,, Germany (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Lausanne, Switzerland (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Cambridge, Great Britain (Solo)
Edinburgh, Great Britain (Solo)
Bristol, Great Britain (Solo)
Cardiff, Great Britain (Solo)
Firenze, Italy (Solo)
Düsseldorf, Germany (Solo)
Würzburg, Germany (Solo)
Exhibition Buenos Aires, Argentina,Caffé Max (with Gilles Kotzebtchouk)
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Salon Maragata (with Gilles Kotzebtchouk)
Münster, Germany (with Gilles Kotzebtchouk)
Düsseldorf, Germany (with Pocho Pizarro)
Festival Toulouse, France (with Pocho Pizarro)
.
2000
Istanbul, Turkey (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Düsseldorf, Germany (Solo)
Cambridge, Great Britain, (Solo)
Würzburg, Germany (Solo)
Vienna, Austria (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Firenze, Italy (Solo)
Düsseldorf, Germany (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Würzburg, Germany (with Eduardo Aguirre)
London, Great Britain (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Cambridge, Great Britain (Solo and with Eduardo Aguirre)
Edinburgh, Great Britain (Solo)
Newcastle, Great Britain (Solo)
Bristol, Great Britain (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Firenze, Italy (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Pistoia, Italy, exhibition/workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Bologna, Italy, exhibition Cheek to Cheek (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Düsseldorf, Germany, workshops, Zollhaus (Solo)
Albany, New York, USA, workshops/exhibition (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Ithaca, New York, USA, festifval/exhibition (with Eduardo Aguirre)
amongst Miguel Zotto and Angeles
Boston, USA, workshops Tango Society and Boston Tango School (with
Eduardo Aguirre)
New Orleans, USA, exhibition/workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Haarloo, Holland, workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Wangen, Germany, workshops, (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Gent, Belgium, exhibition/workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Bristol, Great Britain, exhibition/workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Cardiff, Great Britain, workshop (with Eduardo Aguirre)
London, Great Britain, workshops/exhibition, Welsh Center (with Eduardo
Aguirre)
Edinburgh, Great Britain, workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Düsseldorf, Germany, workshop (Solo)
Perugia, Italy, workshop (Solo)
Firenze, Italy, workshops (Solo)
Würzburg, Germany (Solo)
2001
Firenze, Italy, workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Albany, New York, USA, workshops/exhibition (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Rochester, New York, USA, workshops/exhibition (with Eduardo Aguirre)
New York City, New York, USA, workshops/exhibition (with Eduardo
Aguirre), many different venues
Boston, USA, workshops Tango Society and privates (with Eduardo Aguirre)
New Orleans, USA, exhibition/workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Miami, FL, USA, exhibitions/workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Haarloo, Holland, workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Frayssinette, France, workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
La Rogaia, Umbria, Italy, workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Todi, Umbria, Italy, workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Firenze, Italy, workshops (Solo)
Wangen, Germany, workshops (Solo)
Bristol, Great Britain, workshops (Soo)
Cambridge, Great Britain, privates (Solo)
London, Great Britain, workshops (Solo)
Würzburg, Germany (Solo)
Portland Festival, Oregon, USA, workshops/exhibition (Solo)
Albany, NY, USA, workshops (Solo)
Rochester, NY, USA, workshop (Solo)
Boston, MASS., USA, workshops/privates (Solo)
Firenze, Italy, workshop series with Luis Ferraris & Eduardo Aguirre
2002
Firenze, Italy, workshops (Solo)
Winchester, Great Britain, workshops (Solo)
London, Welsh Center, Great Britain, workshops (Solo)
Cambridge, Great Britain, workshops (Solo)
Portland, OR, Portland Festival, USA, workshops and exhibition (with
Eduardo Aguirre)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, workshops and exhibitions (with Eduardo
Aguirre)
San Francisco, CR, USA, workshops and exhibitions (with Eduardo Aguirre
and Solo)
Anchorage, Alaska, USA, workshops (Solo)
Portland Valentine Festival, Oregon, USA, workshops and exhibitions
(with Eduardo Aguirre)
Boston, Massachusetts, USA (Solo)
London, Welsh Center, Great Britain, workshops (Solo)
Winchester, Great Britain, workshops (Solo)
Bristol, Great Britain, workshops (Solo)
Düsseldorf, Germany, workshops (Solo)
Firenze, Italy, workshops (Solo)
La Rogaia, Umbria, Italy, holiday tango week (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Saltsprings, British Columbia, Canada, workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Boston, Massachusetts, USA, workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Haarloo, Holland, workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Frayssinette, France, workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Winchester, Great Britain, workshops (Solo)
London, Dome, Great Britain, workshops (Solo)
London, Welsh Center, Great Britain, workshops (Solo)
Portland Oktober Festival, OR, USA, workshops/exhibition/festival (Solo)
Saltsprings, British Columbia, Canada, workshops (Solo)
Port Townsend, Washington, USA, workshops (Solo)
Boston, Massachusetts, USA (Solo)
Firenze, Italy, workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
La Rogaia, Umbria, Italy, week holiday workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
2003
Valsinestra, ski tango week, Engadin, Switzerland,
workshops/exhibition (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Düsseldorf, Germany, workshops (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Bergen aan Zee, weekend-workshops in a hotel at the seaside,
workshops/exhibition (with Eduardo Aguirre)
Firenze, Italy, workshops (with Mike Lavocah)
Istanbul, Turkey, workshops (solo and with Eduardo Aguirre)
Firenze, Italy, workshops (solo)
Norwich, Great Britain, workshops (solo)
Seattle, Washington, USA workshops and exhibition (solo)
Port Townsend, Washington, USA workshops (solo)
Portland, Oregon, USA workshops and exhibition (solo)
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA workshops (solo)
Boston, Massachusetts, USA workshops and exhibition (solo)
Denver Festival, Colorado USA workshops (solo)
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Eduardo Aguirre Eduardo Aguirre is one of the most exciting
dancers amongst the milongueros of Buenos Aires. Like almost all
milongueros, he dances all his life but intensively took up the tango
again especially in the end of the eighties when there emerged more
dancing occasions again. Since this time he is an honoured member of
Salon Almagro and other salons. He taught in Salon Almagro from
1991-1995 as one of the first milongueros. Later he taught in Juvenil
for two years. In 1998 and 1999 he taught in Nino Bien, Centro Region
Leonesa and other salons. In 1996 Solo Tango dedicated a series on him
with interviews about teaching. He was invited to perform for Solo
Tango. He was offered a series of teaching lesson on television.
Several times he performed in important places such as Salon Almagro
and Teatro Alvear. From December 1999 till June 2003 he taught tango
full time on a contract base in Istanbul, Turkey and fertilized social
dancing in his temporary home town. The Turkish Television made various
interviews with Eduardo (and some with his dance partner Yvonne). He
travelled extensively in Europe and the US. His dance is extremely vivid with unexpected
turns of direction that integrate smooth softness and unpredictable
staccato. Quick and slow movements interchange continuously. He walks
the music while singing it in your ear and smiling like the sun. There
are only few dancers interpreting music so unpredictably exiting as he
does. When he is partnered by a good dancer, unconsciously the public
follows the wild soft play of the couple unwillingly. Eduardo and
Yvonne have become well known and requested for their Canaro Vals
workshops which they perform passionately rhythmical with double and
triple times and frequent syncopations. His tours through Europe brought Eduardo to
Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, Italy, Austria, Turkey,
France and too the United States. He taught in the Ithaca Festival New
York in 2000 and in the Portland Festival 2002. Eduardo Aguirre and
Yvonne Meissner teach Tango de Salon (apilado) with the focus on body
techniques. As a result of the enthusiast reception, Eduardo will be
staying in Europe teaching with his partner Yvonne Meissner.
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