Joe's Tango podcast

My guest today is Christy Coté, a highly respected teacher in the US and Argentina. In addition to teaching, she's also a well-known performer and choreographer. Christy has been featured at CITA, the annual tango congress in Buenos Aires, and in 2012 she was the first ever American judge for the Official USA Argentine Tango Championships.

Christy has a huge list of accomplishments, including international performance tours, appearances in various magazine articles and television programs, and since 2007 her popular Tango Boot Camps have attracted literally thousands of students.

More on Christy here:

www.christycote.com

Today's guest is an instructor and organizer based out of Naples, Florida, but was born and raised in Buenos Aires. He has trained with a number of masters, including Carlos Hidalgo, Celia Blanco, Gustavo Naveira, Fabian Salas, and many others. In addition to tango, he has also trained in Graham Contemporary Dance and Parallelism Dance Technique at The National School of Dance in Buenos Aires.

Like several other interviewees on this program, today's guest taught at the renowned CITA (Congreso International Del Tango Argentino) in 2015. Also in 2015, our guest performed and also choreographed dance sequences for the Opera Tango Show "Maria de Buenos Aires" and "Opera Tango," which took place at the Wang Opera Center in Naples.

Let's meet Pablo Repun...

More on Pablo here:

Website: http://www.pablorepuntango.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/repuntango

Short film, 9 Tango: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgyMNrpH24M

My guest today is Jake Spatz. He began dancing tango in 2001 in Brooklyn, NY, and has been teaching regularly in Washington, DC, since 2005. He currently runs the popular Eastern Market milonga on Thursdays, where he has been the house teacher and a regular DJ for twelve years. Since 2010, he has taught for the student tango club at the University of Maryland.

Jake's work in tango has led to performances for the Washington Performing Arts Society, where he led a small troupe that opened for Broadway legend Chita Rivera; and he has been featured as a dancer at Disney World, two television commercials, and a full-length stage play. As a dancer and DJ, Jake has been featured at the Philadelphia Tango Festival, Tango De Los Muertos, the New Year's Marathon in Providence, and numerous "big weekend" events around the East Coast, including a milonga thrown by actor Robert Duvall.

In addition to dancing, teaching, and DJing, Jake's tango interests have included translation and literary research. He edited the book In Strangers' Arms by Beatriz Dujovne (McFarland, 2011), and has translated the lyrics of more than 80 tango songs.

More on Jake here:

Website: TangoDC.com

In Stranger's Arms: https://amzn.to/2LQ7GSJ

My guest today is Atakan Ekiz, who's based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. He is part of the DF Dance Studio, which his wife Maria Ivanova founded in 2008. The studio specializes in a huge variety of dances, employs many dancers, and since its inception, it has become one of the largest and most dynamic dance schools in Salt Lake City. Atakan began his tango training in Turkey, and joined a dance group that he traveled with for several years. On top of that, he is a graduate research assistant at the Huntsman Cancer Research Institute. Today, he is known as one of the top dancers and instructors in the state.

More on Atakan here:

Website: https://www.dfdancestudio.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dfdancestudio/

If you're curious to hear about Joe Yang, the creator of this podcast, this episode's for you...

More on Joe here:

http://www.wisconsintango.com

Joe's web cartoon projects:

http://www.sealcomics.com

My guest today is based near Austin, Texas, and started out as a ballroom dancer. He had been involved with ballroom for well over 20 years before discovering Argentine Tango. Once he got a taste of tango, he was hooked. His pursuit of tango learning has taken him to several countries, and he eventually started a tango school known as Tango Tribe.

Let's meet David Phillips...

More on David here:

Website: http://www.tangotribe.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tangotribe

Personal Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/david.phillips.austin

My guest today is a professional cellist based out of Washington, DC. He performs with the group Da Capo Tango, which brings a lot of great energy to the DC tango scene. He also arranges the group's music. He studied at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and went on to get his masters at the University of Wisconsin School of Music.

In 2014, he organized the Mad City Live Tango Festival, which integrated tango instruction by Homer and Cristina Ladas with the live music group Cuarteto Tanguero. He has performed with tango music legends such as Julian Peralto, Pablo Ziegler, Pablo Aslan, and many others.

Let's meet Maxfield Wollam-Fisher...

Download Da Capo Tango's beautiful rendition of "La Viruta"

http://bit.ly/2FUOGhO

More on Max here:

Da Capo Tango FB page: https://www.facebook.com/DaCapoTango/

Radio show (Bienvenido al tango) https://Takomaradio.org

Tanguero workshop: http://workshop.moretango.org

Today we're going to be talking about the Tango for Musicians workshop over at Reed College in Portland, OR. The program is in its 6th year, and to date, it's the biggest one of its kind in North America. At this workshop, tango musicians meet up, they take workshops in composition, arranging, they trade ideas, stories, there are performances of course...and all sorts of other great things.

We'll hear from Professor Morgan Luker, who is an ethnomusicologist. The focus of his research is contemporary music in Buenos Aires. Morgan is also the author of the book The Tango Machine. He is part of the faculty of the Tango for Musicians workshop, and he'll have a lot of neat information for us.

We'll also hear from Kim Gumbel of Vespertine Works. Kim is an independent operator specializing in artist management, arts administration, and consulting. Since 2007, Kim has been working with artists, helping them come up with strategies on how to organize and execute big events.

Info on program:

Website: http://www.reed.edu/tango

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/tangoformusiciansatreedcollege

Vespertine works: https://www.vespertineworks.com/

Today's guest is a central figure in the New Orleans Tango community. By day, she's a pediatric anesthesiologist at the New Orleans Children's Hospital. And on top of that, she is the organizer of the renowned New Orleans Tango Festival. So how does one go from a tango enthusiast to a full blown festival organizer? We'll find out!

Let's meet Lorena Dumas-Guntner...

More on the New Orleans Tango Festival here:

Website: http://www.nolatangofestival.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/278207076039363/

My guests today are salón and stage tango dancers with over 20 years of experience. Based out of Chile, in 2007 they placed 2nd in the World Argentine Tango Championships, and in 2008 they won 1st place in the TAFISA World Tango Championships in Busan, South Korea. They have traveled all over the world to teach, and it's great to have them on the show today.

Let's meet Maximiliano Alvarado and Paloma Berríos...

More on Max and Paloma here:

Website: https://www.palomaymaximiliano.cl/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paloymaxitango/?ref=bookmarks

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBcBrMc45nsT2JVc4wM-0-g

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/palomaymaximiliano/