Workshops schedule
JORGE TORRES's workshop
Saturday June 19 at Studio Gracia.
11:00am-1:00pm Intermediate Level.
Theme: Technique of Enrosque, Aguja, Planeo.
Price: $30 ($25 with pre-registration)
Father's Day Milonga with Jorge Torres
Sunday June 20 at Studio Gracia.
Birthdays celebration for Jorge Torres and Mark Gilbert .
7:30 pm-8:30 pm Intermediate level.
Theme: Navigational Skill using Enrosque & Aguja
Price: $20 for class & milonga (cash or check only)
6:45 pm - 7:30 pm Beginning class with Natasha. Fee: $12 class & party w/Natasha.
Both classes & party: $20.
8:30 pm - 1 am Tango Party / Milonga. Fee: $10 party only.
If you need a pair of new dance shoes, Chino is selling Felina's shoes at Studio Gracia this weekend.
Chino is premiering her new tango shoes collection at Studio Gracia on Sunday September 6th.
JORGE TORRES is a world-renowned Tango Choreographer, Dancer, and Impresario of dance productions. He is amazing to behold on the dance floor, as he dances with a quiet and smooth style.
His refined talents and style place him between those outstanding choreographersand dancers of Argentine Tango. Before graduating as a teacher of dancers, Jorge began his career in the Theater Colon. He has studied with famous dancers and teachers of Argentine Tango such as Norberto Guichanduc, Rodolfo Dinzel,Pepito Avellaneda and Antonio Todaro. He has danced in the most noted tango houses and theaters of Argentina and with renowned orchestras of Tango. He has participated in such shows as "Imagenes","Tango y añoranzas", "La pesada del tango"," Tango kinesis ", Tanguisimo 91", "Tango Tango", "Viva Tango", "Tango Passion","Buenos Aires tango show", "Tango Seduccion".
In 1998 Jorge was nominated for the Tony awards for best choreography.
Jorge was also nominated by the Outer Critics Circle and for four Awards including that of best choreography from the Drama Desk. He has recorded with Karen Kain "A Evaristo Carriego" for CBC, Canadian Broadcasting Company, directed by Luis Bravo. He has coordinated show such as "World Tango Week 2002" in Tokyo and "Tango Legend" summoning the best figures every year. He has participated as invited dancer next to the Sexteto Mayor in Santiago's Municipal Theater - Chile. He was chosen to integrate the jury of the First World Championship of ArgentineanTango", carried out in the year 2003 in the city of Buenos Aires.
Jorge Torres joined Forever Tango in 1995, where he has held the position of Troup,Dance Captain (Principal Dancer) for the last eight years. He is currently the Artistic Director for the American Tango Institute, in Chicago, Illinois, and his time is divided between teaching in New York and performing in Forever Tango worldwide.