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Oscar Mandagaran & Georgina Vargas - Toguether from June 2006
June 2006
Teaching tour of Japan
July, August and September 2006Provided private instruction and performed in Buenos Aires at milongas such as at the “Gricel”, “Porteño y Bailarin”, “Sabor a Tango”, “La Nacional” and “Lunes de Tango”.
October 2006Taught workshops and gave performances in Italy to include Rome, Bologna, Florence, Turin and Pescara.
November, December and January 2007Toured around Japan and performed and taught special workshops for professionals and for those planning to attend the World Tango Festival. Participated as special guests in the show Tango “Lunatico” and the show “A todo Tango”.
February and MarchToured in Italy with the “Tango” show and the orchestra of the Ensemble Hyperion directed by Bruno Fiorentini. The performances in the show consisted of Argentine tango and Argentine folk dances. Also included was a special performance of Georgina Vargas as tango singer. After touring with the show provided teaching workshops in Pescara “InTango”, and atNaples with “Orango Tango Napoli”.
April and May 2007Taught special programs in Buenos Aires for professional tango dancers, and to other students from Brazil, France, Italy, Japan and the United States. Performed at various milongas in Buenos Aires such as the “Sunderland Club”, “La Nacional” and “Sabor a Tango”.
May, June, July and August 2007Toured the United States giving performances and teaching workshops in California to include the cities of Sacramento, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Modesto, and San Francisco. In the latter city they were a part of the group of professional instructors invited to teach at Nora’s Tango Week, an annual event. Following this they gave performances and taught workshops in Dallas (Texas), and Portland (Oregon).
Resume of Georgina Vargas (singer and dancer)
Name and surname: Carla Georgina Ciccarino
Date of birth: 27 December 1978
Place of birth: Montevideo, Uruguay
1993 to 1999:
Training and Education as Singer and Danc (both classical and contemporary)
Learned classical, contemporary and “barre a terre” dance in Uruguay and Italy from many different international teachers, in particular from Silvia Martinci, Yuriko Matzuiama and Luis Bernardo Ribeiro. Took many seminars from important dancers such as Michele Abbondanza, Antonella Bertoni, Carolyn Carson, Biondi, Porras and Hasting (the latter in didactive children’s dance).
Made stage debut in the classical ballet such as “Cascanuecea”, “Lago de los Cisnes” (Swan Lake), “La Baiadere”, “Don Quijote”, “Paquita”, “Les Sylphide”, “Copelia”, “La Bella Durmiente” which were performed in Hungary, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Austria, and Italy.
Gave performances of contemporary and neoclassical dance, and participated in festivals in a number of cities such as Torino, Perugia, Milano, Bolzano, and Venice. At the same time began teaching classical dance and “barre a terre” at “Estudio del Movimento”, a school of dance in Bolognia, Italy.
Debut as singer at the theater “Bossa Nova”. Learned music and lyric singing at the Bolognia Conservatory, as well as jazz singing from the famous American singer La Verne Jackson.
Approched a Tango during the adolescence and started he career like professional Tango dancer in 1998.
From that year she teach, dance and sing all around the world.
She never stops her sing studies and she began as study as tango singer with the assistance of many argentine teachers:
Héctor de Rosas, former singer with the orchestras of Astor Piazzolla and Roberto Caló; a well known Argentinean singer);
Alba Solis a well known Argentinean singer very important for womans in the history in the argentine Tango
Roberto Garcia Araujo, pianist, vocalization and reparatory teacher
Perla La Pierre, very famouse teacher for her vocalization work with the Tango singers
Alfredo Montoya, pianist of “Los solistas de D’Arienzo” and teacher with who she recordered her first Tango CD, “Por aquellos Tango”.
1999:
Began her career as a professional tango dancer in association with Gustavo Saenz .
Taught and danced tango in Rome under the auspices of the Argentine Embassy, the Embassy of the Republic of Uruguay and the Italo-Latinamerican Institute. Performed in the “Teatro Argentinia” in the city of Rome in April. Took part in the IV International Festival of Dance in San Pantaleo in Sardinia in August. Gave performances and workshops in Buenos Aires in September. Returned to Italy for performances and teaching from October to December.
2000:
With Gustavo Saenz returned to Italy in March to give various tango workshops and taught men’s and women’s technique for dancing tango. Invited as special guest to dance at the Second International Tango Meet in Rome. During the months of May and June performed at various milongas and shows in Rome at “A Media Luz”, and in Naples at the “La Galeria”. With Gustavo Saenz founded the dance company “Con Sabor a Tango” (The Flavor of Tango) and participated in the San Pantaleo Festival. Toured Japan with “Con Sabor a Tango” from June to July.
2001:
From January to April continued performing and traveling with “Con Sabor a Tango” in Europe, giving performances in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany and Spain. Starting in May traveled and performed in China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand. With Gustavo Saenz presented the show “Noches Argentinias” in Tokyo, and as a result of their success received special recognition by the Argentine Embassy as an “important couple in presenting and conveying the spirit of Argentine tango”. Returned to Italy to teach and perform from June to the end of 2001.
2002:
With Gustavo Saenz named special representatives of the tango by the Embassies of Argentina and Uruguay as they renewed their support. Continued with their teaching and performances in Naples Italy for the Orango Tango Naples Cultural Society. Participated in many tango demonstrations with the “Ensemble Hyperion” and the quintet “Quejas de Bandoneon”. Repeated the tour of the Far East in May and June, with a final show in Turkey. Performed in the show “Poesia del Tango” (The Poetry of Tango), a combination of dance, music and poetry which toured Italy in the month of September. Performed in the show “Tango Eterno” (The Eternal Tango), and also made her debut in this show as a tango singer.
2003:
With Gustavo Saenz continued performing in the show “Poesia del Tango”in Calabria, Italy. Returned to teaching tango at the invitation of the Palermo Tango Cultural Association. Departed for Japan, Okinawa and surrounding islands with the show “Noches Argentinas” (Argentine Nights) in June. Continued teaching and performing tango in Rome, Naples and Palermo in September. Performed at various milongas in Buenos Aires such as “Bohemios”, “Porteño y Bailarin”, “La Nacional”, and El Viejo Correo”.
2004:
Continued teaching tango in Rome, Naples, and Palermo. Returned to the Far East in June. Engaged by the Argentine Embassy to give a series of performances in Hong Kong at the Hotel Metropolitan Harbour Plaza. Returned to Rome, Italy, in July for an engagement by Mr. Giampaolo Bandini (a famous Italian musician) for “Tango-Storie di Passioni e Coltelli” at theaters in Varese, Parma and Piacenza. Organized a tango festival in Rome together with the dancers Javier and Geraldine which resulted in a great success.
2005:
Opened a tango studio in San Telmo, Buenos Aires with Gustavo Saenz. Engaged to perform with the show “Boulevard Tango” in Bologna with the Company of Tango Argentine. Achieved greatest success to date with this show. Organized the party-show “Tango x 2” in Rome with Miguel Angel Zotto, Soledad Rivero and Ruben Juarez as special guest. Presented the same show in Naples. In the show sang in accompaniment to Zotto and Rivero’s dancing. Participated in the Second International Tango Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, in June. Ended her association with Gustavo Saenz. Returned to live in Buenos Aires in December. Sang at many tango theaters and tango cafes in Buenos Aires such as La Cumparsita, El Vesuvio, El Dante, La Esquina de Osvaldo Pugliese and Sabor a Tango.
2006 to date:
Recorded her first CD “Por Aquells Tangos” with the musicians Alfredo Montoya at the piano, Eduardo Malaguarnera playing violin, Ramon Montoya at contrabass and Orlando Trujillo playing the bandoneon. Performed a one month singing engagement in March at Sabor a Tango. Sang and danced in Italy during April and May at the Tango Torino Festival, the Roma Tango festival, and also in Pescara, Ortona and Milan. This was in accompaniment of the Ensemble Hiperion with the famous bandoneonist Luiz Stazo (Sexteto Mayor). In June began to dance in partnership with Oscar Mandagaran giving performances, shows and teaching workshops at various tango theaters and milongas in Buenos Aires. Taught tango with Oscar Mandagaran in Japan in July, and then continued performances in Buenos Aires.
Resume of Oscar Mandagaran
Education and Training
Name and surname: Luis Oscar Mandagaran
Date of birth: 13 August 1969
Place of birth: Posadas, Misiones (Argentina)
1987
Completed studies at the Commercial School of Posadas in Misiones. Also graduated from the municipal school for native and folk dance, "Maria L.A. Zambrano" and began teaching this school following graduation.
1988 to 1899: Attendance at the National University of the Economic Science.
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A different times, danced under contract for the Teatreo Presidente Alvear, for Teatro Nacional Cervantes in Buenos Aires, for the Teatro Astral in Buenos Aires.
Performed at La Plata, Bahia Blanca and Gral Belgrano, as well as numerous locations in the cities of San Luis Mendoza, and Cordoba..
Performed at the inauguration of the National Library, and on ATC TV programs "Con acento en la C" and "Argentinisima" directed by Hector Larrea.
Performed in a cultural show tour, wich traveled throughout northern Argentina.
Danced in a show in the Teatro Avenida in Buenos Aires, and at the "Seabord National Festival of Music" in Misiones.
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For continuation see:
combined Resume of Oscar Mandagaran and Georgina Vargas, 2006 to present.
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