Susana Miller is a key character in today's tango. She was the first person to study the anonymous and intuitive milongueros' dance, to enjoy tango in the same way they have done for decades: dancing socially. In this way she has developed a rich language that condenses more than a hundred years of tango tradition.
Her work as a teacher has shaped tango as we know it now, not only in Buenos Aires, but also around the world.
Her ability to focus on key concepts and communicate them with ease distinguishes her from her predecessors, since she can – with a language as technically correct as it is accessible – share the secrets of the Porteña milonga with everyone who wants to become part of it. Teacher of teachers, she has worked with most of the renowned milonguero teachers and is constantly training new generations of professional instructors. She has toured all around the world.
Homage to Ricardo Vidort
This year Susana Miller brings us a two-class course working on the material of Ricardo Vidort (1929—2006), a man who was renowned for his unique style of dance and one of the few milongueros of his generation who lived and taught overseas. One of the men she most respected for his dance, Susana has this to say about teaching his material:
Ricardo Vidort is one those great, almost anonymous, dancers whose influence extended across generations of younger dancers, as much in Buenos Aires as in milonguero communities around the world. His charm lay in his incredible figures within 'corridas' and his rhythmic concept, which was like a bottle of recently corked champagne.
The decision to explain the technique of a dancer no longer with us is made in order to pay homage and to keep his memory alive via the knowledge and the legacy he left to the generations that follow him.
CLASS THEMES
Detailed information coming soon...
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