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About us?
About argentine tango
Usefull links
Bibliography





About us?


Emilie & LouisÉmilie Champagne and Louis Bourbonnais start to dance tango in 2000.


They were first trained with the Tango Libre dance company under Gerardo Sanchez direction.


Emilie & LouisThey were mostly influenced by the joyfull style of argentine masters Gloria & Eduardo Arquimbau as well by the precision and emotion of Aurora Lubiz and Jorge Firpo. They still work often as possible with Aurora Lubiz and Jorge Firpo to get a deeper insight with tango history, sensuality and expression.





Complete curriculum available on request for professional use.

Emilie & Louis


Émilie & Louis






KELLY ET PATRICK

Kelly et Patrick
Kelly et Patrick

Under Emilie and Louis's supervision, Kelly Hibon and Patrick Zakaria joined Tango El Abrazo team as monitors. They animate beginner classes at l'Île Perrot and Vaudreuil-Dorion.


Kelly and Patrick always pay attention to everyone. Everybody has their place for their first tango experience. They give the best of themself to lead the group to success in a pleasure way.













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About argentine tango


« This music is for you. It always had you in mind, your habits, your twitches […] You’re going to play it too, you’re going to dance with the tiger.Don’t worry, your life is in danger. […] »

Enrique Fernández




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Usefull links


Le portail québecois du tango argentin (www.milonga,ca)
All the information about argentine tango inQuebec.

Totango
Keith Elshaw's website which hold a lot of quality information on tango dance and music.

Todo tango
Argentine website (english & spanish). Wonderfull about tango culture: contains a lot of archive documents, partitions, music, text, etc.

Malena tango
A blog on Tango, great source of information shared by a passionate tango aficionada.

Aurora Lubiz
Aurora Lubiz's website: Zapatos, Ropa, Tango. Émilie's favorite tango shoes!



TANGO music ONLINE
La 2X4 FM 92.7 de Buenos Aires: Buenos Aires official tango radio station.
Radio Cubik: Many musical styles; one chanel is exclusive to tango music.
Radio Gardel: Web-based tango radio, from Montevideo (Uruguay).








Bibliography

Some quality books on tango:

Tango!: The Dance, the Song, the Story. Simon Collier, Artemis Cooper, María Susana Azzi & Richard Martin, photographie de Ken Haas. 1995/1997, Thames & Hudson, Londres, 208p.
Very nice book with beautyfull pictures and historical illustrations. Very good historical information also.

Le Tango. Rémi Hess. 1996, collection "Que sais-je" #3100, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 127p.
Good french book on the history of tango (dance, music, litterature, cultural and mythical figures, etc.)

Le tango. Horacio Salas, préface d'Ernesto Sábato. 1989 (1986 pour l'édition originale argentine), collection "Babel", Actes Sud, 437p.
Translated from Argentine into french. Tango cultural history mostly throught poetic, litterature and musical history.



More english books will be added...











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