Milonga Cumparsita with Miriam Lea & Lubomír Vojtíšek

Milonga Cumparsita with Miriam Lea & Lubomír Vojtíšek Milonga Cumparsita is Every first Friday of the month at Old Town School of Folk Muisc as a part of Global dance party, This time We have the pleasure to offer a pre Milonga class with Miriam Lea & Lubomír Vojtíšek from Minneapolis. Miriam has many years of professional training and performing with master teachers in Folklore and Argentine Tango in Buenos Aires and abroad. Dancing Tango has taken Miriam on National tours in Argentina, presentations for government organizations, universities, venues in the United States and Argentina, as well as sharing the stages with the renowned stars of Tango and the arts. Miriam´s driving performances were sought after for Theater and television, featured in shows on channels 9 and 7 (Argentinas only Public Television). She has captivated audiences with his presentations at theaters such as the“Teatro Alvear”, “La Astral”, “La Comedia Theater”, the “Ampatheater Homero Expósito the Empire Theater and one of the “oldest and prestigious” theaters in Argentina, “Coliseo Theater”; and with dinner shows “Complejo Tango” to name a few. She has had invitations for exhibitions in notable and traditional milongas of Buenos Aires (Such as Salon Canning, El Torquato Tasso, Porteño y Bailarín and Sabor A Tango, “Milonga de Guardia Tanguera” at Club Libertad (Uruaguay), Club Villa Malcom), and the list goes on. Miriam has had the pleasure being principle dancers in several companies. Her performances reflect the soul of the Argentine countryside while Tango style ignites the stage with the passion and intensity of Buenos Aires. She has lots of passion for dancing, incorporating new ideas into traditional dancing. While working with many other working dancers, Miriam is inspired to find new methods in teaching others and continue to push boundaries in Tango as expression and preserving its traditions and culture for future generations. Miriam’s principal objectives as a dancer is to continue to find different qualities of movement inside the dance, to share her knowledge about culture and new techniques in tango for the longevity of dancers and preservation of living culture. She feels very fortunate that she started dancing at very young ages, in which adds to the knowledge and enjoys incorporating these tools into her craft. Miriam has had the pleasure of teaching and creating academic classes in several institutions notional and internationally. They also follow the tradition of her teachers by instilling a strong foundation of techniques, which are beneficial and useful for all aspects in Tango, Social Dance, Athletics, and Fitness. Lubomír Vojtíšek started dancing as a teenager in 1996. Since 1998 he performed in dance teams at various events for Universities, companies or non-profit institutions. He has always experimented with various other genres of dance, however in 2005, he found Tango at the Prague milonga at Zlatá Lyra. Lubomír has learned and worked with several masters and inspiring local teachers (Alejandra Mantinan, Radka Šulcová, Marek Štefan, Jorge Bosicovich) to whom he is grateful for understanding tango through their care. Whether he took classes his teachers or was endlessly watching them dancing, Lubomír feels that the biggest inspirations he finds in the embrace of dancers on the floors of milongas all over the world. Lubomír performed in the theater show "Los Misterios del Amor" in Prague, Festival Cine Argentino 2015. Lubomír has been organizing festivals and Milongas for european communities since 2010 in Slovakia and Czech Republic, such as FESTIVAL OF ARGENTINE CULTURE 2016 in collaboration with the Embassy of Argentina in the Czech Republic. INTERNATIONAL TANGO FESTIVAL DESDE EL ALMA 2010 with support of the City Bratislava and Radisson Hotels, and assisted in organizing Tango Alchemy, Prague (2013, 2014, 2015). He is recently located in Minneapolis where he works with Miriam Ziven and contributes to her projects and classes. She is recently located in Minneapolis where she works with Lubomír Vojtíšek and creates well attended projects and classes. Milonga Cumparsita have The Best Music, dance floor and sound system in town with Full Bar. Class 8pm-9pm Miriam Lea & PLubomír Vojtíšek (Class topic, Embrace your pivots ) Music 9:00pm-12:30am by Miriam Lea Cover Just $12 Class+Milonga Hosts By Rodrigo Saraibe and Mateo Mulcahy The Myron R. Szold Music & Dance Hall 4545 N Lincoln Ave · Chicago, IL