Murat Elmadağlı & Vera Gogoleva for Tango & Pepper Weekend – Workshops on 4th and 5th of December
We are happy to announce that Murat Elmadağlı & Vera Gogoleva will be our guests at the next TANGO&PEPPER WEEKEND on 4th anf 5th of December.
This radiant pair charms by its invigorating energy, musicality and ludic. Two spectacular dancers, brought together by their common passion for tango which transcended cultures to form a dynamical dancing and teaching couple. Murat believes that there is no such thing as one truth in tango dancing, and so as teachers, together with Vera, they seek to find and bring to light each dancer’s own truth.
Program:
Friday 3rd of December
Private Classes
Saturday 4th of December
15.00 – 16.30 Sacada game – all levels
16.45 – 18.15 Milonga – nice figures and jumps – intermediate advanced
National Student House, 10 Narodno Sabranie square, hall 404
19.30 – 22.30 – Milonga at Salsa + with DJ Murat
15 Aksakov str., Entrance: 5 leva
Sunday 5th of December
15.00 – 16.30 – Giro in close embrace – intermediate
16.45 – 18.15 – Soltada, Soltada, Soltada – intermediate advanced
National Student House, 10 Narodno Sabranie square, hall 404
19-30 – 23.00 – Show at Milonga Before&After
12 Hristo Belchev str, Entrance: 8 leva
For reservations: 02/981 60 88
In Cooperation with Sofia Tango
Prices:
1 workshop – 15 E
4 workshops package – 50 E
For registration:
+359 888 35 24 24 – Vera
+359 889 95 75 04 – Ivajla
ivajla@tangoandpepper.com
VIDEOS:
Murat Elmadağlı & Vera Gogoleva at Tango del Mar 2010
Murat Elmadağlı & Vera Gogoleva at Tango Del Mar 2010
Milonga Murat Elmadagli & Vera Gogoleva
Milonga Murat Elmadagli & Vera Gogoleva
BIO:
Murat Elmadagli graduated from Bogazici University, Civil Engineering Faculty, one of the best universities in Turkey. He started tango with his first teacher Çetin Cengiz and then went on to be his assistant for one year.
He worked both with Turkish and Argentinean maestros, such as Gustavo Naveira, Chicho Mariano Frumboli, Sebastian Arce, Julio Balmeceda, Javier Rodriguez, Esteban Moreno, Ezequiel Farfaro, Roberto Herera, Damian Rosenthal, Evren Sayın to improve his creativeness, technique, artistic skill and teaching ability. Following a long trip to Buenos Aires and a thorough examination of the tango schools there, together with his colleagues he founded “istanbulTANGO”. He believes that there is no such thing as one truth in Tango dancing, and as a teacher he tries to find each person’s own truth. He is frequently invited to perform and give classes as a guest teacher at international workshops and festivals in Europe, and still manages to successfully run his Tango school from Istanbul. He is also the Argentanian Tango Champion of TDSF (Turkish Dance & Sports Federation) in 2009.
Vera Gogoleva has been dancing almost all her life. She has spent about 20 years dancing ballroom dances. She became a dance teacher when she was 16 years old.
In the begining of 2000’s tango appeared in her life. This dance changed her and her life a lot. She is now travelling around the world, visiting numerous tango festivals. Every year she goes to Buenos Aires to take classes with best teachers, in an effort to perfect herself both as a dancer and as a teacher. She also constantly performs within a lot of milongas and festivals worldwide.