About Florencia's Teaching: Florencia brings a wealth of experience as a tango performer, social dancer and teacher, as well as extensive work as a contemporary dance performer to her teaching of Argentine Tango. This experience makes her teaching clear and consistent.
Her teaching covers a wide range of social styles including salon-style tango, traditional and new vocabulary, milonguero-style tango, milonga, milonga traspie and tango waltz. She has a special talent for teaching great technique, embellishments and musicality to both followers and leaders. She teaches the building blocks of the tango and reveals conceptual frameworks and techniques that allow dancers to learn to create their own steps and decorations, as well as to dance with grace and musicality.
Florencia works to develop the subtle communication between partners because she has found in her own experience that this is the communication that takes the dance to a magical and unforgettable level. The communication is found through a dynamic interpretation of the both the follower's and leader's roles in which both partners find space to be active and passive, and is furthered when both partners develop their own sensuality and grace of movement.
Followers find the active aspects of their role by learning the spaces in the dance where they are able to contribute their own interpretation and expression. Followers develop this ability by learning how to be in charge of their own movement while listening and responding to their partners. In starting with a clear mind and open body, followers are able to respond more sensitively to the games proposed by their partners and are able to propose their own.
Leaders find sensuality by offering an embrace to the followers that lets them enjoy the dance from the beginning. They develop clarity in their leading by learning how to express maximum intent with a minimum of movement—expressing the intent with a soft touch before the follower's action, rather than forcing the movements. Leaders also grow in the dance through the quality of their own movement and by offering an invitation to a dance journey that is interesting musically and is expressed from the heart, rather than through an intent to impress. Developing the ability to communicate with the followers requires experimentation and a listening from the heart to discover what pleases and enthralls each follower.
March 26-28, 2009 — The Austin Spring Tango Festival, Austin
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Florencia is a lifelong dancer with a strong foundation in modern, contemporary, jazz dance and ballet. In 1986, she danced in the movie Tango Bar and performed as the partner of Pablo Veron during a three-month tour. Florencia lived and worked in Europe from 1987 to 1992, where she toured as a tango performer and teacher while based in Venice and Paris. During this period, she taught at the International Festival of Experimental Theater in Poluerigi, Italy. In 1992 she partnered with Pepito Avelleneda in Brussels, Belgium and with Gustavo Naveira to perform with the orchestra of Osvaldo Piro in Buenos Aires.
Florencia has performed in contemporary idioms with Nucleodanza, the Ballet Contemporaneo of the San Martin Theatre; with the ballets troupes of the Opera of the Colon Theatre, Espacio Contemporaneo de Buenos Aires, "Viva La Revista" in Teatro Maipo; and with various independent dance companies in Buenos Aires. She trained at the National School of Dance and the Contemporary School of Dance at the San Martin Theatre.
In the USAFlorencia Taccetti3700 36th Ave. South Minneapolis, MN 55406 telephone: (612) 871-9651 email:
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In ArgentinaFlorencia TaccettiV. Loreto 2538 6th 14 CP 1426 Capital Federal Buenos Aires, Argentina tel: 54-11-4831-1851 email: |