**Special Performance**
Graciela Gonzalez & Leonardo Sardella
Friday, May 16: La Milonga Para Practicar at Galletto Studios
9:30pm – 12:30am. Adm: $15
Graciela Gonzalez is very well known worldwide, and especially among the traditional milongueros in Buenos Aires, for her skills to integrate new ideas into the elegance of tango salon. She started dancing in 1988, being her teachers authentic myths of the Argentine tango: Pupy Castello, Pepito Avellaneda, Antonio Todaro, Gustavo Naveira, Juan Bruno, Tete, Nito y Elba, among many others.
Her way of teaching is completely innovative. It is the result of years of studying the body language and the analysis of the feelings when dancing with the milongueros. It can be summarized in one objective: to take the body from the feeling and body memory to natural positions that lately will be transformed through the understanding, into technical positions. This way the student can give it his/her “own style”
She is one of the principal exponents of the new generation of tango. Through her research work she became the creator of the world renown seminars for Women’s Technique (1994) and for Men’s Lead (1995).
In 1997 she created the first “Grupo de Maestros de Tango Argentino” (Argentine tango teacher’s group) in Argentina, Israel, Brazil, Germany and Italy, with the purpose of promoting the research and spreading of Argentine tango through her teaching method.
She has taught classes in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Israel, USA, Brazil, Chile, Turkey, Sweden and Finland.
As a guest teacher, she has been at Stanford Tango Week 95 (USA), Nora’s Tang Week 98(USA), CITA 1999 (Buenos Aires), Tangomagia 2000 (Amsterdam), Tango en Flor 2001/2002(Zurich), Festival en Firenze -May 2003 (Italy), World Tango Festival -October 2003 (Buenos Aires) and 7o. Encuentro con los Grandes -December 2003 (Madrid).
She was summoned to integrate the group of young professionals of Argentine tango by the Academia Nacional del Tango, in Buenos Aires.
She is founding partner of the First Association of Teachers, Dancers and Choreographers of Argentine Tango, created in Buenos Aires in April 2001.