Argentine Tango in Boston and Cambridge with AnaLinda of Tango Embrace

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AnaLinda Marcus

I teach and dance the genuine Argentine Tango social dance as it is danced in Buenos Aires and the Milongas (a social dance) around the world.

The way that I teach integrates the beginning dancer into their breath and their balance, connects them to their imagination through the music and builds a strong and independent relationship with their dance partner of the moment.

I teach new dancers to be comfortable with many styles of the social dance: Milonguero or Club Style often called “Close embrace” whether through the shared axis or the independent axis, as well as the open figure style of dancing with a fluid embrace.

Biography

Argentine Tango is an improvisational social dance that changes lives, and AnaLinda fell under its spell 20 years ago. Through Tango she discovered the exacting improvisational connection to partner dance and musical interpretation she had been seeking. She dances an authentic Argentine Tango both playful and elegant, with great physical dynamism, and she teaches with clarity and joy.

Social dance has been the connective tissue of her life since age 12. After dancing Jazz and Hip-hop in her 20’s, she renewed her childhood involvement with Latin social dance in her 30’s and studied Salsa and Mambo intensively with Cha cha, Bolero, Cumbia, Bachata interspersed. She continues to dance these, but Salsa is her second dance home and has influenced her Tango style. Early on a student of Tai Chi and still studying Yoga, her method of movement in the Tango utilizes these dynamic forms through concepts of stretch and release, and weight and counterweight. Her dancing utilizes exchanges of place, and has been described as both sinuous and tensile in quality.

AnaLinda has taught classes on social issues for more than 20 years and dance for 4 years, initially as an assistant to Sharna Fabiano of the Boston Tango School. For the last 17 years she has led her own group and private classes. She is a member of the faculty at the Dance Complex. She has traveled extensively to pursue Tango passion throughout North America, and to Buenos Aires several times. She has performed extensively in the region.
Additionally, I

assisted at the Boston Tango School from 1999 - 2002, and have been taught for the last 2 years.
teaches as invited guest instructor for the Tango Society of Boston at the Wednesday Night Tango Break and at special events such as Tango by Moonlight and the Mardigras 2003 of Hayden and Handel Society.
faculty of BCCA and teaches at the Dance Complex in Cambridge
has taught independently-run classes for 2 years.
teaches on a rotating basis at the Cambridge Tango Central pre-Milonga Class

Influences

Studied extensively under Daniel Trenner, Sharna Fabiano, Matej Oresik and Luciana Valle, and Brooke Burdett.
Continued study under Fabian Salas and Pablo Veron, Nito and Elba and the Puglieses, and Ting Chin.
Continued to absorb the range of the tango by studying in intensive seminars with no less than three dozen other instructors the majority of which are Argentine professionals.


AnaLinda's Major Performances	Book one today!

South End Open Studios, May 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 with Paul Walcott, Yves Chretein, and Peter Simineau South End Art Walk, September 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 with Paul Walcott, Yves Chretein, and Peter Simineau Wellesley University, Latino Heritage Cultural Celebration, April, 2012, with Paul Walcott For Movimiento Procultura: “Evento Multicultural Raíces”, May 2011 with Peter Simineau Suffolk University, Latino Heritage Month Celebration, October 2011, with Yves Chretein Proctor and Gamble Headquarters, South Boston, MA, October 2010, with Pracha Eamramond Cambridge Central Square Summer Festival,t July, 2010, with Paul Walcot Emerson College Latino Heritage Cultural Celebration, February, 2010, with Paul Walcott Harvard University, for faculty and organizers of International Symposium on Roots of Argentine Tango, 2009, with Paul Walcott Milton Academy 2009, with Baseem Spinellis TUV SUD America Holiday Party, Boston Center for Adult Education, January 2009, with Pracha Eamramond Boston Tango Festival June 2007 With Sergei Klimionov Boston Tango Festival June 2006 With Sergei Klimionov MIT Winter Milonga February 2006 With Sergei Klimionov A Taste of the Arts at Brookline Community Center for the Arts November 2005 With Uche Amaechi First Annual Boston Tango Festival June 2005 With Clifton Chow Dance Complex Stage at Dance Month during May Fair May 2005 with Clifton Chow Choreographers Showcase Dance Complex November 2004 Choreography by AnaLinda and performed With Uche Amaechi Soloists with Firebird Ensemble�s Astor Piazzola commemoration September 2004 With Uche Amaechi 1st Tango Night April 20th 2004 Sponsored by New England Conservatory of Music Student Government Teaching and performace with Shalom Gordon College Music Department Faculty Recital January 18th, 2004 featuring Alicia DiDonato on Flute partnered by Shalom Volchok Brookline Community Center for the Arts Winter Solstice Festival Dec 11th 2003 with Shalom Volchok Argentina Week and Tango Society of Boston at Boston Public Library May 21 2003 with Shahruk Merchant Program to preview film The Assasination Tango by Robert Duvall March 2003 Hosted by Robert Duval at the Copley Sqauare Theatre Partnered by Tom English and sponsored by the Tango Society of Boston Carnival! Fund Raiser for the Hayden and Handel Society of Boston at the Four Seasons Hotel March 2003 Partnered by Tom English and sponsored by the Tango Society of Boston WEPA! Salsa Sunday Tango for Salsa dancers series November 2002 Partnered by Tom English 2002 Summer Ball in Providence August 2002 With TangoLuz produced by Matej Orezik SALSalegre! Salsa Dance, Natick June 2002 partnered by Tom English Somerville Art Beat Festival July 2001 With Tango Forte produced by Sharna Fabiano Cambridge Compartiendo June 2001 With Tango Forte el Camino Festival produced by Sharna Fabiano

Photo Credits:
Kara Mahotka-Paterson, Clifford Getz, George Madrid, Christina Christodoulopoulos