Claudia Jakobsen
14 and 15 February
Classes and Practica
VARIATIONS FROM THE FOLLOWER'S CROSS
Monday 14 February
Class 7.30 – 9pm
This class will be followed by the pratica with the usual exercise
Cost: £10 per person – Drop in class
LEVEL - INT/ADV
BASIC SEQUENCES
Tuesday 15 February
Class 7.30 – 9pm
This class is designed to look at the tecnique for all of those basic steps that are always very useful in the dance-floor
Cost: £10 per person – Drop in class
LEVEL - OPEN LEVEL
Claudia Jakobsen is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer of ballet, modern dance, and Argentine tango. Claudia belongs to that selected group of people who possesses a special talent—an asset that is complemented by her personal integrity as well as by her warm and friendly personality. Both her technical knowledge and teaching experience derived from other dances have elevated the woman’s role in tango, creating a distinctive style that is followed by many women around the world these days. It is through dancers of her talent that such role has acquired considerable importance, opening new possibilities to improvisation and dancing technique. She possesses great determination and personality, which allows me to state that wherever her career goals lead her, she will carry them out with absolute devotion. Her work has been engraved on the collective memory as watershed moments in the evolution that tango is experiencing nowadays.
Claudia started dancing tango in 1996 training with Claudia Miralles, Graciela Gonzalez and Fabian Salas. In 1997 she met Mariano Chicho Frumboli with whom she began to dance, explore new styles and teach, thus, summoning open-minded audiences and students curious about this new trend. Her main mentors then are Fabian Salas, Chicho Frumboli and later Gustavo Naveira. At the end of 1998 Claudia and Chicho were invited to Europe for the first time where an expectant public eager for fantasies is looking forward to seeing them. Their bodies, their musicality, and their expressiveness captivated subtly and mysteriously this new public as well. In 1999 Chicho leaves to Europe and Claudia remains in Buenos Aires meeting a new dancing partner Ezequiel Paludi and has a chance to give her dance a new approach—though with a more traditional style—yet this makes a favourable impression in the circles of young tango dancers. Both classes and tango exhibitions regularly seek Claudia and Ezequiel Paludi’s presence. Claudia, therefore, adds up a new style, concepts, and possibilities in tango’s unimaginable language. In 2001 she moves to Europe where she continues her tango work together with her close friend and dancer, Jorge Fatauros, she prepares and shows their choreographies around Holland where they were also invited to give lessons and organize tango workshops. Later on, called by Alejandro Sanguinetti, a dancer, choreographer, and Argentine teacher, she started working where she taught tango technique for women and summer courses at Universo Tango up to the present date. Likewise, she teaches and dances with A. Sanguinetti in several tango festivals and in various European cities. In the middle of 2002, the organization of the Tango Festival of Hamburg requested her to perform her first modern dance solo with a tango approach. She is frequent guest teacher in Oxford and for the first time she is back in London. Currently she is working with a Colombian dancer John Galindo based in Buenos Aires with whom she is preparing their first European tour.