Rumbos de Tango | Jenny + Ricardo

Rumbos de Tango

To dance tango is to be entirely present and engaged with yourself, your partner and the music in that moment, but also to be part of a larger community stretching from Buenos Aires, across the world, back to the turn of the 20th Century and forwards into the future. These connections, threads, lives, paths are the inspiration behind the concept of Rumbos de Tango.

Jenny + Ricardo

Jenny and Ricardo began their professional collaboration in 2002. They are based in Edinburgh, Scotland where they teach on a weekly basis. They are regularly invited to give workshops all over the UK as well as in Ireland, France, Denmark and Sweden. They have also been invited to perform in many arts festivals and events throughout the UK and abroad. Their collaboration with Pasodos Dance Company in 2003 and 2004 included sell-out performances in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and performances in Theatres in Dublin, Palma de Mallorca and Lisburn. In 2003 they formed Rumbos de Tango and opened their studio night in Edinburgh. In the same year they organised the first annual Bailongo! tango festival in Edinburgh, the only tango festival to celebrate the flourishing of Argentine tango in the UK.

They spend time in Buenos Aires each year continuing their studies, practicing and developing ideas. Their performances in Buenos Aires include dancing with Raul Garello’s Orquesta de Tango de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires in the Teatro del Rivero (2006) and at the milonga ‘La Milonguita’ (2005).

In the knowledge that tango-dance has weathered many fashions, twists and turns throughout its existence, Jenny and Ricardo seek it’s timeless elements. Always creative, always tango, their exploratory approach is in tune with the dance’s improvised nature; innovative developments from original roots. Their dance and teaching doesn’t aim to change tango, but to develop it creatively to its very limits.

(See also facts about Jenny and facts about Ricardo below CVs)

CV - 2006

Workshops & Performances

UK: Firbush (Feb), Aberdeen (Feb, Apr, Nov), Inverness (Mar, May), Newcastle (Mar, Oct), Glasgow (Aug), Manchester (Jun), Bedford (Jun), Edinburgh (Aug), Cambridge (Oct).
Sweden: Malmo (Apr, Sept)
Ireland: Cork (May)

Shows

UK: Young at Heart, Rutherglen; Pink Latin Event for Breast Cancer, Edinburgh; Dada events, Hilton Hotel, Glasgow; Friends of Midlothian’s Children, Edinburgh; Leith Festival, Edinburgh; Glasgow Winter Ball with Quinteto Angel
Argentina: Teatro Del Riviera with La Orquesta de Tango de la Ciudad de Buenoso Aires (Dir. Raul Garello)

Performances at events and festivals

UK: Tango Tangk, Southampton; Their own Bailongo! festival in Edinburgh
France: Pelerin tango Holiday, Auvergne

2005

Workshops & Performances

UK: Glasgow, Manchester, Firbush, Aberdeen, Leicester, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Annan, Norwich, London. Sweden: Malmö. Ireland: Cork.

Shows

UK: Ceroc Scotland, Glasgow; Leith Festival Edinburgh; La Rumba, Aberdeen: Glasgow Christmas Ball; Swing Scotland, Edinburgh
Argentina: La Milonguita, Buenos Aires

Performances at events and festivals

UK: Their own Bailongo! festival in Edinburgh
Denmark: Tango Marathon, Copenhagen

2004

Workshops & Performances

UK: Leicester, Lisburn, Manchester, Norwich, Cambridge, Camber, Annan, Glasgow
Sweden: Malmo
Ireland: Cork

Shows

The Tango Spell, Xesc Forteza theatre, Palma de Mallorca
The Tango Spell, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, NI. as part of the Earthquake Festival of International Dance

Performances at events and festivals

FETE 2, Dublin (April 2004)
Glasgow Mela (July 2004)
Edinburgh International Fillm Festival launch, Edinburgh (August
2004)
'Tango Abraza a Malmo' festival, Sweden (Nov 2004)
Celorca festival, Glasgow (Nov 2004)
Jivetime weekend (Dec 2004)
and their own Bailongo! tango festival in Edinburgh (Dec 2004)

2003

Workshops and Performances

UK: Leicester, Leeds, Loughborough, Manchester, Norwich, Edinburgh, London
Sweden: Uppsala
Ireland: Cork

Shows

The Tango Spell, Edinburgh Fringe Festival (C Venue)
The Tango Spell, Waterfront Hall, Belfast.

Jenny

Birth 1978
Tango Birth 1999
Teachers and principal inspiration Los Dinzel
Studied with: Angel Coria, Julio Mendez, Adriana Duré, Claudia Codega & Esteban Moreno, Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne, Fabian Salas & Carolina del Rivero, Chicho Frumboli & Eugenia Parrilla, Nancy Louzan & Damián Esell, Julio Mendez, Graciela Gonzalez, Jean-Sébastien Rampazzi, Carlos Gavito & Maria Plazaola.
Started with: Jessie Kennedy, Mayumi Fujio Morrow, and Toby Morris.
Other Studies: Ballet, Valentinov, Yoga

Ricardo

Birth 1979
Tango Birth 1993
Teachers and principal inspiration: Los Dinzel
Studied with: Jorge y Liliana Rodriguez, Valencia Vatiuk, Angel Coria, Estela Arcos, Eduardo Capussi y Mariana Flores, Vanina y Roberto, Juan Carlos Copes, Javier Rodriguez y Geraldine Rojas, Julio Mendez, Adriana Duré, Claudia Codega & Esteban Moreno, Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne, Fabian Salas & Carolina del Rivero, Chicho Frumboli & Eugenia Parrilla, Nancy Louzan & Damián Esell, Jean-Sébastien Rampazzi, Carlos Gavito & Maria Plazaola.
Started with: Classes in secondary school with Daniel Vera
Other studies: Contemporary dance, Pilates, Valentinov