Mazen Kiwan & Sigrid van Tilbeurgh
Mazen and Sigrid are former contemporary and ballet dancers, who teach tango by inviting their students to broaden their perception of their own bodies and their sense of space as they dance alone or with someone else in a tango ball. To help the dancers get into the dance, they teach how to change dynamics and directions, as well as density and intensity, with a variety of rhythmic and musical exercises.
For both instructors, teaching tango means transmitting the possibility of a harmonious exchange between two partners through smooth guiding and subtle movements, while making it possible for each of their students to free themselves of being solely concerned with technique. For technique should not be conceived of as a goal in itself, but as a means intended to bring out the magic of tango.
Mazen Kiwan
Mazen was formed as a contemporary dancer. He graduated in 1998 with a DE (a state diploma) in dance teaching. Both a choreographer and a dancer, he has created and performed in many contemporary dance and tango shows, in France as well as abroad.
He has written and danced two tango choreographies for the cinema: La demoiselle d'honneur directed by Claude Chabrol (2004) and L'homme de sa vie directed by Zabou Breitman (2006).
He has also arranged the contemporary dance choreographies for several theater plays, including Résonance directed by Irina Brook and Caligula directed by Charles Berling.
He has been teaching Argentine tango in Paris and elsewhere since 1999.
Sigrid Van Tilbeurgh
Sigrid started ballet and then contemporary dance classes at a very young age.
She started to dance Argentine tango while studying at the University of Toulouse where she graduated in Latin American literature.
In 2004, she was in Argentina to complete her training as a tango dancer.
She taught tango in Toulouse between 2001 and 2005. Since then she has been teaching and performing internationally.
More information about Mazen and Sigrid is available on the Artyfuego web site.