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Aoniken Quiroga Bujan & Luna Palacios
This is how they dance: Aoniken i Luna
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Aoniken started his dancing career at the early age of 7 in the academy called ”El Porteño” Directed by the ”maestros milongueros” Aurelio y Delma. Trough these sixteen years, he has been taught by many teachers like Carlos Gavito, Carlos Copello, Carlos y Rosa Perez, Pibe Avellaneda, Horacio Godoy, Gabriel Misse, Alejandra Martiñan, among others.
In 1998 he debuts on theather in a show called ”Con Tangos” directed by Osvaldo Salerno. He has been part of very important and successful shows in Buenos aires, like ”Contame una hostoria” In café tortoni, sharing stage with Roberto rufino, Alberto Podestá, Reynaldo Martin, Roberto Ayala, Maria Grana, Maria Garay, Abel Cordoba, El Maestro Baffa, El Maestro "Tito" Ferrari.
In the following years Aoniken searched his particular dancing style studying with teachers of all styles to have the best of each of them, he studied classical and contemporary dance with Alicia Bozzi and folklore with Mario Bustos
In 2006 Carlos Copello, invited Aoniken to be part of the staff of his school teaching the advanced students there. By the end of 2006 Aoniken becomes the sub champion in the ”World tango salon championship 2006”
He has also been part of the actual show in café Tortoni where he said he learnt to fusion clown and theather as elements to interpret tango on stage.
He taught in CITA 2007.
After been part of ‘Tango Porteno’ a very successful show in Buenos aires, one of the most important tango house in the city, where the press and colleagues recognized Aoniken’s talent enormously he was called by Luis Bravo to become part of ‘Forever Tango’, which took Aoniken in an extensive tour trough the US.
Aoniken nowadays is called to be jury of different championships like the one made in Bariloche this year, and to be teacher of different festivals throughout Argentina and the world.
Aoniken’s particular style and approach makes him a very interesting teacher and he is always looking for new information to learn and teach.
This year he will perform and teach in Europe and the US with different dancers such as Carla Marano and Luna Palacios.
Born in Buenos Aires, Luna Palacios is an authentic milonguera, tango dancer, who learned tango from some of the most storied figures in Buenos Aires dance halls. But she started dancing tango almost by chance.
Until 2001, Luna was a salsa and swing dancer. She had won several salsa competitions in Buenos Aires and had danced all over the country. One day, her sister Verónica took her to a milonga, where, says Luna, she immediately fell in love: the dance, the music, the atmospheres were something she had never experienced, but it was the embrace that seduced her and won over her heart.
Though at first she had thought it would be almost impossible to accustom her salsa-trained feet to the demanding tango steps, she was lucky enough to have the opportunity to dance with some of the best milongueros and professional dancers in Buenos Aires from whom she learnt a lot.
Some of her formal teacher where: Veronica Palacios, Oliver Kolker, Guillermo Cerneaz and Gabriel Misse, among other. The greatest inspiration for her in dance and in life was her teacher and friend, the late Carlos Gavito. Shortly after they met, Carlos became Luna's mentor.
Given that Luna was always a very ductile and personal dancer, she became the favourite dancing partner of several great dancers: Lucas Galera, Oliver Kolker, ”Flaco” Dany Garcia,Horacio Britos (aka: PIbe Avellaneda),Carlos Copello, Aoniken Quiroga, Paulo Bidart, Jorge Pahl and Octavio Fernandez . She had travelled extensively to teach and perfom nationally and internationally. Luna has also performed in every single important venue in Buenos Aires: Club Sunderland, Salon Canning, La viruta, La Baldosa, Glorias Argentinas, El Arranque, Porteno y Bailarin among others Owner of a profound passion for music and dancing, Luna is a very communicative and original performer and a dedicated and effective teacher.
Nowadays, she travels back and forth from Argentina to perform and teach in different places around the world. Her intuitive style of teaching opens the door of enjoyment to everyone that is interested in this popular dance.
Luna’s ultimate goal is to make contagious to everyone, her love and understanding of his greatest passion: Tango Argentino.