World Dance Highlight: Argentine Tango
Linda Sutton, with over 11 years of professional dance experience, creates dance performances, instruction,
choreography, and cultural experiences in various world dance forms. With an understanding of the African cultural roots
of Argentine Tango, Linda provides high energy, dynamic, rhythmic expressions of tango.
Linda spent 6 months of 2005 in Uruguay and Argentina with Ernest Williams, her former dance partner, researching the
African roots of Tango including the dance and music traditions of Candombe, Milonga, Milongon,and Canyengue. She
was involved in the filming a documentary on the black experience and its influence on Tango. As a result of this
research, she co-wrote Tango: The Black Dance Experience (La Experiencia Negra en la Danza), a dance theater
production, working in conjunction with various artists, historians and cultural organizations based in Uruguay and
Argentina.
During her stay in the Rio de la Plata region of South America, she was a featured Tango performer at the well-known
Tango club called El Viejo Correo in Buenos Aires. She was also a featured candombe dancer with the high profile
candombe organization La Gozadera in Montevideo and had two featured Tango performance appearances on La
Ciudad de Tango, a live national TV show in Uruguay.
As a graduate of the "Master para Maestros" por la Escuela Argentina del Tango (Masters for Teachers at the School of
Argentine Tango) program, Linda is committed to being an effective instructor. Linda collaborated on a special
workshop series on advanced rhythms in the Milonga dance in Buenos Aires.
She performed in a 20-minute excerpt from the show Tango, sponsored by the dance organization BADA (Buenos Aires
Danza Afro). It was presented to a sold out crowd at the intimate Club del Actor Theater in Buenos Aires, Argentina in
August 2005.
Linda has conducted workshops and seminars, as well as dance exhibitions in U.S. cities such as Norfolk, VA, Virginia
Beach, Portsmouth, VA, Richmond, VA, Philadelphia, Ocracoke, NC, and Charlotte, NC. She has also
facilitated long-term residencies in Candombe in collaboration with the Dell Curry Charity 4 Youth Foundation of North
Carolina.
Linda's dancing is highly improvised drawing from knowledge of more than twenty different dance forms such as Salsa,
Cuban Rumba, Hip Hop, Swing, West African, Classical Indian, Ballroom and Belly Dance.
She has an array of offerings: dance workshops in many styles of Tango, Salsa, African dance, Yoga for dancers and
partners; lecture/demo and participatory seminars in both the history of Tango and Candombe.
Linda Sutton, with over 11 years of professional dance experience, creates dance performances, instruction,
choreography, and cultural experiences in various world dance forms. With an understanding of the African cultural roots
of Argentine Tango, Linda provides high energy, dynamic, rhythmic expressions of tango.
Linda spent 6 months of 2005 in Uruguay and Argentina with Ernest Williams, her former dance partner, researching the
African roots of Tango including the dance and music traditions of Candombe, Milonga, Milongon,and Canyengue. She
was involved in the filming a documentary on the black experience and its influence on Tango. As a result of this
research, she co-wrote Tango: The Black Dance Experience (La Experiencia Negra en la Danza), a dance theater
production, working in conjunction with various artists, historians and cultural organizations based in Uruguay and
Argentina.
During her stay in the Rio de la Plata region of South America, she was a featured Tango performer at the well-known
Tango club called El Viejo Correo in Buenos Aires. She was also a featured candombe dancer with the high profile
candombe organization La Gozadera in Montevideo and had two featured Tango performance appearances on La
Ciudad de Tango, a live national TV show in Uruguay.
As a graduate of the "Master para Maestros" por la Escuela Argentina del Tango (Masters for Teachers at the School of
Argentine Tango) program, Linda is committed to being an effective instructor. Linda collaborated on a special
workshop series on advanced rhythms in the Milonga dance in Buenos Aires.
She performed in a 20-minute excerpt from the show Tango, sponsored by the dance organization BADA (Buenos Aires
Danza Afro). It was presented to a sold out crowd at the intimate Club del Actor Theater in Buenos Aires, Argentina in
August 2005.
Linda has conducted workshops and seminars, as well as dance exhibitions in U.S. cities such as Norfolk, VA, Virginia
Beach, Portsmouth, VA, Richmond, VA, Philadelphia, Ocracoke, NC, and Charlotte, NC. She has also
facilitated long-term residencies in Candombe in collaboration with the Dell Curry Charity 4 Youth Foundation of North
Carolina.
Linda's dancing is highly improvised drawing from knowledge of more than twenty different dance forms such as Salsa,
Cuban Rumba, Hip Hop, Swing, West African, Classical Indian, Ballroom and Belly Dance.
She has an array of offerings: dance workshops in many styles of Tango, Salsa, African dance, Yoga for dancers and
partners; lecture/demo and participatory seminars in both the history of Tango and Candombe.
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