Modern Tango World N° 4 (Bucharest, Romania) | Page 10

In 2014, he opened his own school in Brasov called
Tango Misterio where he now teaches weekly with
Veronica Ungureanu. As often as possible, they
dedicate time and energy to teaching people in
their hometown about Argentine tango and bring
ing them into the tango mood and spirit. Besides
Veronica and myself, Csongor has also taught classes with his previous partner, Raluca Teodor.

I find teaching to be a beautiful mission to transmit my love and respect for tango, my knowledge
of tango, and my feelings for tango!

From April 2015 to December 2015, I’ve been
teaching with Csongor every week at Tango Brujo
in Bucharest, while we were also traveling to teach
workshops in Romania and abroad at several festivals and tango weekends in Italy, Moldova, Russia and
My own real tango story began 10 years ago, in June elsewhere. We really enjoyed teaching very much!
2006, Cismigiu Park in Bucharest. There, I attended
my first class and milonga. I still remember how ex- As Csongor likes to say:
An important tango teacher was my partner,
cited and nervous I was! I was lucky to begin at El
Laura. From every dance and conversation about
Tango. The shool was founded by Alina La Morocha
tango, I could learn so much. She transmitted to
and Catalin Dumitrescu.These were the first peome from her own experience, knowledge from
ple who were inspired to bring Argentine tango to
maestros and her travels to Buenos Aires. It was
Romania. After spending a few months in Buenos Aiawesome for myself, coming from a hostile dancres, they opened the first tango school in Romania, ing scene, the standard dancing.
El Tango. Together with their assistant teacher, Petruta Vlad, they introduced me to a new magicical Initially, I had refused to dance with Csongor repeatworld! I am always grateful to them, for these first edly, when he was a beginner. But over time, we
lessons, and their patience with my first embraces, danced a lot in milongas and had a fantastic consteps and frustrations.
nection for two years. The fiirst tanda we danced
I wanted to discover and learn more tango secrets and essences. In the following years, I traveled around Europe and to Buenos Aires to attend
workshops with the maestros. I had seen the old
milongueros on Youtube. I wanted to meet them,
dance with them in milongas and listen to their stories. During these travels, I became a student of Javier Rodriguez and Andrea Misse, the tango legends.
It is to these maestros that I owe the very essence
o f what I have learned and discovered about tango
and tango culture! Thank you always from my heart!

together was at a festival with Sebastian Arce and
Mariana Montes, in Bucharest 2012, when I surprised him by accepting the cabeceo to tango by
Juan d’Arienzo.

Our professional tango story as dance partners began in May 2014 when Csongor asked me, during a
tango marathon, to dance with him at the European
Championship in July 2014. I had never wanted to
participate in a championship, but I took it as a nice
new challenge and accepted. In the first championship, in 2014, we were in the finals at 10th place. We
also received our first few invitations to teach and
I had never thought I would teach tango or dance perform at events abroad.
at exhibitions. But in June 2009, Alina La Morocha, the founder of the Tango Brujo school, chose A great coincidence happened in the next year. In
to leave Romania and left me in charge of the 2015, maestros Sebastian and Mariana prepared us
school with Razvan Nineaca, Catalin Valeanu and especially for the European Championship at Arce
Diana Dobrescu, Augustin Paun and Oana Ispir. Tango Academy. We spent long hours with great deIt all came naturally. From 2009 to 2015, I’ve been votion in academy.They guided us, practiced with us,
teaching with Razvan every week after our regu- and advised us. We will never forget the time spent
lar jobs, running to classes and giving it my best with them for preparation. We are forever grateful!
energy. We share what we have learned from our
maestros as well, as as we are able. We have taken In preparation for the championship, we also took
care of Tango Brujo for all these years, with our classes with maestros Neri Piliu and Yanina Quimost dedication and passion. I have adored sharing nones in Italy. We also practiced in private for
with people what I had learned, and seeubg how championship with maestros Maximiliano Christhey star t embracing, make those the first steps tiani, Fabian Peralta & Josefina Bermudez. We are
very grateful to all of them for preparing us, for guidand then grow. It is magical!
ing us, taking care of us.

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