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Dominic Bridge & Jenna Rohrbacher
Veronica Toumanova (Paris) and Fausto Carpino (Syracuse, Sicily)
Fausto Carpino started dancing at the age of 6. For many years he trained in ballroom and went from competition to competition, bringing home regional and national prizes. When his older sister Barbara and her partner Claudio started learning tango argentino, Fausto was quickly touched by the same passion and his dance background made him a notoriously quick learner. He is one of the main teachers at the tango school in Syracuse, called Paladanze, and is famous for being Italy's "youngest professional tango dancer." Besides being a talented dancer, he is a well-known tango DJ, invited to various festival and marathons in Europe.
Veronica Toumanova was born in Moscow, but started dancing tango in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, at the famous Dutch school El Corte, ten years ago. Travelling all over the world to dance, she learned from maestros such as Chicho, Sebastian and Mariana, Pablo and Dana. Her background in modern dance allows her to build a solid technical basis for tango. Besides working in a couple she has been teaching followers technique in Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, France and Italy for the past three years
Fausto and Veronica met in 2006. Shortly afterwards they started working together, performing for the first time as a couple at the Freiburg Tangomafia festival. For the past few years they have been teaching and performing in Europe, with a shared base in Paris and Syracuse. They also participate in the organization of the Syracuse International Tango Festival. In their teaching Fausto and Veronica concentrate on such aspects as the connection in the couple, musicality, technique and quality of movement. Their energetic dance fuses elements of various tango styles and is rooted in a deep sensitivity to music.
Their dance style can be described as "achieving a highly dynamic complexity of movement within the couple's intimate space". This is why most of the material they teach in classes can be used in a crowded milonga.
Dominic Bridge & Jenna Rohrbacher (Portland, OR)
To Jenna Rohrbacher, dancing tango is an ongoing search for the complete. Balanced by complexity in movement and purity of sensation, her strong, elegant dance embodies the traditional roles of Argentine tango and beyond. In teaching, Jenna encourages students to discover their individual connections to the music as well as focus on laying a foundation of solid technique upon which they can build their dance.
In the last three years, Jenna has taught and performed around the U.S. with Joe Leonardo, Alex Krebs, Felipe Martinez, and Dominic Bridge. In the summer of 2008, Jenna taught at the Tango Mango Festival in Devonshire, England with Portland's own Rebecca Smith. In February 2009, she performed with Alex Krebs at the Maui TangoFest, and in the summer of 2009, she performed with Dominic Bridge at Chicago Tango Week as well as in Florence, Italy.
In four years Dominic Bridge became one of the top young tango professionals in the world. In this time, he has performed up and down the west and east coasts, Chicago Tango Week ’09, Italy, and Buenos Aires, as well as in his hometown of Portland, Oregon. Dominic has spent the last year building a tango school and teaching full time in Florence, Italy. When his weekends were free, he took trips around Europe, spending a significant amount of time in Paris, Rennes, Berlin, Bäsel, Siracusa, and Catania. Dominic views tango in the same way he views any language: there are clear structure, grammar, and rules, all of which can be broken when understood. He knows these things form a foundation necessary in communicating in one’s own way. His effectiveness as a teacher grows from his deep understanding of movement and his ability to clearly communicate.