Instructors

Instructor Bios

Erin Malley & Doruk Golcu

Erin Malley & Doruk Golcu are an internationally touring teaching couple based in the United States. Partners on the dance floor and in life, E&D are known as dancers for their flow, their turns, their ability to make complex sequences look effortless, and their chemistry that has continued to grow in the 17 years they have been dancing together.

Erin and Doruk are generous teachers, known for the approachable way that they share their knowledge of both the body in motion and the structure of the dance. With a breadth of experience from the local to the international levels, they have taught and performed extensively in the United States; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Ireland; Portugal; Switzerland; the United Kingdom; and Turkey. In higher education, Erin and Doruk have taught classes and courses at Stanford University (CA), Western Michigan University (MI), University of Hawai’i at Manoa (HI), and California State University East Bay. They are routinely sought out by the more experienced dancers in the communities they visit for their skill at helping students progress at every level.

In their teaching, Erin and Doruk prioritize partnership, concentrating on what makes true leading and following, and making the dance work as a collaborative team. They use structural analysis to facilitate understanding. They believe that this analysis can be used to build the foundation for any aesthetic styling you choose.

Erin and Doruk greatly encourage exploration and experimentation in their students. They have lived in several very vibrant communities containing a broad variety of tango styles, and they have danced socially around the world. Thanks to that exposure, they can strongly contextualize their teachings to different styles and approaches of dancing social tango.

As artists and teachers, Erin and Doruk are constantly in process. They are always seeking to discover more about themselves as dancers and learners. The evolution of their growth in turn informs and deepens their teaching, making each encounter with their students more enriching than the last.

 

Oscar Casas

 

 

Oscar has a distinct style both in his dance and his teaching. He is very milonguero, and is highly respected by the old guard in the milongas of BA. He also is extremely popular with his students, who are impressed by his teaching style. He teaches with energy and humor, emphasizing concepts, specializing in improvisation always interpreting the music and respecting the character of the different orchestras. He is especially interested in the dynamics and cadencia of the dance. Everything he teaches is applicable to crowded milongas.

 

Live Music

Tango with Winnie & Hugo Satorre

Listen to a live performance of Desde El Alma here!

 

Convinced of tango’s power to include everyone, pianist Winnie Cheung launched Tango With Winnie to bring live tango dance and music to both classic and unconventional tango corners of the world: concert halls, milongas, art galleries, farmers markets, K-12 schools, universities, dementia homes, assisted living spaces, prisons, town-wide multicultural celebrations, and more.  Tango has deep magic:  it reawakens memories of the body and of the mind; it tolerates differences; it shares culture.  With veteran artists that Winnie brings from all over the world, especially Argentina, Tango with Winnie handcrafts each program towards any imaginable objective of your event, and invites you sincerely to tango, whoever you are, wherever you are.

Winnie has played over 300 tango events in the USA, Canada, Asia, Argentina, even Antarctica. Her album with Cuarteto Tanguero, Guapeando, charted Top 10 Billboard World Music in 2018. Her newest album with the duo Ben & Winnie, La Próxima Traición, was released in 2020 with glowing reviews.

Originally from Hong Kong, Winnie is a globetrotting pianist holding a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Chicago and Masters and Doctorate from the Eastman School of Music in Piano and Music Composition.   She taught classes in music composition, theory, piano, choir, and music appreciation from ages 5 to 95 in Canada and USA until tango found her.  More about Winnie Cheung:  http://tangowithwinnie.com/

 

Hugo Satorre is proud to Tango with Winnie at the amazing 2022 Columbus Tango Festival!

Latin-Grammy-Nominee Hugo Satorre was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. He began his music education at the Juan José Castro Conservatory in 1993.  He studied with the most remarkable bandoneonistas of our times including Walter Rios, Carlos Lazzari and Juan José Mosalini. He has shared the stage with legends of the bandoneon world such as Leopoldo Federico, Emilio Balcarce and Jose Libertela. In 1998 he finished his undergraduate course in Argentine Music at the prestigious Universidad de San Martín. He also obtained a Law Degree in the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 2004.

Hugo has performed in the most prestigious theaters and concert halls throughout the world, such as the Sydney Opera House (Australia), The Esplanade (Singapore), the Walt Disney Hall (Los Angeles, US), Harris Theater (Chicago, US), Dewan Filharmonik Petronas (Malaysia), Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires, Argentina), the Shanghai Oriental Art Center (Shanghai, China). In March 2012, he was the solo accompanist for Tenor Placido Domingo on stage set up in the widest avenue of the world in Buenos Aires, 9 de Julio Avenue, in front of 120,000 people.

In 2016 he released his first solo album, dedicated solely to the works of the world-renown arranger Maximo Mori. Hugo is the 2013 Latin Grammy nominee with his “Duo Ramírez-Satorre, Piazzolla de Camara”. He is also a member of these international tango projects:  Quatrotango (2003-2011), Orquesta Victoria (2008-2020), Duo Ramirez Satorre ( 2005-present), Otros Aires (2004-2013), Tanghetto (2003-2006), La Tubatango (2004-2011) and “Tango Fire” (2005-2016). He currently has a Duo with guitarist Emiliano Faryna.

Hugo is a dedicated pedagogue in bandoneon education.  He has compiled and written 10 books (more to be released soon) free for download for the international bandoneon community in multiple languages  in his website http://hugosatorre.com.ar/. He currently teaches bandoneón, tango history and musicality for dancers all over the world.

 

DJ Bios

Kim Scola

Kim came into the tango world in 2012 as a Salsa dancer and quickly fell in love with the dance. Very soon after that, she began to be interested in the music itself. After some encouragement from organizers Timmy Tango and Joanne Pogros, she started working in Cleveland as a guest DJ. Her experience as a DJ has expanded over the years, DJing for the regular milongas in her community, as well as traveling to other communities to play for their events and festivals. She has been influenced greatly by Hernán Prieto, as she attended his DJ seminars and learned how to follow many of his techniques. Kim’s style is characterized by creating a positive, upbeat environment that builds and sustains the energy on the dance floor until the end of the evening when she likes to bring the energy back down with sultry, romantic tandas. She likes to express her own personality with her very carefully chosen cortinas, and she loves connecting with other dancers through the music. She hopes to continue developing connections with other communities and having the privilege of sharing her love for Tango music all over the world.

 

Marty Gooden

 

Tincho began dancing tango in 2007 after being introduced to the social dance by his partner in dance and in life, Jessica Tupa. Since then, he’s danced in various places across the US, Canada, Europe, and Argentina. In 2017 while teaching, he began DJing, an experience which has only deepened his fascination for tango. A student of the golden age, Tincho has been invited to DJ events in central and southern Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Maryland. Tincho’s goal as a DJ is to give dancers music that they want to hear, that motivates them to dance, and to seek out partners to dance with.