Argentine TANGO NY Mika Oyaizu

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Mika Oyaizu

Performing Artist / Dancer/ Choreographer

mikaoyaiz@gmai.com

shows

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An ETdC Projects’ Lab Production
Presented by Planet Connections Theatre Festivity
June 8th-24th 2011
The Robert Moss Theater, 440 Lafayette Street, New York NY

The Matra India, a multimedia performance-art play

Nominated Outstanding Production 2010
Translated, Adapted, Designed, and Directed by Roi “Bubi” Escudero

Based on La Matra India, an award winning short story of literatura fantastica by Augusto Patricio González Novoa. An ancient matra made of loom warp wool incites a perceptive discovery of self. This small blanket arose from thousand-year-old indigenous cultures. In Argentina, for centuries, it’s been used on top of the horse as part of the apero (mount). At night it gives shelter to the gauchos arrieros (riders).

Featuring the Artists in Residence at ETdC Projects’ Lab:
Andy Chmelko (Nominated Outstanding Actor 2010) in the dual role of the Professor and Lutnanpak
Mika Oyaizu (Nominated Outstanding Choreography 2010) as Moon and the Kachina doll Roi Escudero (Nominated Outstanding Mask and Movement 2010for Life Sized Puppet Character Mrs. Mind) as Mother Earth, and Mrs Mind in the role of The General.
Mise en scène, costumes, masks, life sized puppet character, art-props, lighting, sound, multimedia video and video editing: Realized and Designed by Roi Escudero
Atmospheric Virtual Painting by James Ewan
Infrared Image by Bob Trongone
Original Music: La Banda Argentina
Lyrics: Roi Escudero
Performed by La Banda Argentina and others
Producer: Roi Escudero Production Manager: Andy Chmelko
Technical Director: James Holland
Stage Manager, Sound & Video Board: Joanna DeLeon

DIRECTOR’S NOTE: This work is dedicated to the Americas’ land and its original inhabitants.
La Matra India was awarded a National Prize, given by the Secretariat of Culture of the City of Vicente López, Argentina.

Special Thanks: Patrons of the Arts Joan and Frederick Nicholas; The Ray and Wyn Ritchie Evans Foundation; Jette and Steve Wobido, Director at The Children’s Aid Society, at The Philip Coltoff Greenwich Village Center. Roi "Bubi" Escudero's ETdC Projects’ Lab is a proud member of the New York City INDIE Theatre. The artist’s work is under the umbrella of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.
more info & tickets here.

© 2011 Post card - Video still from The Matra India a video by Roi "Bubi" Escudero. All rights reserved World Wide
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An ETdC Projects’ Lab Production
Presented by Planet Connections Theatre Festivity
June 3rd-29th 2010
The Robert Moss Theater, 440 Lafayette Street

11 seconds of ecstasy!
Created, Written and Directed by: Roi Escudero
An allegory from Bubulinos’ Dreams Connected Series

A provocative eco-musical embodied in a performance-art piece. A voyage into the daring reality of an alienated world dominated by media phenomena, its virtual reality and its mass hysteria. It is based in realismo magico, transformation art, the theatre of cruelty’s awareness, and the irreverent humor of the absurd. It combines live performance with multimedia that recycles retro, cinéma-vérité, silent melodrama, horror movies, radio, TV shows and old musical hits: cha-cha-cha, swing, hip-hop and tango!

With the participation of the artists in residence at ETdC Projects’ Lab and others guest artists.
Roi Escudero - Andy Chmelko - Eddy Rimada - Blake Ervin - Maria Salzano
Dancers and Choreographers: Mika Oyaizu - Alex Orzeck-Byrnes - Richard Stevens
Radio Voice: Patricia Herrera - Video Appearance: Jennifer Loryn
Recorded Music by La Banda Argentina -Melody Mc Cluckey – Federico Serravalle
Gustavo Ortiz - Marcos Eduards Miguel Mc Cluskey - Donald Mc Cluskey Productions
Tango Music: Keyboard by Pablo Ziegler - Bandoneon Walther Castro
Tango Recorded and Mixed by Hector Del Curto @ Green Parrot Studios.
Produced by Roi Escudero
Production Assistant and Literary Editor Andy Chmelko
Stage Manager - Blake Ervin - Sound and Light Board: Joanna DeLeon
Set Atmospheric Geometric Paintings by James Ewan
Production Designer: Multimedia video, mise en scène, costumes and masks by Roi Escudero.

more info & tickets here.

© 2010 Post card - Video still from 11 seconds of ecstasy! a video by Roi "Bubi" Escudero. All rights reserved World Wide

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Planet Connections Theatre Festivity 2010 Opening Night Preview Party
June 2nd 2010
@ 8:30pm, No Cover
Ace of Clubs (located under ACME Bar and Grill)
9 Great Jones Street New York, NY 10012
http://aceofclubsnyc.com

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About

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Mika Oyaizu
has met Argentine Tango in 1999.
Her dancing carrier started in her early age as a Figure Ice skater. At age eighteen, she had became a competitor/performer in International style Latin Dance. She has training in Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Hip Hop, Ballroom and Latin, Swing, Yoga and Pilates. She has received BFA in Scenography, theater arts. Since she has discovered Tango, she has been involved deeply with the music and the dance. She has been dancing in New York and Buenos Aires, studying with masters such as Juan Carlos Copes, Mingo and Esther Pugliese, Pablo Pugliese, Chiche and Marta, Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne, Olga Besio, Guillermina Quiroga, Maria Plazaola, Mariela Franganillo, Mauricio Castro, Adrian Veredice and Alejandra Hobert, and great Milongueros among them. She has been teaching Argentine Tango since 2003 in group and private, choreographing, and performing in Milongas, corporate events and shows ; NY Dance Center, The Arts Cure Center, Australian Consulate of New York, Lincoln Center, 92Y, Riverside Church Theater NY, Bar Sur, and as far afield as Japan. In 2003 her enthusiastic devotion to Tango was featured on "La Nación", the Argentine national newspaper, as “Tanguera from the oversea”.
As a performing artist/dancer/actor, she has appeared in some of theatrical shows which includes off-off Broadway productions: "Sayonara" at Miller Theater in New York, "Agapanthus Tango" at Australian Consulate of New York. "Pan Am" ABC TV drama series. Since 2009 she has been continual member of Roi "Bubi" Escudero's ETdC Projects' Lab and has appeared in several of her performance: "Argentina Passionate!” at American Theatre of Actors at New York Musical Theater Festival, aword winning production "11 seconds of ecstasy!"and "Matra India"at The Robert Moss Theater in New York, which she was nominated for outstanding dance choreography.

She studies and dances different styles of Tango: Milonguero, Apirado, Canyengue, Traditional Salon, Fantasia, Nuevo…and as an artist, she is working to achieve her own style based on strong traditional techniques.

Contact:
mikaoyaiz@gmail.com

Class & Práctica

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"Beginner & Intermediate Class"
Not in This Month.

Thursday 7:30 - 9pm

Address: The Arts Cure Center
33-24 Northern Blvd. 3F, Astoria, NY 11101
tel: 718-729-3568

Class Rates: Single Class $16, 5 Classes Card $75, 10 Classes Card $140
*5&10 classes card is effective for 2 months. Can be used for all classes at The Arts Cure Center.

"Techniques for Leaders and Followers"

*Technique Class is focused on techniques such as posture, walking, movement, elements of dancing, adornos, and musicality. No partner necessary. for all levels.

Not in This Month.

Please ask for Private and Semi Private Lessons. For all level: absolute beginner to advanced. For any styles of Tango. Also available for choreography and performance. for more info, please email me to
mikaoyaiz@gmail.com

Links

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New York Tango Guide

Richard Lipkin's Guide to Argentine Tango in New York City

Music / Photography

Sergio R. Reyes

Photography: Tango y Candombe

TANGOtour Daniel Machado