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| TangOlé Compañía de Danza is a performing group that is creating a fusion of the two of the most passionate music & dance styles in the world - Argentine Tango and Flamenco.
This company is founded by Natalia Pérez del Villar, Nina Pesochinsky, Gregory (“Grisha”) Nisnevich and Mark Herzog.
Natalia, Mark, Nina and Gregory have worked together for many years in different shows and projects. In an effort to expand their artistic horizons, they had decided to create TangOlé Compañía de Danza and unite the beauty of these two art forms.
With this group, they bring to the public an exciting mix of music and dance, fusing Argentine Tango music with Flamenco singing, dancing Argentine Tango with Flamenco music, merging in one choreography both types of music and dance, as well as presenting both Argentine Tango and Flamenco in their traditional, classic forms.
TangOlé Compañía de Danza is available for parties, weddings, shows, etc.
Please contact us for more information at information@tangoledanza.com | |
| Natalia Pérez del Villar Natalia Pérez del Villar was born in Oviedo, Spain. She started her studies of dance at the age of nine with ballet. At the age of thirteen, while continuing her studies of ballet, she began to study flamenco dance in Oviedo where she performed with the Cuadro Flemenco de Ivan Bravo. With Ivan Bravo she also learned jazz and the Russian dance. She then moved to Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz) to continue her flamenco studies at La Fundación Andaluza del Flamenco. Before moving to the United States, she taught and performed throughout Spain. For the past five years, Natalia has been teaching and performing flamenco in Denver. She continues her own dance training in modern dance and Argentine Tango.
Natalia studied flamenco with Paloma Fontenelle, Ivan Bravo, Matilde Coral, Rafael "el negro", Marisol Moreno, Juan del Valle, La China and Pablo Rodarte.
Natalia and Mark have a flamenco group call "Embrujo
Flamenco".
Embrujo Flamenco performs traditional flamenco and they always include improvisation por bulerías and/or Tangos in their shows making them more unique.
Natalia has performed for events such as Noche Flamenca at the Oriental Theater, Cirque du Soleil, Denver Botanic Gardens, Colorado School of Mines, Las Brisas del Titicaca (Lima,Peru), Lakewood Cultural Center, Spanish Restaurant Ole Che, IBM Boulder Diversity Fair, and many others.
As a choreographer, Natalia prepares and directs
all her shows. For the Overland High School Natalia has choreographed dance pieces for the regional High School Dance Competition at the Global Art Fair in Greeley, Colorado, USA, winning 1st prize two years consecutively.
She also has worked with the North High School, with
the director Jose Mercado, in the play "Blood Wedding" choreographing the dance parts for this play. Natalia also has collaborated with Jose Mercado in the play "Simply Maria".
Natalia is teaching flamenco classes at Kim Robards Dance, PDAC Arts for all and Colorado Free University. She teaches group, private and semi-private classes.
Natalia is currently working with Nina, Mark & Gregory (Grisha) in their new company "TangOlé Compañía de Danza" as a choreographer, dancer & singer.
Mark Herzog 
Mark Herzog was born in 1967 in Los Angeles, California. Music has always been a part of his life. His parents were both musicians. His mother plays classical piano and sings and his father played the violin and sang. From a very young age his musical ear was being honed. His father enjoyed listening to symphony music in the car and they would play a game of trying to identify which instruments were being played at what time. At the age of 8, a family friend gave him some college level books dealing with music theory and he began applying what he learned to piano and guitar. At the age of 10, Mark began studying the violin.
From 1990 to 1999 Mark traveled the world as an International Flight Attendant and had the opportunity to play with musicians from all over the world. This experience opened his mind to different rhythms and styles of musical expression, something that would be of immeasurable help in the future. While living in Miami, he worked with the Al Galvez band and played at different venues around South Beach.
In 1998, by a strange twist of fate, Mark saw a performance given by the maestro Miguel Espinoza and his life was changed forever.
Flamenco was a music that touched him deep within his soul and from that point on, there was no looking back. He began intense studies of flamenco, learning about the different rhythms and “palos” that make up this amazing art. Since then, he has had the honor of studying with various maestros including Guillermo Salazar, Vincent Chavez, and as luck would have it, with the man who changed his life, Miguel Espinoza.
By another strange twist of fate, Mark met Natalia, a flamenco dancer from Spain and member of this group, who in 2001 became his wife. Since that time they have collaborated as a duo and with other musicians and dancers from the Denver area.
Mark has collaborated with musicians from all over the world. He plays music with Tito del Barrio Malaga, a wonderful guitarist and singer from Morocco. They play a mix of North African and Flamenco music and have been playing at the 9th Door restaurant weekly for over 2 years.
They have also played at the Lakewood Cultural Center and La Rumba.
In 2005, Mark was hired as lead guitarist for Su Teatro's production of Westside Oratorio, directed by Daniel Valdez, who has been in movies such as The China Syndrome, Zoot Suit, and La Bamba.
The show was held at the Kenneth King Center on the Auraria Campus in Denver. This also gave him the opportunity to work with other Hollywood actors and musicians including Jesse Borrego (Con Air, 24, CSI Miami, etc.), Rosanna De Soto (Melrose Place, Law & Order, La Bamba, etc.), and Tish Hinojosa.
Mark, then, had the pleasure of playing lead guitar and assisting with the musical arrangements on Dinorah’s 2006 production, Ojos de Amor.
During this time, Mark and Natalia have created a group called Embrujo Flamenco with Vincent Chavez and Sara Deloe, and they have performed at different venues around Denver including the Oriental Theater and The Church Nightclub.
It is an honor for Mark to work with Natalia, Nina, and Gregory and he is looking forward to great things coming out of this collaboration.
| | Nina Pesochinsky 
Nina Pesochinsky was born in Leningrad, Russia, where she began her music studies in classical piano at the age of six and continued until the age of fourteen, when she and her family came to live in the United States.
Nina first encountered Argentine Tango in 1995. Captivated by the beauty of this intricate dance and, especially, by its music, she began to study professionally with the Argentine master teachers Pablo Pugliese and his legendary parents Mingo and Esther Pugliese.
In 1997, she began to study with Julio Balmaceda and Corina de la Rosa of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Nina lived in Buenos Aires in 1999-2000, where she studied the language and the culture that gave birth to tango. She has spent countless hours dancing in the milongas, learning the subtle beauty of this improvisational dance.
While in Buenos Aires, Nina also studied sculpture with Graciela Klein, an artist known for her remarkable sensual, symbolic and spiritual representation of the human form. This very special time of learning has shaped Nina's vision of the dance and sculpture as inseparable art forms that speak the same language.
After returning to the United States, Nina began to train in modern dance (mostly Horton andGraham techniques) and ballet at the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance School. This training has changed and intensified her perception and understanding of the classical Argentine Tango and a clear distinction between the social and performance dance styles. Learning classical dance has brought a subtle beauty and depth to Nina's own dancing. It has also brought a profound understanding of the immensity of human potential through dance to her sharing Argentine Tango with her students.
Nina continues her own dance training in modern dance and flamenco. She also continues her ongoing Argentine Tango training with master teachers Julio Balmaceda and Corina de la Rosa and she frequently returns to Buenos Aires.
In 2000-2003, Nina has choreographed and conducted training for the Tangoneando Dance Company, a classic Argentine Tango group with which she has performed for the Ocean Journey, Casa Argentina, Reunion the la Escuela Lincoln de Buenos Aires, CHAC Gallery, Cirque du Soleil, as well as many other events.
Since 1997, Nina has been teaching group and private Argentine Tango classes. She currently teaches regular group classes at the Moving Arts Studio in Denver, as well as occasionally group classes at the Mercury Café.
Nina is currently working with Gregory Nisnevich on a musical "Through the Mist of Tango", directed by Mr. Constantine Tariloff. She is also choreographing and dancing with the TangOlé Compañía de Danza, which she has formed with Gregory (Grisha) Nisnevich, Natalia Pérez del Villar, and Mark Herzog.
Grisha Nisnevich Gregory Nisnevich began his music studies in St. Petersburg, Russia at the age of four. He studied with Vladimir Denisov, Yevgeniya Riabokon and Ilya Permiakov. He continued his education with Joseph Urshalmi at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music in Israel, where he later became a faculty member.
In 2001, Gregory became the first guitarist to receive a prestigious Artist Diploma from the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver, Colorado, where he studied with Maestro Ricardo Iznaola. Gregory's repertoire as a soloist includes not only music by Israeli and Russian composers, but also an extended "standard" repertoire of a performing guitarist that includes Baroque, classical, Spanish and 20th century music. This Russian-born musician interprets Russian, Spanish, South American and other world classical and folk melodies with an impeccable sense of style and affection, showing the lyrical beauty and color of the music.
Gregory is a winner of the 1998 International Classical Guitar Competition in Portland, Oregon, a first place winner of the 1995 International Israeli Radio Competition and a first place winner of the 1992 Contemporary Music Competition in Israel. He is a winner of special grants from American-Israel Cultural Foundation, Chamber Music America, and a three-time winner of the grant from Colorado Council of the Arts.
From the moment that Gregory (“Grisha”) Nisnevich encountered Argentine Tango in 2001, it has been accompanying his life. Argentine Tango first captured Gregory's imagination as an incredibly complex genre of music, intensely polyphonic in its formation. As a dance, it became for him a creative exploration of endless possibilities of intricate interpretations of music through movement. He has studied with Argentine master teachers Pablo Pugliese and with Julio Balmaceda and Corina de la Rosa. Being a concert touring classical guitarist, Gregory never missed an opportunity to participate in world milongas and festivals while on tour, experiencing and learning many styles and genres. Extensively using in his music teaching the Alexander technique for muscle relaxation, Gregory brings this unique knowledge to his teaching in tango. In 2005, he was invited to play live with Julio Balmaceda and Corina de la Rosa for their performance during C.I.T.A. (Congreso International de Tango Argentino) at Teatro Astral and Salon Canning in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Gregory is choreographing, dancing and playing guitar with the TangOleCompania de Danza, of which he is one the founding members. | |
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