Debbie Goodwin: Artistic Director / Choreographer / Dancer
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Debbie
specializes in Argentine Tango, teaching from 1996 to 2003 and studying
dance both here and in Buenos Aires with a number of renowned Argentine
Tango Masters. Along with her partner, John Campbell, she developed
“Alma Del Tango”, a teaching program dedicated to the art of Argentine
Tango that offered group and private instruction, workshops and
performances.
They sponsored numerous workshops for visiting Masters from Argentina.
Debbie and John are still available for performances and lecture-demonstrations emphasizing
the social origins of the dance as well as contemporary social norms in
the world of tango. In 2003, Debbie relocated to the San Francisco By Area, living in San Anselmo. She is currently working with Tango Con*Fusión as a choreographer and featured dancer. Debbie earned her Bachelors Degree in Dance from California State University, Sacramento in 1998 and her Masters in Dance Education in 2001. Her Masters Thesis Project, the show “¡Tango! A Story of Sacramento’s Argentine Tango Community” played to sold-out houses in October 2001. Her Sacramento project, “Los Tangueros” Dance Company, integrated the authentic movement, music, social customs and language of Argentine Tango into its repertoire. |
Debbie produced and
Directed "Los Tangueros" in the show Debbie's first classes were with Nora Dinzelbaucher. She has studied intensively with Nito y Elba, Orlando Paiva, Osvaldo Zotto y Lorena Ermocida, Luciana Valle, Miriam Larici & Hugo Patyn, Fabian Salas &Carolina de Rivera, Diego di Falco & Carolina Zocalski, Fernanda Ghi & Guillermo Merlo, Gustavo Navierra, Sebastian Arce & Mariana Montes. She has studied both in the United States and in Buenos Aires, Argentina with these special teachers, sampling as well a rich variety of other masters. Before establishing Social Dance Cultures, a non-profit supporting development of community through dance, she developed the highly successful Rugcutter dance program in Auburn, California. Focused on adolescents, her classes in social swing, performance skills, jazz technique and choreography for vocal performers were extremely popular. She instilled a love and respect in her students for the social origins of American Swing just as she does for the Argentine Tango. Her dancers have performed extensively in the Sacramento and Placer county areas and on Sacramento television.
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