Passion of Tango

Audience will enjoy an authentic Tango dance performance from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Armando Orzuza & Nuria Martinez will make you feel as if you flew straight to Buenos Aires to see what the real Argentine Tango is about, right into you hands, at your event's place. Guests will have the opportunity to ask any questions about Tango as well as trying their first steps into the Passion of Tango.

Armando Orzuza was born in "La Boca", a suburb of Buenos Aires, known as the birthplace of the Tango. His first professional contact with the Tango was at the age of fourteen as a sound technician for a "Tangueria" (Tango dance hall) in Buenos Aires. This enriching experience surrounded him with the foremost dancers, singers and orchestras of the Tango world. Ten years later, he began to study the Tango himself. Armando learned to dance from the original "Milongueros" and began his professional career in 1990.
Armando have had numerous guest appearances: As dancer, he has performed in the Broadway show of “Tango Passion”; in the promotion of the album "Tango" by Julio Iglesias; “Jazz at Lincoln Center” with Avantango, “Cuartetango”; “Tango Fusion”; the Opera “Y Borges Cuenta Que…” directed by Luis Bacalov; the Broadway-style show “We” with Jon Secada, directed by Neil Goldberg; “Tango Nuevo Cabaret”; “C’est Rouge” directed by Blanca Li; “Once Upon a Tango”; “Tango Maestro”, and “Baires Tango”, directed by Armando Orzuza & Nuria Martinez.
As dance consultant and choreographer, he worked in Alan Parker’s movie "Evita", and in the 2004 Madonna’s “Re-invention” touring show. Armando also appeared as principal dancer in the movie “Assassination Tango” directed by Robert Duvall. Mr. Orzuza has self-produced “Tangoing” in the West Coast, “Tango, the Show” in USA and Japan, and coordinated and supervised the recording of the double CD album of “Quilombo” in Buenos Aires in 2016.
He has performed and taught the tango at Tango Festivals, public and private events, cultural organizations, embassies, consulates, schools, universities, and theaters, throughout Europe, Japan, South America and the United States.

Nuria Martinez was born in Spain. Her first training in Ballet was received at the Madrid’s National School of Ballet under the direction of Maya Plisetskaya. Nuria completed a Dance Diploma at the Laban Center in London and the Merce Cunningham Studio in NYC with various fellowships from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the Cunningham Studio.
Nuria Martinez’s first international appearance was at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the production of “West Side Story”. In NYC, she performed as a modern dancer for the Dance on Camera Film Festival, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and the NY State Theater. In 2004, Ms. Martínez became an apprentice for Jennifer Muller/The Works and a highlighted dancer of the Washington National Opera. She has appeared in theater as a dancer/actress in off-Broadway productions, the Midtown International Theater Festival, and at the Cherry Lane Theater, in NYC.
As a Tango dancer she appeared in numerous shows in the US, Europe, and Argentina such as: “Jazz at Lincoln Center” with Avantango, “Cuartetango”, “Tango Fusion”, “Y Borges Cuenta Que…” directed by Luis Bacalov, “We” with Jon Secada in the Broadway-style show directed by Neil Goldberg, “Tango Nuevo Cabaret”, “C’est Rouge” directed by Blanca Li, “Once Upon a Tango”, “Tango Maestro”, and “Baires Tango”, directed by Armando Orzuza & Nuria Martinez.

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