• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • New York
  • Latin
  • Culture
  • Magazine
  • Things To Do in NYC
  • Travel
  • Subscribe
  • Sponsor
New York Latin Culture Magazine®

New York Latin Culture Magazine®

World-class Indigenous, European & African Culture since 2012

  • Art
  • Books
  • Dance
  • Fashion
  • Festivals
  • Film
  • Food
  • Music
  • Sports
  • Theatre

Jorge Torres

Jorge Torres is a world-renowned Tango choreographer, dancer, and producer.


Forever Tango Dance Captain

The Dance Captain of Broadway show Forever Tango (1997 – 1998) and its touring company is widely considered the best Tango leader in New York City. The Forever Tango Dancers were nominated for the Tony Award® for “Best Choreography”  in 1998.


A Connection to the Golden Age of Tango, Ballet, and the Tango Renaissance

Like many great dancers, Torres started dancing as a child, when he was just three years old.

Torres is the student of Norberto Guichanduc who taught Tango and Folkloric dance at the Teatro Colon opera house in Buenos Aires. There Torres also studied Ballet which makes him a good teacher for ballerinas who want to learn the Tango. He speaks your language.

Torres also studied with Antonio Todaro, Pepito Avellaneda, and Rodolfo Dinzel.

Today the woman is the star of a Tango pair, but in the old days it was all about the man. Antonio Todaro (1929 – 1994) was the dancer who brought women into the spotlight. He was doing elegant Stage Tango moves before there was such a thing. Just as Tango Nuevo music is not club music, but actually the music of Piazzolla; Tango Nuevo dancing is not something new, it is an extension of Antonio Todaro. Todaro’s top student is Miguel Zotto of Tango X2, the show that made Tango cool again for young Argentines in 1998 and after.

Pepito Avellaneda (1930 – 1996) was a Golden Age Tanguero from a neighborhood just south of Buenos Aires. Avellaneda was the teacher of many teachers.

Rodolfo Dinzel (1950 – 2015) was the one of the most famous dancers in Juan Carlos Copes’ seminal Tango show Tango Argentino (Paris, 1983; Broadway, 1985). Tango Argentino launched the Tango Renaissance and brought Tango to New York City and the United States. Rodolfo and his wife Gloria founded the Dinzel School of Tango in Buenos Aires.

Jorge Torres is a connection to the past and the future of Tango.


A Teacher of Teachers

Torres is a teacher of teachers. In fact, he is the teacher of my teacher, Claude Murga, who is the teacher of diplomats in Argentina. Today Torres is Artistic Director of the American Tango Institute in Chicago.

In 2003, Torres set up the jury of the 1st International Tango Festival and World Cup of Buenos Aires.

Torres has worked in a number of Tango shows and continues to work the international Tango festival circuit.


Jorge Torres in NYC

Jorge Torres is teaching two weeks of master classes at Tango La Nacional in Chelsea, Manhattan on February 15th and 22nd, 2018 from 8:15 – 9:30 pm. $15


 


Published February 15, 2018 | Updated September 15, 2022.

Filed Under: Argentine, People, Tango

Primary Sidebar

Colombian Salsa

Pablo Mayor Folklore Urbano NYC "El Barrio Project" (courtesy)

The Pablo Mayor Folklore Urbano Orchestra Plays Colombian Salsa for Uptown Nights at Harlem Stage

RISE Theatre Directory

Find your next project. Discover your next team. Do it on RISE. Find your next project. Discover your next team. Do it on RISE.

Things to Do in NYC

Things to do in NYC in September 2023

Things to do in NYC in October 2023

Things to do in NYC in November 2023

Things to do in NYC in December 2023

Footer

Search

Sponsor

New York City's leading cultural organizations sponsor New York Latin Culture Magazine™

Subscribe

Subscribe to New York Latin Culture Magazine's weekly email.

Follow

New York

Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island

Latin

Art, Books, Comedy, Dance, Fashion, Food, Festivals, Film, Music, Parades, Theatre, Sports

North American

African American, Belizian, Costa Rican, French Canadian, Guatemalan, Honduran, Indigenous, Jewish, Mexican, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Salvadoran

Caribbean

Antiguan, Bahamanian, Barbadian, Cuban, Dominica, Dominican, Grenadian, Haitian, Indigenous, Jamaican, Jewish, Puerto Rican, Kittitian Nevisian, Saint Lucian, Trinidadian, Vincentian

South American

Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Costa Rican, Ecuadorian, Guyanese, Indigenous, Jewish, Paraguayan, Peruvian Surinamese, Uruguayan, Venezuelan

European

French, Italian, Jewish, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian

African

African American, Senegalese, Gambian, Bissau-Guinean, Sierra Leonean, Liberian, Ivorian, Ghanaian, Togolese, Beninese, Nigerian, Equatoguinean, São Toméan, Gabonese, Congolese, Angolan

Asian

Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Jewish, Romani

Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Cookies Policy

Copyright © 2012–2023 New York Latin Culture Magazine®. All Rights Reserved. New York Latin Culture Magazine® and Tango Beat® are registered trademarks, and New York Latin Culture™ is a trademark of Keith Widyolar. Other marks are the property of their respective holders.