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Arthur would like to teach his trainees the dance pleasure he has. He wants to teach the way to learn a technique by being relax.
His philosophy is: a neat technique, a good communication between the couple of dancers, the relaxation as basic movement.
The courses are serious but fun is also present. To be a good dancer, many details must be observed. Arthur gives instructions and stimulate the creativity. He is very precise and very patient with his trainees.

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Bass Born a last century's fall, in a maternity now transformed into a home for the aged, which will eventually permit him to end where he started... Olivier waited around 20 springs to take his first lesson with Maarten Weyler in Antwerp. When he was able to use 2 strings and less than fifteen centimetres of his guitar, he decided to try to use the entire surface off his bass neck and became a pupil of Michel Hatzi at Brussel's Conservatory. Thanks his new skills, he played with different bands, combo & big-bands in
several conservatories & workshops. Therefore, he received instructions from Pierre Vaiana, Eric Legnini, Richard Rousselet, John Ruocco, Diederick Wissels, Kris Defoort.
But electricity became more and more expensive, Olivier bought an upright bass. And, the owner's manual was written in Czechoslovak, he asked Jean-Louis Rassinfosse and Bart Denolf for some instructions. Simultaneously, he started his career with musicians, singers and bands from Europe, North-Africa & the United States. One thing leading to another, he toured with those artists all around Europe and Africa. Simultaneously he
transmitted his experience and culture to Belgian, Tunisian and Luxemburgish students.
Olivier played in different clubs & festivals in Belgium & abroad: Audi Jazz Festival (B), Black Diamond (DK), Brussels Jazz Marathon (B), Festival Confluences (B), Francofolies de Spa (B), Frameries Jazz Festival (B), Galele de Jazz Brasov (RO), Gouvy Jazz Festival (B), Images of the Middle East Festival (DK), Jazz à Liège (B), Jazz Tour des Lundis d'Hortense (B), Mons en Jazz (B), Namur Jazz Festival (B), Ploiesti Hot Jazz Summit (RO), Sibiu Jazz Festival (RO), Festival Guitare et Chant de Larache(MA).
Today, he plays the basses for those artists: Aja Trio, Alain Pierre's Acous'Trees, Al Cardboard Orkesta, Commander Grek, Darwin Case, Fox, Giacomo Lariccia's Spellbound Quintet, Hughes Maréchal, Marc Mangen Trio, Mok!, qUETZAL.
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Soundpainting Woodwinds, Educator-has been Soundpainting for the past 35 years. He conceived the Soundpainting language in Woodstock, New York, in the early 1970s. To date, Thompson has developed Soundpainting into a multidisciplinary live composing sign language comprising more than 1000 gestures. Thompson has composed Soundpaintings with many contemporary orchestras in many cities, including Barcelona, Paris, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Oslo, Berlin, Bergen, Lucerne, Copenhagen, and Reykjavik, among others, and has taught Soundpainting at the Paris Conservatoire; Eastman School of Music; Iceland Academy of the Arts; University of Michigan; Grieg Academy in Bergen, Norway; University of Iowa; Oberlin College-Conservatory of Music; and New York University, among many others.
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Tango initiation Karin Venverloo started teaching in 2002. She has her own school in Amersfoort, and teaches, besides regular classes in 6 different levels, 4-5 beginners weekends every year, since 2003. She is frequently asked to teach beginner workshops and was one of the teachers of the first TexelTango. Festival. Her classes are a mixture of technique, musicality and movements, urging her students to search for their own style, comfort in the dance and creativity. She works with different co-teachers, depending on the request
of the students or organisation. She performed in different milongas in the Netherlands, f.e. DonTango, MBrace, TangoVerde and TexelTango.
Besides that she is asked back nearly
every year to perform at the famous Dias Latinos, a huge festival for Latin-American music in Amersfoort.
Background
Karin's dance background is classical dance, jazz dance, ballroom dance, flamenco and folkdance. But tango really stole her heart. She has had a regular job (IT-marketing/communication) for 15 years and decided in 2002 that she needed to follow her dream. She started up her tango school and has never been happier in her life before. She especially likes to teach beginners, since they have this authentic enthusiasm for the first movements and intense contact. She brings her enormous enthusiasm and inspires her students to dance.
Vision
Tango is about contact, communication and creativity. Learning steps is less important than feeling your partner, moving together and interpreting the music. Teaching tango means giving exercises and information about the technique of the leader and followers: posture, balance, embracing, way of moving. Listening and interpreting the music is essential and a basic necessity for a tango-dancer. And above all the dancing should be
comfortable and nice.
She stimulates her students to create their own dance, giving them all the necessary tools to achieve this.
Training
Karin took intensive courses with a lot of maestro's in de past 10 years. Amongst them Gustavo Naveira, Fabian Salas, Chicho Frumboli, Damian Rosenthal, Eric Jorissen, Sebastian Arce, Alex Krebs, Pablo Villarraza (DNI), Mauricio Castro and their respective partners. She visited Buenos Aires to dance in the milonga's. She loves to train tango and create new combinations. She can both follow and lead.
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