Colette Hebert & Richard Council

In NY just a for a few days! To contact them for bookings or privates, go call (514)726-5567 or write to colettehebert@hotmail.com

Colette and Richard are a multi-talented and diversified couple who teamed up in 2001. In 2003 they won the IDO United States Argentine Tango Championships and in 2005 competed in the World Championships held in Buenos Aires where they were finalists in Tango Salon and semi-finalists in Performance Tango. Since then, Colette and Richard have become a highly respected and sought-after Tango teachers and performers in North America. It is not often that a "gringa" wins admiration & respect from the exclusive club of Argentinian Tango Masters.

The Montreal native, fluent in English, French and Spanish, and who is also an established painter as well as a tireless traveler, studied both in Buenos Aires and abroad with classical tango masters like Rodolfo and Maria Cieri and Mingo Pugliese. She also studied with modern teachers like Juan Carlos Copes and Osvaldo and Miguel Angel Zotto. Through them - and many others - Colette has developed a unique, solid and profound understanding of the intricacies of tango movement which makes her one of the most admired and sought-after teachers and dancers in North America.

Richard Council is well versed in the techniques and styles of a wide variety of partnership dances and a veteran of many performances. Captivated by the musical and elegant personality of the dance he turned to tango when he met Colette in 2001 and studied with her until they later became dance partners. Since then he and Colette have traveled to Japan, Argentina and around the United States to teach many workshops and perform with some of the biggest names in tango today.

Together Colette and Richard share a love of dancing and teaching tango. Their ability to communicate through dance and music gives a sense of something special and magical. They have performed with many great entertainers including Susana Jimenez, Orquestra Contratiempo, Estela Raval, and some of the most phenomenal dancers from Forever Tango, Tango Dreams and many other companies.

Colette & Richard will be in giving private lessons in New York City for just a few days. To contact them for bookings or privates, go call (514)726-5567 or write to colettehebert@hotmail.com

Hector "Tito" Castro was born in the town of 9 de Julio in the province of Buenos Aires. At age three, his family moved to the neighborhood Villa Pueyrredon in the capital. He began his bandoneon classes and general music education at age 14 with Eladio titoBlanco, who was the first bandoneon in the D’Arienzo orchestra. A few years later, Tito began his professional career playing with neighborhood orchestras like Horacio Vacarezza’s and Marcos Bagnolo’s. At age 18 he started playing in the Osmar Maderna Orquesta, Simbolo, where he stayed for three years. He continued with the Lucio Demare’s and Fulvio Salamanca’s orchestras and substituted bandoneon players ir Hector Varela and Juan Sanchez Gorio. He has accompanied in two occasions the Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa at Carnegie Hall and tenor Placido Domingo at the Washington Opera and the Metropolitan Opera House in NY. Tito toured Japan and Hawaii in 2004 and 2005 with Japanese tango singer Anna Saeki, with whom he has also performed at Carnegie Hall and at the famous jazz club Blue Note in NYC. Recently he participated in the recording of her new CD, which was presented to the audiences in Japan and Korea tour in December of 2005.

Francisco "Pancho" Navarro's masterful playing is illuminated by an encyclopedic knowledge of popular, folkloric, and classical music of Latin America.
Francisco is from Mendoza Argentina, and lived in Chile and Mexico before coming to New York. In Mexico he worked with many major Mariachi groups, and won first guitarist at Mexico's Festival Ranchero de la Cancion for three consecutive years.His playing can be heard on the soundtracks of "Mambo Kings" , "Flawless", and "Frida" as well as numerous recordings, including "Bamboleo" with Celia Cruz, & Willie Colon, "Guasasa" with Johnny Pacheco, and "WEA Carobe Tito Nieves En Otra Onda"..

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