“Tango and Its Powerful Embrace” is a short talk about how Argentine tango pulls people in from all over the world, followed by two performances.
Cyrena Drusine is a professional tango dancer and instructor from NYC. She is also the owner and co-founder of Narrative Tango Tours, a full service tango business offering an array of tango activities to visitors of Buenos Aires. Cyrena grew up in NYC where she studied at the School of American Ballet. She completed her BA in Critical Social Thought and French at Mount Holyoke College. She also studied at La Sorbonne in Paris. Cyrena completed her MA in Performance Studies at NYU in May 2008, where she wrote her thesis, “Una Emocion: A Tango of Memories, Nostalgia and History,” focusing on the sensual experience of tango.
Cyrena has been teaching and performing tango in Buenos Aires for the past 6 years. In 2007, Cyrena won the first US Tango Championship in Tango Salon and competed in the finals at the World Championship. In 2008-2009 she performed with Tango Pasión. She has performed in some of the most famous tango houses in Buenos Aires such as Tango Porteño.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx