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Founded in 1994 and lead by Artistic Director, Brenda Angiel, the Buenos Aires based Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Company reimagines the movement vocabularies of tango and modern dance by taking them into the air to create arresting aerial dance. The dancers tear through traditional boundaries to float and glide in the air, dance against the walls and on the floor. The freedom for the performers to explore all the space of a theater’s stage simultaneously frees the viewer from their static perspective to experience and see the performance more dynamically.

The Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Company dancers equally seduce the viewer with their elegance and daring as much as with their sensuality and athleticism. Throughout the performances, the spirit of tango is also embodied through live music performed by some of Argentina’s finest musicians. The company has thrilled audiences when presented throughout the Americas and Europe including Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, Columbia, Chile, the United States, Canada, and The Netherlands among others.

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Brenda Angiel Biography

Brenda Angiel (Artistic Director/Choreographer) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1988, Angiel came to the United States to further her training in modern dance, ballet, improvisation, composition, drama, and performing experience to study at New York’s Cunningham Studio and Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab and at the American Dance Festival in Durham. During that time, her work was presented at Dance Theater Workshop as part of the Fresh Tracks Performance Series and at The Kitchen in New York City.

In 1991 Brenda returned to Buenos Aires where she worked very intensively with the Colón Theatre‘s Opera and Ballet Experimentation Center. In 1997, she won the prize for “best video-dance” for La pared at the 1997 International Video-Dance Festival of Buenos Aires. In that same year, Brenda Angiel was invited to participate in the International Choreographer Residency Program at the American Dance Festival.

Angiel’s choreography and artistic vision have been recognized through numerous awards and commissions that she has received. She was selected twice for the International Choreographers in a Commissioning Program in 1998 as a recipient of the Scripps-ADF Primus-Tamaris Fellowship and in 2002 as recipient of the Ben Sommers Fellowship. Angiel was twice commissioned to create choreography for the Contemporary Dance Company of Caxias do Sul, Brazil. In 2008, she created the choreography for the Wired Aerial Theatre in Liverpool, England. For her company, Angiel has created the following original works including 8cho (2010), Fervorosa (2009), Air Condition (2005), A Piece of Buenos Aires (2002), De Parte en Parte (2000), South, wall and after (1998) and others.

Angiel founded the First Aerial Dance School in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where classes are taught for kids, teenagers and adults. She has teaches workshops while the company is on tour, was on the faculty at the American Dance Festival, the Aerial Dance Festival in Colorado and other schools. She has also been the Artistic Director of Ciudanza Festival of Dance in the Urban Landscape in Buenos Aires and the dance curator of the Rojas Cultural Center of Buenos Aires University.

The Brenda Angiel Dance Company has performed in more than 100 theatres around the world. The company’s presentations in festivals throughout the world have allowed over 100,000 people to see them world wide in 2010 alone including, the Iberoamerican Festival in Bogota, Colombia, Centenary Park in Buenos Aires, the American Dance Festival, the, Night of Museums in Buenos Aires and many other venues. Additioonal tour history includes being presented at The International Arts Festival of Costa Rica, The International Aerial Dance Festival in Boston, Spoleto Festival (USA), at Kennedy Center’s Americartes Festival, HarbourFronte Centre in Toronto, Ontario, the Holland Dance Festival, Festspielhaus in St. Polten, Austria and many others.

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