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Our Founder Instructors
 
Aydın KOCAMUSAOĞLU & Pelin KOYUN

Aydın Kocamusaoğlu & Pelin Koyun couple, started dancing Argentine Tango in 1999. Their dance has been improved by classes they took from many Argentinean instructors, mostly from very well known Esteban Moreno & Claudia Codega. They also joined workshops of Imed Cheman, Gustavo Naviera & Giselle Ann, Juan Corvalan & Viviana Laguzzi, Milena Plebs & Ezequiel Farfaro, Fabián Salas & Carolina del Rivero.

They have established Tangoist Dance Studio in 2001.

Not only through the classes in their studio but also in several universities, they contributed crucially to the development of Argentine Tango in Turkey particularly among young people. They gave tango workshops on Işık University between 2001 - 2003, Sabancı University between 2001 - 2006 and Bogaziçi University between 2005 - 2006.

Besides their trainings & workshops that they give around the world, they also perform Argentine Tango on many different stages. Some of their appearances are; on 2006, they took part in a series of concert with Ferhat Göçer, they played in a music video with Sertap Erener, with Toprak Sergen they joined "All In One Show" performances.

Aydın & Pelin couple, on September 26-30, 2007, joined to 2. International Velvet Tango Festival as an instructor in Ukraine.

On December 2, 2007, they took first rank at 1. Argentina Tango A Class, and they became first Arjantine Tango champion of Turkey.

Aydın & Pelin couple still continue their tango activities at Tangoist Dance Studio. Also Aydın Kocamusaoğlu is the Head of Argentine Tango Education Committee at Dance Sports Federation of Turkey.
 



Our Instructors
 
Mehmet Onur KIRA & Çiğdem CAMGÖZ

Graduated from Marmara University, Economic and Adminstrative Sciences Faculty's Division of Ecomometrics, Mehmet Onur Kıra, has encountered with Tango in 2004 at Tango Jean and continued his Tango education at Tangoist with the dance couple, Aydın Kocamusaoğlu - Pelin Koyun. Adopting the idea that Tango is not only a dance but a way of communication through the education he received at Tangoist, has the first experience of teaching Tango at Tangoist. Although he has mainly instructed by Aydın Kocamusaoğlu and Pelin Koyun, he has attanded several classes of instructors in Turkey and Argentina and still a member of Tangoist family as an instructor.

Graduated from Estern Meditarrean University, Economics Department and graduated from master degree Eurpeon University of Brussels, Master of European Business. Çiğdem Camgöz, has started Tango at the emergence of Tango in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in 2002. She has continued her Tango education with Metin Yazır, after she moved to Istanbul in 2003 and had a chance to exercise with many Turkish and Argentinian instructors in Turkey and in Europe. She has been professionally instructing and performing Tango since 2007. In October of 2008, she joinned the Tangoist family as a instructor.

Onur Kıra and Çiğdem Camgöz who have been honoured to be the first rank at the Championship of Tango Argentina, Turkey by TDSF on November 2008, have began their partnership at Tangoist Dance Studio following their championship. The couple has attended several workshops and performances. Onur Kıra and Çiğdem Camgöz who have based their Tango on musiquality and improvisation with their specifically original communication at dance,has been going on teaching Tango at Tangoist since 2008.

Some organizations and festivals they have attended are:

  • 1st Antalya Tango Meeting (Sept. 2009)
  • 2nd Antalya Tango Meeting (Octo. 2010)
  • 3rd Türkiye Tango & Skiing Festival (Feb. 2011)
  • 3rd International Ankara Tango Festival (April 2011)
  • April 29th, World Dance Day - Tango Meeting, İzmir (April 2011)
  • 2nd Bodrum Tango Festival (July 2011)
  • 3rd Antalya Tango Meeting (September 2011)
     

 
Arcan Okan KURŞUN

Graduated from Sabancı University Mechatronics Engineering (2006) and Cambridge University MBA (2009), Arcan Okan Kurşun, has began Tango with Aydın Kocamusaoğlu and Pelin Koyun at Sabancı University Dance Club (SUDANCE) in 2002. He has been professionally instructing and perfomin Tango at several platforms since 2005. During his residence in Boston, USA between 2007 and 2009,he has founded Boston Red Shoes Tango School and continued teaching and performing Tango in several states. He has studied with many Tango instructors in Turkey and USA. Since his return to Turkey, he has been teaching Tango at Tangoist Dance Studio.


 

 
Gökmen KASABALI

Gökmen Kasabalı is born in Kocaeli, İzmit in 1982. He had his dancing education at Yıldız Teknik University Modern Dance Department for months between 1999 and 2000; at Mimar Sinan University Modern Dance Department for 2 years as an exchange student between 2000 and 2002; and at Yıldız Teknik University Moder Dance Department between 2002 and 2007.

He has been in dancing staff of CRR dance theatre between 2003 and 2005 and of Istanbul dance theatre between 2005 and 2006. He has performed at several plays of many domestic and foreigner choreographers and served as a dancer or actor at several festivals and musicals at home and abroad.

He had and has been instructed modern dance, flamenco, body percussion, motion, functional use of body for actors and period dances at many dancing institutions.

He has been teaching several dance technics under the name of body formation class at Tangoist Dance Studio since 2009.
 


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