Fardad Michael Serry,
Performer and Choreographer

Ready to spice up your special event with Tango!

Weddings, Anniversaries, Birthdays, Milongas, Educational and Artisitic Collaborations ...

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805-884-1049
serry@tangomilonga.biz
www.TangoMilonga.biz
Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Fardad dances tango and milonga emphasizing musicality and originality. He has perfromed with Julie Stillman and Yolanda Rossi (see below) in tango events and festivals in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Las Vegas, and San Diego. Together with Julie Stillman, he won the Gold Award in tango and in milonga at the World Council for Argentine Tango Events competitions in 2005, adjudicated by Miriam Larici, Hygo Patyn, Fernanda Ghi, and Gillermo Merlo.

Past performances:

• Gala Opening, the Long Beach Opera, Long Beach, CA. Yolanda Rossi and Fardad Serry.

• 2004 Valentine's Day Argentine Tango, The California Club, Los Angeles, CA. Yolanda Rossi and Fardad Serry.

• An Evening of Argentine Tango, Woodland Hills Country Club, Los Angeles, CA. Yolanda Rossi and Fardad Serry.

• "Tango", California State University Northridge Music Departrment April 2004. Yolanda Rossi and Fardad Serry.

• B.A.S.S.H Festival, Santa Barbara, CA. April 2004. Yolanda Rossi and Fardad Serry.

• New Orleans Tango Festival 2004. Julie Stillman and Fardad Serry.

• Teacher and performer, by invitation, Las Vegas International Tango Festival, 2004. Yolanda Rossi and Fardad Serry.

• Romance in the Air Music and Dance Festival, Los Angeles, CA, October 2004. Yolanda Rossi, Julie Stillman, Fardad Serry.

• California State University Northridge Department of Music, Nov 2004. Yolanda Rossi, Julie Stillman, Fardad Serry.

• World Council for Argentine Tango Events, February 2005. Winners of The Gold Award in Tango and in Milonga competitions, Professional, Rising Star Division: Julie Stillman and Fardad Serry.

• B.A.S.S.H Festival, Santa Barbara, CA. March 2005. Julie Stillman and Fardad Serry.

Fardad Michael Serry was invited to teach at the 2004 Las Vegas Tango Festival, where he taught several group classes with Ms. Yolanda Rossi. In the past two years, Fardad has spent nearly 200 hours in private lessons with world-class tango teachers--not just excellent dancers and performers, but artists most of whom also have a gift and a passion for teaching tango. The result is that Fardad is able to teach his students with an awareness that is unique in its breadth and depth. Fardad is also a Jazz musician, and was used to improvising long before he danced the tango. He played the piano for 8 years and the Jazz trumpet and the flugelhorn for another 10. He emphasizes musicality in his teaching, educating his students about different genres and styles of tango the dance and tango the music, and making them aware of how the dance has evolved with the mucis.

In 2004, Fardad has also completed a 30-hour class series in teaching tango in close embrace to beginners, which was designed and taught by the masters of this art from Buenos Aires, Daniella Arcuri and Armando Orzuzo. Fardad is the creator of the class series Tango Dancing with Freedom in which creativity, originality, good navigation, musicaltiy, and adornments are approached from a fresh perspective that is rooted in the fundamentals of the tango.

Fardad is studying tango in a series of private coaching sessions with two of the world's best dancers and most knowledgeable teachers from Buenos Aires whose command of techniuqe is second to none, Miriam La Ricci and Hugo Patyn. He has studied the milonga and tango together with the world's most well-respected and sought after true milonguero couples of the younger generation, Julio Balmaceda and Corina De La Rosa (www.julioycorina.com.ar), who teach us how to dance, not "what" to dance! And also with the young milonga master from Buenos Aires, Pablo Rojas (now in Los Angeles), who is also an accomplished actor, singer, and choir director as well; an all-around artist.

Fardad has studied tango and milonga extensively with the world-class teacher and tango historians Alberto Paz and Valorie Hart (now residing in New Orleans) www.planet-tango.com; and with the legendary Eduardo and Gloria Arquimbau, respected worldwide as two of the greatest living milongueros (www.gloriayeduardotangoargentino.com). He has been taking private instruction from the acclaimed Argentine-born tango teacher and choreographer Yolanda Rossi, who has an impressive resume in dance since childhood, first in ballet, then flamenco and other latin forms, and whose life has been devoted to the tango for the past 10 years.