Christy
Coté is one of the founding members Tango Con*Fusión and
has been dancing, choreographing and teaching professionally for
more than 25 years, devoting the past 11 years to her love of
Argentine Tango. Christy is one of San Francisco's most
respected dancers and teachers, and has been featured locally on
KVTU's
Segment 2 Report
with Bob MacKenzie, KPIX/Channel 5 Evening Magazine and
nationally in Dance Spirit Magazine. Christy is the
creator and director of the Argentine Tango program at San
Francisco's
popular Metronome Dance Center (www.metronomedancecenter.com)
where she oversees and teaches a full schedule of classes,
practicas and Milongas. Christy's teaching method has been
published in the first-ever Argentine Tango Manual by Dance
Vision (www.dancevision.com)
and is complimented by a series
of 20 instructional DVDs by Christy with her partner
George Garcia of Honolulu. Christy also co-hosts San
Francisco’s longest running milonga, the Mariposa Argentine
Tango Club now in its 11th year. Christy and her
partner Darren Lees of San Diego perform regularly with
MonTango, Tango No. 9 and produce monthly Tango shows at
San Francisco's Peña Pacha Mama restaurant. They also
choreograph for and perform with their professional performance
group the LiberTango Dancers who were selected from over
150 auditioning groups to perform in the 2006 San Francisco
Ethnic Dance Festival. You can catch Christy & Darren
teaching in many cities around the country, at tango festivals
such as the Maui TangoFest and on the annual Tango at
Sea Cruise on Norwegian Cruise Line. For more information
go to www.christycote.com
