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 A
lifelong dancer with early training in jazz, tap and musical
theater, Debbie earned her Bachelors Degree in Dance from California State
University, Sacramento in 1998 and her Masters in Dance Education in
2001. Her Masters Thesis Project, the production, “Tango! A Story
of Sacramento’s Argentine Tango Community” played to sold-out
houses in October 2001. Debbie produced and directed Sacramento’s
"Los Tangueros Dance Company" in the successful show “Tango!
Rhythms of the Heart” in October 2002. Before establishing
Social Dance Cultures in 2000, a non-profit supporting
development of community through dance, Debbie developed the highly
successful “Rugcutter” dance program in Auburn, California.
Focused on adolescents, her classes in Lindy Hop, performance
skills, jazz technique and choreography for vocal performers were
extremely popular. She instilled a love and respect in her students
for the social origins of American Swing just as she has done for
the Argentine Tango. Debbie's first classes in Argentine Tango were
with Nora Dinzelbaucher in 1995. She has studied intensively with
Nito y Elba, Orlando Paiva, Osvaldo Zotto & Lorena Ermocida,
Luciana Valle, Miriam Larici & Hugo Patyn, Fabian Salas & Carolina
de Rivera, Diego di Falco & Carolina Zocalski, Fernanda Ghi &
Guillermo Merlo, Gustavo Navierra, Sebastian Arce & Mariana Montes.
She has studied both in the United States and in Buenos Aires,
Argentina with these special teachers, sampling as well a rich
variety of other masters. Debbie, along with her partner John
Campbell developed “Alma Del Tango”, a program dedicated to the art
of Argentine Tango from 1996 to 2003.
www.AlmaDelTango.com They offered group and private
instruction, lecture-demonstrations, workshops and performances. In
2003, Debbie relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, living in San
Anselmo. She is one of the founding members of
Tango Con*Fusion
Dance Company where she
currently devotes her artistic attention as a choreographer and
featured dancer. |
