Tango Fusion Dance Company – Directors Johnny Martinez and Diane Lachtrupp Martinez offer four distinct educational programs in partner dancing.

1) PERFORMANCES – We can come to your educational institution to purely entertain with one of our various shows. Tango Fusion's lecture demo show includes history about a varitey of dances, interactive musicality, professional demonstrations of each dance and finally the dance number "Design Your Own Dance." "Design Your Own Dance" is an interactive dance piece where the students create a dance for Directors Johnny and Diane to perform. By way of applause, the students vote on the choice of dance, the music, the costume and the final pose.

2) RESIDENCIES – We offer two different 3 to 5 day long residencies.

INTENSIVE – Company Directors come to your school for three to five days to work with a selected group of students on several dances. The end of the residency could conclude with a dance with all the classes coming together and dancing with each other and a demonstration by Johnny Martinez and Diane Lachtrupp OR students could learn a routine and perform it in a short show with company directors Johnny and Diane.

WORKSHOP SERIES – In our three to five day residency, we work with all the students in the school once or twice. The week could end with a performance by Johnny and Diane. The content of the residencies can be decided upon with the school's staff to co-ordinate with a Language or History Class, to focus on fitness or teamwork or just for fun! Pricing – Please look at our pricing below for One Day Workshops. We put together a discounted package for three to five day residencies.

3) ONE DAY WORKSHOPS – All day dancing with Tango Fusion

Company Directors Johnny Martinez and Diane Lachtrupp come to the school for a day to work with a variety of classes on a dance. Instructors will give some history on the dance, work with students on musicality, step patterns, partnership and end with a demonstration.

FIELD TRIPS – Come to Saratoga.
Student groups will bus to the National Museum of Dance and enjoy the experience of taking a dance class in a large professional dance studio. Students learn several different partner dances as well a choreogpaphy to a favorite song of their choice. In the past, groups have then gone out to lunch locally and Tango Fusion can connect you to that establishment. This program really exposes students to new experiences.

An added bonus is that Johnny and Diane speak Spanish and can include that in class if requested. This is very popular with Spanish classes; we either work for one period with each class OR we will do a three hour intensive with one group including a question answer period and a practice time when students use their Spanish while they are dancing.

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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING HISTORY

Tango Fusion has taught workshops for students at Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School, Lake George High School, South Glens Falls High School, Saratoga's Division St. Elementary School, the Lyndon Institute in Lyndonville, Vermont, Skidmore College, Siena College, St. Gregory's School, Saratoga's Lake Avenue Elementary School and Maple Avenue Middle School. When Tango Fusion was located in New York City, they taught dance in the New York City school system, created a children's program at their studio Stepping Out and were invited to teach in Bogota, Columbia as guest artists.