Welcome to Tango CLT!
About Tango CLT
Tango CLT is the brainchild of Matthew Seneca, a tanguero based in Charlotte, NC. Its mission is to make accessible to all the beautiful art of Argentine tango, including the dance, the music, and tango's history and culture. We offer classes, social dances, and concerts, and we host outstanding guest dancers and musicians who bring their knowledge and artistry to the fast-growing city of Charlotte.
About Argentine Tango
Martha Graham called Argentine tango "The fabulous dance of the past hundred years, and the most beautiful." Argentine tango is a social dance that originated in Buenos Aires and Uruguay over a century ago. It contains musical and cultural elements from three continents: South America, Africa, and Europe. Today it is danced all over the world. You can find tango communities in almost every major city from Seoul to Seattle. Tango, both the dance and the musical genre, has been evolving for many decades and continues to do so today. It is passionate yet meditative, and unlike many other dances it can express the full range of human emotion. And it is surprisingly easy to learn! You do not need to be a ballerina or an athlete to dance tango. Anyone of any age or ability can learn this amazing dance.
Matthew Joseph Seneca
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Sarah Hayes Harkins
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Matthew Joseph Seneca discovered tango 14 years ago and has never looked back. He has learned from many instructors and attended festivals and workshops locally and internationally. He began his tango journey here in Charlotte with Daniel Arredondo. In Buenos Aires he trains with Patricie Porakova, Javier Antar and Nadia Johnson at La Maleva. In North Carolina, he continues to study with Karen Jaffe in Asheville. He also trains remotely with Liz & Yannick Vanhove in France.
A Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Matthew is a classically trained actor and singer, a self-taught guitarist and songwriter, and a former certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. For 14 years, he was a high school teacher, during which time he taught everything from English to theater arts to dance. This diverse background in the performing arts informs his approach to tango. Add Matt's information to your phone with the QR code below!
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Sarah Hayes Harkins is a ballet dancer with Charlotte Ballet and has danced professionally since 2008. Her career has led her to work with choreographers of many styles and genres of dance, and she has been blessed to receive many lead roles over the years. Some of her favorite roles include Choleric in Balanchine’s Four Temperaments, Grand Pas Classique, Cinderella, Tinker Bell and the Grey Girl in Jiří Kylián’s Forgotten Land. Sarah has also choreographed many works for Charlotte Ballet and Charlotte Ballet II.
She co-owns a small business with her partner Alessandra James called EveryBODIESballet, a platform for ballet instruction that focuses on supplemental technique for anyone and everyone and has the goal to prove that ballet can be useful in so many walks of life. Sarah began training in Argentine tango in 2021 and is very motivated to learn more and bring her knowledge of ballet to the dance. |
Photos of Sarah & Matt: Humberto Ramazzina Photography
Support Tango CLT's Mission
Tango CLT has been granted fiscal sponsorship under Fractured Atlas. Fractured Atlas is an umbrella arts service organization whose mission is "to make the journey from inspiration to living practice more accessible and equitable for artists and creatives.
Fractured Atlas helps individual artists and arts organizations at every level of the cultural ecosystem, in every creative medium by providing fundraising tools, educational resources, and personalized support."
By supporting Tango CLT you are enabling us to offer our services at as low a cost to the public as possible. We do not operate with a for-profit mindset. All funds go towards the artists and the associated costs of the events we organize.
Your donation makes a real difference, is deeply appreciated, and will be acknowledged!
Fractured Atlas helps individual artists and arts organizations at every level of the cultural ecosystem, in every creative medium by providing fundraising tools, educational resources, and personalized support."
By supporting Tango CLT you are enabling us to offer our services at as low a cost to the public as possible. We do not operate with a for-profit mindset. All funds go towards the artists and the associated costs of the events we organize.
Your donation makes a real difference, is deeply appreciated, and will be acknowledged!
