Recent Press
IN DANCE - Cover Photo
Chelsea
Eng & Debbie Goodwin of Tango Con*Fusión are featured in a photo
(by Alli Novak) on the July/August 2009 cover of IN DANCE, San
Francisco's dance newsletter.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - Recent Coverage
"The
first International Queer Tango Festival to be held in the United
States.....offers classes for both experienced and beginning dancers
with an impressive lineup of local and international teachers that
includes Christy Coté, Chelsea Eng, Debbie Goodwin, and Homer and
Cristina Ladas."
from: Queer tango throws out leader-follower rules
"There
were high-profile names...on the invitation for Thursday night's 10th
anniversary celebration for Powell Street's Peña Pachamama Center...a
San Francisco-based center of Latin American music, food, art and
culture...The party was anything but dry. After sinuous tangos by two couples wearing serious expressions and tight velvet,
South American music lured the amateurs to the dance floor. By
evening's end...the party had become a dancing rave, soaked in sweat
and endorphins..."
from SF Chronicle Leah Garchik column - May 27, 2009
~
on May 21st performance by Chelsea Eng & Count Glover, Christy Coté
& Darren Lees, longtime featured tango performers at Peña Pachamama
A Short While Back...
San Francisco Chronicle ~ Datebook Cover Photo & Article:
The Leading Ladies of Tango - by Rachel Howard (12.9.06)*Note: Quotes attributed to Chelsea were spoken by another member of TCF.
SF Weekly"San
Francisco's Tango Con*Fusión obliterates the gendered stereotypes of
seduction and suspicion that have made tango as predictable as it is
immemorial... The dancers expand on the form's traditions, proving that
it can be intelligent and innovative - and of course, that it doesn't
always take two to tango." - Nirmala Nataraj