GAYLE GIBBONS MADEIRA http://gaylemadeira.com Artist, Dancer, Choreographer Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:50:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Gayle Madeira and Sidney Grant perform and teach in the first full event of the new Saugerties Performing Arts Factory in Saugerties New York http://gaylemadeira.com/news-and-events/gayle-madeira-and-sidney-grant-perform-and-teach-in-the-first-full-event-of-the-new-saugerties-performing-arts-factory-in-saugerties-new-york-2/ http://gaylemadeira.com/news-and-events/gayle-madeira-and-sidney-grant-perform-and-teach-in-the-first-full-event-of-the-new-saugerties-performing-arts-factory-in-saugerties-new-york-2/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:50:40 +0000 gayle http://gaylemadeira.com/?p=627 Gayle Madeira and Sidney Grant, the 2011 USA Tango Champions, will teach and perform Argentine tango on Saturday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29, 2012 in the first full event of the new Saugerties Performing Arts Factory in Saugerties New York. They will also teach a men’s and women’s tango technique workshop on Sunday, April 29 from 2-3:30pm at the Mountain View Studio in Woodstock, New York. The Saugerties Performing Arts Factory is a newly renovated 21,000 square foot facility intended to place “all the arts under one roof.” The opening weekend on April 20-22 drew hundreds of patrons and included theater, music, art and dance showcases.

For the events on Saturday, April 28st, there will be an absolute beginners class at 7pm, no partner or experience necessary, followed by an 8pm intermediate class, also no partner necessary but some tango experience with Argentine Tango is required. Woodstock Tango’s popular Milonga Bohemia (Argentine Tango Social Dance) will begin at 9pm and will include a performance by Gayle and Sid around 11pm.

The tango DJ for Milonga Bohemia will be La Rubia De Norte who will play classic and nuevo tango with interludes of latin and swing. Admission is $15 for the night, $10 for students with ID and senior citizens over 65.

Saugerties Performing Arts Factory address: 169 Ulster Ave. Saugerties NY
Mountain View Studio address: 20 Mountain View Ave. Woodstock, NY

About Gayle and Sid
Gayle Gibbons Madeira is an award-winning painter, dancer and choreographer based in New York City. She began dancing with the Loudoun Ballet Company in Virginia at age five and was graduated from the prestigious dance conservatory at the State University of NY, College at Purchase with a BFA in 1992. She has performed work by Paul Taylor, José Limón, David Parsons, Neil Greenberg, Kevin Wynn, Gleich Contemporary Ballet, Merce Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group, David Gordon’s Pick-Up Dance Company and Shapiro & Smith among others. Gayle’s choreography has been produced in: Dunois Theater (Paris, France), Boston (“The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” at Opera Boston), Spoleto Festival USA, Here Theater, Joyce SoHo, Bard College (“In a Pig’s Valise”), Manhattan School of Music (“Mirandolina”) and PACE University, among others. In 2006, Gayle began dancing Argentine tango. She has performed tango with Carlos Vera (Forever Tango), Sidney Grant, Lexa Roséan, Artem Maloratsky, Anton Gazenbeek, Raul Cabral, Jorge Juanatey, Monica Paz and Walter Zylinski. Gayle holds the champion titles for both the 2011 U.S. Tango Championship in salon category with Sidney Grant and the 2008 U.S. Tango Championship in stage category with partner Lexa Roséan. Gayle and Sid donated the winning proceeds from the championship to Ballroom Basix™. Gayle’s paintings are included in numerous private and institutional collections and have been exhibited in several shows and galleries including the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center’s “Brave Destiny” surrealism show and New York Hall of Science “Art Envisions Science.” Madeira was Artist-of-the-Month in the Artist’s Magazine February 2010 issue.

Also known as Doctor Dance, Sidney’s career has spanned over two decades of dedication to the art of social dancing, specializing in Argentine Tango. Teaching young and old alike in a variety of settings (studios, schools, senior centers, and corporate/private events) Sid is in constant demand for his unique instruction and performance. His passion for partner dancing has enabled him to build a worldwide clientele, including choreographing hundreds of wedding couples’ first dances. He was valedictorian in the School of Journalism and Communication at Rutgers College, where he minored in Spanish.

A proud SAG member, Sid appeared in the films Mad Hot Ballroom, Take the Lead, starring Antonio Banderas, and Julia Roberts’ Mona Lisa Smile, in which he danced with Academy & Tony award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden, who chairs the Advisory Committee of Sid’s not-for-profit: Ballroom Basix™, an arts-in-education initiative that brings the “fun, fitness & fancy footwork” of partner dancing non-competitively to schoolchildren. Headquartered in Harlem, Ballroom Basix™ exposes inner city kids to the joy and etiquette of social dancing, enabling student to dance — rotationally and respectfully — with one another regardless of shape, size, ability or popularity, thereby fulfilling its motto: “making manners matter…one step at a time!”. Sid is committed to the expansion of this non-competitive model so that no student feels rejected or excluded. Sid and Gayle donated the winning proceeds from their 2011 USA Tango Championship to Ballroom Basix™.

Together, Gayle and Sid have created innovative, costumed choreographies, including “Tin Man Tango” and “Tango In Wonderland.” They look forward to bringing more attention and support to Ballroom Basix™ and other worthy charities that further dance and peace in the world.

]]> http://gaylemadeira.com/news-and-events/gayle-madeira-and-sidney-grant-perform-and-teach-in-the-first-full-event-of-the-new-saugerties-performing-arts-factory-in-saugerties-new-york-2/feed/ 0 Gayle Madeira and Sid Grant win the 2011 U.S. Tango Championship! http://gaylemadeira.com/news-and-events/584/ http://gaylemadeira.com/news-and-events/584/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:55:11 +0000 gayle http://gaylemadeira.com/news-and-events/584/ Sidney Grant and Gayle Madeira, professional dancers based in New York City, recently won the 2011 USA Tango Championship. The Championship is held every year in New York City in July as part of the Celebrate Tango Festival. Argentine Tango is one of the most difficult dance forms to master. Sid and Gayle competed in the challenging “open salon” category in which the dances are entirely improvised. The judges (including renowned tango stars Nelson Avila from Tango Argentino and Jorge Torres from Forever Tango) chose the music and the competitors had no knowledge of what music they would dance to. The competition in this category is fierce and includes dancers from other parts of the world as well as the United States. This year there were several Argentines competing as well. There are both semifinal and final rounds and the process is grueling, taking several hours to complete.

Sid and Gayle donated all of their proceeds to Ballroom Basix , a not-for-profit arts-in-education initiative that brings the “fun, fitness & fancy footwork” of ballroom and Latin dancing non-competitively to schoolchildren. Sid is the director and founder of Ballroom Basix and created the organization over a 3 year period in Harlem, after serving as co-Artistic Director of Pierre Dulaine’s American Ballroom Theater Youth Company for 7 years. Mr. Dulaine’s story was fictionalized in the film Take the Lead, starring Antonio Banderas, with whom Grant’s performance troupe appeared on The Today Show to promote the film. Grant also appeared in the documentary Mad Hot Ballroom which featured him in his role as a senior teaching artist.

Sidney resigned from Dulaine’s Dancing Classrooms after 7 years, going on to create his own unique syllabus and methodology that focuses on the joy and etiquette of social dancing, enabling each student to dance — rotationally and respectfully — with every other student regardless of shape, size, ability or popularity, thereby fulfilling the Ballroom Basix motto: “making manners matter…one step at a time!”. He is committed to the expansion of this non-competitive model so that no student is rejected or excluded, and was just endorsed as the official and exclusive offering by the New York City Department of Education’s middle school CHAMPS programming, the first time a ballroom arts residency has been sanctioned in the DOE’s history and offered as a sports and arts activity.

Also known as Doctor Dance, Sidney’s career has spanned over two decades of dedication to the art of social dancing, specializing in Argentine Tango. After capturing the Novice Professional title at the Fred Astaire Championships in Atlantic City in 1990, Grant quickly realized that social dance was his true calling. Teaching young and old alike in a variety of settings (studios, schools and senior centers, as well as corporate and private events) Sid is in constant demand for his unique instruction and performance. His passion for partner dancing has enabled him to build a worldwide clientele, including choreographing hundreds of wedding couples’ first dances. He was valedictorian in the School of Journalism and Communication at Rutgers College, and holds Certificates from both NYU and The School of Visual Arts.

Gayle Madeira has danced for 36 years and attended the prestigious Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College. She is an award-winning painter, dancer and choreographer based in New York City for the past 18 years. She toured extensively as a dancer, choreographer and teacher, both nationally and internationally, with a number of ballet and modern dance companies including her own. Gayle was also the USA Tango Champion in the stage category in 2008 with another partner Lexa Roséan . Her paintings are included in numerous private and institutional collections and have been exhibited in several galleries.

Together, Gayle and Sid have created innovative, costumed choreographies, including “Tin Man Tango” and “Tango In Wonderland.” They look forward to performing and teaching in many venues in the coming year and bringing more attention and support to Ballroom Basix and other worthy charities that further dance and peace in the world.
Gayle Madeira website: www.gaylemadeira.com
Ballroom Basix website: www.ballroombasix.com
Sid Grant website: www.weddingdanceroutine.com

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