SHARNA FABIANO TANGO COMPANY

"Sharna Fabiano, a Washington, DC-based tango dancer with a background in modern dance, is making headway on the concert stage with an intriguing melding of these two forms. Her young Sharna Fabiano Tango Company doesn't look much like the slicked-back, tricked-up tango companies that sweep the national tour circuit every couple of years with sequins and glitter...Fabiano does something more that takes tango further a field with her contemporary perspective on realigning the dance style with what might be better understood as "downtown" dance."

-Lisa Traiger, Dance View Times (April 2008)

"...Sharna Fabiano has a remarkably strong and well-developed choreographic voice. In her company's performance Saturday at Dance Place, it was evident that her style and movement vocabulary are clearly defined and refreshingly distinctive."

-Sarah Halzack for The Washington Post, March 2008

Sharna was selected for Dance Magazine's prestigious "25 To Watch List" for 2008. Check out page 51 of the January issue. She was also honored this year by the Filmore Arts Center as one of Washington's most accomplished artists.

Sharna's performing company offers a contemporary interpretation of the powerful and eternal Argentine Tango, blending an authentic tango aesthetic with contemporary dance and music. Her work reveals the nostalgia, intimacy,and longing of the tango and addresses the theme of connection as a transformative process. Passionate embraces meet quiet moments ofpersonal reflection, and gender roles are challenged as women and men exchange following and leading.

Supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the Canada Council for the Arts

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PERFORMANCE CALENDAR

March 29-30, 2008 - "Uno" and other works @ Dance Place

June 21-22, 2008 - Performance at Tango Alchemie Festival in Prague

Sept. 6-7, 2008 - "Uno" at the Univeristy of Texas, in Austin with Glover Gill and the Tosca String Quartet

Sept. 18, 2008 - "Under Paris Skies" Fashion Show & Auction @ the French Embassy

Oct. 25, 2008 - Hispanic Festival @ Atlas Performing Arts Center

Nov. 12, 2008 - "Two To Tango" Fashion Show & Social, Location TBA

Nov 27-30, 2008 - Sharna performs with TangoMujer in the all-woman tango revue Leading Ladies of Tango in San Francisco

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Photo Gallery

Photos by John Healey