Biography
Christy Coté & Darren Lees
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Christy Coté has been teaching Argentine Tango for 12 years and is one of San Francisco's most respected dancers and teachers.. She has been featured locally by KVTU's Segment 2 Report with Bob MacKenzie, KPIX/Channel 5 Evening Magazine, Comcast’s Local Edition, The San Francisco Chronicle, and nationally in Dance Spirit Magazine.
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Darren Lees lives in San Diego and has been dancing Argentine tango for 6 years and for the past 4 years he and Christy has enjoyed traveling together, teaching at various tango communities around the country and at festivals such as Reno´s Tango Brujo, TangoFest Maui and on the Tango at Sea Cruise.
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As the creator and director of the Argentine Tango program at San Francisco's popular Cheryl Burke Dance (www.cherylburkedance.com) she oversees and teaches a full schedule of group and private classes, workshops, practicas and Milongas. Christy's teaching method has been published in the Argentine Tango Manual by Dance Vision (www.dancevision.com) and is complimented by a series of 20 instructional DVDs with Christy, along with George Garcia of Honolulu.
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Christy and Darren perform regularly with MonTango, Tango No. 9 and produce monthly Tango shows at San Francisco's Peña Pacha Mama restaurant. They also choreography for and perform with their professional performance group the LiberTango Dancers (www.libertangodancers.org) who were selected from over 150 auditioning groups to perform in the 2006 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and have even performed for a San Francisco 49er’s half time show!
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