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Keith Widyolar
Tango Beat is getting picked up, recently by the love columnist of Elle Magazine, today by Tanghetto. Follow your heart to the Tango Beat.
8 months ago

About Me

Basic Information

first
Keith
last
Widyolar
Gender
Male
Role
Leader or Follower
From City & State
New York, New York
From Country
United States
Current City
New York, New York
Current Country
United States
Dancing Tango since
2007
Professional:
Teacher
Performer
DJ
Photographer
Organizer
Milonga or Práctica
Classes (school)
Workshops
Tour

Optional Contact Information

Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/keith.widyolar
Website
http://www.TangoBeat.com
Land Phone
+1 (917) 520-1717

CV / Biography

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ B I O ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Keith Widyolar is a New York marketing executive and serial entrepreneur, published fashion and rock photographer, and international publisher who started Tango in 2007 before moving to Buenos Aires and Paris to live Tango full time in 2009.

MARKETING EXECUTIVE
In Los Angeles, Keith ran a marketing services firm that introduced many of today's most popular computing technologies, led an advertising agency with major clients like Hitachi and Toshiba, and marketed a software brand that sold for $30 million. In New York, Keith took a software company public as director of public and investor relations, built a $75 million human resources company, and the #2 brand of dog toys in the world.

STUDENT OF TANGO
Keith got the love of Tango from Mariana Galassi. Roberto Reis first taught him to walk in the floor. The first great dancer to accept Keith was Suki Schorer, former prima ballerina of New York City Ballet, teacher at the School of American Ballet, and the world’s leading expert on Balanchine style. In Paris, Keith learned to walk at Colectivo Tango, the school of the best dancers in Paris.

Keith's guides to Tango Argentino culture are Santiago Croce and Amy Lincoln (Buenos Aires City Champions of Zona Norte), Claude Murga (Tanguera show in the role of Maria Nieves, judge in the Buenos Aires City and World Championships, and teacher of the Argentine diplomats), Ramiro Gigliotti, author of “Tango Venom” and renaissance tanguera Aurora Lubiz.

In Buenos Aires Keith studies with Claude and Ramiro. Outside Keith studied Tango Stage with Diego Di Falco and Carolina Zokalski, Tony-award nominated Broadway stars of "Forever Tango," and Tango Salón with Diego Benavidez and Natasha Agudelo, 2011 Tango Salón World Champions of the Buenos Aires Tango Festival y Mundial.

PRO PHOTOGRAPHER
Keith's work is published in Elle, Jalouse, Time Out, El Tangauta, New York Times and other leading media around the world. He has been official photographer of New York, Istanbul, Paris and Amsterdam Tango Festivals. "La Viruta de la Diosa," his touring exhibition of Tango photos of the footprints of the Goddess, was commissioned by Marijke de Vries of Tangomagia and has exhibited in Amsterdam, Paris, New York and Buenos Aires. Keith's work has been recognized at Sin Rumbo and Salón Canning in Buenos Aires, places with deep roots in Tango history.

INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHER
Keith teaches and performs with his life partner Ximena Ojeda, a classical ballerina from Colombia trained by Nadejda Podchikova (Bolshoi), Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Together they publish Tango Beat, the magazine of Argentine Tango and Latin Culture around the world, and one of the world's leading Tango brands.
  • Tango Beat is getting picked up, recently by the love columnist of Elle Magazine, today by Tanghetto. Follow your heart to the Tango Beat.
    profile 46 days ago
  • "Era inevitable: el olor de las almendras amargas le recordaba siempre el destino de los amores contrariados." GGM
    profile 55 days ago
  • "Era inevitable: el olor de las almendras amargas le recordaba siempre el destino de los amores contrariados." GGM
    profile 57 days ago
  • "Era inevitable: el olor de las almendras amargas le recordaba siempre el destino de los amores contrariados." GGM
    profile 61 days ago
  • "Era inevitable: el olor de las almendras amargas le recordaba siempre el destino de los amores contrariados." GGM
    profile 63 days ago
  • "Era inevitable: el olor de las almendras amargas le recordaba siempre el destino de los amores contrariados." GGM
    profile 65 days ago
  • Dios te salve, María, llena eres de gracia
    profile 74 days ago
  • Flamenco Noche 8:30 and 10:45 at Centro Espanol 41-01 Broadway in Queens NYC. Glass of wine with your copy of Tango Beat.
    profile 78 days ago
  • The Arodnap Box

    In 1931, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the view from the top of the Empire State Building, "I had discovered the crowning error of the city, its Pandora's box...that the city was not the endless succession of canyons...but that it had limits."

    Those who built New York did not see limits, but infinite possibility. Today the New Yorker's Pandora's box is that he thinks all life begins and ends in Manhattan, closing himself in, in sort of a reverse Pandora, from ever seeing the vitality of life in the boroughs and the larger world beyond.
    profile 85 days ago
  • The Arodnap Box

    In 1931, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the view from the top of the Empire State Building, "I had discovered the crowning error of the city, its Pandora's box...that the city was not the endless succession of canyons...but that it had limits."

    Those who built New York did not see limits, but infinite possibility. Today the New Yorker's Pandora's box is that he thinks all life begins and ends in Manhattan, closing himself in, in sort of a reverse Pandora, from ever seeing the vitality of life in the boroughs and the larger world beyond.
    profile 85 days ago
  • The Arodnap Box

    In 1931, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the view from the top of the Empire State Building, "I had discovered the crowning error of the city, its Pandora's box...that the city was not the endless succession of canyons...but that it had limits."

    Those who built New York did not see limits, but infinite possibility. Today the New Yorker's Pandora's box is that he thinks all life begins and ends in Manhattan, closing himself in, in sort of a reverse Pandora, from ever seeing the vitality of life in the boroughs and the larger world beyond.
    profile 87 days ago
  • The Arodnap Box

    In 1931, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the view from the top of the Empire State Building, "I had discovered the crowning error of the city, its Pandora's box...that the city was not the endless succession of canyons...but that it had limits."

    Those who built New York did not see limits, but infinite possibility. Today the New Yorker's Pandora's box is that he thinks all life begins and ends in Manhattan, closing himself in, in sort of a reverse Pandora, from ever seeing the vitality of life in the boroughs and the larger world beyond.
    profile 91 days ago
  • The Arodnap Box

    In 1931, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the view from the top of the Empire State Building, "I had discovered the crowning error of the city, its Pandora's box...that the city was not the endless succession of canyons...but that it had limits."

    Those who built New York did not see limits, but infinite possibility. Today the New Yorker's Pandora's box is that he thinks all life begins and ends in Manhattan, closing himself in, in sort of a reverse Pandora, from ever seeing the vitality of life in the boroughs and the larger world beyond.
    profile 91 days ago
  • Traveling from NY to Montréal, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Milan, Athens, Istanbul, London, Moscow, Tokyo or Barcelona this week and willing to take 1lb of Tango Beat Magazine with you? Please contact me. Un Abrazo.
    profile 94 days ago
  • I was setting up my life to work the arc of Tango in Buenos Aires-New York-Paris-Amsterdam-Berlin-Sitges-Roma-Athens-Istanbul marked by the CITA and the Mundial in March and August. Passing through New York I met Ximena, stopped in my tracks and gave it all up. Gracias a Dios.
    profile 96 days ago
  • Gracias a todos. It's a strange thing, but many of you have been in my heart and even my work these recent days. Ximena says that connections of the heart cannot be broken by time or distance. Un abrazo desde mi corazón.
    profile 98 days ago
  • ...Santa Maria...
    profile 100 days ago
  • Tango is a flow of energy. Giving increases the flow, taking reduces the flow.
    profile 107 days ago

Dedication / Dedicación

For Maria whose heart is with us always.
Nos caminamos en el abrazo de la Diosa.