Live performance, including puppetry, theater, dance, music, and spoken word poetry, etc.
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
PGH Tango Connection
Koichiro Suzuki and Yulia Zhukoff
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Dance performance, instruction, musician
Tango Night at Kingfly, 2022, live music performance, group class and social dance for the public attending the event
Tango Performance at Rafucilo Winery, 2022, dance performance
Live tango music in downtown Pittsburgh, 2022
Pittsburgh Tango Fierro, 2021, dance performance
Summer Dance Spectacular, 2021, dance performance. Collaboration with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
About the Artist
Our Mission is to connect people through the passion of tango. PGH Tango Connection offers group tango classes, private lessons, weekly practices, milongas, and other events.
Husband and wife team Koichiro and Yulia have been dancing Tango together since 2008. They were introduced while they were both studying at Duquesne University. Koichiro and Yulia’s extensive backgrounds in music give them a deep understanding of musicality, incorporating this in their dance and bringing a powerful presence to their performances. Yulia’s passion for tango and her ability to capture the attention of her audience, led by Kiochiro’s experienced and yet vividly improvisational hand, combine on stage to poignantly reveal the essence of Tango: a man and a woman as one, lovers for the length of each dance they perform.
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Accreditations, Certifications, and/or Awards
Global Pittsburgh Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards in Arts category, 2019
Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
No
Teaching Artist
Yes, ages 10 and up
Joined the Directory
May 2022
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
“Argentine Tango is a social dance and can be accessible to anyone. We have dancers in our community from 8-90 years old and from different economic backgrounds.”
PGH Tango Connection
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
