July

North America / USA / New York

In 20 years of uninterrupted artistic career, Yamila Viana continues up to be news because she climbs the peak of success again, this time with the National Championship trophy USA Tango.

To her 36 years old, this attractive native Argentine of Posadas city in the Misiones providence in Argentina, daughter of a Teacher and Journalist and the only one of a brother and a sister who studied the dance, she has proven to be a superhuman in her profession, in the way of see the life, family and work; and although at the moment she’s waiting for a new project then put in the foreground again shows us the strength to assimilate the peculiarities of being an immigrant talent that has managed to conquer the American market of Dance.

“I told my mom: I want to be a dancer”

Since an early age, Yamila hasshown a big strength and unwavering decision to dedicate to this profession, taking this decision one day when she watch the Anglo-Saxon TV series “Fame”.

“When I was 5 years old I already wanted to be a dancer.

At that age, I remember I told mymom: I want to be a dancer”.

In all honesty, at the beginning, neither herself knows what she would face devote herself entirely to this career. It was whole days studying dance in the Dance School of Misiones province. Already, at 9 years old, she was already studying 3 disciplines of dance: Folklore, Character and Ballet.

At fifteen years old, Yamila with her much disciplined lifestyle participated in national competitions inside of her native country, and with her particular style began to feel a passion for the main flag of seduction, the Tango. Acquiring professional knowledges of this dance in her first trip to Rosario (City seems to Buenos Aires) in Argentina.

“l tumed my trip, I got fascinated and I told my mom: I am going to train and after I am going to live to Buenos Aires”. And so it was, it was time and I moved to Buenos Aires”.

Once settled in the capital of Argentina, she received classes in the old studio on the corner of couple of the moment Roberto Herrera and Vanina Vilous. And despite she never had the partner of dance and she always be a free student, this didn’t prevent her to achieve complete perfection of the technique of Tango.

From the hand on her roommate Victoria Hidalgo (First dancer of the Argentina National Contemporary Ballet), Yamila knew the tropical dance Salsa too, devoting for not less one year to this rhythm in El Salson, the Salsoteca biggest of Buenos Aires (Argentina), where she exhibited her creative and rhythmic choreography dance with the swing of her hips.

However, in the mid-98 she decided to join thecast of the National Ballet Argentine getting almost all the singles (leading roles) and implementing a very strong technical, and during with that important company exponent of the dance 10 years.

After meeting this last professional challenge, Viana achieved nothing less than the work as artistic director of Tango since 2008 to 2010, in Venice and Rome (Italy).

Albeit, this story didn’t stay there, Yamila decided to face another personal and professional challenge to move to New York (USA) in August 2010. “This is the city where I want to live. Here I am way I want”, she said.

For this new opportunity, Yamila had big and creative ideas, designing a new project called La Milonga Zinc Bar with live music every Sunday for 3 years in a Jazz club that allowed, thanks to its good acoustic, enjoy of the melody and Tango dancing.

Likewise, in 2015, with her artistic genius, style, technique and authority go up to the podium to win her partner Ivan with the first place in the National Championship Argentine Tango of that year, the only one authorized for Buenos Aires (Argentina) carried out at the headquarters in San Francisco (USA).

To Yamila this championship was a great challenge. “In the ballet I represented Argentina in the world, now with this award I represent the USA for a year; it was like an ambiguity move to the other side, but, dancing Tango. Thus, I don’t feel so betrayer of the motherland hahaha. ”

Of course, this dancer rated for a lot of people as the best dancer of Tango in USA, she’ll open this 2016 a Tango School with a program of weekly workshops and she will continue to give private and group lessons to everybody who feel that desire and passion to learn Tango.

Yamila Viana transpires the testimony of a long history. Her dance has been a catalog of versatility and wonder, and now being coach and choreographer transmitting her knowledge to new dancers who want to get a place in the competitive area of dance in Broadway and Hollywood.

This genius of the Tango has done wonders in the ballet, Tango and contemporary dance in her native country. Latin America, Europe and USA wanted to confirm her talent and thereafter devoted her to tattoo her name on the universal history of dance. And there is the greatest of her exploits:

The Tango turned into rnassive applause from the ordinary citizen Yamila Viana is a dancer of all. And how not, if her grace covers a technique comparable only with the best dancers of the world.

Recently, she recorded a film in Los Angeles called Tango Shalom. The story? A Rabbi who falls in love for a dancing girl.

Definitively, Yamila is a dancer with a versatile talent than generating admiration for everybody who knows the world of the dance, specially, the Tango.