About Mika.
Since discovering Argentine tango in the late 1990s, she has devoted herself deeply to both the music and the dance. She has lived between New York and Buenos Aires, studying with great maestros such as Juan Carlos Copes, Mingo and Esther Pugliese, Pablo Pugliese, Gustavo Naveira, Olga Besio, Mariano Chicho Frumboli, Pablo Veron, Natalia Games and Gabriel Angio, Omar Vega, Carla Marano, Maria Plazaola, Alejandra Gutty, Silvio La Via, Vanessa Villalba and Facundo Piñero, as well as respected milongueros. She has studied a wide range of tango styles, Salon, Milonguero, Apilado, and Nuevo. As an artist, she continues to develop her own distinctive style, grounded in strong traditional technique. Her dance career began at an early age, with training in Ballet, Modern, Ballroom, Latin, West Coast Swing, Yoga, and Pilates. She holds a BFA in Scenography Theater Arts.
Her passionate dedication to tango was featured in La Nación, the Argentine national newspaper, where she was recognized as a “Tanguera from overseas.”
Works
Based in New York and Buenos Aires. She has been teaching and performing tango since 2003 at venues including Stepping Out Studios, Strictly Tango NYC, NY Dance Center, The Arts Cure Center, Lincoln Center, 92Y, New York Athletic Club, NY City Parks & Recreation and Senior Centers, as well as internationally in US, Japan and Argentina.
As a dancer and actor, she has appeared in theater, film, television, and commercial productions.
Her film credits include “Kiss of the Spider Woman” “The Crowded Room”, her stage work includes the Off-Broadway production “The Social Tango Project - Fall for Dance Festival” at New York City Center, “Agapanthus Tango” at the Australian Consulate of New York. She has been a member of Roi Bubi Escudero’s ETdC Projects Lab “Argentina Passionate!” New York Musical Theatre Festival at the American Theatre of Actors, “Artaud… Momo” at Bleecker Street Theater, “Matra India” at The Robert Moss Theater, for which she was nominated for Outstanding Dance Choreography, and Best Supporting Actress for “The Colonel’s Wife” at The Paradise Factory Theater.
A member of SAG-AFTRA.
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