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Roo Stepha: "I dance from my mother's belly"

On Tuesday night we were able to see another sample of what this woman is capable of doing with young dancers in just one month of preparation, which is the time the School has been running. Her students ...

On Tuesday night we were able to see another sample of what this woman is capable of doing with young dancers in just one month of preparation, which is the time the School has been running.

Her students participated in the III Music Festival, where they gave their best on stage in a demonstration of about twenty minutes with the winning choreographies of the Torremolinos International Championship. The surprise of the night was the hip-hop group, which had only been preparing for a week and, in the words of their teacher, have made a great effort to be there, closing the show.

During the weeks prior to the VII Regional Retro Dance Final of the Canary Islands and the IV International Retro Dance Trophy City of Arrecife, they rehearsed for four hours every day.

In an interview with this newspaper, Roo stated that "they already knew my work rhythm, they had already taken classes with me and it was very easy for them to understand what they had to do; today I can say that they are professionals, they lack age but they have understood the theory."

Dedicate yourself to dancing

The vocation comes to him from even before he was born: "I dance from my mother's belly, my mother and my aunt are dancers, I have seen them dance since I was very little." At the age of 11, she told her mother that her thing was not sports gymnastics, nor swimming, but that she wanted to dedicate herself to dancing.

She took a test to enter the National Dance School of Argentina and there she began her professional career while studying for her bachelor's degree. At the age of 15, she obtained a scholarship to go to New York and enter the "American Ballet", where she began to study and work hard on classical dance.

Back in Argentina, she participated in the Argentine Folklore and Argentine Tango competitions. There she began to learn tango from her grandfather. She said that it touched her a lot, she loves to dance it and it is one of her strengths. 3 years ago she moved with her family to Lanzarote, joined a show company and began working professionally in a show at night.

Later she began working with a group called "Argentina Fusión", in which she dances tango and Argentine folklore. She has danced in Fuerteventura, Tenerife, Las Palmas, Barcelona, Paris, London... in all this time she has grown a lot professionally.

Choreographer

The most recent has been her facet as a choreographer with very good results, as she has demonstrated in her premiere of these parties. She is currently the first dancer of "Argentina Fusión", whose level is marked by the 30 shows that she has contracted per month in different hotels on the Island.

In them she makes an exhibition of modern fusion "in which a little piece of what Argentina is is shown, mixing tango and Argentine folklore." Tomorrow night they will be at 10:00 p.m. at the Hotel Trébol, in Costa Teguise.

In the mornings she teaches at the Akrópolis gym and in the afternoons, from 3:00 p.m., she is at the Dance School teaching the children all kinds of dance.

The School will officially begin operating on September 1 with classical, modern and contemporary dance classes, jazz, ballroom dancing and hip-hop. All those who want to enroll can do so before August 31 at the Akrópolis Gymnasium.

Her short-term wish is to continue with the school: "I would like to form a good company in Lanzarote so that we can show how beautiful it is to dance."