About

Noel Strazza and Pablo Pugliese started working together in 2006 . Due to their vast experience as professional dancers, both in Argentine tango and contemporary dance, in 2009 they founded the Extempore Danse Company, a vehicle for the exploration of the fusion of these disciplines. 

Noel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the age of ten she began to study dance, a path that led her to a degree from the “Taller de Danza Contemporanea” of the San Martin Theatre, subsequently joining The Ballet Juvenil of the same theatre from 1995 to 1997. She danced in the theatre’s productions Boquitas Pintadas, Once Corazones and 101 Dalmatians.

In 1998 she worked in the Ballet de Bolsillo, a company directed by the prestigious argentine choreographer Oscar Araiz. As a co-choreographer with Yamil Ostrovsky, she  won the first choreography award at the IV Dance Festival of Amazonas in Brazil. She was choreography assistant and dancer in various original creations by renown choreographer Carlos Veiga.

After a successful career in contemporary dance she started dancing Argentine tango in 1997. For five years, she danced with internationally renowned tango dancer Pablo Veron (principal dancer of the movie The Tango Lesson) with whom she taught and performed tango in numerous countries in Europe, Australia, Asia and North America. Together they danced at the 2005 Gala des Étoiles in Montreal’s Place des Arts.

Noel had both, acted in and choreographed productions for the Théâtre de l'Utopie, directed by Cristina Iovita. She has been a guest choreographer for the Les Sortilèges dance company and in 2008 was invited by the Cirque du Soleil to work at the show La Nouba as a movement/tango consultant and teacher. This has opened the door to couch artists of diverse backgrounds, an activity she continue doing to this date.

Pablo was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina. He began his study of the Argentine Tango in 1989 with his parents, Esther and Mingo, who were two of the central figures in the contemporary history of Argentine tango, having taught an entire generation of social dancers, as well as some of the most prestigious tango professionals in the world today.

Pablo began performing professionally in Argentina at age ten and, by age fifteen, had gone on to perform and teach master classes in cities across the United States, Europe and Japan.

In 1999, He moved to New York and was awarded a scholarship at the Alvin Ailey School where he studied for three years. During that period, on two consecutive occasions, he was selected to be a scholarship student at the prestigious Jacob’s Pillow dance festival and, later, won a scholarship for one year to study choreography at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD)

Pablo have shared the stage with renowned Tango musicians and composers, Héctor Del Curto, Fernando Otero, Daniel Binelli, Gustavo Casenave and Pablo Aslan.

In collaboration with video artist, Sol Aramendi, he choreographed, directed, produced and performed his own show "UqbarTango".

In 2009, He was assistant director and co-choreographer of Astor Piazzolla’s opera Maria de Buenos Aires, under the direction of David Parsons and Neal Goren, for the Gotham Chamber Opera, featuring the dancers of Parsons Dance Company. Alongside his dance career Pablo holds a BFA in Cinema from Concordia University.

Pablo and Noel live together in Montreal, they are part of the teaching staff of Studio Tango Montreal, for the past ten years they have been holding a summer Tango seminar in Salzburg (Austria) where dancers across Europe attend to train with them, and they continue performing and teaching in Canada and various cities in the USA.