CS Tango

Cyrena Drusine began her life as a dancer and performer when she was 8 years old in New York City. She studied at The School of American Ballet for 10 years and performed with The New York City Ballet as a child and the Pacific Northwest Ballet when she was 18. In addition to ballet, Cyrena has studied various dance forms such as Jazz, Contemporary, West-African, Hip-Hop and Salsa. She is also a Pilates instructor and has been practicing Pilates for 25 years. In 2006 Cyrena started dancing Tango in Buenos Aires where she studied with various Tango masters, such as Rodolfo Dinzel, Carolina Bonaventura and Francisco Forquera. Cyrena won the first U.S. Tango championship in Tango Salon in July 2007 and made it to the finals at the World Championship in Buenos Aires.  Cyrena has taught and performed throughout the United States, Europe, South America and Japan.  In 2008 and 2009 Cyrena performed with the world-renowned company Tango Pasion in Europe. In 2010 she was a judge in the Tango Championship in Asia. Cyrena has performed in various milongas in Buenos Aires as well as in some of the most famous tango houses such as Tango Porteño, La Esquina de Carlos Gardel and El Querandi. Cyrena completed her master's in Performance Studies at New York University in May 2008 where she wrote, Una Emocion: A Tango of Memories, Nostalgia and History, a thesis which focused on the sensual experience of tango in Buenos Aires. In 2009 she was a guest lecturer on tango at New York University's study abroad program in Buenos Aires. In January 2011 Cyrena started the company Narrative Tango Tours, a personalized tango tour company for tourists visiting Buenos Aires.

Steinar Refsdal started learning Argentine Tango in Norway. He fell in love with the dance and the music, and decided to move to Buenos Aires for a year and half to study extensively with some of the most renowned tango maestros such as Francisco Forquera, Alejandra Gutty, Silvio La Via, Corina Herrera, Moira Castellano, Dario Daniele and Pancho Martinez Pey. After studying the culture, the language and the history of Tango, and after endless nights dancing in the best milongas in Buenos Aires, he did his first Tango performance in Casa de Aníbal Troilo. On the dance floor he met Cyrena Drusine, and he brought her to Norway where they started a Tango school. Steinar has a bachelor in Performing Arts Jazz, and his background as a Jazz musician gives him a unique understanding of musicality and improvisation in Tango. He is also a certified teacher and draws from his experience teaching music to try to give his students the best possible learning experience.

CS Tango, created by Steinar and Cyrena in 2016 in Oslo, is a business that provides tango entertainment and tango classes in Norway and abroad. During the past 5 years Steinar and Cyrena have taught and performed in New York, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Istanbul, Athens and Buenos Aires. They have danced in some of the most important tango festivals internationally, such as the Belgrade Tango Encuentro, Tango Cazino, the Thailand Tango Festival and Advent Tango festival. In 2018 they finished as finalists in Norway's Got Talent. They have also been touring and performing in theaters throughout Norway with El Muro, a Norwegian, Argentine tango group. In January 2019 Cyrena and Steinar performed with the Oslo Philharmonic as part of their New Years Concert all tango program. In January 2020 they performed in Per Arne Glorvigen’s “Le Grand Tango,” in the Oslo Opera House.