DJ Yesim “La Turca” is a dynamic DJ who plays the best of traditional tango while seeking out unusual and beautiful alternative songs. Her vast library gives her an almost unlimited tango vocabulary, and she seeks, above all, to inspire dancers.

In the two years since she began DJing, her dedication and skill have been recognized not only by New York's milongas, but by the portenos of Buenos Aires; she is regularly invited to play Confiteria Ideal, one of the few non-Argentines to be so welcomed. Her Buenos Aires gigs also include Porteno Y Bailarin, Salon Canning, and the Plaza Dorrego outdoor milonga in San Telmo.

She has become a fixture in the New York tango scene, where she regularly plays The All-Night Milonga, La Belle Époque, La Boca, La Nacional, Chelsea Market, Central Park, and Blue Moon (which she also hosted for the first time this winter). Other venues include the Candlelight and Eastern Market milongas in Washington, DC, the TangoSutra all-night milonga, Providence’s Longa Milonga, and Toronto’s New Year’s Eve.

Yesim's career as a dancer has followed this same aderence to classic Buenos Aires traditions; she has studied with Jorge Firpo, Flaco Dany, Graciela Gonzalez, Olga Besio, Deigo & Negracha, Osvaldo Zotto & Lorena Ermoncida, Gustavo Chidichimo, and Omar Vega, among others. Her passion for classic milonguero and salon style have set her apart both as a follower and as a leader, earning the respect of several of her teachers, who condoned her leading socially in Buenos Aires, often with their partners.

Yesim brings this same precision, passion, and musicality to her students, who benefit from her undiluted Argentine tango education.

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