Diego “El Pajaro” Riemer and Maria Belen Guiachello

Photo by Sebastien Grossir

Diego “El Pajaro” is one of the most favorite dancers among Russian tangueros. He started to learn tango with famous old milongueros, and after he continued his career working with different couples all over the world. Diego’s dance is full of tremendous musicality and play with the rhythm, and he amazes with light way of moving. Also he is one of the best tango teachers who’s classes are very popular all over the world.

Maria Belen Giachello discovered the world of dance at the mere age of eight at the “Escuela Nacional de Teatro de la Plata” and “La Casa del Tango”. She has performed in many tango shows and also at the “Teatro Argentino” with great artists such as Horacio Ferrer, El Sexteto Mayor, etc. A dancer and teacher well known in the international scene, elegant and sensual when she dances, she’s famed for her pedagogy based on body consciousness, musicality, communication and expression of feelings.

El Pajaro y Belen combine to dance a full-improvised, intensive and refined tango, enriched with approaches from theater and continuous research of new and original movements without losing the classical roots.

Carolina Bonaventura and Francisco Foerquera

During last 10 years tango dancer and teacher Carolina Bonaventura is successfully working in both, artistic and educational, courses. Carolina is developing her dance continuously and she is trying to maintain traditional direction of Argentine tango and to adapt brand new disciplines to help learning this dance.

Carolina’s classes are built on understanding of dance as possibility for adaptation to partner and music all the time. She is always looking for new ways to perceive and follow partner and music as a single whole.  Carolina sees an object of her classes in finding outstanding methods to express one’s personality in dance and she is trying to develop this approach in every student.

Carolina has been given classes all over Europe and Asia, USA and Canada, Australia and New Zeeland.

For almost 10 years Francisco Forquera performs in the best argentine tango shows. He was the part of such famous performances as “Tango y Tango”, “Forever Tango” and “The Passion of Tango”. Also successfully performed on different festivals and culture events in South America, Europe, USA and Japan.

Claudio Forte and Barbara Carpino

Claudio and Barbara are beautiful couple from Italy who came in the world of argentine tango in 2002. By that time they have already studied classical ballet, contemporary dance and ballroom. Learning on diversity of their background they developed their own style which could be characterized by amazing softness and elegance meeting breathtaking dynamics. While dancing the couple transmits all range of emotions – from tenderness to passion. And of course, anyone who ever saw their performance is amazed by lightness that have Barbara’s legs.
In 2006 Claudio and Barbara took the 4th place ob World Championship of Argentine Tango in Buenos Aires and became the first non-argentine couple who won first of the five places.

Nowadays they run their school in Italy, successfully take part and teach on the festivals all over Europe, and moreover Claudio and Barbara organize their festival in Syracuse that have already become one of the most popular among tangueros worldwide.

Cristian Duarte and Lilach Mor

Cristian and Lilach form young and talented couple. Together they have incorporated their love for Tango and for each other, and found a very unique and interesting technique of communication in the couple which is incorporating their knowledge of so many different arts.
Apart from tango Lilach has studied different forms of the dance (such as ballet, contemporary, jazz etc.). She has danced and performed in musicals such as Cats in Broadway NY. Since 2004 till 2010 she studied and danced in BsAs, Tango with the best teachers around, preforming in Milongas and in Tango shows throw BsAs.

Cristian was Argentinean Champion 1992 in Marshal Arts, and since 1998 has been dancing Tango, creating a unique dance technique which he has taught in DNI (the studio of Dana Frigoli and Pablo Villarraza in Buenos Aires) for 5 years. He has toured with the DNI Tango dance company throughout Europe.

Cris and Lilach successfully work together for two and a half years. For the 2nd year they are teaching tango in Budapest, and also keep travelling around the world giving classe on the festivals and workshops in places such as Czech Russia, Poland, Germany, Israel, England and Turkey.