DOMINIKA JASIK & GRZEGORZ KAŁMUCZAK

Since 2020, Grzegorz Kałmuczak and Dominika Jasik have been partners, teaching at the Oscar Dance School in Poznań, leading dance workshops nationwide, and performing at various events and festivals throughout Poland. During four years of working together, they achieved impressive results. Among other competitions, they participated in the "Got Talent" show and the 2021 Argentine Tango BA World Championships. In October 2022, they competed in the European Argentine Tango Championships in Münster, Germany. They achieved podium finishes three times, winning second place in Milonga, Tango Vals, and in both the Follower and Leader categories. In the Tango Pista category, they took third place. In April 2023, they competed in the 1 st International Polish Argentine Tango Cup, emerging as the top Polish pair and the only one to secure three podium finishes. They won in the Milonga category, took second place in the Tango Vals category, and third in the Tango Pista category. In June 2023, they competed at the UK Tango Championships and during their debut at this competition, they reached the semi-finals. The year 2024 is theirs. At the first Middle East and European Tango Championships held in Limassol, Cyprus, they won the Tango Pista category and also took third place in Milonga and Vals. They won second place in the Follower category and third in the Leader category. In April, at the 2nd International Polish Argentine Tango Cup, they defended their title in Milonga and also won third place in Tango Vals and Tango Pista, as well as first place as a follower and second place as a leader.

Grzegorz Kałmuczak is a dancer with 50 years of experience. He is an international ballroom dance judge and a certified dance teacher, affiliated with the Royal Society of Teachers of Dance of Great Britain and a member of the ISTD. For his dancing activities, he was awarded an Honorary Member of the Polish Dance Society.

He is one of the first propagators of Argentine tango in Poland, which he has been dancing for 25 years. He learned the secrets of tango during his numerous trips to Buenos Aires, as well as during European tango festivals with the greatest maestros and dancers of the golden era of tango during workshops and individual lessons, who transmitted to him their precious, valuable and true tango heritage. His teachers were and are such legends as: Julio Balmaceda & Corina de la Rosa, Ernesto Balmaceda, Lorena Ermocida, Graciela Gonzalez, Anna Maria Schapira, Juan Amaya & Valentina Garnier, Sabrina & Ruben Veliz, Miguel Angel Zotto & Daina Guspero, Carlos Espinoza & Agustina Piaggio, Facundo Pinero & Vanessa Villalba. He is a graduate of the Tango Argentino School "Estudio DNI" in Buenos Aires.

Dominika Jasik is a dancer with 25 years of experience. She started her dancing career when she was 6 with ballroom dancing. She is the Vice Champion of Poland in junior categories, multiple finalists of the Polish Grand Prix in the youth standard category, and won the highest international dance class "S" in standard dances. She is also a ballroom dance judge and a dance instructor as well as the main dancer in the show, which is performed on the largest stages throughout Poland.

This duo is a combination of experience and youth, together they constitute an exceptionally energetic and explosive mixture. What distinguishes them is, above all, musicality, emotion, elegance, and faithfulness to the tradition and essence of true tango. They put their whole hearts into each of their shows and classes. They also attach great importance to dance techniques, which they treat as a tool to achieve the shared joy of dancing.

TANYA GUTIERREZ & SEBASTIÁN AVENDAÑO

Tanya Gutiérrez and Sebastián Avendaño, current European Champions of the Middle East Tango Championship Cyprus 2024 and London UK Tango Champions 2023, are dancers, choreographers, teachers and professional tango producers, with 23 years of experience, they are the general directors of Compañía Tango Recuerdo, an artistic project created in 2016, with the mission of spreading the culture of the tango genre in different scenarios worldwide, since then they have made multiple productions in which they have developed and potentiated all their experience and knowledge, they are currently the teachers of the Escuela de Tango Argentino Blanco y Negro, located in the region of Bavaria in Germany, while continuing to work on the generation of artistic and cultural alliances with different institutions, which allows them to continue opening doors and opportunities in the global cultural market

In addition to his personal project, Sebastián is founder and general director of A Puro Tango Dance Company, an artistic entity with 22 years of experience in the artistic and cultural sector, two-time world champions in the modality of professional groups, Tanya Gutiérrez has been its international producer, managing to travel around the world with their different shows.

In their years of experience they have toured the main cities of Colombia and others internationally in the countries like Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Spain, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Luxemburg, Belgium, Russia, Egypt, United States, Turkey, Thailand, London,Cyprus among others.

ADRIEN BARIKI-ALAOUI & IRO DAVLANTI-LO

Adrien & Iro are the first ever Combined Tango Champions of Europe, The Middle East & The UK (2023-2024).

They are the only couple living in the UK to have reached the final of the World Tango Championships (on their first participation, in 2023).

They have been the official Tango Ambassadors for the Embassy of Argentina in the United Kingdom since 2021.

They have performed in more than 25 cities in 11 countries across 3 continents, including several prestigious festivals.

They are the directors of The Argentine Tango School, one of the largest Tango schools in the United Kingdom.

Their teaching is based on the bio-mechanics and biodynamics of movements, with a very strong traditional and historical basis.

They focus a lot of their teaching on the exploration of emotions, each person's identity and their belief that each dancer must be unique and find their own Tango.

BRIGITA RODRIGUEZ & CARLOS RODRIGUEZ

Brigita Rodriguez is a professional actress-dancer, choreographer and Argentine tango teacher in her own tango school “Tango Salon”.
Working Docent in Lithuanian Music and Theare Academy from 2019.

In 2004 Brigita finished her Master‘s degree studies at the Lithuanian Music Academy, faculty of Theatre and Cinema, as a actress-dancer and Master of Choreographer. She has practiced various dance styles from folk dance, ballet and contemporary dance. Currently she is working in the dance theatre as a choreographer and dancer. She created some dance performances, two of them are Argentinian tango performances. Brigita started dancing Argentine tango in 1999 and has been teaching it for 20 years now.

Brigita was many time in Buenos Aires and took private lesson with olds master from Argentina. She danced tango show in different and prestigious Milongas from Buenos Aires like Salon Canning, La Baldosa with her tango partner Carlos Rodriguez.

Carlos Rodriguez is professional drama actor from Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy.
2022 finished Bachelor degree in Lithuanian Music Academy, faculty of Theatre and Cinema like drama actor (physical theatre).

Carlos danced non-stop for 30 years and has experience as a traditional family that loves to dance tango. Carlos was born in neighborhood Boedo of Buenos Aires, Argentina, which is a well known tango suburb, just around the corner of famous Milonga Club Grisel. He has been influenced by tango from his early days – his grandparents since the 1945 dancing tango in the milongas of Buenos Aires, his uncle Robert played bandoneon since childhood, and his mother which singing tango influenced him to learn dance tango, becouse his family have long Tango traditions.

Carlos started his tango career while being 13 years old (1994), performing in a tango show in theater Rancheria in Buenos Aires.

Carlos, although young and enthusiastic, can express a whole rainbow of sensations and feelings in his dance – from restrained deep pain and suffering to comprehensive giving love and joy. Carlos is a very passionate and innovative teacher with a vivid imagination.

Carlos and Brigita, currently work throughout Lithuania with tango classes and concerts, in addition them giving tango seminars in European countries. Was jury in Internacional Tango Championship in France (Paris),Latvia Tango Champion ship in Riga, Poland Championship. Working together 11 years.