FACUNDO PIÑERO & VANESA VILLALBA

Teachers and choreographers, with more than 20 years of experience in tango, our tango style is characterized by the fusion of tango stage and tango salon, creating a teaching method based on biomechanics that adapts to professional and amateur use.

Coaching

For more than 10 years we have been dedicated to coaching and training professional couples, both in stage and salon tango.

Facundo Piñero

He developed his studies in folklore, tango, classical dance and Russian dance. He worked in tango houses such as Madero Tango, Taconeando, Complejo Tango, Barracas Tango, Tango Red and Chiquitin. At the age of 17 he began to travel around the world with companies such as Latin Dance, Tango Odyssey, Tango Emotion, Mora Godoy, Tanguera and Forever Tango. He was part of Maximiliano Guerra’s Mercosur Company.He has danced for stars such as the Rolling Stone and Liza Minnelli.

Vanesa Villalba

She developed her studies in classical dance at the Escuela José Neglia, and with teachers such as Lidia Segni and Silvia Basilis. She worked in tango houses such as La Ventana, Piazzola Tango, Homero Manzi and Boca Tango. She was champion of the Festival de Tango de Baradero, and then participated in the festival as a Jury. At the age of 19 she started working in Japan as a teacher and dancer. Later she joined the Forever Tango Company, where she traveled the world for 4 years as a dancer and choreographic assistant.

HORACIO PEBETE GODOY & MARICEL GIACOMINI

Tango Company

Horacio Godoy Tango Company. Tanguera, Forever Tango, Chantecler, Tango Argentino (last show ever in Buenos Aires, 20.000 people) Festivals.

Festivals

Participated in more than 100 International Tango Festivals in 39 Countries. Milongas Organizer of La Viruta Tango in Buenos Aires.

Milongas

Currently more than 1200 students per week. The biggest school and Milonga in Buenos Aires during the last 22 years. Producer of two CDs of Tango (Ojos de Tango and Esteban Morgado), currently working for the third. Tango DJ from 1991. 27 years musicalising more than 5000 Milonga nights in the best Milongas in Buenos Aires, now only in La Viruta Tango Club. Tango Festival and Mundial in Buenos AiresJury.

Tango Festival and Mundial in Buenos Aires

Consultant of the musicalisation of the Tango Festival in Buenos Aires. Tango Historian student of the Universidad del Tango and Academia Nacional Del Tango. Tango Record Collector. Maricel Giacomini born in Buenos Aires, Tango was always present in Maricel´s childhood given that her grandparents were part of those fans of the genre that the “golden times” of tango left behind. So dance, singing and hearing tango was something daily in her family house and when She was around 15 years old, She started taking tango clases and going to the milonga (place), which would definitely make her fall in love with tango. With the time She started to teach and dance professionally In 2005 She was the Metropolitan runner-up of Tango Salon, in 2007 She got the third place in the Tango Salon World Championship and in the 2008 She was the runner-up of the Stage Tango World Championship with her partner at that moment, Maximiliano Cristiani. She was being part of the cast of tango shows in Buenos Aires like Cátulo Tango, Esquina Homero Manzi, Tango Palace, Café Tortoni, La Cumparsita, and several tango companies traveling around the world, like “M¡longa” (2012-2017) that had performed tango in prestigious theaters around the world like Moscu Bolshoi, Sydney Opera House, Oslo Opera House, Taiwan National Theatre, London´s Sadler Wells, New Your City Center among others. Since 2009 She is part of “La Viruta Tango Club” where She is currently giving lessons and dancing with Horacio “Pebete” Godoy. In 2021 Maricel got the “Ontological Coaching Certification” that trained her with specific tools for facilitate the learning, the connection and the communication.

JONATHAN SAAVEDRA & CLARISA ARAGON

Clarisa Aragón and Jonathan Saavedra are part of the new generation of tango dancers. Young milongueros, jury in prestigios competitions and tango social teachers. World Tango Champions in Tango Pista category in 2015. They started as a tango couple in 2012, they empowered each other, creating a unique balance in the couple. Recently, the opened their own tango studio in Córdoba, their mother land, in which they pursue to expand and promote tango in that province. Their dance style, their teaching, their responsibility and their charisma, made them a complete and unique couple, and they bring their tango to the most important Festivals in Europe, Asia and North America. Even nowadays they keep projecting themselves and developing their dance into a much deeper and honest one, which they share with their audience and students. Trying to share and give much more in their shows and classes for the audience to have a bigger enjoyment and meeting with Tango.

VAGGELIS HATZOPOULOS & MARIANNA KOUTANDOU

Dancers of Tango Argentino since 2004, and couple in tango and life since 2009.

They have their own tango school, the “Academia del Tango” in Athens, Greece since September 2011. They were awarded European Champions in the category of Tango Salon in 2013, having already conquered 2nd place in Europe in 2012 and 1st place in Greece in 2011 at the same category. After that, they are finalists of the Mundial de Tango several years.

CThey have been part of the tango company of Natalia Hills “Tangueros del Sur” and the greek tango company “Tango en Eros” dancing at the most important theatres of Greece.

They are often invited worldwide to give seminars and shows at various events, milongas and festivals (such as TanGo to Istanbul Festival, Tango Follies Festival, Tango Emotion Festival, Oktober Pest Tango Festival, AniverTango Festival, Taipei Tango Festival, Auroville Holi Tango Festival, Cyprus Tango Festival, Tango Lovers Festival, Unchained Tango Festival, Todos Tango Festival, Syros Tango Festival, Kalamata Tango Festival and others) all around the world, such as Argentina, India, Taiwan, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Italy, Turkey, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus and others.

They are known for their clarity and insight in the technical aspects of Tango, as well as for the sensibility they bring out as a couple and for the positive energy they pass on, in their shows and classes.

Their main maestros are Silvio La Via and Leandro Oliver Laila Rezk, while they have attended classes from Sebastian Arce Marianna Montes, Gabriel Misse, Natalia Hills Alejandro Aquino, Julio Balmaceda Corina De La Rosa, Gabriel Angio Natalia Gamez, Sebastian Jimenez Maria Ines Bogado, Sebastian Achaval Roxanna Suarez, Daniel Nacucchio Cristina Sosa and many others.