Our Instructors

Federico Naveira

Raised among some of Argentina’s best dancers and teachers, Federico Naveira is today one of the leading lights among the new generation of Tango dancers.

He began dancing tango when he was only 4 years and studied multiple artistic forms such as classical and contemporary dance, theater, and music.  This training gave him a deep understanding and a thorough mastery of dance.

At the age of ten, he and his sister began assisting his mother, Olga Besio, with her “Tango con Ninos” classes. When he was 13 he became part of a group of teachers and, since then, has not stopped working professionally as an instructor of dance and Argentine Tango.

He has taught with his sister at the Amsterdam Tangomagia festival, the International Congress of Argentine Tango (CITA), Pulpo’s Tango Week, and at the Festival International de Tango Ciudad de La Plata. He has participated in several festivals organized by the City of Buenos Aires.  In addition he has worked in the school Tango Brujo, has assisted in the classes of his mother, and has joined a host of exhibitions in almost all the milongas and several theaters in Buenos Aires.

In 2007, Frederick worked with Carolina Del Rivero, Mariela Sametband, and Milena Plebs.  In 2008, he co-founded and directed Estudio Postango, a group of young tango dancers.

Today, Federico works with Ina Muzzopappa performing shows and teaching at festivals and seminars in Argentina and around the world (Europe, Asia, South America, and now North America), where he is recognized as a future leader of Tango.

Inés Muzzopappa

Ines began dancing tango at age of fourteen at the legendary Club Sunderland in Villa Urquiza. In addition to tango, Inés has studied classical dance, song and music, elements that have given her a thorough artistic grounding and allowed her to develop a deep understanding of tango.

In 2007 she won the Fifth World Championship of Argentine Tango in the category of Salon Tango, dancing with Dante Sanchez.  This allowed her to begin teaching and performing in different national and international festivals such as Comodoro Rivadavia Tango Festival, Pulpo’s Tango Week and several festivals organized by the City of Buenes Aires. She has taught in some of the most recognized Tango schools in Argentina (Studio La Esquina, Esquela Carlos Copello, Escuela Argentina de Tango).

From the beginning, Ines has performed in almost all the milongas in Buenos Aires; dancing with Alejandro Hermida, Bruno, Tombari, and Flaco Danny. In 2008, she became part of a group of young tango dancers, Estudio Postango, which she co-founded and directed.  These experiences helped distinguish her as a teacher of tango and were important to the development of her dancing and her professional growth.

Currently, Ines works with Federico Naveira performing shows and teaching at festivals and seminars in Argentina and around the world (Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States), transforming her promise as a great dancer into a reality.

Fernando Sanchez

Fernando began very slowly in tango in 2001, without intention of making a professional career out of it. His first tango partner was Nayla Vacca, with whom he developed his first of many activities in Argentina and later, all over the world. His teacher, Alfredo Maldonado, gave him the opportunity to perform in his first tango show, in the Calle Corrientes, more precisely at the Casona del Teatro. This gave them way to appear in several milongas in Buenos Aires like La Ideal, Salon Canning - Parakultural, Porteno y Bailarin, among others. They also toured countries like United Arab Emirates, England, New Zealand, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Brazil, both teaching and performing together until February of the 2009, at which time they decided to part ways.

Ariadna and Fernando appeared for the first time together at the show in Cafe Tortoni. They performed in several milongas, the first being Sunderland, and followed by others like Salon Canning-Parakultural, La Viruta, Porteno y Bailarin, Lola Mora, Bendita Milonga, Praktika 8, La Marshall, and El Sotano, among others… Their first tour allowed them to participate in 2nd International Tango Festival of Bergamo in Italy and in the 12th Nora's Tango Week in San Francisco, in the United States. Also they visited cities like Torino, Milan, Rome, Udine, Genoa and Washington DC.

Together Ariadna and Fernando are starting a new path in their dance, deciding to give tango the traditional freshness that helps to maintain this dance alive all over the the world.

Ariadna Naveira

Ariadna began to dance when she was very little. She discovered the first steps in this dance with her brother, Federico Naveira, with whom she would form a pair for 15 years. She attended the National School of Dances to obtain the title of National Teacher of Dances, of which she graduated in 2006. In her extended dance formation we can find corporal expression, contemporary dance, dance jazz, musical comedy, flamenco, folklore, acrobatics, theater, music, etc. . . . all of them complementary to her tango dance, which forged her as one of the more recognized dancers of her generation. Between her numerous presentations with tango, you can find appeareances at milongas in Buenos Aires such as like Salon Canning - Parakultural, La Viruta, Confiteria Ideal, and theaters like the Broadway Theater.

She also integrated the Olga Besio's Ballet and worked in education with her mother in her tango classes for kids and adolescents. She participated in the film "Tango, no me dejes nunca", of Carlos Saura and in diverse short length films (made in countries such as France and Japan).

Between the establishments in which she taught classes are Tango Brujo, La Galeria del Tango, Cochabamba, the Torcuato Tasso; as well as in international festivals such as "Tangomagia" in Amsterdam (2 years in a row); the "Congreso Internacional de Tango Argentino" (C.I.T.A.) and "Pulpo's Tango Week", these last two taking place in the City of Buenos Aires.

She also taught in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Riga, Basel, Venice, and other cities with Lucas Molina, with whom also offered exhibitions. Lately she has been teaching with Greta Hekier, in the Club Belgrano, more known as Cochabamba.

Somer Surgit

Somer Surgit is a uniquely experienced dancer who embodies musicality, elegance, and creativity in his dance. Somer started his training in Turkey, with Metin Yazir. Then, in Buenos Aires, he studied with Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne, Cecilia Gonzalez, Chicho Frumboli and Eugenia Parrilla. In 2005, he performed and taught tango workshops with Cecilia Gonzalez in Istanbul, Ankara and Eskisehir, Turkey. He performed with Cecilia Gonzalez and Eugenia Parrilla in Nuevo Tango Festivals in Seattle.

Recognized as a singular interpreter New Generation Tango, he emphasizes individuality, deep connection, and genuine expression, which inform his richly textured, artistic improvisation of Argentine tango. Somer stresses core technique and fundamentals in a fluid and naturally elegant style. With warmth, interpersonal skills, and sensitivity he enables his students to advance quickly and consistently.

Somer's performances and classes have captivated students and onlookers alike across the United States, Canada and Europe. His style fuses a variety of influences with his own interpretive skills, all emphasized by the type of mutual improvisation that comes from a deep connection between partners. This connection is reflected in a teaching style that emphasizes the importance of walking, balance, focus, musicality, and technique that involves leading with the heart in both close and open embrace. The result is a style imbued with a deep understanding of technique, a willingness to take risks, and a palpable sense of joy.

Florencia Taccetti

Florencia brings a wealth of experience as a tango performer, social dancer and teacher, as well as extensive work as a contemporary dance performer to her teaching of Argentine Tango.  This experience makes her teaching clear and consistent.

Her teaching covers a wide range of social styles including salon-style tango, traditional and new vocabulary, milonguero-style tango, milonga, milonga traspie and tango waltz. She has a special talent for teaching great technique, embellishments and musicality to both followers and leaders.  She teaches the building blocks of the tango and reveals conceptual frameworks and techniques that allow dancers to learn to create their own steps and decorations, as well as to dance with grace and musicality.

Florencia works to develop the subtle communication between partners because she has found in her own experience that this is the communication that takes the dance to a magical and unforgettable level.  The communication is found through a dynamic interpretation of the both the follower's and leader's roles in which both partners find space to be active and passive, and is furthered when both partners develop their own sensuality and grace of movement.

Followers find the active aspects of their role by learning the spaces in the dance where they are able to contribute their own interpretation and expression.  Followers develop this ability by learning how to be in charge of their own movement while listening and responding to their partners.  In starting with a clear mind and open body, followers are able to respond more sensitively to the games proposed by their partners and are able to propose their own.

Leaders find sensuality by offering an embrace to the followers that lets them enjoy the dance from the beginning.  They develop clarity in their leading by learning how to express maximum intent with a minimum of movement—expressing the intent with a soft touch before the follower's action, rather than forcing the movements.  Leaders also grow in the dance through the quality of their own movement and by offering an invitation to a dance journey that is interesting musically and is expressed from the heart, rather than through an intent to impress.  Developing the ability to communicate with the followers requires experimentation and a listening from the heart to discover what pleases and enthralls each follower.