Our Instructors

Mario Consiglieri

Since 2003 Mario Consiglieri and Anabella have been combining their talents as instructors and performers together. They have shared their dance with tango communities all around the world participating in festivals, leading seminars, and performing their dance in Australia, Canada, Europe, South America and the United States. Mario and Anabella are sought after as instructors for the clarity with which they convey the history of the dance, as applied into the actual concept of tango today (contemporary tango). Together with several other colleagues, they have developed projects in Buenos Aires that have given the contemporary tango community (danced in Buenos Aires today) - nutrition and resources to continue healthy and strong. They have poured hours of analytical research and physical practice into better understanding the correlation between diverse musical structures present in different tango orchestras, and the variety in quality of movements.

A unique blend of rich musical awareness, deep emotional sensitivity, and picaresque nature portray Mario in his true essence as one of the tango world's great treasures. Mario began to study the tango at the age of 15, and danced socially in 1995. Through insights and suggestions by milongueros now gone, as well as the information analyzed by working through the structure of modern tango, Mario has been able to access a unique and very personal style of dance.

Anabella Diaz-Hojman

Since 1998, at the age of 16, Anabella has studied and danced the tango with a dedication found in few dancers. An icon of contemporary tango, Anabella's sublime management of qualities and contrasting subtleties make her an exquisite example of what modern day women represent through their active role as followers and integrated partners in the Argentine Tango danced today all over the world.

Evan Griffiths

Evan is one of the finest dancers, teachers, musicians, and DJs in the US tango scene. He's a beautiful, exciting performer, and an irreplaceable social dancer. Sometimes quiet and incredibly subtle, sometimes drastically daring and mad fast, his dancing is always precise, intense, and intimate.

Evan has been dancing tango since 1999 and teaching since 2001. His more influential teachers include: Elizabeth Wartluft and Greg Estes in Eugene, Daniel Trenner, Christopher Nassopoulos, and from Buenos Aires: Luciana Valle, Mariano "Chicho" Frumboli, Fabian Salas, Sebastian Arce, Guillermo Merlo and Fernanda Ghi, Susana Miller, Florencia Taccetti, Hugo Patyn and Miriam Larici, Carlos and Maria Rivarola, Rodolfo "El Chino" Aguerrodi, Norberto "El Pulpo" Esbres and Luiza Paes. He has assisted Susana Miller in classes, and has taught and performed with Luciana Valle, Alex Krebs, Rebecca Shulman, and Florencia Taccetti.

Over the years Evan has visited many places in the States for tango, and spent time dancing in Berlin, Tokyo, and Buenos Aires. He has taught in festivals and workshops across the US, Canada, and Berlin. In 2006 Dance Manhattan invited him to move from Oregon to New York and teach for them. Currently he lives in Harlem and has been contributing his insight and energy to the New York tango scene.

Florencia Taccetti

Florencia is a beautiful and expressive dancer as well as beloved teacher. Many US tango communities have been exposed to her generous teaching over the last ten years.

Born in Buenos Aires, Florencia has been dancing and teaching tango for 26 years. She belongs to the generation of tango dancers who on the 80's save the dance after it was shut down for three decades.

She has performed with many renowned tango dancers from Argentina, including Pepito Avellaneda, Gustavo Naveira, Pablo Veron and Chicho Frumboli.

Florencia brings a wealth of experience to her teaching of Argentine Tango. She has done extensive work as a contemporary dance performer as well. She works to develop the subtle communication between partners because she has found that this is the communication which takes dance to a magical and unforgettable level.

She has been based in Minneapolis and sponsored by Four Seasons Dance Studio since 2000. She has been a faculty member in the University of Minnesota Dance Program since 2002.

She has taught, partnered with and influenced many tango teachers in the US who today are leaders of their own communities. Evan Griffith is one of them and Florencia is very happy to partner with him for this festival.

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"We still believe in the amazing powers of human embrace."

"Nosotros Seguimos creyendo en los asombrosos poderes del abrazo humano."--Eduardo Galeano

Esteban Moreno and Claudia Codega

Dancers of a great presence, appreciated teachers and choreographers, this couple do homage to the past while they look towards the future. For some years they have been a reference for the new European generation of dancers and teachers of tango. Their present style, sobriety and elegance as well as their solid and effective pedagogy, place them among the best.

Claudia Codega and Esteban Moreno met at the beginning of 1990. They have studied in Buenos Aires with the best teachers and they are part of a generation of dancers that together with some "milongueros" have headed the revival of the Argentine Tango in Buenos Aires, tango which is in fashion in the world.

They are settled in France and they created their company Union Tanguera in Lyon. They work regularly there in and in other European cities. Of course in Buenos Aires too, teaching and dancing in different shows and festivals.

In their way of dancing and teaching it can be seen the courage to affirm a style in which it joins together the aspects of nowadays' tango (unusual changes of directions, search of other dynamics and the use of other axes and movements) without renouncing its strong heritage of Popular tango: Tango of hug, careful footstep, of simplicity and musicality.

 

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