Workshops Teachers
Gianpiero Galdi & Lorena Tarantino
Gianpiero was only 12 when his father (engineer, martial art teacher, and tango lover) involved him in a free project for the youngster to approach tango. He fell in love with tango during his first trip to Buenos Aires when he was only 15 and since then he’s been studying with all the major Maestros. Becomes a teacher the following year and starts performing in Italy and abroad at 18, realizing that he wanted to dedicate his life to tango. Since then, he has had the chance to travel around and perform with lots of great dancers, such as Mila Vigdorova, Corina Herrera, Cesira Miceli, and Nadia Hronidu. Last but not the least, with Maria Filali, with whom he created a flourishing dialogue and a refined lasting project, which has been internationally acclaimed.Tango and his pedagogy are strictly connected to his studies of music, engineering, and bio-mechanic as “a simple and efficient technique, based on natural laws and aware listening, as the key to free the real and intimate spirit of tango”. For more than a decade, he has been developing a thorough didactic, and intriguing training method. Moreover, in order to deepen his research, he also graduated in Motor and Sports Activities and Psychomotor Education Science with a dissertation on Functional Training Method for Tango; in 2019 he became a trainer in the Gyrotonic method.
Lorena has been studying dance and ballet since she was five years old, and at 17 she met Tango thanks to Gianpiero. She got immediately passionate about the didactic and the care that is dedicated to the delicate psyche of the amateurs of this complex art. Under Gianpiero’s guidance, she undertook her professional path. Meanwhile, she graduated in Motor and Sports Activities and Psychomotor Education Science at the University of Salerno, with a thesis on the pedagogy and educational inclusion of Tango for teenagers. In 2015 she begins studying, teaching, performing, and traveling in partnership with Giovanni Cocomero, with whom she collaborated on many projects led by Gianpiero as Gtango School, the cradle of Tango in Salerno; High School Tango-therapy Project, in high dropout rate schools, teaching teenagers values of social relationships through Tango; Tango at University of Salerno, for getting youngsters acquainted into Tango; Tangere company, the group within they've been training, researching, working, teaching and performing. In 2019 she became a trainer of the Gyrokinesis method.
In 2018 Gianpiero and Lorena begin their partnership, working every day on the flow of tango connection, based on their deep mutual understanding. They are moved by the research on the analysis of an always more precise and effective didactic method, later just called the Method, and his procedures, with the aim of providing the expressive Art of Tango of a sharp, accurate but also meaningful, deep, and truthful tool of communication.
German Ballejo & Magdalena Gutierrez
Magdalena and Germán have developed a style which can be defined as a traditional dance with contemporary elements, characterized by its elegance and expressiveness, as well as by its original musicality. Winning the World Tango Championship 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since then, they have participated in innumerable International Festivals, giving courses and shows.
Germán is a young tango professional, who stands out for his musical, creative, and elegant dance. With an extensive background on the stage and his love for tango salón style, he is characterized as being a complete dancer, expressive, and with great acting and teaching skills. In 1995, at the age of 10, Germán attended his first dancing lessons. His formative years were crucial to his present dance style as he took classes in various academic institutions and was part of several groups of choreographic dance. This blend between the creative side of the popular dances and the professionalism required to work on the stage is a definingtrait of his art. In 2010, he moved to Buenos Aires where he began his career as an artist and dancer working in different tango houses: Complejo Tango, Gala Tango and La Ventana. Also, he performed in companies like Tempotango and Pasión de Tango, which gave him the opportunity to go through some of the most important stages and local theaters in Buenos Aires. In 2014, he worked for the prestigious and famous Spanish singer Julio Iglesias.
Magdalena is a renowned international dancer, of an exquisite elegance and an understanding of Tango that goes well beyond a performance dance. As a dancer, one can notice how much she appreciates the embrace, the connection and her pleasure on the dance floor, as well as her ability to respond to the requests of the partner, without losing her identity. She is a creative and musical dancer, with a characteristic and refined footwork; who puts her heart in each and every movement of her body.” During her professional career as an artist and dancer she performed in various tango houses in Buenos Aires: Complejo Tango, Piazzolla Tango, Gala Tango, etc.
Magdalena has been cast of several renowned tango shows, which have been known worldwide, such as Divino Tango (Pasiones Company, touring through Spain, Italy, Greece), Tanguera (National Theatre, Argentina), Evita (South Korea), Tango Emoción (Teatro Nacional, Argentina), and Chantecler Tango (Paris, Tokyo, Teatro Alvear, Argentina). She is also a member of the “Cuadro de Jóvenes de la Academia Nacional del Tango” (Youth of the National Academy of Tango). In recent years, she performed and teach in several of the most important international tango festivals in Europe, America, and Asia.
Michael Nadtochi & Elvira Lambo
Michael ‘El Gato’ Nadtochi & Elvira Lambo are one of the most sought after dance couples in Europe. Since their start of dancing and working together in 2021 they have travelled and taught in Spain, France, Montenegro, Serbia, Germany, Turkey, Russia. Michael Nadtochi has been dancing professionally for over thirty years. He started dancing at the age of ten and competitive ballroom dance was his main discipline, By the age of eighteen, his success as a performer on the world stage of ballroom dancing gave him the title of national youth champion of Russia. In 1998 he moved to the United States to continue his dancing career. For the past 18 years, Michael has focused entirely on performing and teaching the art of Argentine tango. In the USA, he founded the Argentine Tango Academy and created his online educational project - The Art Of Tango.
Michael has taught and performed at tango festivals and events in Germany, Denmark, Italy, Turkey, Scotland, Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries. His extensive list of teachers includes Carlos Gavito, Osvaldo Zotto, Julio Balmaceda and many others who inspired him on the path to discovering his own tango. Being a creative person, Michael is convinced that a much bigger goal than becoming a great dancer is the process of self-discovery. Lessons and various workshops are only the tools to acquire the necessary technique that will allow a person to express his/her unique personality using the language of dance.
Elvira's whole life is connected to dance and music. Professional dancer, teacher and choreographer with more than 30 years of dance and 20 years of teaching experience. She studied and worked in such dance styles as classical ballet, folk dance, modern and jazz dance, classical Indian dance. Her interest in Tango came through contact improvisation in 2009. With seminars and performances, she visited a good number of cities in Russia, as well as performed in Europe and Argentina.
Maestros that were important in forming her personal Tango style: Alejandra Mantignan, Julio Balmaceda, Vanesa Villalba, Facundo Pinheiro among others. Endlessly drawing inspiration from music, vintage videos of Tango heritage, live performances, communication with other dancers, teaching and practicing, performing and social dancing at milongas, Elvira is constantly looking for her own unique way of expression.
Martin Maldonado & Maurizio Ghella
World-renowned Argentine tango dancers, Martin Maldonado and Maurizio Ghella started their journey as a Tango Couple in the year 2002. Martín and Maurizio are equally in demand for their mastery of teaching and their soulful, elegant performances. Each has a long background in dance and together they have created a tango that is at once intelligent and provocative, moving and heartfelt, arising from their tireless investigation of the body, movement, and sensation.
“We look for the understanding of ourselves as individuals and throughout it, the connection with the other. And this is when we, as a couple, become one again”.
Selva Mastroti & Marcelo Ramer
Selva and Marcelo started their artistic training with Argentine folk dance and classical dance. They discovered Argentine Tango during adolescence in Buenos Aires and learned with many masters who have taught them, above all, the love and respect for this dance.
Being a couple for 14 years, they have worked for companies and festivals and have never stopped studying to perfect their style. Selva and Marcelo have been living in Turin since 2012 where they founded the renowned school of Argentine tango “Proyecto Gricel ASD”.
As dancers, their improvisation style combines freshness, spontaneity and simplicity. As teachers, their generous and well-structured teaching style makes the learning journey for the student easier, funnier and richer in content. Starting from the deepest roots of Tango, they go through all its facets of basic techniques to both simple and complex movements without neglecting the musicality in the dance and harmony in the couple.