Santiago Buonomo
Tango Dj
Santiago Buonomo
I was born in Montevideo, Uruguay surrounded by tango thanks to my two milongueras grandmas, thanks to them I started to love this marvelous music. As a TDJ my path started when my tango mentor asked me to play in his milonga, Trasnochando, a challenge that changed my way to enjoy tango. Shortly after this I played in many milongas in Montevideo like “El Chamuyo” and “La Callejera”. In 2016 I started to play in different European countries (Hungary, Poland, Spain, Italy, Ukraine, Greece) in many Festivals and local milongas. At the moment when I have to choose music. I never use a playlist. If not, I like to feel the dancefloor and the dancer’s mood to select the most appropriate traditional tango music, always playing tangos from the forties.
Damián Boggio
Tango Dj
Damián Boggio
Damián Boggio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1972. He has been a tango dj since 1999.
He has played music in Buenos Aires´s best milongas between 2000 and 2010 (“Salón Canning”, “La Nacional”, “El Beso”, “Porteño y Bailarín”, “CITA”, “La Noche de Gavito“), learning from the great and passionate porteño (born in, belonging or related to Buenos Aires) dancers, kwon as “old milongueros (old milonga dancers), who frquented their “tango, friends and drinks nights”. Between 2006 and 2010 he organizes his “Mina Milonga”, in Salón Canning, every twesday, presenting the best dancers and orchestras live. From 2004 he travels to Europe, proposing his distinctive (unmistakable) music playing style. From 2004 he travels to Europe, proposing his distinctive (unmistakable) music playing style.
Up to date he has played music in Italy, Germany, Great Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Romany, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Luxemburg and Holland.
In 2006 he starts organizing courses for those wanting to be tango djs, in which many of the present well known tango djs learnt their trade.
In 2008 he is the first tango dj to play music in Asia (Corea, japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong), also giving his highly appreciated courses.
In 2009 he creates his “La Típica Mina” orchestra, with which he tours around Italy.
In 2011 the group returns to Europe as a duo (piano and bandoneón). His interest is focused on promoting the original tango music. Today he does so in his tour “EL DISCO ES CULTURA 2015” (“Record is Culture 2015”), around Argentina, Europe and Asia, as he has been doing during the last years. To achieve his goal he uses the old vinyl records that belonged to his parents and grandparents, the same he used at the beginning of his career, back in 1999, in Buenos Aires.
Nowadays he is the only one to play tango music using vinyl records, carrying them along all around the world. This has inspired many tango djs to perform likewise, fhus bringing back to life the interest in the original old records. His Teachers were, are and will be Osvaldo Natucci and Mario Orlando. His inspiration, la Épica de Félix Picherna (Félix Pichema´s Epic).
Toni Barber
Tango Dj
Toni Barber
Nacido en Barcelona, baila tango desde 1991. Organizador de milongas desde 1996 en la ciudad de Barcelona: La Milonga de Patio de Tango, El Yeite, La Cúpula del Tango, Café Picasso: Tango-Gotan, La Yapa Milonga del Café.
Born in Barcelona, has been dancing tango since 1991. Organizer of milongas since 1996 in the city of Barcelona: The Patio de Tango Milonga, El Yeite, Dome of the Tango, Café Picasso: Tango Gotan, La Yapa Milonga del Café. He has been working for the International Tango Festival of Sitges since 1996, where he was official DJ of the night milonga Festival for 13 years. Since 2008 belongs to the Festival to the present in which is its director.
As a DJ, he has participated in the best events the city of Barcelona dedicates to tango. He has participated in several European festivals He is also a musician, contrabassist and bandonionist as part of various tango ensembles: Orchestra Latitude Tango (6 years to the present), Combo guitar and bass Quartet Unreal (2 years), currently a member of the Quartet Typical Chamuyo Arrabal.
He was named Corresponsal Academician of the National Academy of Tango in Buenos Aires, for his work in Barcelona with regard to the history of Tango.
Solène Vanhaecke
Tango dancer
Solène Vanhaecke
She met the Argentine Tango in 2014, with Flavio Aguilera with whom she trained. From the beginning, she learned both the follower and the leader, and gained a global understanding of the two roles that will forge her pedagogy: feel and make feel. She meets many maestros during various events that will be sources of inspiration and sharing on the vision of Tango.
With her partner of the time, she devoted all her time to creating a dynamic around Tango in Avignon by creating many events and evenings, including the first Argentine Tango festival in Avignon with national influence, the Tango Evolucion Festival. It also aims to make Tango accessible to all ages by showing a modern aspect of this dance.
Based in Toulouse since 2021, she meets Gustavo Gomez, with whom she is currently preparing several artistic projects. Curious in nature and passionate about the human body, her work today focuses on the analysis of movement by studying its origin and mechanics through proprioception and biomechanics.
Ensemble Gustavo et Solène offers a tango accessible to all, simple and precise where guidance and listening to each other can meet the music and create the magic of Tango.
Gustavo Gomez
Tango dancer
Gustavo Gomez
Of Argentine origin, dancer and teacher of Argentine tango and folklore, trained in tango with prestigious teachers such as Los Dinzel, Hernan Obispo, Mingo Pugliese. He continues to perfect himself during seminars with Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne or with Federico Moreno and Catherine Berbessou.
In folklore, he trained with Beatriz Durante and Ruben Suarez. Today, he has created his own troupe «De Mi Tierra folk group» which has already performed in several festivals.
As a member of several dance companies (notably the «Uballet argentino», Folkloric Ballet of the University of Buenos Aires), he participated in numerous tours and festivals in Latin America, Canada and Europe, from 1993 to 2001. With the Tipica Tangarte: the Cumbre mundial del tango in Seville, Salamanca, Malmö, Festival of Finland.
Based in France since 2002, he teaches in Toulouse, Carcassonne, Montauban and Perpignan, St Affrique. He has participated in many festivals such as Tarbes en Tango on several occasions, Le temps du tango en Bretagne, Festival de Montpellier, «Tangopostale» in Toulouse, Festival de l’Abbaye de Sylvanès, Festival CUBA HOY and has contributed to the development of tango in Reunion Island.
In 2011 he created the show “Estampas Argentinas” and in 2016 the show “Tango y Mas”.
It is important to him to give the taste of an authentic tango, to transmit his passion by favoring the art of improvisation that makes all the magic of this dance.
Maru Velo
Folklore teacher
Maru Velo
I graduated for Physical Education and Argentine Folk dances in Buenos Aires, and I felt in love with our culture and our dances while traveling, through meeting the people, the guitarreadas… The peñas.
I have lived in Barcelona for more than 13 years now, and I currently do introductory workshops in Argentine Folk dances and I also put in contact dancing spaces along with artists in the dancing scene.
I am in constant dancing training in other dances such as forrò, tango, afrocontemporary… always in the seeking of a more personal and authentic expression.
Anabel Gutiérrez
Tango dancer
Anabel Gutiérrez
Anabel Gutiérrez-Otero began her career in tango in 2010. Trained in traditional salon and stage tango, she has incorporated techniques from other styles such as classical and contemporary. She was the runner-up in the I National Tango Tournament of Spain. Anabel founded and directs the Escuela Experimental de Danza and Teatro Salón Pugliese, and she is the presenter of tango tutorials on the prestigious Uncomo YouTube channel.
She has worked as a dancer and actress in numerous shows, musicals, and theatrical comedies. In the past year, she has danced in Raúl Lavié’s tour and performed in “Dónde estás, Valentín” with nearly 40 members, directed and produced by herself. Currently, she is preparing “La Milonga del Infierno” with Imanol Muñoz, in residence at the Melmac Hall by the award-winning Mar Gómez.
Other shows include “Camilo Tango Show” premiered at the Centre Artesà Tradicionarius and the Teatro del Raval (Barcelona), “ Volver a Soñar” premiered at the XXIV International Tango Festival of Sitges, “Regreso al Amor” premiered at the Palacio de Congresos de Santa Eularia (Ibiza), “Tango a la Hora de la Siesta” premiered at Teatre La Gleva, “Train to Hollywood” premiered at SAT de Sant Andreu, “Tango y Algo Más” by Gabriel Vallone, presented in various venues such as Palau Dalmases or the Festival Calella, “Un Cabret Diferent” by Itziar Castro, “Cabaret Destarotats” by Orland Verdú, the “26th Dance Festival of Nou Barris” at Teatre Zona Nord. She has also performed at significant events in Barcelona, such as the World Mobile Congress and New Year’s celebrations with the prestigious Grupo Nueve Reinas.
In terms of film and television, she danced in the movie “Barcelona Dreams” and in commercials for Televisió de Catalunya, Ritz-Carlton, and Audi.
Anabel has also been a television presenter in the “Dance Section” of Esplugues TV, a program featuring interviews and performances with key figures in the dance scene in Catalonia.
She has been teaching tango dancing since 2011 in various schools in Barcelona and Maresme.
Jorge Pahl
Tango dancer
Jorge Phal
Jorge Eduardo Pahl was born in the province of Buenos Aires. At the age of 5 he began to dance Argentine folklore, at the age of 18 he began his first steps with tango, working at Bar Sur, El Tortoni, El Viejo Almacen, Michellangello and on La esquina Carlos Gardel from 2000 to 2006 where he shared the stage with Carlos Copello and Alicia Monti, El Pibe Avellaneda, Nito and Elba, Carlos and Ines Borques, Osvaldo Zotto and Lorena Hermosida, Pocho Pizarro, Carlos Gavito and Juan Carlos Copes. With this company he made trips to all of America, Japan, Russia and the Caribbean.
Since 2007 he resides in Barcelona, from where he travels to all of Europe teaching classes and working at festivals. Teacher at milonga Casa Valencia in Barcelona by Antonia Barrera and once a month of the milonga C’e Tango al Majestic of Napoli organized by Sergio Cortazzo and Silvia Carlino.
Álvaro Flores
Tango Dj
Álvaro Flores
Álvaro Flores was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He has lived in Switzerland since the 80’s. Since 2012 he is co-organizer of the Sitges International Tango Festival, currently Tango Amigo.
He started his task as a musicalizer in Geneva in 2015. He has exposed his “musical angle” playing in diverse Milongas and Festivals in Europe. His pleasure is based on making people have fun, be entertained, take care of them and all that while dancing. From his experience, Tango is so powerful and does so much good to the soul, that to be able to offer this “bien etre” seems to him a gift from heaven.
