Toni Barber
Tango Dj
Toni Barber
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.
Cristina Borgia
Tango Dj
Cristina Borgia
She began to approach tango in 2011, always passionate about music and lyrics, she began to play music, a bit for fun, at the martes porteño in 2017. From the jukebox to themed evenings. Thanks to the advice and help of Guglielmo Willy Della Corte, what had started as a game became a real passion and finally a job. During the pandemic and until June 2022, she conducted live broadcasts on social media dedicated to tango, its music and the major orchestra conductors. In addition to the milongas in Campania, she was invited to marathons and events in Italy, Holland, France and Belgium.
Latitud Tango
(Barcelona Tango School
Orchestra)
Latitud Tango (Barcelona Tango Orchesta)
The Orquesta de Tango de Barcelona , “Latitud Tango” was born in August 2007 with the main interest of being able to give training and interpret the style of tango at an orchestral level.
It is formed by a group of amateur musicians of different nationalities (mainly of Catalan and Argentinian origin, although all / as they live in Catalonia) who have united with a single interest and is to approach the world of the typical orchestras and the origins and the culture of tango from one of the most important aspects that is through its music.
Its main objectives are to spread the Argentine instrumental tango in Catalonia and promote the Argentine-Catalan cultural exchange.
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.
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.
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.
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.
