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.
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.
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).
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.
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.