Belgrade Tango Encuentro

Sebastian Arce y Mariana Montes (Argentina)

Sebastian Arce and Mariana Montes have done a lot for promoting tango overseas by their love and commitment to teaching, organizing tango events, and dancing. Their work has taken them to visit since '99 over 140 cities, 35 countries, and counting?

As teachers, Sebastian and Mariana are among the most required, participating yearly in nearly 40 big scale events in Europe, Asia, North America, and Latin America.

They have produced as well 13 great scale tango events in France and USA (mephisto tango summer festival 2002-2006; Revirado Tango France 2002-2003; C.I.T.P. 2006-2007, Neotango Fest USA 2005-2006, Antipanico USA 2005-2006), and concerts with tango orchestras such as Fernandez Fierro, Orquesta tipica Imperial, Hyperion Ensamble, La Chicana; and electronic tango orchestras such as Bajofondo Tango Club, Gustavo Santaolalla, Tanghetto, Electrocutango and many others.

Choreographers of the show 'Piazzolleando' presented in Italy, Belgium, and England. They are co-directors of the show 'Exodo Tangueando' alongside with Chicho Frumboli. And nowadays prepearing their new show 'Ensayando' with 5 couples and a tango orchestra.

Sebastian Arce and Mariana Montes have kept their pedagogical activities around the world non-stop since 1999. Their names are easily found on the top of the casting of the most renown yearly international tango events, such as Mantova Tango Festival (IT), Amsterdam Tango Festival Tangomagia (NL), Torino Tango Festival (IT), Tango Revolution (IT), 59 degrees Tango Festival (SW), and many others, and last but not least, the biggest tango reunion of them all the C.I.T.A. (International Tango Congress inArgentina).

In February 2009, Sebastian has been named 'ACADEMICO HONORARIO ITINERANTE' by the National Academy of Tango in Buenos Aires.

From their gathered experiences, Sebastian and Mariana have developed their own teaching methodology (T.M.E = TANGO MULTIPLE STYLES) based on the harmony between conscious and unconscious body control applied to movement/non movement, and changing in tango philosophy a the vision of style, a vision detached from the singularity of style. Their methodology also focuses on awakening senses before applying them to the dance (understanding of relationship stimuli ? answer, physical and theoretical/ sensorial and auditive), and have as a final goal the self expression, the research of your own dance from the needs created by the student's own tango path, paying much attention to the non-movement, the introspection of the dance, the contemplation.

Horacio Godoy y Magdalena Gutierrez

Horacio Valentín Godoy

With a professional tango carrier which started in 1991, Horacio has specialized in the Villa Urquiza Style with the most important milongueros and has been awarded with honors by them.

He has participated of important Tango festivals in Europe, Asia and EE.UU. and has travelled around the world with some of the most famous Tango dancing companies (Tanguera, Tango Fatal, Tango Emoción, Tango Forever, Tango Argentino). He has done national and international tours with Esteban Morgado’s quartet; presenting the album “Milongueros” as a dancer and choreographer.

His talent is not limited to the dance floor, Horacio performs as a “DJ” and is a respected organizer and director of various tango events.

Advisor and assistant to the City of Buenos Aires in tango issues, frequently he is also a special guest in meetings and conversations about the music and the history of tango in Argentina and abroad. Nowadays, he is one of the directors and organizers of “La Viruta”, one of the most prestigious milongas and schools of tango in Buenos Aires.

Magdalena Gutierrez

Since 1997 until present, Magdalena has formed her dancing background in different areas as jazz, contemporary dance, classical dance based on biomechanic, stretching and latin rythms, with great teachers as Manuel Vallejos, Mónica Souto, Soledad Alfaro, Ana Galassi,  Ana Garat, Cecilia Figaredo, Facundo Mercado, among others.

She starts studying Tango in 2000 in several school and different teacher such as: Escuela Argentina de Tango, Estudio Mora Godoy, Fernando Galera, Pablo Verón, Roberto Herrera, Martín Ojeda, Eliana Sanchez, Chicho Frumboli, Gabriel Angio y Natalia Games, Eduardo Cappusi. She has participed on some of the most importante companies as Tanguera, Tango Emoción, Estamos Vivos Tango, Flamentango. Nowadays she does regular tours to Europe as member of Pasiones Company.

Bruno Tombari y Maria Angeles Caamaño

"For us, tango is a language that enables us to communicate and relate to each other. Through mastering technique and structure in accord with playfulness and pleasure, we can enjoy this amazing dance in a unique musical framework. In our dance we look for the elegance and intimacy of traditional tango, and the freedom of today's tango; we believe in this coexistence. We dance, enjoy, play. This is what we would like to convey".

Bruno Tombari - Mariangeles Caamaño teach in many well known Tango schools in Bs.As., like Tango Brujo, La viruta, El Motivo (Villa Malcolm), Mariposita, Dandi, Practica X, Orsay, etc.
They were the coach of Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan in their show in the National Theatre of England.

They perform very often in the most famous milonga in Buenos Aires: La Viruta, Salon Canning, Practica X, Club Sunderland, La Baldosa, Villa Malcom, Practica 10, La Catedral, Milonga del Morán, Milonga del Florial, Orsay, Milonga de la Misteriosa, Milonga La Discepolo, Porteño y Bailarín, etc.
They have participated in some Internationals Festivals like: CITA, Misterio Tango Festival, Capri Tango Festival, Buenos Aires en Roma, Siracusa Tango Festival, Rosso Tango Festival, 4D Tango Festival Eindhoven, Tango Magia, La Vanguardia Tango Festival, Extravaganza Tango Festival, Fervor de Buenos Aires, Summer Mediterranean Tango Festival, Copenhaguen Tango Festival, Festival de Tarbes, Innsbruck Tango Festival, Prague Tango Alchemie, Ljubljana International Tango Festival, Istambul Tango Week, Baztango, etc.

Otros Aires (Spain)

After 6 years of career, 2 studio albums, 1 live album, a documentary DVD and 16 tours around Europe, North America and South America (including more than 60 cities), Otros Aires releases it’s third studio album.
"Tricota" is definitely an acoustic hinge between porteño tradition and modernity. Recorded with the collaboration of the different ¨Orquestas Típicas¨, this album delves into the fundamental orchestral tango structures, sometimes to praise them and others to subvert them, deconstructing and reconstructing a genre that it’s in full steam since its origins, 130 years ago.

Embracing the extremes and going further into it’s retro avant-garde concept, Otros Aires takes a fundamental step in the development of the style, for the first time, a typical orchestra and an electronic one get together for a common project.

Vocals, guitar, electronic sequences and artistic production: Miguel Di Genova
Bandoneon: Omar Massa
Piano: Diego Ramos
Acoustic drums: Martin Bruhn

Songs by Otros Aires are featured on several Electro and Tango Nuevo / electronic compilations: Tango Club Night vol 1 y Tango Club Night vol 2 , The Roots of Electronic Tango, Beginner's Guide to Tango Lounge, TangoMotion, Elevage Tango Sessions, Think Global Tango, Last Tango in Athens, Best of Kosmos, Bar Tango, Buenos Aires Paris vol2, Vallbal, Buenos Aires Late 1 y 2, Buenos Aires by Night, Two for Tango, Spanish Journey 2 and on the well known electronic music compilation Buddha Bar, among others.

Their videos have thousands of views on Youtube.

Budapest Orchestra Tipica (Hungary)

Orquesta Típica Budapest is a tango orchestra founded by three tango teachers.

Today, almost all of the members are adept tango dancers (singer, both bandoneonists, double bass and the piano player), three are also tango DJs, two academically trained musicians, two deeply involved with Hungarian folk music, and the singer, Julian, is a former professional opera singer, who happens to be a tango fanatic and one of the best tango DJs around, while still two of the founding tango teachers remaining in the group. This mix of talents makes the sound of the orchestra uniquely danceable, resembling the early golden age styles of Canaro, D'Arienzo and other great artists, but not refraining from (danceable) Piazzolla either.

OTB is an important part of Hungarian milongas, tango shows and festivals, now giving concerts and participating in festivals around Europe.

DJ SuperSabino (Serbia)

SuperSabino , D.J. "Tango Groove Master", playing in major worldwide tango festivals from 1999. ONLY GREATEST EVENT.

"Everything I’m trying to do – in my DJing, is about sharing emotion, my relationship with tango is pure emotion. To catch the mood of the night, and burn the floor is the D.J. mission."

DJ Dark-OH (Serbia)

For the past 5 years he has been "addicted" to tango, as a dancer, and now also actively as a DJ.

He is a regular DJ in the current Belgrade milongas, and he has also received an invitation to participate in the Istanbul Tango Festival in June 2011.

He sees DJing as a form of expression, but also as a demanding calling in the service of all the dancers at a milonga.
"Last night the DJ saved my life..." - as the line goes :)

DJ Semen Kukormin

"Semen Kukormin can be called а discovery of 2011. He put music for the first time to help his younger brother (the drummer) to make some money. (Live cortinas at the milonga “Desvan” in Moscow). And in few months he was blessed as a DJ at the DJ-festival “Remolino” in L’vov. The best milongas in Moscow invite him for DJing now. Many dancers have already called him the most lyrical DJ! “First of all dance for me is a song and I can talk about my feelings throughout it. I sing in duet with my partner while dancing! Perhaps that’s why instrumental tango sounds far less during my DJing. As a dancer I put music especially for dancers. It is very important for me that people dance because they like the music and want to dance; it’s not because they’ve just come and there’s no choice!”