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Maria and Carlos Rivarola - are one of the most prestigious Argentine Tango couples of recent times. They are original members of "Tango Argentino". The show that started the tango hit in Paris at the year 1983, and running France, Italy, Canada, E.E.U.U. arriving at N.Y. in 1985, acting on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger theatre.

They have been traveling to Japan every year since 1984, alternating Tango dance seminars with performances with great artists like Mariano Mores, Sexteto Tango, Jose Colangelo and Leopoldo Federico. In 1986 Carlos Rivarola staged and directed the first Tango show formed exclusively by Japanese dancers, musicians and singers. In 1996, Maria and Carlos presented and directed Los Grandes del Tango Argentino, a show produced specially for Japan, with the appearance of Juan Carlos Copes, Maria Nieves, Nelida and Nelson, Mayoral and Elsa Maria, Roberto and Vanina, Carlos and Ines Borquez and the Color Tango Orchestra, among others.

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Graciela Gonzalez is recognized throughout the world and especially among the more traditional milongueros de Buenos Aires, for her ability to integrate new ideas into the elegance of tango salon. Started dancing in 1988, his teachers, myths of Tango Argentino, were Pupy Castello, Pepito Avellaneda, Antonio Todaro, Gustavo Naveira, Juan Bruno, Tete, Nito and Elba, among many others.

Without any doubt, Graciela Gonzalez appears among the most significant pedagogues of the history of the tango. She is characterized by a spirit of innovation which always respects the authentic roots of the tango. She created a course called technique for women, universally recognized, and a course of technique offering guidance to men. The majority of respected and well-known tango dancers in recent years have taken these courses.

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Silvio Grand and Mayra Galante - have been professional dancers and teachers of Argentine tango for more than 10 years. They are genuine, joining elegance, youth. Their dancing is warm, smooth, virtuous and very representative of Argentine tango; they join in an embrace in which the body, the soul and the music take part.

They have been invited at concerts such as “Tango with the Stars” at the Cappella Concert Hall of the Hermitage Museum, and many times as main artists of the show “Dreams about Tango”, together with the Bandoneon player Jorge Spessot at the National Theater of the Musical Comedy in St. Petersburg; and they have also been invited as artists of the Argentine Cinema and Tango Festival, dancing at the Maxim Gorki Theater and Fesco Concert Hall in the city of Vladivostok, Russia.

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Noelia Hurtado and Pablo Rodriguez In 2003, Noelia Hurtado and Pablo Rodriguez met in the prestigious Club Sunderland starting an artistic career together. They have studied with professors Carlos Perez and Rosa Forte with whom they learnt the basis of famous Villa Urquiza style and also participate in Tango Argentino style Academy. They also took classes with famous professors such as: Pablo Veron, Horacio Godoy, Julio Balmaceda & Corina de la Rosa, Javier Rodriguez & Geraldine Rojas, Esteban Moreno & Claudia Codega, Francisco Forqueira & Natalia Hills, El Chino Perido, Osvaldo & Coca, Gloria & Eduardo Arquimbay among others.

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Irina Petrichenko Ira has started dancing Tango since it appeared in Moscow. She was among those enthusiasts due to whose efforts Tango has started in Russia. Ira teaches tango since 2000, she was the co-organizer and the teacher at La Milonga Tangо School in Moscow. 3 years ago her new project Tango Asi school was born. The school is actively develops, offering a variety of classes, workshops of foreign maestros and series of workshops in many Russian cities. Irina is one of the organizers of the Social Dance Development foundation. Among her students are those who already teach or have their own tango schools.

Jose Almar – Jose Almar – the dancer, the musician and the actor. Since 2006 works also as the singer of a tango. He studied tango from Rodolfo Dinzel, Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Ann, Martin Ojeda, Danny «El Flaco», with Geraldine Rojas, Andres Laza Moreno, Samantha Dispari, Javier Rodriguez. Jose does not teach long sequences and ready step-by-step combinations which fill our dancing consciousness and does not give possibility to improvise. Most of all he works at basic concepts - first of all at posture and walk.

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    The Festival Organizers:   The Dancing Centrer «Tangomania», Julia Zueva & Alexey Barbolin
    Contact phones: +7 (812) 346-8005, +7 (812) 940-5024, +7 (812) 908-6678
    WEB site: http://www.tangomania.ru
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VIII Traditional White Nights Tango Festival - 2009 in St. Petersburg, Russia.