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Luis Bruni (Argentine) and Pascale Coquigny (French) settled together in Paris in 2001. “First times were hard, but slowly things got better until this day, when we are among the best known tango couples in the city”, says Bruni. He had taught with Graciela González and worked as classical dancer in La Plata ; she had moved to Buenos Aires after teaching languages in Canada, where she also gave tango classes to children.

The knowledge they received from Graciela González, “Pupi” Castello, “Turco” José of Villa Urquiza and “Pibe” Palermo allow them to have a wide variety of techniques to transmit. They take teaching as a challenge : “Giving classes forces us to constantly change”, explains Luis. “To get people’s attention is difficult but more important is not to disappoint them once got”, he warns. Bruni and Coquigny think woman should take a more active role than usual. “We recommend mutual listening, so the woman can answer, suggest and influence in the man’s movements”, he specifies. “Our final aim is to set our students free, to give the abilities to play thoughtlessly”, summarizes.

At www.luisbruni.com (reference site for interested readers) they speak about “fusion tango”. He explains it in this way : “It’s a work training technique to get consciousness of our body and our partner’s”. In the web site there is also a page devoted to Buenos Aires “murga”, musical form that Luis and Pascale use to develop the rhythm sense, the relation with floor and to a deeper corporal desinhibition.

Asked to tell a funny story, Luis said : “Once I was correcting a student, suggesting him to stretch. To make him feel that stretching sensation, I pulled his hair up but doing that I took him a wig... Imagine how embarrassing it was !

Luis and Pascale are now dreaming with a studies centre for tango lovers from all over the world. And they feel they will be able to make it true.