Maestros

El Pibe Palermo

José Maria Baña, « El Pibe Palermo », the last representative of the tango of the 1920s - one of the greatest dancers of his era.
When the famous Cachafaz passed away in 1941, he starts to dance professionally with Carmencita Calderon and the Manuel Pizarro orchestra ; he is 20 years old then. He performed with the legendary orchestras of the old guard Adolfo Perez Pocholo, Canaro, and orchestras of the 1940s such as : d’Arienzo, Di Sarli, Troilo (with whom he was a close friend) and Pugliese.
During his last tour with the Miguel Angel Zotto company Tango por Dos, he goes around United States and Europe, acclaimed unanimously by the international media.
His dance, rich in a rhythmical point of view is characterized by combined moves, slow and quick, embellished by « amagues » fakes and « corridas ». It is a unique style transmitted to Luis who has developed a modern way of teaching using this exceptional material as well as incorporating historical references.

 

 

Pupy Castello

Pupy Castello, is an important character of the tango scene of Buenos Aires. The milongas would be sad without him ; his mocking spirit is typical of the « porteño » causing a lot of laughs, the fear of all women. Master of masters, the majority of the best dancers of the last generation learned from him. Dancer with a simplicity and density of the unique movements, his specialities are the turns : « planeos », « enrosques », and « agujas » done with an incredible slowness. His presence is pure essence of tango from Buenos Aires.

 

 

Graciela Gonzalez

Without any doubt Graciela Gonzalez is one of the most important teachers in the history of tango. Her spirit of innovation always respecting the authentic roots of tango is one of her characteristic strengths. She created a course called Technique for women of world renown and more recently Leading Technique for men. The majority of the last generation of best dancers went through her classes.

 

 

Group Graciela Gonzalez

In 1996, Graciela Gonzalez, Luis Bruni, Silvia Rachmir, Ramiro Gigliotti and Christina Cortes form the « Group Graciela Gonzalez ». This group spends five years investigating and researching intensely what the teaching skills of tango are.

The traditional dancers did not transmit their knowledge by giving classes but instead did it in a spontaneous way. The Group Graciela Gonzalez on the contrary looked into transmitting tango by teaching a growing public in an organized way, becoming more and more international. How to teach a Japanese person or a Dutch person a move that seems natural for Argentineans ? How to transmit the tango culture to students from all over the world ?

Members of the group do their research together and also give classes together between four to five of them. It is a constant time of questioning and of mutual enrichment. From this research, new topics for teaching are developed : Technique for Ladies, Leading technique for Men (created by Graciela Gonzalez), Technique of Jumps in tango (created by Luis Bruni and Cristina Cortes) and Body preparation (Tango Fusion) for tango dancers (created by Luis Bruni).

 

 

El Turco José

Known to the connoisseur by the title of the most refined master of Argentinean Tango. He is the master of the little things, the details which makes a simple move beautiful. With Milonguita (a dancer who stamped the modern style [1940] in the Villa Urquiza neighbourhood) they developed the modern tango by refining moves from the previous tango (tango of the old guard). They created a new way of walking, caressing the floor, and slurring the rhythmical stressed moves which characterized the previous tango generation.

 

 

Tommy O’Connel

Tommy O’Connel, most respected by the connoisseur of the milonga traspiéin Argentina. He has a very particular style which he calls after himself the « Traspie Falcetti ». This type of milonga is very subtle has a rhythmical and and has a rhythmical movement, similar to the Chamame an Argentinean dance from the coast.

 

 

« Tete », Pedro Rusconi

Pedro Rusconi, nicknamed Tete, embodies « abrazo cerrado et apilado » style (close embrace), also known as « milonguero » to some. His style, which he himself labelled tango salon, has spread throughout the world since the end of the nineties. Tete has a fantastic sense of musicality. He stresses the specific importance of the abrazo and puts the feeling of the music at the heart of the dance.

 

 

Juan Carlos Caceres

Composer-song writer, singer, historian. Through his music, his paintings and his conferences, he creates a new movement in Argentine Tango. The essence of his creation is to renew tango by giving it back forgotten elements of its past, such as the black African influence in the creation of the basis of Argentine tango (an example of this investigation : the famous song Tango Negro). With a distinct look towards the past Caceres opens a new door for today’s tango.

Discover the two most famous songs of Juan Carlos Caceres :

	Tango Negro Download the whole piece in MP3 : 3,4 Mo Online order Éditeur : Melodie. ASIN : B00005UVT7.
	Toca Tango Download the whole piece in MP3 : 2,6 Mo Online order Éditeur : Melodie. ASIN : B00005JAX8.