Angel Coria   Angel Coria is internationally recognized for his main role as a dancer in the film "Tango" by Carlos Saura. He was also one the stars of the show  "Copes Tango Copes", performing nationally in Argentina and around the world. Besides his outstanding performances as a tango dancer  he has also acquired extensive knowledge of choreography as assistant choreographer in the Mariano Mores Company and as artistic director of the tango show at EL VIEJO ALMACEN. As well as his professional dancing career he is also a noteworthy MAESTRO at La Escuela Argentina de Tango in Buenos Aires .                 Picture by Michael G. Stewart   Carina Rosario Losano               Carina Losano is a native of Buenos Aires and has studied many forms of dance, including ballet, contemporary, modern-jazz, flamenco, and salsa, but she is internationally recognized for her mastery of tango.  Carina trained with many of the great Argentine tango masters—such as Juan Carlos Copes, Eduardo Arquimbau, Pepito Avellaneda, Gloria and Rodolfo Dinzels, Carlos Rivarola, Gustavo Naveria, Fabian Salas, and Graciela Gonzales—and taught students from all over the world at the revered Confiteria Ideal in Buenos Aires before moving to the US.                 Carina’s skill as a dancer and teacher has been acknowledged with numerous awards and accolades, including the “Golden Obelisk,” “Teacher of Milongueros,” “Young Generation of Milongueros,” and “Dedication to Tango,” which was awarded by Juan Carlos Copes.  She also was awarded First Prize in the “Championship Hugo del Carril” in 1997 and for three consecutive years represented “Solo Tango TV” in the International Exposition of the Cable Industry.               Carina performs regularly in the US at locations such as the Argentine Embassy, the Organization of American States, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and she was one of the featured performers at the Hispanic Inaugural Gala for President George W. Bush in 2001.               Her unique combination of technical skills as a dancer and interpersonal skills as an instructor have led international cruise lines—such as Radisson Seven Seas Cruises and MSC Cruises—to engage Carina as a guest instructor on cruises to several continents and numerous countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Turkey, UK and Uruguay.               Carina is an accomplished choreographer as well as performer and instructor, and her credits include teaching Madonna tango technique for her role in Evita, and co-choreographing the PEPSI commercial starring Shakira that was aired nationally throughout the U.S during the 2003 Academy Awards.  She also co-choreographed a commercial for HSBC Bank to launch a new marketing campaign in 2005 and the National Geographic Special on the Human Body and Reproduction in 2007.               As an instructor, Carina teaches a style of tango, which is elegant and dynamic, while at the same time relaxed, comfortable, enjoyable, and accessible to everyone.  Her natural ability and her training with some of the greatest masters from Argentina give her a unique capacity to instill her students with a deep feeling for the subtle nuances of tango.  She emphasizes contact and communication between dancers so that they move together in rhythm and harmony.  Under her guidance, students realize a new feeling for music and movement, and they come to enjoy the sensations, which have made tango a seductive art for generations.   Mariano Navone  Mariano Navone, from Argentina , was introduced to Tango by his grandfather when he was a child.  At a very young age Mariano started performing at the local venues and Milongas, and from then on his love for Tango took him to perform on world famous stages. Trained by some of the leading Tango figures, like Rodolfo “el Duende” Diaz,  Marisa y Ricardo, Jose Franco, Silvio Lavia, Gustavo Naveira, Mariano "Chicho "Frumboli , Orlando Paiva, Javier & Geraldine, it is to no surprise that Mariano nowadays is one of the most promising new talents of the new Tango Generation. His performances include the Fifth World Tango Summit, "Grupo Intertango", "2 por 3 sexteto menor", "Punta y Taco", "Revival Tango", "Ballet de Marisa y Ricardo", "Compañia Sur", "Contrastango", "Tango Export", "Tango Quiebre", "Tangoneando", "Retratos", "Historia entre Tangos" , "Mal de Amores". "Tango y algo mas", "El Tango y sus bailarines", "Vengo a rescatarte Tango" under the artistic direction of Victoria Colosio, and most recently with Tango legend Nelly Omar at the Auditorio Fundacion Theatre. He was chosen for the Puerto Tango show togegher with the renowned Agri- Zara te-Falasca trio. He taught and performed at the first, second and fifth World Tango Festival of Buenos Aires, the Rome Tango Festival, the Festival of Sao Paulo, Brasil and he travels to teach and perform in Italy and Spain since 2005. Choreographer Victoria Colosio, asked him to be the resident tango teacher of the Rosario "Casa del Tango". Mariano has also studied music for many years, which gives him the very unique ability to teach Tango with a deep understanding of Tango music. His unique style has won him worldwide recognition, and his classes move people from all cultures. A teacher & performer in high demand!     Annatina Luck  Annatina Luck started dancing from a very early age on. Her training includes Ballet, Modern, Jazz and Composition. She received a scholarship to study in New York, and after graduating from the Alvin Ailey School, started to perform, choreograph and teach extensively in the U.S. and abroad. She has taught at Empire Dance from 2003-2005, at the Tango Society of Boston in 2006 and 2007, and conducts regular Musicality Workshops in Manhattan. Together with Hernan Brizuela, Annatina is the founder and host of two popular weekly Milongas in New York City, "La Milonguita Ideal" and "A media Luz". She performed with cast members of Tango Argentino, with "El Indio" from Argentina, for Academy Award Winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla from Bajofondo Tangoclub, for Bandonen Master Tito Castro and Raul Jaurena, for the Philharmonic Orchestra of Evansville, at important festivals such as the New York Tango Festival, the Boston Tango Festival, and the "Four Tango Seasons" at the Thalia Theatre. She credits the following teachers: Julio Balmaceda & Corina de la Rosa, Mariano "Chicho"  Frumboli, Natacha Poberaj, Claudio Hoffman & Pilar Alvarez.    Carolina Jaurena  Carolina Jaurena (Dancer) Influenced by her parents, Carolina was bound at an early age to follow a desire to perform. Under the guidance of some of the most recognized names in dance she has specialized in Argentine Tango along with her formal training in ballet, Latin Ballroom, Salsa and Flamenco.  Carolina’s credits include Tango & Tango at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, Tango Fantastico at the Bellearyre Music Festival, Tangos and Dances of South America at the Purchase Performing Arts Center, and her role as instructor for argentine tango and salsa at the Colorado Dance Festival in Boulder, CO.  She was a featured dancer, singer and actress in the Two River Theatre Company production of Blood Wedding and performed in the Buenos Aires month celebration at the World Financial Center. The height of her professional career is marked by her role as a primary dancer in the feature film Random Hearts directed by Sidney Pollack. Carolina was also invited to be part of the Hispanic Month Celebration at Pfizer central research center and The 10th Annual Orlando International Fringe Festival in Orlando, Florida. She has performed with the Orchestra and Chambers Music Festival at Penn State University, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Thalia Spanish Theatre. She has performed on broadway at Town Hall’s not Just Jazz series “Tangos for la Milonga” with Romulo Larrea’s Ensemble and traveled to Europe to perform with the Sudwestfalen Philarmonic at the Symphonic Tango night in Hilchenbach-Lutzel, Germany. Other performances include "Tango Summit" with the Pan American Symphony Orchestra, “Dreams” a Tango Extravaganza, and "100 años de tango, de Villoldo a Piazzolla" along with Fabian Peralta in Montevideo's prestigious Solis Theatre.  She has appeared on several Television shows including Fox 5 “Good Day New York” with Penny Crone, "Today in NY" on NBC, and was first prize winner on the popular television program Sábado Gigante on Univision. Most recently, she was invited to teach at Nashville Tango and performed with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra in Tennessee. She was also invited to perform and teach several workshops at “Tango Norte” The Stockholm Tango Festival 2007.    Anton Gazenbeek  Anton Gazenbeek (Dancer) is a highly talented, young tango dancer, choreographer, teacher, investigator, and historian. At 13 he discovered the tango in Holland and since then the music, dance and history of tango have become his passion. Antón has studied both social and stage tango with the best master teachers in Argentina and is an extremely versatile dancer and specializes in the style of Maestro Antonio Todaro. The most influential teachers in his dance have been Maestro Raúl Bravo, Carlos Copello, Guillermina Quiroga and Nito García, among others.  In 2002 he moved to Argentina to study at close range the roots of tango culture. Big stars such as Guillermina Quiroga, Alicia Monti, Susana Rojo, and Carina Losano chose Antón as their partner for tours, shows, special exhibitions and teaching. In Buenos Aires, Antón has performed in the shows of Club del Vino (with Horacio Salgan, Ubaldo de Lio), Chiquilín Tango, Milonguísimo, Por Siempre Tango (TV progam with Silvio Soldan) and Esquina Tango (with Roberto Pansera & Alberto Podesta). He also has performed at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Lincoln Center in NYC, and the tango festivals of New York and the World Tango Festival in Buenos Aires for 2005 and 2006 and has appeared dancing tango on television programs broadcast all over Latin and North America on channels such as ABC, The Travel Channel and has filmed tango commercials for The Tourist Channel which are currently being aired worldwide. He has also appeared on Canal 26 Argentina, NHK Japanese TV, South African TV as well as Univision and Telemundo Mexican TV.  As a tango professor, he has given tango classes in the Escuela Argentina de Tango, Unitango Academy, Tango Brujo and Club Sin Rumbo, as well as in all the major cities of the United Status, Japan, Korea, and China. Together with Guillermina Quiroga, he gave seminars and classes in Harvard University in Boston. All Antón’s teaching is based on his historic research. He is one of the very few tango teachers in the world with the ability to explain and demonstrate the authentic origin of each style he teaches.    Alicia Orlando & Claudio Barneix  With formation in ballet, contemporary dance, jazz and popular Latin-American dances, and after having integrated, importants companies of contemporary dance, worked at many works of musicals, and being the soloists of the Ballet Ciclos, in 1986, they meet the tango. After a brief but intensive study with the teacher Carlos Rivarola, they begin their own way in this dance, developing a particular aesthetics, not only as interpreters, but Alicia Orlando from her choreographies and Claudio Barneix with his visual offer, as for lighting and ambientación of each of the spectacles that they realize since then up to the current importance. They have achieved a very own language, full of “tanguera”essence  and urban poetry. In 1987 they are summoned, to take part as soloists dancers of the spectacle " THE MAXIMUMS OF THE TANGO " together with OSVALDO PUGLIESE'S Orchestra and ROBERTO GOYENECHE,performed at Opera Theatre of Buenos Aires. Also they were soloists dancers of the groups of: OSVALDO REQUENA TRIO, ORCHESTRA JUAN de Dios FILIBERTO, COLORTANGO, SEXTETO TANGO, CAMERATA PORTEÑA, MIGUEL DE CARO QUARTET, QUINTET OF THE ASTOR PIAZZOLLA FOUNDATION, RAUL GARELLO SEXTET, MIGUEL CANTILO GROUP, etc. In November of ' 89, enter as special guests to the ORCHESTRA OF THE TANGO OF BUENOS AIRES, directed by the MAESTROS CARLOS GARCÍA and RAUL  GARELLO, until November of ' 94.  From 1996 they became soloists dancers of the Astor Piazzolla Foundation.