CHICAGO MINI TANGO FESTIVAL

 April 14-17, 2011

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Maria Paola came from a background in classical and contemporary dance at the Academia Nazionale di Danza in Rome, and started with Argentine tango in 1994. Between 1995 and 1999, she studied tango with Argentine teachers that went periodically to Italy: Miguel Angel Zotto, Susana Miller, Gustavo Naveira, among others. In 1999 she traveled to Buenos Aires for the first time, and participated in their first "CITA" organized by Gustavo Naveira and Fabian Salas, where she has the opportunity to meet and study with various masters of tango styles (Balmaceda, Frúmboli, Mingo Pugliese, Osvaldo Zotto and Lorena Ermocida, Guillermina Quiroga, Roberto Reis, among the best known).

Since then, her annual stay in Buenos Aires were also matters of educational update since she began to take tango classes in Rome with Antonio Lalli in 1997. The meeting in 2000 with the teacher and dancer Carlos Gavito, star of the show "Forever Tango", invited by her to teach in Rome for the first time, marked a fundamental change in her style of dance, and how to live tango as a dance "social" that is characterized as intimate as a dance couple communication, in close embrace.

From 2000 to 2006 this is strengthened and consolidated in this traditional dance style, and also in teaching, educational and artistic collaboration with Marco Antonio Lalli and Evola, masters of Rome which founded the "Tangaro Cultural Association", which is dedicated to the development and dissemination of the tango and "the culture of tango" in Rome and other Italian cities (Bari, Pescara, Perugia, Fermo). The association invited Tangaro first to Rome and O. Zotto Argentine teachers and L. Ermocida, the aforementioned Carlos Gavito, Roberto Herrera and Natacha Poberaj, Jorge Firpo, Gabriela Elias and Eduardo Perez, among the best known.

Between 2006 and 2008 her stays in Buenos Aires became more frequent and long uniting to improve the activity of dancing and teaching, the theoretical study of music and history of tango at the "National Academy Tango" in Buenos Aires led by Horacio Ferrer. In 2008 during her last stay in Buenos Aires, for five months she gave tango lessons in some schools and danced in the milongas. She participated in 2008 at the "Intercontinental Championship Tango" and achieved the 4th place with her partner, Julian Althabe.

Her current activity is focused on teaching the tango at schools and milongas in Rome She travels regularly and was invited to teach in other Italian cities (Bari, May 2009 in collaboration with Maestro Maxi Gluzman).

She has worked as an assistant or partner in the courses that she organized for her students with Argentine teachers: Carlos Gavito, Raul Cabral, Alejandro Hermida and Jorge Firpo. She gives seminars in female technique and organizes the monthly "Rosamilonga" in Rome, where she is the dj. She is also a DJ at the milongas of "Mitreo" and "Cascabelito" in her native Rome.

Her Teaching / learning is centered on dancing with harmonious development in the milonga as social space

For more information, visit www.rosamilonga.it