... and the search for Tango

Giorgio approached Argentine Tango on a very cold afternoon of January 2002, in Stockholm, Sweden...... Since then he never stopped searching for it !

Before that day he could never picture himself as a dancer and he still finds it quite ironic to see himself dancing so much. For this reason an hidden smile accompanies him every time he goes dancing or teaching even nowadays when Tango has become for Giorgio quite a serious thing.  He believes that such a smile is what actually makes oneself a dancer so to say that irony and in general "easy going" mood is the essence of dancing. 

Giorgio was from the very beginning captured by the emancipation power embedded in Argentine Tango. Dancing Tango with personality, listening to the music and embracing the partner sincerely can make anybody look elegant, powerful, beautiful. It must be for this reason that the Tango style he fancies the most is the so called "Tango Salon", a style where embrace, elegance and dynamics blend together with Tradition in a unique mix.

In the latest 10-15 years the interest in Argentine Tango has been strongly revitalized worldwide, thanx to the work of many teachers and dancers whom have investigated new ways of dancing Tango. As result Argentine Tango has got to be known to the mass and in particular to the young generations.... nowadays dancers of any age are used to go out dancing and seaching for ... Tango every night in any corner of the world.

In 2009 Argentine Tango has been ufficially declared "Patrimonio de la Umanidad " and for good reasons. Indeed today many people from all over the world dance Tango professionally, bringing to it their own cultural backgrond and fusing it with the pure traditional fashion of Buenos Aires dancing. Doing so, all of them are constantly searching for their own Tango !

Giorgio finds all this a faschinating path to observe and explore himself as he believes that

"the search for Tango is what actually makes Tango" 

...As a Dancer

Giorgio has formed as dancer mostly in Europe (Rome, Stockholm) & Buenos Aires.

His first teachers in Rome were Daniele Mazzanti and Samantha di Paolo. 

Among the Argentinian teachers he has studied with Fernando Galera y Vilma Vega, Esteban Moreno y Claudia Codega, Sebastian Arce y Mariana Montes, Ezequiel Farfaro y Lucia Mazer, Julio Balmaceda y Corina de la Rosa, Sebastian Achaval  y Roxana Suarez and various others...

As Italian from the south, Giorgio feels very close to the Argentinian culture. For this reason he is constantly searching for a way of dancing that goes towards tradition as he feels somehow that it belongs to him as well. Giorgio likes to explore new dynamics in dancing but he believes that only when one gets a good knowledge of basics one is really free to explore new directions or in other words: "Know what you do .... to do what you want".

Tango is a couple dance and searching for tango is a process that one does together with his dancing partner. For this reason Giorgio is always first searching for a connection with the woman he is dancing with in order to create together with her their own dancing, the one that makes a Tango couple !

Besides any technique and style arguments, Giorgio believes that the good Tango is the one danced with the heart. When one dances tango with his heart it is visible and marks a difference, for oneself, for the partner, for the public.

As dancer Giorgio enjoys dancing socially in regular dancing evenings, festivals, marathons as well as performing.

You can watch at some of Giorgio's performances in Gallery page on this website

...As a Teacher

In his classes Giorgio focuses mostly on what he considers the two key elements for Tango : the embrace and the walking. 

The idea is to give to the students tools to let them able to express and create their own dancing according to a Tango code. Only in this way the student can dance with personality, follow the music, improvising at each step. Good embrace and walk make your dancing Elegant and to the point.  

Steps and sequencies are just good tools to practice the use of the embrace and the way one connects with the partner as well as the quality of walking, but they are not the way one should dance Tango.

Tango is couple dance but, with respect to many other couples dances, it is all (100%)  about improvisation. Establishing a connection with the partner via the embrace, and following the music, it is what allows such an improvisation. For this reason it is evident that the role of the teacher it is not the one of teaching one way (his way) to dance Tango but rather giving the paramenters in terms of body language , motion, and musicality which can allow the students to connect as couple and search for their way to Tango. 

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. 

Khalil Gibran