Bari Tango Congress

FACUNDO PINERO & VANESA VILLALBA

They both started out as stage dancers in various tango shows and companies, including the famous "Forever Tango" show. They are one of the most famous tango couples in the world being guests in a lot of major international festivals and events. They have a consolidate experience as choreographers of renowned performances and as teachers they have a clear, immediate and recognizable way of communicating and teaching; they are members of many international juries for competitions worldwide and trainers of a number of contestants in the Tango World Championships.

NERI PILIU & YANINA QUIÑONES

Yanina Quiñones and Neri Piliu have been dancing together since 2006. Professionally they trained in the Accademia de Estilos de Tango Argentinian (ACETA), with renowned milongueros and masters, including: Carlos Perez and Rosa, Pupi Castello, Gloria and Eduardo Arquimbau, Gerardo Portalea, Toto Faraldo, Milena Plebs. They took part in and won the Tango Championships in Buenos Aires where they ranked first place both in Tango Salón and Tango Escenario: Pre-World Champions Tango Salón - Escenario in 2006 / 2007, Champions in the Tango Escenario of the Baradero Festival in 2007. In 2008 in the World Championship of Tango Salón, they ranked second place. They have performed in the most important theatres and Milongas all over the world. At the moment they are the artistic directors, choreographers and main dancers of the Tango Rouge Company. They established in Salerno where they set up their own Tango Academy "Corazon Tango al Sur" they regularly teach there as well as in other important cities in the world and in some of the major festivals worldwide.

SIMONE FACCHINI & GIOIA ABBALLE

Simone Facchini and Gioia Abballe started dancing together Latin American dances at the age of 6. They discovered Argentine tango five years later, at 11, and since then they have kept dancing together as an amazing artistic couple who for more than 20 years has trained professionally, studying with worldwide renowned masters.
They took part in European and World Championships always ranking among the first places: in 2017 they won the World Championships of Tango Escenario in Buenos Aires. They regularly perform in the most prestigious Italian, European and Buenos Aires milongas and are invited as main guests to important International Festivals.

JULIÀN MALIZIA & MANUELA ROSSI

Manuela Rossi and Juan Malizia have been dancing together since 2012.

Juan started tango very young at the age of 14 in his home town of San Nicolas, and later added support from other disciplines such as jazz, ballet and also martial arts. Manuela was a ballet dancer all her childhood until she turned 19 years old. She graduated as a Professional Ballet Dancer from Argentina's National Ballet School: "Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colon" and made a two year intensive program at "Ècole Superièure de Danse de Cannes" in France with a scholarship from UNESCO.

Dancers, Choreographers and tango teachers. In 2014 they became World Tango Stage Champions and also Metropolitan Tango-Vals Champions.

Dancers of extensive formation and trajectory, they have toured with the most renowned Tango Companies as well as their own couple tours to Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America; participating in International Tango Festivals, shows and formation events in schools all over the world.

They were both part of "Our Last Tango" the acclamated tango movie where Juan outstands in the leading role of young Juan Carlos Copes.

Their dance is a constant game between the fantasy skills of stage tango and the subtleness of the tango salon connection, in the constant search of excellence, emotion and the projection of tango as art.