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Background training and Work Experience

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My first approaches to Tango were at 8 years of age in the courses taught at the National University of Lomas de Zamora, and the Municipal Ballet of Esteban Echeverría, by Professor Mario Morales. With Mario we did a great choreography job, where my love for Dance was born.

At 16 years of age, looking for new horizons I found out an audition was being taken to enter the Mora Godoy’s Company, by professors Nicolás Cobos and Paola Jean Jean.

My curiosity in the art itself, took me to different doors, so I got to train in Classical Dance with Victoria Mazari, Contemporary Dance with Soledad Buss, Cristina Barnils and Cecilia Troncoso.

Then I developed a great concern for the world of acting, so I approached to study with great masters such as Gerardo Otero, Claudio Rissi, Ines Esteves and Luis "El Indio" Romero.

My passion and concern for the Tango and its dance never stopped, so I got to know great teachers who learned important principles of the genre such as: Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne, Roberto Herrera, Pablo Villaraza and Dana Frigoli, Horacio Godoy , Mariano "Chicho" Frumboli, Sebastian Arce and Marian Montes, Geralding Rojas and Ezequiel Paludi Nicolas Cobos and Paola Jean Jean, Sabrina and Rubén Veliz, Adrián Aragón and Erica Boaglio.

Very young, between 15 and 17 years of age, I began my professional dance career at Cena Tango Shows, typical of Buenos Aires such as "Astor Piazzolla Tango", "Complejo Tango" and "Tango Palace". At the same time I had the pleasure of being part of the “Living Tango Chess“ organized by the government of the city of Buenos Aires, with Silvana Grill in the artistic direction. Before finishing season at Tango Palace, I was summoned by Adrián Aragón and Erica Boaglio to make a Tour to Spain and Italy in June / August 2009 with the show "Pasiones Company", and then to Italy and Greece in January / March 2010 .

Over the years I was also part of the "Taconeando" show, concert café "Varieties", "Gala Tango", "Señor Tango", "1905 Tango" Show at the Boca Juniors stadium and finally at "Madero Tango".

Since 2008 I am part of the company "Lazos" by Cecilia Troncoso (modern tango-dance) with which we present ourselves at the "Cuidanza" festival, "Cambalache" festival, "Tango Buenos Aires, festival and world" and "Hotel Tango".

In November 2012, I was summoned to the "Tango Journey" show to tour different cities in Switzerland.

In 2013, a call was made for the "Social Tango" Spectacle, of which I am chosen as a main dancer and to hold a season at the Teatro de la Ribera, and then to perform at the prestigious Kirchner Cultural Center.

Since 2011, and after an arduous convocation, I have the pleasure of being a dancer of the show "Arrabal", by Gustavo Santaolalla, and directed by Sergio Trujillo and Julio Zurita. My acting vocation added to the already expressed passion for dance, opened doors for the participation of different films such as "Everything you are" video clip of the international band Snow Patrol, starring "Tango 360", short film projected in the Planetarium of La City of Bs As., "Tita, la Pelicula", story of the famous singer Tita Merello

In 2014 I took a leap in profession, debuting as Creator and Director, with the production of "Chiquilin, from the street to the scene" with which we participated in the Tango Mystery Festival, Cambalache Festival, Tango Festival and World, and Milongas as "Las Leñas" (Montreal), "La Coqueta" (Toronto) and "La Bicicleta" (BsAs).

At the same time, I was channeling my pedagogical concerns by giving workshops and seminars over time in different cities of the world such as Río Gallegos, Toronto, Montreal (Canada), London, Paris, Krakow (Poland), Genoa (Italy), Barcelona, Copenhagen (Denmark) ), Gothenburg (Sweden). And since 2009 I'm a teacher at the school "La Viruta Tango Club".

Languages: Spanish / English

 

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I started my studies as Professor of Classical Dance at the Municipal and Provincial School "Jose Neglia" of Buenos Aires at the age of 11, full of dreams that day after day during the 10 years of the race were getting bigger but at the same time They were getting closer. Once I finished High School I decided that Dance is my career, My Work and My way of life. With this decision I started the Bachelor in Choreographic Composition with mention in Dance "Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte" (IUNA) where I met great Masters and colleagues, at that moment I felt that I needed more, that I wanted more and so I presented myself to a very difficult Audition for the Contemporary Dance Workshop of "Teatro General San Martin" Buenos Aires. That after 3 super intense years I graduated having grown as a dancer and as a professional. During this period I appreciated many works and Dance Companies, I remember when I saw the Teatro Maipo TangoKinesis and I said .. I want to dance there! And so it was that there was an audition for the Company and I was left !! I was already an Integrate of the "TangoKinesis" Company by the Coreographer Ana Maria Stekelman, where I met the Scenic Tango and woke up in my desire to go deeper into the Tango, I started taking classes with different Masters, I discovered the world of Tango and the Milongas! After a few years I had the honor of being a Tango Teacher and Dancer at "VantangoFest" Canada. And when I thought that a dream of dancing together with the first classical dancer from Argentina had already vanished in my adolescence, they summoned me for an audition and yes! I was Dancer of the Company of "Eleonora Cassano" performing National and International tour dancing Classical, Contemporary and Tango! What more could you ask for! I finished that cycle and started another full of lights and brightness, another style, another form, but super cute, television screens, ads, I was a member of the cast "Stravaganza" making seasons with total success. But there was something in me that wanted to put all my attention on El Tango, which, parallel to what I did, always took classes and danced some tangos. And little by little I was putting more and more focus on that and wonderful doors were opened like dancing in the best house of Tango in Buenos Aires as in "The Corner of Carlos Gardel" and "Mr. Tango" Another dream was to be a member of the Tango Company x 2 "Raices Tango" by Miguel Angel Zotto And step by step I was already fully in the Tango Participating in the Tita Film of Buenos Aires, making exhibitions in the milongas and traveling the world taking a little bit our culture and of my Art ..

Leonardo

cecilia

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