Loukas Balokas & Georgia Priskou
Loukas & Georgia went to their first tango class in 2000. Since then their life is bound to this dance. They have been constantly working with some of the most important tango teachers. Staying in Buenos Aires for a long time played a leading role in their dancing culture and evolution. After years of practicing and exploring the fields of improvisation and choreography, they have developed their personal style. The characteristics of their dance are the musicality, speed, alterations in the dynamic of the movement and the intense dramatic elements. They love toying with the classical as well as the modern form, mixing them. Their teaching is based on the understanding of the basic dancing elements, trying to provide their students the necessary tools to create their own dance through an entertaining method. They are considered to be one of the couples mainly responsible for the distribution and establishment of the tango scene around Greece. For many years they have been teaching in the major Greek cities, still maintaining their regular student basis in their Dance Studio, in Athens – tangoFIX
Festivals
Tangocamp (Italy, Germany, Greece), Tangomagia (Netherlands), Tango to Istanbul (Turkey), Lesvos Tango Meeting (Greece), F.I.T.A. (France), Tango Emotion (Italy), Ankara Tango Festival (Turkey), Tango Cazino (Romania), Meditango (Italy), Tango mon amour (France) ,Nilufer Τango Festival (Turkey), Octoberpest Tango Festival (Hungary), Frostbite (Finland), ArteTango Festival (France), Athens Tango Festival (Greece), Kalamata Tango Festival (Greece), Practica X (Turkey), Cretango Festinal (Greece), Black Sea Tango Marathon (Bulgaria), A los amigos (Greece), TangoLovers Festival (Greece), Tangogreece Festival (Greece), Tango Festivalito Budapest (Hungary), Academia Tango Meeting (Turkey), Beirut International Tango Festival (Lebanon) e.t.c
Özgür Demir & Ilksun Demir
Özgür Demir started dancing Tango in 2001 when he was 19 years old. He worked hard and progressed very fast. He decided to become a professional as of the first lesson. He devoted his life to Tango and became a successful and well-known maestro.
Özgür Demir is a professional who has supported the development of thousands of students from all over the world with dance lessons and mentoring services since 2007. He lived and taught Tango lesson in Buenos Aires for over 7 years. And also has been in many workshops, festivals and Tango events in all around Europe for many years. Since 2015, together with his beautiful wife İlksun, they have been giving regular Tango lessons, workshops and organizing events both in Izmir, Turkey and Basel, Switzerland.
By opening the Vamos Dance School in İzmir in 2019 they started to share their years of dance experience regularly under the name “Vamos” in Turkey & Switzerland.
Juan Stefanides & Başak Evran
Juan and Başak met in Buenos Aires. Başak, has a ballet and contemporary background and Juan, emerges from the traditional tango of the barrio. Mud and technique merged and their dance melted and appeared in their embrace. No tricks, just tango.
That´s how they show their art-form in the salons of Buenos Aires. Improvisation always looks simple at the first sight.
Juan has been a professional Tango Dancer for more than 20 years. In Argentina, Salón Canning, Club Fulgor de Villa Crespo, Club Villa Malcolm and Confitería Ideal, were the first witnesses of his teachings. He taught in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Austria, Greece and Turkey, becoming his usual destinies.
His last exhibitions in Buenos Aires were at the milongas: Parakultural, Gente Amiga, Yira yira, Lo de Balmaceda, Si sos Brujo, Porteño y Bailarín, Floreal, Cachirulo among others.
Juan also organized milongas at Salon Canning – Villa Malcolm – Club Arquitectura – Club Independencia – Club Mariano Acosta.
Başak discovered tango almost 20 years ago in Istanbul, since then it is her passion and way of life. Berlin welcomed her in the beginning and “Nou Tango” opened its doors to her, where she taught for 10 years. Her recognition brought her to participate in the “Berlín Tango Festival” and others. In addition, she opened her
own showroom of Italian shoes. She arrived in Buenos Aires in 2007. Because of her enthusiasm for physical preparation, she got certified in GYROTONIC® & GYROKINESIS® for
TANGO. She incorporates in her classes the perfect combination for tango dancers: Axis, Dissociation, Stretching, Posture and Strengthening.
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