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Athens
Live Tango Weekend
4, 5, 6 aprile, TANGART
La voce di Buenos Aires. Il miglior cantante di tango argentino del momento!
WALTER "CHINO" LABORDE Accompagnato dal maestro di chitarra DIEGO "DIPI" KVITKO
Ballerini Tango:
Cedric Basso & Eloïse Weiss Dubray
Grigoris Tsitses & Alexia Mourtidou
Gianpio Cappucci & Ioanna Papachristou
Alejandro Larenas & Marisol Morales
FULL PROGRAM ATHNES LIVE TANGO WEEKEND👇
⚠️ 2 LOCATIONS TANGO NOTTURNO & TANGART
FRIDAY 03/04
📍LOCATION: Tango Notturno, Paggeou 6, Athina 118 55
MILONGA
💃🏻NIGHT MILONGA SHOW
⏰ 21:00 - 02:00 Dj set by Alexia Mourtidou
Show: Cedric Basso & Eloise Weiss Dubray
SATURDAY 04/04
📍LOCATION: Tangart Nakou 4, Athina 117 43
WORKSHOPS
🤓 WORKSHOP A | ⏰ 13:00 "Pauses in the dance" Grigoris Tsitsis & Alexia Mourtidou
🤓 WORKSHOP B | ⏰ 14:30 "Spirals in Tango 1: How it works?" Cedric Basso & Eloïse Weiss Dubray
🤓 WORKSHOP D| ⏰ 16:00 "Spirals in Tango 2: How we apply to different movements and dynamics". Cedric Basso & Eloïse Weiss Dubray
TANGO CONCERT
"The Lights of Buenos Aires in Athens"
⏰ 9:30 p.m. (Doors open at 9:00 p.m.)
With the voice of Buenos Aires, WALTER "CHINO" LABORDE accompanied by guitarist DIEGO "DIPI" KVITKO
Special guests: Greek masters of Rebetiko music.
Professional dancers:
Alejandro Larenas & Marisol Morales, Cedric Basso & Eloïse Weiss Dubray, Grigoris Tsitses & Alexia Mourtidou, Gianpio Cappucci & Ioanna Papachristou.
SUNDAY 05/04
📍LOCATION: Tangart Nakou 4, Athina 117 43
WORKSHOP:
🤓 WORKSHOP D| ⏰ 14:00 "Traveling through the rhythm of tango, structure, and flexibility"
Alejandro Larenas & Marisol Morales με τον μαέστρο Dipi Kvitko
MILONGA:
💃🏻 XL MILONGON LIVE MUSIC «A BAILAR»
⏰ 15:30 - 23:00 Dj Gianpio Cappucci
Live music: WALTER "CHINO" LABORDE accompanied by guitarist
DIEGO "DIPI" KVITKO
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Walter ‘Chino’ Laborde, voice. (from Argentina)
The ‘cantor de tango’ of Buenos Aires. At the turnof the 21st century, Chino Laborde was first the recognizable voice of the first tango-rock group, the Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro, with which he toured the world. He would remain with this a taste for the night and the stage, which he used to embody key figures in the history of tango in musical, theater pieces or on Argentine television. This total character, a charismatic singer but also an actor, is adored by all the dancers withwhom his voice literally plays and for whom he performs with the best orchestras (La Sans souci, Solo Tango, etc.), as well as by fans of intimate guitar-voice concerts. When he brings forgotten tangos back into fashion, in a sort of archaeology of popular culture in Buenos Aires, each song is a story, a piece of life, and the opportunity for a unique interpretation, perpetually reinvented, for this total character, a popular singer with unbridled cheekiness who seems to be playing for his life at each concert.Nominated for the Premio Konex Best Tango Singer 2005-2015
Diego "Dipi" Kvitko, guitar maestro (from Argentina)
The contemporary tango scene cannot overlook the name Diego “Dipi” Kvitko — whether as a guitarist, composer, arranger, or educator. Without disregarding tradition, his artistry reflects a creative calling that is always ready to challenge convention.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1975, at a time when tango was already experiencing a decline in mass popularity, his early passion for Argentine music may well have contained the seeds of what would become a lifelong artistic mission — one rooted in aesthetic renewal and sustained by the strength needed to navigate the challenges of the industry.
A graduate and faculty member of the Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda, Kvitko developed a close relationship with Aníbal Arias, the celebrated guitarist and member of the legendary Aníbal Troilo quartet. Affectionately known as “Dipi,” he studied under Arias and spent more than a decade performing as part of his mentor’s guitar quartet.
His extensive solo work and numerous collaborations have brought him together with such renowned artists as Jorge Vidal, Leopoldo Federico, Jairo, Víctor Lavallén, Peteco Carabajal, Walter “Chino” Laborde, Rudi Flores, Sandra Luna, José Ángel Trelles, Ricardo “Chiqui” Pereyra, Walter Romero, Omar Mollo, Daniel Melingo, Hugo Rivas, and Abel Córdoba, among many others — and the story continues.
The show encompasses a wide repertoire of traditional Argentine music — tangos, milongas, waltzes, and folk rhythms — all performed with a strong artistic identity and a distinctive personal style. Its contemporary perspective, expressed through refined arrangements and subtle nuances, makes it unique for its originality and avant-garde spirit, while preserving the traditional forms and colors of the genre.
The solo guitar is complemented by vocal pieces, and the repertoire can be presented as a concert or perfectly adapted for a milonga audience.
Improvisation is another of its defining elements, always remaining true to the essence and roots of Argentine music. The result is a captivating and participatory performance, where song and humor intertwine with stories, portraits, and anecdotes about the works and their creators.
Alejandro Larenas & Marisol Morales (from Argentina)
Exploring was a mission, understanding a need and learning a desire.
Their studies have always been motivated by curiosity to understand tango evolution from its roots.
Their dancing ranges from pure tradition to mind blowing innovation. Rich in musicality, spotless technique and a very skillful and precise teaching method to explain this popular dance. When it comes to dancing it is all about improvisation!
During the pandemic, they held online seminars that helped people understand tango as a dancing culture. They shared all their personal search at the social, expressive level, tango music curiosities and analysis of the dance and its structure. Once more they proven that a problem can be transformed into an opportunity. This drastic experience that we all lived in those 2 years gives us the chance to help students go deep in tango.
Marisol participated in the Diplomatura of the Instituto Argentino de Tango 2021, where she did an intervention to present her research about tango dance development in the golden age.
Alejandro & Marisol started dancing tango in 1998, in 2004 they had crossed their path and they became a professional couple.
Since then they have been teaching and performing to renowned places in Buenos Aires such as Club Gricel, La Ideal, Cochabamba 444, La Viruta Tango, Salon Canning, Practica X, El Motivo Tango, Viva la Pepa Milonga, at the show "Tango new Generation "held under the CITA International Tango Festival (2006, 2007) and Misterio Tango Festival Argentina (2017).
They have made more than 35 tango tours all around the world to participate in Seminars, Shows and Tango Festivals, including highlights: Montreal Tango Festival (2006 - 2009), The International Festival of Rimini (2009), 13 Hamburg Tango Festival (2010), 14 Anniversary Universo Tango (2011), San Remo Tango Festival (2010), TangOtoño Innsbruck (2010), Tangoconsharm, Egypt (2010), The Smith Tango Festival in Santa Monica, Los Angeles. (2010), International Istanbul Tango Week (2011). Festivalito de primavera, Zurich (2012). Lisbon Tango Festival (2013). Marca de Tango Festival, Treviso.(2013- 2018). Washington Tango Weekend (2014), Istanbul Tango Experience (2015), Pisa Tango Festival (2015), Meditango Festival, Roma (2015), Days of tango Festival Saint Petersburg (2015 -2016), Philadelphia Tango Festival (2016), Australian Tango Festival (2017), Toronto Tango Festival (2014-2016-2019), Porteño Tango week in Sydney (2019) Karlsruhe Tango Festival (2019), Beijing Tango Marathon and Seminar (2019). Romantica Istanbul Festival 2022. Bailongo Tango Festival 2023.
In 2011 they started collaborating at a tango school in Athens, Tangart. Since 2019 they are part of the direction of this school.
Grigoris Tsitses & Alexia Mourtidou (from Greece)
Alexia Mourtidou and Grigoris Tsitses discovered Argentine Tango in 2009 and 2010 respectively and have been dedicated to it ever since. They have attended classes with renowned maestros/as in Greece, Europe and Argentina, while they have been dancing and teaching together since 2015 in Thessaloniki and other cities in Greece.
They are co-owners of the dance and theater venue Studio 29A Artspace and organizers of Milonga Sin Palabras and other events since 2016, while occasionally organizing events with renowned dancers and DJs.
Their approach to Tango has as its central axis the embrace, connection and communication. Their goal is for their students to find their unique dance personality within the milonga, with respect for the music, their partners and other dancers.
Gianpio Cappucci (from Italy) & Ioanna Papachristou (from Greece)
Both have met tango in 2009, in different parts of the world.
Gianpio has lived and studied tango in Buenos Aires for more than ten years, where he was part of the teachers in DNI tango school. Returning to Europe, he kept on spreading and evolving tango. Since 2018 he has his own tango school "Volver" in Krakow, Poland. At the same time, he has been travelling around the world for djing, performing and teaching. As a dj, he loves to choose tango masterpieces from the golden era, in order to create magical moments on the dancefloor and invite milongueros to embrace deeply and dance with their hearts.
Ioanna discovered tango in Athens and has been a part of TANGart teaching family since 2015. She has collaborated at first with Theodore Georgedakis and later with Gianpio, performing and teaching in various places in Europe. She also teaches Spanish and has a special interest in connecting artistic interpretation with lyrics, on which she has offered specialised seminars. She deeply believes in the unique character of tango culture and art form and intends to offer all its possibilities to her students. Making them connect with their feelings and offering the tools to transform them into an improvised dance.
Cedric Basso & Eloïse Weiss Dubray (from Switzerland)
Tango finds Eloïse and Cédric in 2006. Since then, it’s been a constant search and study of the tango culture, both together and on separate paths. They have studied mainly with Mariano
“Chicho” Fumboli & Juana Sepulveda, but also have different influences like Corina Herrera, Moira Castellano and Carlitos Espinoza among others.
Today, Eloïse & Cédric teach tango in Lausanne, Switzerland, at CocoGardel Tango Studio and in the Lemanic region. Jointly, they organize the summer festival “Riviera Tango Fiesta”, bringing live
music and dance together in a vivid expression of the tango culture through shows, concerts, milongas and the participation of many artists.
As dance teachers, they strongly believe tango to be a universal language accessible to all. Their pedagogy is thus oriented towards simplicity and efficiency with a fair part of fun, allowing for
students to enjoy tango through improvisation and communication/dialogue in the couple.
The approach is definitely modern and follows the contemporaneous evolution of tango, but never forgetting the legacy of the classical and typical components of the dance.
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