FACUNDO PIÑERO & VANESA VILLALBA

Teachers and choreographers, with more than 20 years of experience in tango, our tango style is characterized by the fusion of tango stage and tango salon, creating a teaching method based on biomechanics that adapts to professional and amateur use.

Coaching

For more than 10 years we have been dedicated to coaching and training professional couples, both in stage and salon tango.

Facundo Piñero

He developed his studies in folklore, tango, classical dance and Russian dance. He worked in tango houses such as Madero Tango, Taconeando, Complejo Tango, Barracas Tango, Tango Red and Chiquitin. At the age of 17 he began to travel around the world with companies such as Latin Dance, Tango Odyssey, Tango Emotion, Mora Godoy, Tanguera and Forever Tango. He was part of Maximiliano Guerra’s Mercosur Company.He has danced for stars such as the Rolling Stone and Liza Minnelli.

Vanesa Villalba

She developed her studies in classical dance at the Escuela José Neglia, and with teachers such as Lidia Segni and Silvia Basilis. She worked in tango houses such as La Ventana, Piazzola Tango, Homero Manzi and Boca Tango. She was champion of the Festival de Tango de Baradero, and then participated in the festival as a Jury. At the age of 19 she started working in Japan as a teacher and dancer. Later she joined the Forever Tango Company, where she traveled the world for 4 years as a dancer and choreographic assistant.


HORACIO PEBETE GODOY & MARICEL GIACOMINI

Tango Company

Horacio Godoy Tango Company. Tanguera, Forever Tango, Chantecler, Tango Argentino (last show ever in Buenos Aires, 20.000 people) Festivals.


Festivals

Participated in more than 100 International Tango Festivals in 39 Countries. Milongas Organizer of La Viruta Tango in Buenos Aires.


Milongas

Currently more than 1200 students per week. The biggest school and Milonga in Buenos Aires during the last 22 years. Producer of two CDs of Tango (Ojos de Tango and Esteban Morgado), currently working for the third. Tango DJ from 1991. 27 years musicalising more than 5000 Milonga nights in the best Milongas in Buenos Aires, now only in La Viruta Tango Club. Tango Festival and Mundial in Buenos AiresJury.


Tango Festival and Mundial in Buenos Aires

Consultant of the musicalisation of the Tango Festival in Buenos Aires. Tango Historian student of the Universidad del Tango and Academia Nacional Del Tango. Tango Record Collector. Maricel Giacomini born in Buenos Aires, Tango was always present in Maricel´s childhood given that her grandparents were part of those fans of the genre that the “golden times” of tango left behind. So dance, singing and hearing tango was something daily in her family house and when She was around 15 years old, She started taking tango clases and going to the milonga (place), which would definitely make her fall in love with tango. With the time She started to teach and dance professionally In 2005 She was the Metropolitan runner-up of Tango Salon, in 2007 She got the third place in the Tango Salon World Championship and in the 2008 She was the runner-up of the Stage Tango World Championship with her partner at that moment, Maximiliano Cristiani. She was being part of the cast of tango shows in Buenos Aires like Cátulo Tango, Esquina Homero Manzi, Tango Palace, Café Tortoni, La Cumparsita, and several tango companies traveling around the world, like “M¡longa” (2012-2017) that had performed tango in prestigious theaters around the world like Moscu Bolshoi, Sydney Opera House, Oslo Opera House, Taiwan National Theatre, London´s Sadler Wells, New Your City Center among others. Since 2009 She is part of “La Viruta Tango Club” where She is currently giving lessons and dancing with Horacio “Pebete” Godoy. In 2021 Maricel got the “Ontological Coaching Certification” that trained her with specific tools for facilitate the learning, the connection and the communication.

DIEGO ORTEGA & ALDANA SILVEYRA

Tango dancers and teachers with more than 15 years of professional experience, travel the world giving classes and shows in the most renowned theaters and festivals in the world. Currently 2025 Winners in the World Tango Championship in the Salon Tango category.

They were part of the cast of the renowned “Forever Tango Company” of Luis Bravo for more than 12 years, with which they have traveled much of the world and have performed in the most important theaters in the world, countries such as the United States, China, Mexico, Canada, Greece, Turkey, Poland, Portugal, Spain and much of Latin and Central America. Such is the case of the Walter Keer Theater on Broadway where they were in the 2013 season together with Ukrainian and Latin American artists, such as Karina Smirnoff, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Luis Enrique and Luis Fonsi.

Diego from Colon and Aldana from Monte Grande, both from the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, have started their careers at a young age (11 and 9 years respectively) performing in under 18 youth competitions in the province of Buenos Aires and both winning with their current partners.

Then each one built his own path. Diego, on the one hand, began dancing tango at the School of Culture and Fine Arts in his neighborhood, representing his hometown he won the Buenos Aires Youth Tournaments at the age of 15, in addition to participating and winning tango competitions throughout the Northern Zone. His first tour was at the age of 15 to Chile with the Colon Tango Ballet, touring much of the country and performing on different stages. Then came performances in Uruguay and the Tango festivals held in the provinces of Argentina.

At the age of 18 he traveled to Japan with the purpose of teaching in one of the first Tango studios in Japan. He successfully stayed for almost 4 years, and in 2010 he returned to Argentina and became World Champion of Stage Tango. He was invited to the program “Tetsuko no heya” and was defined as “the most popular and admired woman in Japan”, and ended his return with the tour “Min-on Concert” throughout the country.

And Aldana, on the other hand, began dancing in the municipality of his city, participated in the ballet of the same city with which he had performances in different stages and the most recognized milongas of the South Zone of Buenos Aires, participated in dance competitions as well as in important television programs. He was the Gold Medalist in the Youth Tournaments of Buenos Aires in 2005, and winner of the tango contest held in 2005 on the program of the most popular host of Argentine television, Marcelo Tinelli. Then, at the age of 18, she was a finalist in the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires in the categories of Salon and Stage Tango, and in the Metropolitan Championship of the city in the categories of Tango, Waltz and Milonga.

In 2011 they joined forces to dance together. And in 2012 they achieved third place in the World Championship of Salon Tango held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

They have given exhibitions in the mythical milongas of Buenos Aires; Salón Canning, Sunderland, Sin Rumbo, La Baldosa, Villa Malcom, Porteño y bailarín, La Viruta and Milonga Malena in the Marabú salon are among her favorites.

Currently touring the world giving workshops and exhibitions in the most recognized milongas and festivals in the world, such as TangoToistanbul, TangoToRome, Bratislava Tango Festival, TangofiPorto, Recuerdo Tango Festival in Warsaw, Festivalito Primavera in Zurich, Embrace Tango Festival in Berlin; and the most recognized festivals in Argentine “Mucho Tango Festival”, “Argentina Tango Salon Festival” and “Tango Salta Fest “.

Currently based in Tokyo, Japan with their own Argentine Tango studio for 4 years, belonging to the Tango community in Japan and contributing to the dissemination of our Argentine culture in the World.