Instructors
Here you will find a short bio of the Tango Masters participating at the DC Tango Weekend. Private appointments are limited and are taken in a first come first serve basis, book now! (click here!)
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Adriana Salgado & Orlando Reyes
– ATUSA Official 2019 Stage Tango Champions, Vice Champions Tango Salon
– 2021 Tango Salon Champions, Preliminary USA
Adriana Salgado and Orlando Reyes have been professional dancers and teachers of Argentine Tango for over twenty five years. With background in classical ballet, they started off studying Tango in Buenos Aires under auspices of renowned tango masters. International performances include United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Aruba, Argentina Canada, Indonesia and their native Colombia. They are based in New York since 2007 where they have taught and performed at many tango venues nationwide. In New York City, their performances include: NY Tango Festival in 2007, “Tango Intimo”, in 2008,”Tango Connection” and “Tango Noir” in 2008 and 2009 and “Tango por Ellos”, in 2009, which received the nomination in the Latin ACE Award 2010 for Best choreography.They have been also guest teachers and performers at “Dancing at Sea”, a dance cruise company for Holland America, Norwegian and Royal Princess 2012-2013. Other stage performances were at Tango Malbec House in New York City 2012-2014. In 2018, they placed second on the competition “Pelando Variacion” held in New York City.
Their smooth, romantic, elegant style and solid connection make their Tango Salon and Stage performances outstanding. Their teaching focuses on the subtleties of the connection, posture and overall technique fundamentals. Their passion, love and constant dedication for Argentine Tango is palpable and has won them recognition with awards at home where they have been acclaimed as one of the best representative couples of Colombia and more recently in the USA, where they have become the ATUSA Stage Tango (2019) and Tango de Pista (2021) Champions
Their energetic, precise and passionate dancing style has a lot to offer. To see their performance
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Harby Gonzalez
Born in Medellin, Colombia, Harby began dancing at the age of 10 when he fell in love with Argentine Tango. Harby has trained all over the US and with instructors from all over the world perfecting this magnificent dance. Though, he also is well versed in various ballroom dances as well as afro-latin dances. Harby brings an intense, yet elegant passion to the dance floor. Find him teaching at the studio, choreographing group events, or performing all over!
Alejandro Barrientos.
Is one of the new Argentine Tango Masters generation. He has extensive experience as a dancer, and teacher with great recognition in all tango festivals he has been working all over the world. His classes translate his experience, and has become legendary for his clear style, highly effective instruction, and for being just plain fun with dynamic and organic techniques. He has a powerful, and sensual style created by the combination of his personality with his essence, his love and passion for the culture, music, and poetry of Argentine tango that shines through any of his work in dance.
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Fabio Bonini teaching and performing tango for 20 years. Fabio has a great method of teaching and an enormous understanding of the Tango and its nuances. He breaks down this complex dance into easy and fun to learn components. He is considered one of the most versatile Argentine Tango coach in Washington, DC, metropolitan area because his unique knowledge and experience. Fabio has traveled all over the world with different dance companies teaching and performing, and nowadays is living in Virginia where he teaches regularly. He has worked with Quintango (Tango Quinted) as the main male dancer performing all over USA. Fabio teaches group classes regularly at Forever Dancing Ballroom in Falls Church. Fabio has been travelling frequently to coach different growing Tango Communities in USA. Click here to see Video of Fabio and partner Jennifer dancing tango.
Eduardo Goytia will be DC Tango Weekend music director for the milongas and for the DC Tango Challenge. He is a well-known Tango instructor and performer based in New York City with over 20 years of teaching, performing and DJing experience. He was one of the original founders of the Pittsburgh Tangueros and helped develop the community of dancers in the Pittsburgh area before moving to NYC in 1999. While he specializes in the Tango Salon style, Eduardo’s range of knowledge is broad and he teaches across a wide array of styles including Tango Salon, Tango Nuevo and Tango for stage. He is especially known for his musicality and for understanding how differently Tango Salon, Tango Confiteria, Milonga and Vals should be danced.
Eduardo is recognized for his elegance and has appeared on some of New York finest stages including Lincoln Center, the Beacon Theater, Town Hall, Millenium Theater and the Hammerstein Ballroom as well as countless milongas and off-broadway stages. Eduardo has also appeared in several short films and documentaries and been featured on newscasts in Miami, New York, New Jersey, Pittsburgh and South Korea. In 2007 Eduardo became the US National Champion in Argentine Tango Salon with Cyrena Drusine. Together, they became one of the few American couples to ever make it to the finals of the World Championships in Buenos Aires, meeting with the US Ambassador to Argentina at the US Embassy and officially representing the USA in the championships.
While he focuses on various special projects, Eduardo is currently teaching privately and as a guest teacher throughout NYC and abroad. Eduardo can be seen dancing regularly at milongas around the city as well as performing with various dancers on stage, in shows, on television and at special events. He also regularly DJs popular local milongas and events bringing together a vast collection of traditional and non-traditional tango music gleaned and curated with the help of some of the finest DJs of Buenos Aires milongas.
Emmanuel Trifilio International bandoneonist and prolific tango composer, Argentinian brings a fresh perspective to the traditional tango sound, both in performance and composition. Now based in Washington, D.C., Sr. Trifilio’s career began as bandoneon soloist at venues such as the famous Cafe Tortoni in Buenos Aires. After establishing himself as an accomplished performer in Argentina, he was invited to join the Los Inmigrantes Tango Orchestra, which soon after won Buenos Aires’s annual tango orchestra contest. Sr. Trifilio’s career expanded across South America when he was invited to tour Chile with Maestro Tato Finocci.
Sr. Trifilio then traveled to Europe for booked performances; after extended residencies in Italy, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, he settled in the U.S. He has since appeared, as soloist, on the main stages of Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center with small and large ensembles including the Choral Arts Society of Washington and National Philharmonic Orchestra. Sr. Trifilio has also been featured by Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Pan American Symphony Orchestra, Endless Mountains Music Festival Orchestra, and Florida International University Orchestra and Chorus. He will appear with South Carolina Philharmonic in 2017, performing Astor Piazzolla’s Concerto for Bandoneon.
Sr. Trifilio regularly performs with chamber group QuinTango, and collaborated as arranger and bandoneonist on their 2014 album Tango Lovers. He can be heard with esteemed cellist Gautier Capuçon on the soundtrack of the short film Le Petit Nuage. He toured to New Orleans and Lincoln Center with the Octavio Brunetti Tango Orchestra, traveled with the internationally-acclaimed band Otros Aires as solo bandoneonist in their 2014 U.S. tour, and performed with Alejandro Ziegler Quartet in their 2016 U.S.-Canada tour.
In addition to solo performing and arranging, Sr. Trifilio composes and presents original tangos with various ensembles across the East Coast. The world premiere of his Tango Suite No. 1: Five movements for Bandoneon, Cello, and Guitar, was featured at the Embassy of Argentina as part of Pan American Symphony Orchestra’s 2015 Tango Festival. A founding member of New York Tango 6, a traditional tango sextet dedicated to premiering new tango works, Sr. Trifilio performed world premieres of several of his works at the group’s debut concert. He is currently composing new works for the venerated bandoneonist Daniel Binelli.
Founded in 2015, his Trifilio Tango Trio presents virtuosic programs of all new and original tango music by Sr. Trifilio. Bandoneon, cello, and guitar, TTT has recorded two albums of Sr. Trifilio’s original tangos and tours internationally. “Milonga de la Ausencia,” from their first album, Original, is featured on the short film “Vuelve con nosotros,” and was nominated for Best Original Score at MOFF Film Festival in Milan, 2016. TTT’s booked appearances for 2017-2018 include D.C., NYC, San Francisco, Richmond, Havana, Miami, Houston, Denver, and Buenos Aires.