Martin & Maurizio, both from Argentina, currently live and work in Vienna, Austria. In addition to their academic training in tango dance, they have studied tango in Buenos Aires with the original milongueros. They are representatives and carriers of the tradition and culture of authentic Argentine tango, and are sharing this knowledge and skills with the rest of the world.

In recent years, Martin and Maurizio have been working on many stages of the world, as artists and educators. Some of the festivals that have hosted this outstanding tango couple are the Shanghai International Tango Festival, Tango Element Baltimore and Misterio Tango Festival in Buenos Aires, among many others. In the search for deeper teachings, they have created and developed their Maldonado-Ghella teaching method, which they have been using in social groups in Sweden, France, the USA, Denmark, Poland, Germany, China, Malaysia, the Netherlands, etc.

In addition, to demonstrate their commitment to maximum social interaction, they have to participate in the “Tinkers” project that is dedicated to incorporating people with different abilities, for example, those with Down syndrome, in order to use the power of the tango embrace to build a more inclusive society, through greater social understanding and reconciliation. Tinkers events have been included in various festivals, including Tango en Punta (Punta del Este, Uruguay) and Bregenz (Austria) festivals.

Another achievement of this couple is their collaboration with the Anna Netrebko and Erwin Schrott Foundation, to create a large charity event in 2012. They have performed as part of Erwin Schrott’s theater project called "Rojo Tango” on some of the great stages of Europe, including the Musikverein Vienna and the Esterhátzy Palace (Vienna), the Salzburger Festspiele (Salzburg), and the Admiral Theater (Berlin).

In 2012 and 2013, they continued their research on tango as an art form creating an artistic production called "La Evasión", together with their colleagues Ariadna Naveira, Fernando Sanchez, Diego Amorin, Cecilia, Capello and Solo Tango Orchestra, trying to turn the stereotypes of a traditional tango show on their heads. The final product was presented to the public in February 2015 as their "2014 Tour Closing". They have performed parts of the show at tango festivals in Shanghai (China), Arhus (Denmark) and Tarbes (France) in July and August 2014.

In 2015, they created a research center focused on possible interdisciplinary discoveries between tango and other art forms. The project has received the name of “Tango Initiative” and is aimed mainly at tango professionals who will then share the information and research results with their students and followers.

They currently run their own tango art space & studio, “Numenes,” in Vienna, and continue to teach and perform tango worldwide.

Inés Muzzopappa is an Argentine Tango dancer and instructor. She started her path in tango at the age of 14. In 2007 she won the 1st Price in the World Tango Championship.

From that moment on, she started to teach and perform at the most renowned Tango Festivals and events in Argentina, Europe, Asia and the US. She also has participated as a judge in different Tango international contest

Among these years Inés was also studying social pedagogy, and English and Italian languages to improve her teaching skills, organizing conferences merging tango and pedagogy.

Nowadays, she teaches and dances tango in Argentina, United States and Europe along with different partners, including Corina Herrera.

Born in Buenos Aires on February 20, 1987, Corina Herrera has been dancing tango for
28 years and teaching for 23 years. At the young age of 9 she fell in love with this dance of
firuletes (flashy adornments) and exuberant clothes. It all started out as entertainment. She had a passion for dancing and felt special in that group of adults where she started back in 500
Talcahuano Street. Since her first class, she has never stopped dancing and it has been a
lifetime dedication.

Years after joining the children’s ballet "Proyecto Tango", with whom she shared the cast
with the well-known Roxana Suarez, Ms. Herrera stepped into a milonga for the first time at the
age of 13. And her commitment to dance tango became even stronger, as she was amazed by
the power of connecting body movement with music, and the challenge of improvised dance
between two people. She started to take classes with the most recognized teachers, such as
Julio Balmaceda, Corina De La Rosa, Fernando Galera, Vilma Vega, Omar Vega, Pupi Castillo,
Milena Plebs, Chicho Frúmboli, Dana Frigoli, Pablo Villarraza. At the age of 14 she was already
the teaching assistant to several of the internationally-renowned teachers mentioned above, and began to receive requests for her first private lessons. At this point she knew that she would dedicate herself to dance and teaching, and that it would not only be her passion, but also her lifestyle and her livelihood.

At the age of 16, Ms. Herrera she formed a partnership with Rodrigo Palacios and
started performing in Buenos Aires. One of the most important was in " La Viruta" in 2003, which the International Congress of Argentine Tango (CITA) called "La noche de los jóvenes". The same year, they were invited to perform as “Outstanding Young Couple” at the world-famous Salon Canning. Later on, she partnered with Federico Naveira for performances at “La Viruta” and “Practica X” in Buenos Aires.

By age 22, Ms. Herrera was touring throughout Europe and around the world, usually
more than once per year. Extraordinarily accomplished in both leader and follower roles, Ms.
Herrera teaches and performs currently with a few different dancers. In the last period, she has been dancing and teaching with her partner in the present Inés Muzzopappa.

Born in Mar del Plata, province of Buenos Aires, Ignacio Ondartz began studying tango in 2000 in his hometown with Julio Valdez, the most important referent for tango dance in the city. Mr. Valdez is renowned in Mar del Plata, and beyond, as a teacher, choreographer and organizer of the oldest tango practice (Milonga) in the city.

Ignacio benefited, in his study of tango dance, from having a solid musical foundation and training. He had pursued classical guitar studies at the music conservatory of the city of Mar del Plata “Luis Gianneo,” in his adolescence, and later studied classical voice as well.

In 2002, he joined the Tango Ballet ‘Nueva Generación’ directed by Julio Valdez, with which he performed as a dancer in various institutions and on many different stages. The Ballet performed both in tango spaces and events, and for the general public. In the same year, Ignacio began to serve as teaching assistant for several teachers and tango masters in Mar del Plata such as Enrique Ringa, Walter Rodriguez and Claudio Fortes.

In 2004, he decided to commit even more fully to tango by moving to the city of Buenos Aires, the birthplace of tango, and best place in the world to deepen one’s tango studies and involvement. That year, Ignacio joined the cast of the Show, “Piel de Tango,” created and directed by Dina Emed. In that show, he shared the stage with other outstanding dancers such as the future World Champion in stage category Hugo Mastrolorenzo. He spent three seasons with the show, performing on various famed stages of Buenos Aires, including Confiteria La Ideal, Paseo la Plaza and Salón Sur, among others. Through his involvement with the dance company, he also began teaching at the Tango School of Dina Emed.

From 2004, when he moved to Buenos Aires, to the present, Ignacio has never stopped improving his dance and professional training, taking classes, seminars and workshops with renowned masters of the genre like Fabian Salas, Chicho Frumboli, Julio Balmaceda and Corina de La Rosa, Mauricio Castro, and Gustavo Naveira, among many others. In 2015, he was part of the theater show, “El tango ha muerto,” which received great reviews from newspaper and radio critics. In 2020 and 2022, he was featured in films by the director, dancer and producer Amira Campora: “Tango19” and “Piernas de Tango.” In November 2023, Ignacio received his first P-3 artist visa and began visiting Philadelphia to teach and perform.

Just a few months later, in March 2024, Ignacio suffered a hemorrhagic stroke that nearly killed him. Over the past year, he has had to re-learn everything, from how to breathe and swallow, to how to walk and talk, to how to dance. In January 2025, Ignacio gave his first performance again after the stroke. Tango has been a significant factor in the speed of Ignacio’s recovery and the extent to which he has been able to recover. It is therefore even more meaningful than before for him to be able to help new dancers start their exploration of tango. He is humbled and thrilled to be able to teach the Beginner Track of this year’s festival with his partner, and the festival director, Meredith Klein.

Meredith Klein has been dancing tango for 26 years, including three years spent living in Buenos Aires. Meredith directs the Philadelphia Argentine Tango School (since 2008), the Philadelphia Tango Festival (since 2010), Milonga Tours (offering tango tours of Buenos Aires for dancers since 2009), and the tango record label Bochinche Records (since 2023). Before tango, Meredith came from a background in music, and has made it her life’s mission to help tango dancers and tango musicians understand each other a little better. Her Bochinche Records released Psicoporteño by Tipica Messiez in June 2023.

Meredith has taught and performed in more than 40 cities worldwide, including Istanbul, Sydney and Byron Bay (Australia), Gdansk and Brzeg (Poland), Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Beirut (Lebanon), Nicosia (Cyprus), Vancouver and Montreal (Canada), and more than 30 cities in the United States.

Like many tango dancers, Meredith is fascinated by the transformative potential of tango. When we arrive completely into the moment, in our own body, present with another person, and indeed, with an entire roomful of people (i.e. when we dance tango), magic and healing happen. She is thrilled to help more people access this magic through all the projects that she directs.

In 2024, she started a dance partnership with Ignacio Ondartz, from Mar del Plata, Argentina, who has lived in Buenos Aires for twenty years. He is an extraordinary tango dancer, and literally the very best milonga dancer in the entire world.

In July 2024, Meredith became one of very few foreigners in the world to be named an Honorary Academic of the National Academy of Tango in Buenos Aires, a program of the Argentine Ministry of Culture and Department of Education. She is overwhelmed by this unexpected honor.

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Andres Amarilla began dancing tango in 1987 at age 11. While still a child, he studied with and performed in the dance companies of three of the greatest tangueros of all time: Gustavo Naveira, Juan Carlos Copes, and Rodolfo Dinzel. After 10 years of intensive immersion in the music, culture and movement of traditional Argentine Tango, Andres became part of a small group of young people seeking to push the limits of the traditional art form. Together, they analyzed and codified the movements, sequences and rules of traditional tango and began to play with the “grammar” of the tango language, thereby developing uncounted new sequences of movements, and giving birth to a new means of teaching, dancing and thinking about tango. This way of analyzing tango has become the basis of most good tango pedagogy in the world today.

Andres’s dance is characterized by the rich variety of material that he accesses in improvisation due both to an extraordinarily efficient lead and to an extreme precision of movement. Rather than seeking simple technical brilliance, Andres puts all of this technique and vocabulary to use to create a dance that possesses musical richness, responding to the subtleties of each orchestra with great understanding and feeling.

A greatly sought-after teacher, Andres has taught in more than 70 cities worldwide, including Istanbul, Beirut, Warsaw, Gdansk, Moscow, Sydney, Brisbane, Belo Horizonte, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Vancouver, Montreal, and New York, among many others. In 2008, Andres and his dance partner, Meredith Klein, founded the Philadelphia Argentine Tango School. These days, Andres splits his year between Philadelphia and the world, as he continues to travel worldwide to teach & perform.