Ricardo Barrios y Laura Melo
With a vast experience, an internationally recognized career and a high level of artistic and didactic quality, RICARDO BARRIOS and LAURA MELO represent the most authentic tradition of Tango Argentino.
RICARDO is an actor, dancer, choreographer, director and teacher. In 1985 he graduated from the National School of Dramatic Arts; since then he has performed, playing various roles, in over 60 productions of dance and theater in Latin America, United States, Europe and Asia.
He began his work with tango in 1988. His principal teachers were Juan Bruno, Miguel Balmaceda, Antonio Todaro, Oscar Casal and Domingo Pugliese. In recent years, he was part of the highly acclaimed Company ''Tango x 2'' of Miguel Angel Zotto, was artistic director of ''Tango Emoción'' of the Mora Godoy Company and participated as actor, dancer and choreographer of the Musical ''Tanguera'' and in the operetta ''María de Buenos Aires'' by Astor Piazzolla, in this latter play with the Italian singer Milva.
LAURA is a highly acknowledged dancer, teacher and choreographer. Her degrees are in Psychomotricity and Music. She began her tango studies in 1997 with Pedro Monteleone, Marcela Guevara, Osvaldo Zotto and Lorena Ermocida.
She has taught and performed in International Tango Festivals in Italy, Belgium and Austria. She has done Tango Documentaries for the BBC of London and for RAI Italian TV, as well as commercials for Austrian, Italian and Ukrainian television.
Most recently she was and instructor for the Mora Godoy Studio and Tango Elite Argentino Studio.
Ricardo and Laura have been working together professionally since 2002. They have done exhibitions, workshops and concerts in many European cities. They have performed with orchestras including Color Tango, Juan José Mossalini, Hyperion and Tango Seis.
In January 2005, they were part of the Union Tanguera Company, presenting the show ''Efecto Tango'' in La Maison de la Danse, Lyonne, France.