Barbara Marconi & Javier Guiraldi
Musicality and History of Tango in a single solution
Barbara "Bibbi" Marconi, multifaceted and versatile personality, with neuroscientific training, studied chitarra and dance until she was a child, carrying her great love for music at the moment of her encounter with the Argentine Tango, neglected in 2000.
She started I will study with Maestro Alejandra Mantinan, who has been affiliated for more than 10 years and in the following, with Gustavo Naveira, Mariano "Chicho" Frumboli, Sebastian Arce, Fabian Salas, Carlos Perez, Fabian Peralta and Julio Balmaceida.
She did transfer to Buenos Aires to subsequently approfondire the study of the Rio de la Plata culture, so that she is passionate and deeply knowledgeable. She studies Tango dance and music, her story and that of her Orchester de ella da oltre 18 years, sia through personal investigations, che following the lessons of Maestri Horacio "Pebete" Godoy and Ignacio Varchausky.
She makes the Orchestral / epochal differentiation the cornerstone of her teaching method, known as "Music-Movement Coherence", which she carries out both permanently in Rome and, in recent years, on both national and international tours.
She is seen in many Milonghe and Festival, in copy with the ballerino Gustavo F. Diaz. She has directed for more than 20 years the Scuola stabile in Rome "La chiave del cuore" ASD.
She is Direttore Tecnico Nazionale / Internazionale, per il Argentine Tango, of the Federazione Sportiva Nazionale (FIDS / CONI) and of that Internazionale, other than the president of the Commissione Tecnica MIDAS, the only training agency convenzionata alla FIDS. He is the ideator, other than the first author, of the Technical Testo sulle Danze argentine della MIDAS.
She continues ad constantly updated, convinces like her, that the study of Tango, as dance, music, poetry and language in evolution, is an infinite "journey". She currently studies Sport Management at the Scuola dello Sport di Sport & Salute.
Javier Guiraldi, born in Argentina, began his journey with Argentine tango and folklore at the age of just 12 years old.
His first teacher was Osmar Odone and then he continued his studies with Los Dinzel (Gloria and Rodolfo) with whom he built his foundations as a dancer.
During his career he also deepened his studies with other masters of the highest level.
Dancer in several tango shows such as: Ognatango, Candelejas tango, Vamos al tango and Tangata menor, he subsequently also became a choreographer of other shows.
He began his career as a teacher at 17, and immediately was called around all over South America to hold Tango workshops.
As his knowledge of Tango grew, an unbridled passion for its music and for all the mother orchestras of the Tango feeling was born in him, thus becoming the resident DJ of the milonga "La Marshall" in Buenos Aires, as well as Gricel, Confiteria Ideal, Obelisk Tango.
In the last 15 years Javier has been in Italy between Sicily and Reggio Calabria and in other European cities such as Copenhagen, Hamburg, Paris, Reykjavik and Stockholm, both as a teacher and as a DJ.
His desire to make Tango grow meant that he settled permanently in Italy, this also allows him to continue to hold dance and musicality courses around Italy and Europe more assiduously.
He currently resides in the city of Reggio Calabria, and holds lessons at the "Fenix-ASD Nuova Fata Morgana" headquarters.