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Born in Colombia, South America in 1968. Studied drama from 1979 graduating in 1984 in thesean year starte working professional with Taller Teatral el Globo, contemporary Dance,ballet,corporal expression and music til 1989. He studied for 3 year at a full- time Dance and Choreography diploma course at Lewisham College, London.
In 1994 Diomar co-founded artLAT Arte Latino Cultural Project-in London . He toured with acclaimed Bolivian music group Rumillajta from 1995-98 . In 1998 Diomar also performed in Danza Colombia! national tour which was the first visit to the UK of a professional Colombian dance company.
Other artistic achievements have been the participation in Madonnas film EVITA and the choreography for DANCE, a film commissioned by channel 4.
Giraldo teaches Argentinean Tango at in London and elsewhere in the UK and has been invited to teach at tango clubs in Europe and recently visited Hong Kong teaching tango invited by the local tango club. He co-choreographed and dance in Subitango, concert performance touring production running since 2001 to date, in collaboration with Tango Siempre music quartet touring The UK and Ireland. 2004 Diomar Performed in ArtLAT's production Tiempo de Tango, a multimedia performance fusing contemporary dance and tango. Giraldo travels to Buenos Aires to further his training with recognised Masters like Osvaldo Zotto and Roberto Herrera. In 2005 he appeared as guest Argentinean Tango dancer in the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. In 2006 BBC2 invited Giraldo to appear as tango teacher in its new series Extreme Surgery.
Marie Soler, born in Buenos Aires started her education in Tango dancing very early in her life having participated in bonaerenses juvenile championships of the Tango discipline having won gold, silver and bronze medals during 3 consecutive years.
Nowadays she continues her theatrical, contemporaneous and classical disciplines with great argentine masters. She has danced for and with some of the most important orchestras and for some of the main Tango companies as TANGO DREAMS, TANGO EMOCIÓN, TANGUERA and TANGO X2.
As a teacher, professional dancer and choreographer, Marie Soler has given workshops in Argentina, Japan,,China, Chile, Mexico, Europe dancing and lecturing in tango workshops developing her own teaching method and technique and coaching dancers of all ages and levels.
In 2005 she was invited by Miguel Angél Zotto to become the “TANGOX2” company assistant director for the “SU HISTÓRIA” show premiering in 2006 in Buenos Aires.
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began his career in dance 25 years ago. Under international teachers tutorial he studied ballet and international dances, music and drama at the Arts Conservatory of Cali, Colombia. He also studied Contemporary, choreography, Modern, Tap, Jazz, and Argentinean Tango.
His works as choreographer and director included several dance pieces with his dance project Danza Experimental de Cali (DECA) which he founded in 1990 when he starts teaching and directing, developing international exchange programmes with dance companies in Latin America and Europe, working with ArLAT in 1998 in a cultural exchange.
He is regularly invited to teach and develop artistic projects abroad. For 14 years Ancizar have been learning Argentinean tango from several of the most recognised tango masters. At the moment he is directing latinculture.net, a Latin American cultural project based in London.
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Studied folk dance, contemporary dance, gymnastics and ballet in Holland since she was a child and when she already used to dance salsa, in Colombia where she born. At the time that she studied administration and costume design, she continued studying Jazz and contemporary dance 1995-2000.
From 1996 has been a dancer in Danza Experimental de Cali (DECA) and co-directed an established Tango school in Cali-Colombia with Cesar. Carolina came to London in 2000 and since then has been working as tango and contemporary dancer with artLAT and Tiempo de Tango show and she has been also teaching and performing with Cesar around UK and Europe. She also designed the costumes for Tiempo de Tango 2004.
She has been focused in Tango dance since the last 10 years, learning, teaching and performing. Her teachers include the most recognised tango masters from Buenos Aires. She is co-director of latinculture.net.
Juan Manuel (26) started his tango training in Buenos Aires at the early age of sixteen being instructed by renowned teachers such as Elvira Virulazo, Los Dinzel, Gloria y Eduardo, Chicho Frumboli y Los Angio amongst others.
Throughout the years he complemented his tango dance training with courses in contemporary, jazz, ballet and other modern styles in Buenos Aires and London.
By the age of twenty he entered the Tango dance company of Hector Mayoral and Elsa Maria in Buenos Aires as well as doing presentations with the Orquestra of the City of Buenos Aires directed by Garello.
This versatile dancer has been able to display his dancing talents in shows by local UK tango dance groups as well as grander enterprises such as the Opera La Boheme at the Albert Hall theatre, Tango x 2 under the direction of Miguel Angel Zotto, and more recently with the company Tangokinesis directed by Argentinian choregrapher Ana Maria Stekelman he performed in the spectacle “Les noces de l’Enfant-Roi” at the Chateu de Versailles.
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With a long trajectory in the world of tango that has seen him as part of many important dance companies touring internationally, Santiago (34) is one of the most sought after member of the tango community for both his dance and teaching skills too.
Santiago’s career started in Buenos Aires where he studied not only dance techniques which included contemporary, jazz and flamenco as well as tango but also undertook singing and theatre studies.
Amongst his tango teacher he counts Raul Bravo, Pepito Avellaneda, Carlos Perez, Jorge Dispari, Gustavo Naveira and Roberto Herrera.
He has danced in major productions, most notably “El Escote” under the general direction of Roxana Grinstein and Mora Godoy’s “Tango Emocion”.
Valeria (26) is a teacher of classical dance, choreographic composition and corporal expression. As a performer she has packed an impressive cv in her short career with shows that have taken her from Buenos Aires to Europe via South Africa and the US.
Valeria studied argentinian tango under maestros Mayoral y Elsa Maria, Los Dinzell, Mingo Pugliese, Marcelo y Veronica Bernadaz and Cristina Cortez.
In Buenos Aires she has performed in shows aired on TV and at world famous tango venues such as El Viejo Almacen, Casa de Tango, El Club del Vino and the Fundacion Astor Piazzolla.
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