John Zabala y Claudia Cavagnini

John Zabala and Claudia Cavagnini

We are two dancers who fell in love with tango very young and we both went to Buenos Aires to study with maestros from the old and the new generation. We share a similar visión of dance and of Tango teaching.

Our dancing style is base don improvisation, on traditional bases with modern nuances, which gives us a wide approach of Tango. In addition, we always keep teaching Tango as a social dance and popular argentin culture.

John Zabala

John Zabala is a tango dancer, teacher and collector. He did his first dancing steps at the age of 9. At 16 years old, he fell in love with Tango. He begins studying in Colombia with different maestros and then travels to Buenos Aires in order to keep studying. He decides to live there, being this city the mother of Tango, and studies with well known and respected argentines maestros, soaking up this great culture.

John Zabala’s carreer kept going all over the world, in several countries, but from now on he is living in Paris. Dedicated to improvisation and teaching, he keeps studying, following the teaching of maestros of the old and the new generation, which allows him to develop a traditional Tango style but with modern contributions.

Awards and titles :

-National Champion of Tango 2007, Cali, Colombia

- 5th place in the World Championship of Tango 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina

- Metropolitan Champion of Tango 2010, Santiago, Chile

- Metropolitan Champion of tango Salón and Escenario 2011, Santiago, Chile.

Claudia Cavagnini

Claudia Cavagnini started dancing when she was 8 years old. She discovered her passion for dance in its different forms, being jazz her favorite, which she practiced for 8 years. At the age of 17, she discovered Tango by chance and fell in love with it : the passion within it led her to study intensively with great maestros of different generations and in 2011 she moves to Buenos Aires in order to follow the Tango dream. There, she gets into the tango company DNI Tango de Buenos Aires.

In 2014, she comes back to Italy where she goes on studying, teaching and dancing, collaborating with some of the best maestros and dancers of north Italy.

Our objective :

Our objective is to work the essence of Tango as well as its technical bases without looking for transmitting quickly only moves. We work slowly but surely, achieving this way to adapt to the rhythm of the students. The kind of Tango we are developing is absolutely suitable for the milonga (ballroom) where the student can stand for himself cultivating the codes of the milonga itself, with the du respect.

Our teaching is based on Tango as a social mood. To do so, we work hard in our class but always in a good mood so that the students can have a good time and learn from whatever we can create during class. We share our love for tango, not only by teaching it but also by awaking the students sensibility to the different Tango orchestras and singers so he can adapt his dance to the tango music.