About us
BIO OUR TEACHER TEAM FOR THE 2024 SEASON LUCILA PREGO - INTERNATIONAL GUEST TEACHER OF THE SEASON • Finalist in the Tango World Championship of Buenos Aires 2021. (Stage Tango Category) • First Place in Milonga Category in the Metropolitan Tango Championship of Italy 2022. (Prato) • Second Place in Milongueros Category; Third place in Vals Category and Milonga Category in the Metropolitan Tango Championship of Italy 2022. (Milano) • Tango dancer from different shows in Buenos Aires. ELODIE LABONNE is the founder of the Gothenburg-based tango school "Connect With Joy". Certified Gyrokinesis and Pilates trainer, she brings comfort and freedom to your dance floor. On the social dance floor and in the practice room, she dances and explores both roles, leader and follower, which gives her a 360° perspective on the dance. With a heart full of passion for people, and a contagious smile, she cares about pedagogy and technique as much as the social experience in her classes and events. Besides her work in Gothenburg, Elodie has been substituting at M2 Tango studio in Copenhagen, guest teaching in Stockholm, and to various festivals, in Turkey, Denmark, and Finland. JULIAN CASTRO was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has studied and devoted to tango since his teenage years, bringing his passion for this timeless art to Sweden which culminated in the creation of "El Encuentro Tango" argentine tango school. He has nearly two decades of experience and has worked and performed in Argentina, Italy, Germany, UK, Mexico among other places. His tango is a combination of elegant tango coupled with modern and solid technique. He has studied and developed with world famous dancers and tango legends like Ruben and Sabrina Veliz, Maximiliano Cristiani and Karina Colmeiro (tango salon world champion 2013), Gabriel Missé, Guille Barrionuevo and Mariela Sametband, Noelia Barsi, Javier Rodriguez, Sebastian Jimenez (world champion 2010), among others. As a young athlete, he has won two silver medals and two bronzes at the Italian Taekwondo championships in 2006. Recently, his work with the argentinian art has been portrayed by the newspaper Sydöstran and by the popular tv show Landet Runt |
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