La Rogaia Tango Holidays opens the tango season with argentine master couple Ricardo Barrios & Laura Melo

Ricardo Barrios & Laura Melo
Ricky and Laura will be opening our Tango festival season 2009 with a class on Milonguero style Tango. They express with passion, tradition and innovation an elegant and precise style of dance, characterised by great virtuosity.
Ricardo is an actor, dancer, choreographer, director and teacher. In 1985 he was graduated in 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, the United States, Europe and Asia. He began his work with tango in 1988. His 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 in the Musical "Tanguera" and in the operetta "María de Buenos Aires" by Astor Piazzolla, in this latter play, he worked with the Italian singer Milva.

Laura is a highly acknowledged dancer, teacher and choreographer. Her degrees are in Psychomotricity and Music. She began studying tango in 1997 with Pedro Monteleone, Marcela Guevara, Osvaldo Zotto and Lorena Ermocida. She has taught and performed in International Tango Festivals in Belgium, Italy and Austria. She has done documentaries for the BBC of London and for RAI TV in Italy, as well as commercials for Austrian, Italian and Ukrainian television. Most recently, she was an instructor for the Mora Godoy Studio and for Tango Elite Argentino.

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.
more about Ricardo and Laura at www.ricardoylaura.com.ar

Agriturismo La Rogaia, Azienda agricola biologica
Via Campagna 17
06065 Passignano sul Trasimeno
Umbria, Provincia di Perugia
Italy
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www.rogaia.com

Villa La Rogaia is an agriturismo situated near Lago Trasimeno in Umbria, Italy. It offers holiday apartments and a variety of creative classes, such as painting, dancing, cooking, italian language and many others. It offers also special holiday events, like participating in the olive harvest.Villa La Rogaia is also an organic farm, that cultivates olive trees, produces finest extravergine olive oil and raises medicinal herbs and fragrant plants

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