La Rogaia Tango Travels 2010 Easter Tango with argentine master couple Ricardo Barrios & Laura Melo

PRLog (Press Release) - Mar. 3, 2010 - Ricky and Laura will be opening La Rogaia´s Tango festival  and Tango workshop season 2010 with a class on Salon style Tango. In the Tango class at Villa La Rogaia Argentine Tango students will learn to move with grace on the dance floor and profit from the  passion,  and joy , which are typical for Ricardo Barrios´ and Laura Melo´s teaching concept. Students will  also like the precise style of dance and the elegance their movements will develop , two other valuable things which they will learn in this workshop. All this never is taught in a stressful way, but comes always with a smile. Ricky and Laura are famous for their good mood, patience and sense of humour.
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

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Villa La Rogaia is an agriturismo (a country house which offers relaxed holidays in the countryside ), and organic farm situated in the beautiful hills near Lago Trasimeno in Umbria, Italy. It offers holiday apartments and a variety of creative and art classes, such as painting, dancing Argentine Tango and Salsa, original Italian cooking, learning Italian language, olive harvest, stone sculpting, modeling with clay and many others. Villa La Rogaia offers also holiday apartments accessible with wheelchairs.

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