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Maria Filali dances tango the way she lives: with curiosity, openness, and an appetite for connection.

Raised between Poland, Morocco, Austria, and Sweden, she grew up building bridges between cultures — a thread that runs straight through her tango. Classically trained in dance from the age of six, she found her way to Argentine tango in 1997 and never looked back. It became, in her own words, the cornerstone of everything that followed.

Over more than two decades, Maria has danced and taught alongside some of tango’s most respected names — fifteen years with Jorge Rodriguez, world tours with Gianpiero Galdi, and countless stages shared with musicians and artists across Europe and Argentina.

But what she brings to the classroom isn’t just experience — it’s a deeply embodied approach to movement, rooted in years of studying body technique and Gyrotonic alongside tango. Her teaching digs into what makes a connection actually work: not just the steps, but the sensation, the musicality, the presence between two people.

In recent years, Maria has taught together with Sigrid Van Tilbeurgh, and dancers at Taboe Camp will remember the pair for the way they open up tango’s technical side without ever losing its warmth and humanity.

This winter, we’re hoping to welcome Maria back — possibly with a new partner, though we don’t have that confirmed yet. Either way, expect a class that goes beneath the surface: technique with heart, and tango as a genuine meeting between two people.

Website: https://mariafilali.com/

Mariano Laplume is a performance artist, tango teacher, and musician from Buenos Aires, now based in Rotterdam. His path into tango started through music: he trained as a violinist and violist, playing with the Sexteto Milonguero and the Orquesta Académica del Teatro Colón, before dedicating himself fully to dance and teaching over twenty years ago.

As a dancer, he’s built long-term partnerships — over a decade with Maral Kojayan (2011–2020), followed by Luciana Saccetti (2020–2024) — working as a resident teacher across Buenos Aires, London, and Rotterdam. More recently he’s performed with Hiba Faisal.

What sets Mariano apart is the combination of skills he brings into the studio: he’s also a fully qualified Alexander Technique teacher, and he weaves that body-awareness work together with his deep musical background to help dancers connect more directly with tango’s musicality — balance, intention, posture, ease of movement. He teaches regularly across the Netherlands, UK, and Germany, including at Cheek2Cheek in Amersfoort.

Website: https://marianolaplume.com

This is a truly charming young couple with a breeze of freshness and enthusiasm from La Plata, Argentina.

From the many different styles and influences they developed their own teaching method. They start the lessons with exercises to develop body awareness which opens the road to explore many possibilities, instead of focusing on fixed sequences. This approach makes it possible to dance with greater ease and flexibility and enables dancers to find their own expression.

Their aim as teachers are to help people find a dance that harmonious, authentic, comfortable and natural.

Website: nyatango.com

Sebastian De La Vallina is a tango dancer, teacher, cellist, and composer born in Rosario, Argentina — a city with one of Argentina’s richest tango traditions outside Buenos Aires. He began playing music at seven, later took up cello and, at Domingo Federico’s side, even studied bandoneón — but it was tango dance that ultimately took over his life, starting with his first class in 1992.

He built his foundation between Rosario and Buenos Aires, dancing with partners including Moira Castellano — part of the celebrated ballet of Vanina Biluos and Roberto Herrera — and studying with figures like Tete Rusconi, Gustavo Naveira, and Mariano “Chicho” Frumboli. Back in Rosario, he helped shape one of the city’s most influential tango movements, blending tradition with a more contemporary sensibility, and mentored dancers who would go on to become respected teachers across Europe.

Since relocating to Europe in 2007 — now based in Rome — Sebastian has taught and performed across the continent, from Berlin and Oslo to Barcelona and Naples, and has been a regular at festivals including Taboe Tango Camp. His teaching draws on an unusually wide toolbox: contemporary dance, body alignment work, Feldenkrais, Tai-chi, and his own concept of “Tangología” — a synthesis of everything he’s absorbed from Rosario’s milongas, Buenos Aires’ golden-age dancers, and Europe’s alternative tango scene.

His main focus in class is helping dancers get free — not through more steps, but through quality of movement and musical expression, until the dance genuinely makes sense.

They approach tango, not as a performative art, but as an encounter of two people, ready to improvise together at the service of the music and sharing the space with a community. This means that by working on your tango you inevitably work in who you are as a person, and by working in yourself you will improve your tango. They believe that with simple but precise movements anyone can reach the elegance, the flow, and the intensity we need to express the messages contained in the tango music.

Website: Tango de la Vallina | Tangología – Danza

Sara D’Ajello Caracciolo is a tango dancer, teacher, and DJ based in Naples. Before tango took over her life, she trained as an architect — a background she describes as having simply shifted focus, from buildings to “the architecture of the body.” She’s been dancing tango since 1995 and teaching since 2002, drawing on years of dance-theatre training to bring a distinct, expressive quality to her tango: less about fixed steps, more about the dialogue between two people moving through space and music together.

She’s the artistic director of Porto Petraio, a Naples space for art, dance, and music, where she organizes the Italian edition of the TangoNeta festival. In 2003 she co-founded “Sulle Rive del Tango,” a project curating non-traditional and alternative tango music, now with five published compilations and regular milongas in Naples, Milan, and Barcelona — she’s also a sought-after DJ at festivals across Europe.

Sara has performed and taught frequently with Sebastian De La Vallina, including at Taboe Tango Camp and festivals like Tarbes en Tango and Tangopostale in Toulouse.

Paras and Paul are teaching tango since nearly two decades.

Based in the Netherlands, they were teaching in many tango-events in Germany, United Kingdom, Poland & Italy. 

They are now only focussing on multi-days events, because they love have time to bring people to a magic journey  where everyone finds a hidden treasures to bring home. 

Their unconventional approach tantric-tango workshops, beyond tango gatherings and many selfmade tango-games makes them as teachers & creators quite unique.

“We love to gather with tango-nomads in the nature and live like in a real (tango) village for a while. Our aim is to create a beautiful ‘energyfield‘ where people can feel at ease, open and connected. Besides all the dancing & learning, we encourage people to connect, interact different ways on unusual & suprising ways always light, gentle, honest and playful because we find it essential that we become a warm, inclusive and supportive group everyone feels at home.”

Website: www.tangoatelier.nl

I HEAR YOU!

A beautiful way to feel heard & embraced through the vocal improvisation morning sessions with Femke. 

Waking up our body with sound through easy and beautiful voice exercises will naturally shift into improvised vocal music. Sometimes with a small group, other times as a circle.

You find your natural musical skills and creativity, getting connected with each other on a refreshing new way.

Femke is giving vocal improv courses in the Conservatorium and elsewhere. Her sweet guidance enables everyone to join without any previous singing experience. 

We make sure you are in good hands when you want to relax and rejuvenate your body.

András Galgóczi is offering many different kind of massages, tailored on your personal needs:

• Relaxation massage (full body)
• Foot massage
• Back Massage
• Lymphatic drainage massage (full body)
• Deep tissue massage (full body)
• Massage in motion and with stretching (full body)
• Swedish massage (full body)

Website: https://www.andrasmassage.com/

After more than 20 years of professional tango career, each on their side, life is offering Sigrid & Maria, the opportunity to transform their friendship and respect to each other into a DUO, to continue to seek the excellence, side by side, enriching and challenging each other on human, pedagogical and artistic levels.

Over the years, they both went around the “classic” male/female configuration, by which they entered the tango and which they did not question a priori. Their many experiences of past collaborations (sometimes even with the same partners) have naturally shown them that what prevails is the content, the philosophy, the vision, the sensitivity, the mutual respect and the curiosity… and certainly not the gender.

In brief, what connects them deeply, and makes their approach so special on the tango scene, is a somatic approach to movement and the body in space. Doing so, they focus on connecting the structure of tango with emotion and musicality.

This very personal approach makes the study of tango with them a fascinating insight into a very coherent and specific, yet completely universal and contemporary dance. As Maria & Sigrid are themselves never-ending students, they both used the imposed stop of the last years to deepen their personal study of the body and movement. Their teaching is thus newly enriched by the study of BODY MIND CENTERING® (Sigrid), GYROKINESIS® and GYROTONIC® (Maria).

This is a truly charming young couple with a breeze of freshness and enthusiasm from La Plata, Argentina.

From the many different styles and influences they developed their own teaching method. They start the lessons with exercises to develop body awareness which opens the road to explore many possibilities, instead of focusing on fixed sequences. This approach makes it possible to dance with greater ease and flexibility and enables dancers to find their own expression.

Their aim as teachers are to help people find a dance that harmonious, authentic, comfortable and natural

Deborah van Cauter (Belgium) & Lucas Malec (Argentina) are completely in love with tango and their biggest wish is to share this passion with all the world.

Deborah, who came from a tango family, started dancing when she was 16; Lucas started as a tango musician and then fond his true passion in the dance. They meet in Brussels in 2018, teaching in Tango Factory, and they started their journey together. They combine their knowledge of the body & music with a solid state of mind, to create a tasty and comfortable dance; true essences of social dance.

They approach tango, not as a performative art, but as an encounter of two people, ready to improvise together at the service of the music and sharing the space with a community. This means that by working on your tango you inevitably work in who you are as a person, and by working in yourself you will improve your tango. They believe that with simple but precise movements anyone can reach the elegance, the flow, and the intensity we need to express the messages contained in the tango music.

Rafael is a superb tango teacher and an excellent dancer, characterised by unusual musical sensitivity. At a milonga he always creates extremely friendly, almost familial atmosphere.

Rafael has been dancing, teaching and Djing about 25 years. He plays traditional tandas with amazing power for dancing and (if people want to) also 1-2 alternative tandas to change the energy. Depending on the location, he also loves to use cortinas to make people laugh and relax.

He´s the co-founder of Tangotanzen Macht Schön, one of the three big tango schools in Berlin and for 10 years he has been hosting the TTMS friday milonga.

Paras and Paul are teaching tango since nearly two decades.

Based in the Netherlands, they were teaching in many tango-events in Germany, United Kingdom, Poland & Italy. 

They are now only focussing on multi-days events, because they love have time to bring people to a magic journey  where everyone finds a hidden treasures to bring home. 

Their unconventional approach tantric-tango workshops, beyond tango gatherings and many selfmade tango-games makes them as teachers & creators quite unique.

“We love to gather with tango-nomads in the nature and live like in a real (tango) village for a while. Our aim is to create a beautiful ‘energyfield‘ where people can feel at ease, open and connected. Besides all the dancing & learning, we encourage people to connect, interact different ways on unusual & suprising ways always light, gentle, honest and playful because we find it essential that we become a warm, inclusive and supportive group everyone feels at home.”

I HEAR YOU!

A beautiful way to feel heard & embraced through the vocal improvisation morning sessions with Femke. 

Waking up our body with sound through easy and beautiful voice exercises will naturally shift into improvised vocal music. Sometimes with a small group, other times as a circle.

You find your natural musical skills and creativity, getting connected with each other on a refreshing new way.

Femke is giving vocal improv courses in the Conservatorium and elsewhere. Her sweet guidance enables everyone to join without any previous singing experience. 

Ayca is our Yin Yoga teacher from Istanbul.

Yin Yoga

Surrendering and resting for a few minutes in different poses gives a deep relaxation, release and new energy for body & mind.

In the poses we minimize muscle activity and stretch the deeper connective ‘yin’ tissues such as the fascia, tendons and ligaments. The deep, prolonged stretches release stress stored in tissues.

Our yin tissues are less supplied with blood and less elastic, therefore they need more time to stretch. When stretched regularly, it increases the overall flexibility, circulation, and range of motion in the joints and ligaments.

The emphasis in Yin Yoga is on relaxed, slow and deep belly breathing helping you hold a pose for longer durations and access new depths.

We make sure you are in good hands when you want to relax and rejuvenate your body.

András Galgóczi is offering many different kind of massages, tailored on your personal needs:

• Relaxation massage (full body)
• Foot massage
• Back Massage
• Lymphatic drainage massage (full body)
• Deep tissue massage (full body)
• Massage in motion and with stretching (full body)
• Swedish massage (full body)