WORKSHOP: Sharing their experience! Maria Filali & Alberto Colombo

Name: WORKSHOP: Sharing their experience! Maria Filali & Alberto Colombo
Start: 2025-12-05T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-12-05T21:30:00+02:00
Location: 4 Nakou str, 11743 Athens, Greece

Schedule

Fri Dec 05 2025 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

4 Nakou str, 11743 Athens, Greece | Athens, AT

WORKSHOP
On Friday, before the marathon begins, join us for a special workshop open level by Maria Filali and Alberto Colombo.
A discussion exploring how tango has evolved over the decades by their personal experience and perspectives.
They are going to share their knowledge and fundamentals behind their dance.
A fantastic trip from their beginnings to the vibrant, diverse dance career they have developed.
FRIDAY 05/12
⏰ 20:00 - 21:30
📍TANGart, Nakou 4. (Marathon venue)
🎫 10 Euros participation.
💃🏻MARIA FILALI:
Throughout my childhood and adolescence, I lived in several countries, including Poland, Morocco, Austria, and Sweden. This experience primed me to be curious, eager to tackle the unknown, and open to others. My professional career is an extension of how I grew up: I continue to build bridges between the cultures and methods of expression that are a part of my life.
From a very early age, dance was a part of my everyday life and a pursuit that set the path for my future. I received extensive training in academic dance in several conservatories in Vienna, Austria; Stockholm, Sweden; and Bordeaux, France, with a focus on ballet, modern, and then contemporary dance. I danced throughout school and university from the age of 6 to 24.
At the age of 18, I moved to France as a university student, earning my Master’s Degree in Communications, Arts, and Performance in Bordeaux. I continued my studies at the same time I attended the Bordeaux Conservatory for dance, where I finished my training with a gold medal award in 1995 followed by a medal of honor in 1996 for modern and contemporary dance.
Once I moved to Paris, I threw myself into new discoveries and body-centered techniques out of both a personal desire to grow and a dedication to expanding my horizons as a performer and teacher. I practiced contemporary dance daily in Paris between 1996 and 2000 with several invited professors at Ménagerie de Verre and Studio Harmonic, studied acting between 2000 and 2003, took on opera singing in 2009 and 2010, and pursued yoga and gyrotonic.
In 1997, I discovered Argentine tango, which has been the focus of my career for the past 20 years. For several years, I started by regularly attending the classes of Christophe Lambert and Judith Elbaz. At the same time, I practiced on a daily basis and continued to broaden my knowledge of Argentine tango while working with partners in Europe and Argentina through regular and one-off collaborations over the years, especially with my friends, Daniel Carlsson, Eric Lindgren, Oriel Toledo, Aoniken Quiroga, Fausto Carpino, Andres Molina, John Zabala, and more (see videos).
Jorge Rodriguez became my regular partner for 15 years. Together, we enjoyed a rich human and artistic experience and had the opportunity to work with wonderful and accomplished artists, including Juan Jose Mosalini, Sandra Rumolino, Gustavo Beytelman, Cesar Stroscio, the El Después Quintet, and Alfredo Arias.
Between 2014 and the summer of 2018, I lived another tango partnership with Gianpiero Galdi. We took on an incredible artistic, educational, and human adventure that included tours to every corner of the world.
TEACHING AND DANCING
In 2007, I began giving tango classes on my own and then with a partner primarily through my association, “leS Sens du Bal.” That’s also when I started to develop a workshop that taught body technique through the lens of tango — a teaching approach that I continue to use today.
In 2010, to help foster my exploration of tango and create opportunities to develop my practice and eclectic approach to the dance, I created the “Les Elles du Tango” (Ladies of Tango) collective. (See “Projects“)
CHOREOGRAPHY AND COACHING
Over the years, I’ve served as a tango consultant for performances from a variety of artistic fields, including contemporary dance, theatre, cinema, and opera. Dance performances that I’ve worked on include “La Revancha del Tango” with Gotan Project; “Fleur de Cactus” with Compagnie de Catherine Berbessou; “Des papillons dans le ventre” for Compagnie Jean Gaudin; “Tango mon amour”, an opera by J. Romano and J. Zulueta; “Tungetango” by P.A. Glovingen; and “La Part’ de l’Autre” with Compagnie GestuElle/S. Samba.
For theatre and cinema performances, I coach and choreograph for actors, including Valérie Bonneton, Guillaume de Tonquédec, and Pascal Demolon in the TV series “Fais pas ci Fais pas ça” (2017); Gregory Barco and Sonia Nemirovsky in “Le Vol” by Compagnie de la Porte au Trèfle (2015); Jacques Gamblin in “Bellamy” by Claude Chabrol (2009); and Olivier Sitruk, Barbora Bobulova, and Sagamore Stevenin in “Coco Chanel” by Christian Duguay (2008), Matilda May and Pascal Demolon in “The war of the Roses” (2018)
CREATIVE WORK
Dance video is the medium I’ve chosen to express my creativity as a choreographer and dancer. I’ve conceived and co-signed the realisation of “À l’ombre d’une sieste,…Vertige” (Directed by Jean Gaudin, 2007), “Premier Tango à Paris”, and “Con tus besos” (Directed by T. Baspeyras, 2014), “El Después” (Directed by E. Weis, 2017), and “(O)Rage tango” (Directed by B. Hamieh, 2017). I’m currently working on a new project entitled “Sweet Pain—Murmuration” (Directed by Elodie Weis).
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🕺ALBERTO COLOMBO’s long-standing tango career dates back to 1993 when he discovered tango while studying dance theatre with Silvia Vladimivsky. During one of his many trips to Buenos Aires, the first being as early as 1996, he was invited by Gustavo Naveira, Fabian Salas and Mariano “Chicho” Frumboli to form a group which aimed to investigate new ways of improvising inside tango.
During those years he met Teresa Cuña who had a pivotal role in improving his dance; together they performed in different countries in Europe. Afterwards he worked with Moira Castellano, Cecilia Gonzalez and Claudia Jakobsen.
In 1994 he opened up the first milonga in Milano. The milonga called “Bellezza” is still running after almost 20 years and its dance floor has seen the best dancers performing and the best DJs playing music; it’s a place full of history and stories where many generations of new tangueros have grown up.
Since 1999 to 2003 he had performed with the French company Quart’Zarts: their show Valser toured the most important venues in Europe. From 2001 to 2009 he partnered with Alessandra Rizzotti with whom he performed in festivals and theaters, establishing himself as one of the leading tango teacher and performer in Italy.
In 2009 he started his artist partnership with Mariela Sametband. During the four following years he has performed, together with Mariela, in the most important international festivals, in Buenos Aires and worlwide.
He regularly travels back to Buenos Aires where he dances, performs and studies and also teaching. 20 years spent in festivals and milongas worldwide, always studying, teaching, dancing, meeting and performing with the top artists of this wonderful dance have established him as one of the most respected and older teacher in the European tango scene .
From the beginning of 2014 he has started to dance with one of the most important and professional dancer , Celine Ruiz. They can use their long experience and knowledge to perform and teaching all around the world with a high quality