2025 ASTF Festival Maestros

Gianpiero was only 12 when his father (engineer, martial arts teacher, and tango lover) involved him in a free project for the youngster to approach tango. He fell in love with tango during his first trip to Buenos Aires when he was only 15 and since then he’s been studying with all the major Maestros. He became a teacher the following year and started performing in Italy and abroad at 18, realizing he wanted to dedicate his life to tango.
Since then, he has had the chance to travel around and perform with lots of great dancers, such as Mila Vigdorova, Corina Herrera, Cesira Miceli, and Nadia Hronidu. Last but not least, with Maria Filali, with whom he created a flourishing dialogue and a refined lasting project, which has been internationally acclaimed.

Tango and his pedagogy are strictly connected to his studies of music, engineering, and bio-mechanic as “a simple and efficient technique, based on natural laws and aware listening, as the key to free the real and intimate spirit of tango”. For more than a decade, he has been developing a thorough didactic, and intriguing training method. Moreover, to deepen his research, he kept studying motion and teaching: in 2019 graduated in “Motor and Sports Activities and Psychomotor Education Science” with a dissertation on Functional Training Method for Tango which eventually became a book; 2019 became a trainer in the “Gyrotonic Expansion System” method; in 2022 got a Master degree in “Pedagogical Sciences”.

Lorena has been studying dance and ballet since she was five years old, and at 17 she met Tango thanks to Gianpiero. She got immediately passionate about the didactic and the care that is dedicated to the delicate psyche of the amateurs of this complex art. Under Gianpiero’s guidance, she undertook her professional path. Meanwhile, she graduated in Motor and Sports Activities and Psychomotor Education Science at the University of Salerno, with a thesis on the pedagogy and educational inclusion of Tango for teenagers. In 2015 she began studying, teaching, and performing in partnership with Vladislav Petrov and Giovanni Cocomero. She collaborated on many projects led by Gianpiero and in partnership with Giovanni as Gtango School, the cradle of Tango in Salerno; High School Tango-therapy Project, in high dropout rate schools, teaching teenagers values of social relationships through Tango; Tango at University of Salerno, for getting youngsters acquainted into Tango; Tangere company, the group within they’ve been training, researching, working, teaching and performing. In 2019 she became a trainer of the “Gyrokinesis” method.

In 2018 Gianpiero and Lorena began their partnership, working every day on the flow of tango connection, based on their deep mutual understanding. They are moved by the research on the analysis of an always more precise and effective didactic method, later just called the Method, and his procedures, to provide the expressive Art of Tango of a sharp, accurate but also meaningful, deep, and truthful tool of communication.