2025 ASTF Festival Maestros

Silvina Tse started dancing at the age of 6 and she has a background in rhythmic gymnastics, swimming (that she has been teaching for over 10 years) as well as hip hop, gyrotonic (she is a Gyrotonic trainer), ballet, and modern dance. Her love for Argentine Tango started in 2009 and shortly after she attended Tango classes with the well-renowned maestros from Italy and Buenos Aires.

After receiving the highest degree in civil engineering Silvina decided that she was more into the analysis of the body expression through the dance and chose to dedicate her life exclusively to tango, and she received the formal professional teacher diploma. Her approach to Tango is based on mastering a variety of styles to understand the entire subject and help every single student find a personal style with a clean technique.

For many years Silvina has been a full-time teacher at two established Tango schools in Italy – Streetango & ArteDanza then, after a few years of just traveling and performing around the world she decided to open her tango reality in Bologna. Silvina has been invited to teach tango in Canada, Australia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Netherlands, Poland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Croatia, Belgium and other countries. During the COVID pandemic, partnering with Michael Nadtochi, she started an online project of tango education: she currently keeps alive the initiative providing new Technique videos that connect her with students all around the world.

At the moment Silvina is partnering with two professional Tango dancers: Julio Alvarez with whom she is building the school in Italy as well as traveling for shows and intensive workshops around the world; Murat Erdemsel for international projects: they both are expressive dancers and teachers whose musicality is fine interpretation.

Julio Alvarez, is a Cuban dancer who loves Argentine tango, a discipline he studies and teaches with great passion and competence.

In addition to the dance studio in Havana, he studied music (percussion) with maestro Enrique Lazaga. He continued his dance and folk dance studio in Rio de Janeiro where he participated as a dancer and teacher in the CIA and School of the great master Jaime Aroxa. Then he moved to Buenos Aires where he deepened his knowledge of tango with the teacher Gisel Duran among other masters. At the same time, as continuing his dance training, he studied teaching methodology, specializing in motor science. He additionally specializes as a sports coach, both in the technical and mental fields.

He has worked as a dancer in the company of “Los Hermanos Macana” and has collaborated with some of the most important international tango dancers.

Currently, he studies music, piano, and bandoneon and has developed an innovative and effective method of teaching musicality in tango (Method A) based on the study of dance in Cuba, a land of unparalleled tradition in this field:

In 2016 with his dancer Yailet Suárez they won the metropolitan championship of Milan in the tango open, milonga, vals categories. Winners of the final of the national metropolitan circuit in Rome in the tango open, milonga, and vals categories, and Italian champions in Tango de pista category. Milonga and Free Style champions in the Saint Petersburg White Tango championship. In 2019 with Miranda Tomassoni at Berlin Open – Tango contest: they won the Audience Award.

He has been invited to seminars and festivals in more than 15 countries as a renowned teacher and dancer; he currently lives in Milan where he teaches regularly. In 2021 he started dancing and collaborating with Silvina Tse for workshops and performances and they teach regular courses in Bologna and Lucca.