Sebastian Arce and Mariana Montes

Sebastian Arce and Mariana Montes have done a lot for promoting tango overseas by their love and commitment to teaching, organizing tango events, and dancing. Their work has taken them to visit since ’99 over 140 cities, 35 countries, and counting…

As teachers, Sebastian and Mariana are among the most required, participating yearly in nearly 40 big scale events in Europe, Asia, North America, and Latin America.

They have produced as well 13 great scale tango events in France and USA (mephisto tango summer festival 2002-2006; Revirado Tango France 2002-2003; C.I.T.P. 2006-2007, Neotango Fest USA 2005-2006, Antipanico USA 2005-2006), and concerts with tango orchestras such as Fernandez Fierro, Orquesta tipica Imperial, Hyperion Ensamble, La Chicana; and electronic tango orchestras such as Bajofondo Tango Club, Gustavo Santaolalla, Tanghetto, Electrocutango and many others.

Choreographers of the show ‘Piazzolleando’ presented in Italy, Belgium, and England. They are co-directors of the show Exodo Tangueando (currently touring Europe).

Sebastian Arce and Mariana Montes have kept their pedagogical activities around the world non-stop since 1999. Their names are easily found on the top of the casting of the most renown yearly international tango events, such as Mantova Tango Festival (IT), Amsterdam Tango Festival Tangomagia (NT), Torino Tango Festival (IT), Tango Revolution (IT), 59 degrees Tango Festival (SW), and many others, and last but not least, the biggest tango reunion of them all the C.I.T.A. (International Tango Congress in Argentina).

From their gathered experiences, Sebastian and Mariana have developed their own teaching methodology based on the harmony between conscious and unconscious body control applied to movement/non movement. Their methodology also focuses on awakening senses before applying them to the dance (understanding of relationship stimuli – answer, physical and theoretical/ sensorial and auditive), and have as a final goal the self expression, the research of your own dance from the needs created by the student’s own tango path, paying much attention to the non-movement, the introspection of the dance, the contemplation.