Barbara Carpino and Claudio Forte are professional tango Argentino dancers, belonging to the most charismatic of their generation. Very young, hardly 25, they first encountered tango in 2002, after having studied classical ballet, contemporary dance, ballroom and Latin dance.
Leaning on the diversity of their background they have developed a personal style, with a unique simplicity and elegance, and quickly built their reputation becoming one of the most important Italian tango couples.
All in Claudio & Barbara's dance comes down to full improvisation, so much that they choose the music for their performance 10 minutes before going on stage, according to the atmosphere and their mood.
Elegance, softness and ease are the essential characteristics of this extraordinary couple. In their dance and in their teaching they manage to always transmit different emotions and be at once sweet and passionate, a quality difficult to find in other dancers.
In 2006 they ended as 4th couple in the World Championship of Argentine Tango in Buenos Aires, being the first classified non-Argentinean couple and the highest ever classified foreign couple, a historical achievement.
They have their own school in Syracuse and are organizers of the Syracuse International Tango Festival. Today they travel the world giving classes and performing, among others in the following cities: Bologna, Buenos Aires (Tango Brujo e Canning), Capri, Catania, Crema, Enna, Florence, Lugano, Messina, Milan, Naples, Padova, Palermo, Paris, Perugia, Ragusa, Riccione, Rome, Syracuse, Torino.