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Akiyoshi & Noriko Tanada (Tokyo)

Akiyoshi & Noriko are one of the most famous tango dance couples in Japan. Their tango style is dramatic and graceful, filling the poetic sentiment of tango.They began to dance tango in 1990, and found the Tango Project Japan in 1999.

They are skilled tango teachers who teach not only in japan but also in foregin countries, and are excellent tango dancers invited to perform at tango shows. They were champions at the 3rd Tango Dance World Championship in Asia in stage category in 2006. Akiyoshi is the chairman of NAPTA (Nihon Asociacion Profesional de bailarines de Tango Argentino).

Raymond Chu & Lily Cheng (Hong Kong)

Raymond and Lily have recently won in the Asian Tango Championship 2011 as the champions in Salon category.

They have started Argentine Tango in 2003 and have devoted to Tango since then. They are very dedicated dancers and have learnt Tango from many Argentine masters with their extended visits to Buenos Aires. They started teaching since 2006 and have been invited to perform in various occasions, including Seoul Tango Festival in Korea, Taipei Tango Festival, Sydney Tango Festival and in many other milongas and shows. They are the organizer of Practica Otro and Outdoor Milongas. In 2010, Lily quit her job as an architect to work fulltime to promote Argentine Tango in Hong Kong.

Hung-Yut "Leonel" Chen & Hwayi "Florencia" Han (Seoul)

Hung-Yut “Leonel” and Hwayi “Florencia” are excited to attend and dance at the Taipei Tango Festival. They have been coming to this event since the beginning, and every year they can see many of their friends and maestros here. They want to thank the festival organizers for their excellent work.

Hung-Yut & Hwayi are a couple of professional tango dancers and organizers from Seoul. They run their own tango studio, El Bulín, and they organize the annual Seoul Tango Festival, the biggest event of its kind in Korea. They have been invited to teach and perform at half a dozen cities in Korea, as well as for festivals and workshops in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, and USA. Previous to their partnership, Hwayi joined the 2004 World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires and won second prize in the stage section. Hung-Yut is originally from Hong Kong and he speaks fluent Chinese.

Masahito Namiki & Agnes Tang (Tokyo & Taipei)

Masa Namiki sailed out into the sea of tango in 1996.  He has lived in Buenos Aires about 2 years where he has woven the feeling of porteño into his tango.  He was a champion of Salon category in 2005 and a finalist in Stage category in 2004 and 2006 in the Tango Dance World Championship in Asia, has been featured in advertisement and documentary films, performed in important venues such as Sin Rumbo and Glorias Argentinas in Buenos Aires, Barajo in Paris, Sweet Basil in Tokyo, Corazon Tango in Taipei and has performed in the Taipei Tango Festival in 2010 with Agnes.

Agnes Tang started her tango career right after folk dance and flamenco. Besides having her own professions in private equity investment, she is also a professional dancer, teacher and choreographer giving regular tango lessons, performances and workshops in Taiwan, Tokyo, Nagoya, Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai... etc. In 2005, she participated in a tango performance at the Experimental Theatre of the National Theatre of Taiwan and in 2006, she won the Creative Expression Award in the Asian Tango Championship in Tokyo with Derrick Lee.

Tzu-Han Hsu & Kyoko Wakao (Tokyo)

Tzu-Han & Kyoko reside in Tokyo (though would love to travel to other places and see the tango & sites), enjoy comics & animals, want to eat a lot of night market food & try taichi, are looking forward to our first TTF & meeting a bunch of people, and feel weird talking in the third person.  Say hi if you see us!

Rodrigo Rodrigues & Natsuko Mae (Hiroshima)

RODRIGO Brasilian of Japanese descendant.
NATSUKO Studied in BsAs from 2003 to 2007 and belonged to Mora Godoy Ballet Tango.

They were finalist for two consecutive years in the Asian Championships 2011 & 2010, winning the Best Couple and Best Dressed awards. In 2010, they opened the studio EL ABRAZO DE TANGO in Hiroshima.

Demián Fontenla & Vivian Yeh (Shanghai)

Demián Fontela (Argentina) and Vivian Yeh (Taiwan) are two tango fanatics with over 10 years of teaching and dancing experience that met in Buenos Aires and are giving tango lessons and organizing milongas in a regular basis in Shanghai. TangoBang, founded in 2008, has been known as the best tango school and organizers in Shanghai. TangoBang has been working closely with the Argentina Consulate to introduce the tango culture to Shanghai. During the 2010 Shanghai EXPO, the two parties hosted several successful events in the Pavilion of Argentina, including the first ever milonga in an EXPO, that brought argentine tango to Shanghai, China, and to visitors from all over the world.

Federico Kim & Selene Son (Pohang)

Federico & Selene started dancing Tango in 2005. They are dance and teach tango in Pohang, Korea. They have performed in several festivals including Busan Beach Milonga, Daejeon Tango Festival, and others. They were finalists of Tango Salon at the 2011 Mundial de Tango in Buenos Aires.

L.Y. Cheng & Yvonne Peng (Taipei)

Yvonne Peng, a familiar name for frequenters of the Taipei Tango Festival. Indeed, she is the female voice of the iTango Orchestra that accompanies us every year. This year, we will not hear her singing, but will see her first dance exhibition in this glamorous occassion, along with attire of her own design and brand.

L.Y., with eight years of tango, his strong passion for it has never been different. He has passed on this feeling to his many students for the two years that he has been teaching tango with Yvonne.

This is their first exhibition in the Taipei Tango Festival. They wish to spread their passion further to reach more people.

Daniel Liu & Stacy Jou (Taipei)

Tango dancers, teachers and choreographers. Pioneers of tango in Taiwan and co-founders of the Taipei Tango Association in year 2000. Founders and organizers of the Taipei Tango Festival starting in 2003, an event to become the biggest tango festival in Eastern Asia. Co-founders of Tanguísimo Tango Space, a multi-functional studio in the heart of Taipei that holds milongas, lessons, cultural talks and tango shows with live music and dance.

Daniel and Stacy have participated in movies, commercials and musical videos as tango instructors and chogreographers, working with actresses Chiling Lin and Sandrine Pinna (Jung-Jung Chang), and singers Tanya Tsai, Jody Chiang and A-Mei. As dancers they have performed in several cities in Asia and Europe.

DJs

Hung-Yut "Leonel" Chen (Seoul)

Hung-Yut “Leonel” likes selecting and playing music for tango dancers in milongas.  He enjoys feeling the need of a crowd, getting the dancers to their feet, and creating an atmosphere where people can enjoy the intensity of tango music. He has been invited to DJ at many international events, including Beijing Dream of Illusion Tango Weekend, Hong Kong Tango Festival, Portland Tango Festival, Sydney Salon Tango Festival, Taipei Tango Festival, and the upcoming Shanghai Tango Festival. He has been a regular DJ at the following local milongas in Seoul: Tango O Nada, El Tango Café, and El Bulín.

Lung-Kuei Lin (New York)

While quietly going about his business, Lung-Kuei has attracted both envy and affection throughout the tango community. The men want to dance like him, and the women like to dance with him. His immersion in the tango world has been a happy success.

An integral part of the U.S. tango scene, he runs off to the best festivals across the country with tremendous zeal. As a result, he’s one of the more sought-after leaders in the country, and has also developed a keen sensitivity toward what makes a milonga go well. Although his dancing is already very clean and quite musical, he’s constantly working to make it more musical, more precise, and more lovely for his partner. His most influential teachers have been Rebecca Shulman, Robin Thomas, Evan Griffiths, Diego Di Falco, and Silvina Valz.

Lung-Kuei started studying tango in 2005 and began deejaying in 2007. Gradually he built a solid reputation as a deejay and now he’s invited to spin tunes at the most popular and best milongas and practicas in town. Tango festivals fly him in to DJ. His choices are not strange: he just plays one good song after another, placed in sequence with sensitivity.

Lung-Kuei has zero attitude about what he does well, and always keeps a sense of humor about things, while remaining a serious milonguero, 100% dedicated to the craft, the life, and the music of tango.

Federico Kim (Pohang)

Federico is a regular DJ in Korea. He was DJ in the 2010 and 2011 Seoul Tango Festival.

Jason Jiang (Toronto)

An accomplished dancer and deejay based in Toronto, Canada, he has learned his dance from world-renowned maestros, Carlos & Rosa Pérez, Jorge Díspari & María del Carmen, Javier Rodríguez & Andrea Missé, Natacha Poberaj, Fabián Peralta & Virginia, Nito & Elba and Valeria Solomonoff, among others.

As a DJ, he is passionate about tangos from late 20’s to mid 50’s, offering a wide range of music from his vast collection, some of them hard-to-find gems, to generate the most rewarding and inspiring dancing experience for milonga-goers. His selection of music is characterized by dynamic and sensation of dancers, dictated by the energy flow on the dancing floor. He deejays and compiles playlist “on-the-fly” at the milonga, using only the best fidelity and professional sounding quality tracks of recordings. He has been guest deejaying regularly at Tango Congreso Toronto, Toronto Tango Festival and at local milongas in Canada, New York City, Shanghai and Beijing.

Olive & Hons (Hong Kong)

Olive & Hons are two of the latest generation of Hong Kong tango dancers and DJs. Inspired by a visit to Buenos Aires, they have built a reputation in Hong Kong as a DJ-couple with exquisite musical taste. Hosts of Sunday afternoon’s popular High Tea Milonga, they have also DJed for Taipei Tango Festival and Hong Kong Tango Festival in 2010. The couple is enthusiastic about pursuing their research interest in integrating vintage and modern sound technologies, attempting to bring out the original taste of golden age tango recordings.

Maxima Chang (Taipei)

Regular DJ for the weekly milongas at Corazón Tango and the weekly milongas at Tanguísimo Tango Space since 2010. Born and raised in Taipei, she is in love with Tango for the seventh year, inspired by her masters: Javier Rodríguez & Andrea Missé, and Marite Lujan.

During her stay in Buenos Aires from 2009 to 2010, she took interest in arranging music for milongas, having learnt from and getting inspired by many senior porteño DJs. Since then, she has aimed to share her memories of the beautiful ambience of BAs when moving back to Taipei.

She was also invited to be DJ for Sebastian Missé & Andrea Reyero Workshops, Andrés Laza Moreno & Isabel Acuña Workshops in Taipei, both in 2010 and 2011.