Sakura Tango Festival 2026

Ezequiel Paludi and Geraldina Rojas are internationally acclaimed Argentine tango artists, renowned for their unique and refined style that seamlessly blends technical precision with profound emotional expression. For over two decades, they have brought tango to some of the most prestigious and unexpected stages worldwide, constantly pushing the boundaries of the dance form.

They first performed together in October 2005 in Buenos Aires during the production “Corrientes Esquina Glamor” and later joined the world tour of Forever Tango. Their work spans film, television, advertising, and international festivals, including Schitterend, Máxima: The Series, and performances with Roberto Bolle.

Since 2016, they have taught in Amsterdam, offering a unique program accessible to dancers of all levels. They also founded the Tangomatter community, sharing their expertise in movement, musicality, and connection. Their partnership balances innovation and tradition, capturing the essence of tango while introducing a fresh, contemporary sensitivity.

Bárbara Ferreyra and Agustín Agnez have been dancing together for six years.
They are the 2021 World Tango Pista Champions, as well as professional tango dancers and teachers. Their debut as producers and event organizers took place in October 2022 with their first festival, Encuentro Nacional de Tango Argentino (Penta Tango Festival), held in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.
They have completed five world tours, each lasting between four and nine months, performing in countless cities across Europe, including Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Switzerland, France, Estonia, Finland, Norway, England, Scotland, and Ireland. They have also toured Africa (Tunisia) and Asia (China). While in Buenos Aires, they continue to offer seminars, private classes, competition coaching, and tango performances.
They have also participated in numerous festivals and tango weekends across Argentina and South America, including Chile, Bolivia, and Peru. Additionally, they have served as judges in various competitions, preliminaries, and the World Tango Championship.
They are currently on their fifth international tour (2025–2026), spanning nine months across Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Marcelo Ramer and Selva Mastroti started their artistic development at a very young age. He began his study at 4, with Argentinian folklore, and she at 8, with classic dance. They discovered tango at 16 years old, and received training from distinguished teachers who nurtured their love and respect for tango. This couple have been dancing together for 14 years now, and they never stop learning and developing their own dance, symbolic freshness, spontaneity and elegance combined with with simplicity, working with different companies, shows and festivals. Actually they live in Torino, as artistic directors and teachers of the most important school in the city, ‘Ateneo del Tango’, in Aldobaraldo. They inject great passion and commitment into their classes, greatly enjoying the task of transmitting knowledge, working on tango in all its stages, from the basis of technique to achieve harmonic movement, through subtle sensations resulting in complex movements, not only for aesthetic beauty but mainly for the pleasurable sensation evoked by realizing them in harmony with the music and their partner, forming new lines of improvisation. They are internationally recognized and in demand for their clear pedagogy and teaching structures that provide their students with quality learning, enjoyment and rich knowledge.;

In recent years, Noelia and René have worked together on several tours across Asia, establishing themselves as a frequent artistic duo in the region.

Noelia Coletti began her artistic career in tango 30 years ago, training both as a social dancer and a stage performer. She works as a teacher, coach, and choreographer, and has performed with the most prestigious tango companies and venues, as well as at major Tango Festivals around the world—including Seoul, Beijing, Edinburgh, Singapore, and Taipei. She has taught for Cirque du Soleil and performed for the Emperor of Japan and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands.
For more than 12 years, she has served as a judge at the Buenos Aires City Dance Championship, the BA Tango World Championship, and various preliminaries in Argentina and abroad. She is also one of the organizers of the renowned milonga De Querusa in the Boedo neighborhood.

René Torres : Tango dancer and instructor with 25 years of international experience. He has taught and performed in Argentina, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Italy, France, Egypt, Japan, China, and South Korea.
In 2018, he founded Caminito Tango Club in Tokyo together with Junko Mori, where he continues to train numerous students and build connections between Argentine tango dancers and the Japanese tango community.
Runner-up at the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Tango Championship (2010).