NATASHA LEWINGER

Natasha grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay and has both Uruguayan and Argentinian roots.Since early age was interested in arts. Her first encounters where dancing Candombe and singing.She was an olympic gymnast for the Uruguayan National Team at the age of 12.Started studying piano at the age of 12 and became a piano teacher at the age of 17. Also studied other musical instruments such as guitar and flute.At the age of 15 continued singing and dancing different dancing styles in greater depth and finally met “face to face” with Tango at the age of 17 and did not stop anymore.At the age of 23, in 2011, she moved to Buenos Aires to continue learning, deepening and improving her personal style. The same year, she started touring outside of “El Río De La Plata” with Tango.She worked in numerous schools and festivals all around the world and organized various events developing her unique style that highlights the woman in tango, both leading and following.Between 2014 and the beginning of 2017 she had no tango partner so she made tours alone, both leading and following. This made her gain even more respect in the tango community, being one of the few women who, at that time, worked and traveled alone while being able to handle both tango roles.Natasha is a strong advocate of her life and dance concepts. She has been involved in several instances where, through her perseverance, has been able to help to generate real changes in tango to obtain a freer and fairer treatment for the tango dancers specially women in tango.She partnered with Pablo Rodríguez, Silvio La Vía, Pancho Martínez Pey, Enrique Macana, Jorge López, Haris Mihail among others.Since 2017 she shares her professional life with Haris Mihail.One of her last big projects was the First World Online Solidarity Tango Festival “Unidos Tango Festival” which she created and then co-directed with other colleagues in order to raise money for all tango workers around the world going through a difficult time during the pandemic. Unidos Tango Festival reached 74 countries and gave economical aid to 150 tango workers in 22 countries.A peculiar fact about her family history, her great-grandfather was one of Carlos Gardel’s horse racers.

HARIS MIHAIL

Haris grew up in Thessaloniki, Greece.Since very young age was interested into performing arts such as theater,music and dance.At the age of 18 was introduced to the world of Tango and never stopped developing and deepening his knowledge about this dance and its culture.His first on stage performance was during the ‘‘Summer Cultural Festival of Thessaloniki’’ and the next year he made his first trip abroad where he spent several months in Buenos Aires in order to dive into the culture of tango. He studied and still does with some of the most experienced and renowned Maestros of Tango, always driven by his passion to improve his personal dance and pedagogy. In 2009 started teaching beginners classes in several tango schools in Greece and performed in several events across the country. In 2010 moved to Lyon, France and worked for several months as dance instructor in the primary school ‘’Institute de l’Oratoire’’ in Lyon. From 2010 to 2018 he became the main teacher for more than 8 tango schools all around France and also developed as a Tango DJ. From 2011 to 2017 organized and directed the Tango School “Tango Mon Amour” in Lyon with Malika Pitou-Nicollier besides working in other Festivals in France and Europe and Tango Retreats in Greece, Co-organized a charity tango event in Greece supporting homeless people and disabled dancers to ameliorate their situation.Since 2017 he shares his professional life with Natasha Lewinger both leading and following.In 2019 left France to start touring regularly with Natasha. He co-organized the First World Online Solidarity Festival “Unidos Tango Festival” with Natasha and other colleagues to support tango artists during the pandemic time. Besides his tango career, also did studies in drama school, academic psychology and percussionist.He also practiced other kind of disciplines such as Pilates and Feldenkrais in order to expand his perception and knowledge of body movement and posture. He now travels often to Montevideo and Buenos Aires in search of social and cultural knowledge about tango as music and dance.

NATASHA & HARIS

are milongueros, professional dancers, organizers, choreographers, musicians and tango teachers. They started dancing in 2005 and 2006 respectively and their paths finally met in the beginning of 2016.
Since 2011, they have been teaching and dancing at festivals, championships and special events in Europe, Asia and America.
They are internationally recognized for their connection, elegance, musicality, dynamics and quality.
Their style unifies the social tango in the milongas and the aesthetics of stage tango to provide a rich but real vision of tango without the abuse of figures that do not belong to tango. They both love social dancing, therefore, they are caretakers of the tango culture of “El Río De La Plata” that emphasizes the tango as a social and cultural element.
Words from them: “The most important thing in tango for us is a real embrace and connection. We are crazy about technique but only as a medium to improve the connection and feelings that will allow us to communicate and adapt to every body and every style. We believe in dancing as one body with four legs, “the centaur”. Communication between us is the key to our tango and the key to connect with other people. One role is not more important or “active” than the other. Listening to the leader is just as important as listening to the follower. That is in part why we both lead and follow. We love it personally but is also quite useful for teaching and understanding any person in front of us. So just… Open the mind, close the embrace.”
Spoken Languages: Spanish, English, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese