Creator of the TangoFreemotion Pedagogy

It took me a long time to stop comparing myself to others in order to develop my own movement, mainly because dance is learned through imitation, there is no other way; you first copy and then try to reproduce it in your body.

I attended many classes and had many teachers, as I always say, it’s like life, you learn from the good and the not-so-good. I don’t like to create a curriculum of everything I did or experienced because I believe that a person’s work cannot be summarized in a couple of lines, as those lines can and do contain emotions, experiences, and sensations that are still fresh in my memory and that continue to be the springboard for constant development. They are like living experiences in constant evolution and growth. But I can summarize in a few precise lines what was fundamental for me in my journey of organized and free movement as a dance professional.

I can’t say that I only do Tango because everything integrates for me, and everything has helped me understand and find myself.

I began to enjoy my body when I was 5 years old, watching Michael Jackson dance; I couldn’t think, I just moved, I enjoyed it fully. Then came the passion for sports; I practiced roller hockey, Judo, Taekwondo, Basketball, Volleyball, and I loved doing athletics.

With the education of martial arts, I learned to release energy completely, learned to concentrate the energy of a strike into a group of organized movements to break wood, learned to respect my teacher and my peers. I have only one “thank you” to my teacher Gustavo Brandan, Pan American Taekwondo Champion, for laying the foundations of discipline in my heart.

As I grew up at the age of 12, I discovered tango, thanks to Piazzolla and a young local tango group in my city. It was the first time I saw kids my age dancing. My heart said, “I want to do that!” and off I went. When bodily pains began due to poor basic technique, I decided to seek something different and found ballet, and it was an awakening, a revelation! I discovered the pleasure of a “souplesse,” a grand écart, and pushing my joints to unimaginable limits. My teacher Teresa Nader educated me with wisdom and good judgment so that my balance and perception of it became indispensable for controlling the pirouettes I perform today. Now I can play, create, move, feel, and enjoy my balance and recognize its importance in movement.

My curiosity took me even further, and I explored my body with the methods of Erick Franklin, Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, Contact Improvisation, detection of neuromotor dysfunctions, neurological taping, a degree in kinesiology at the Catholic University of Santiago del Estero, Active Global Stretching, Global Postural Reeducation, Integrative Osteopathic Massage, Reiki from the traditional Mikao Usui system, Pilates Method of Body Mind Connection, Instructorship in Hatha Yoga at the Embassy of India in Argentina, manual techniques for treating spine pathologies, and myofascial release techniques at the Pilates Educational Center in Avellaneda, Province of Buenos Aires. But the richest experience I have had and still have is the opportunity to interact with hundreds of bodies, structures, and systems of people that I could understand, care for, and help in all these years of teaching and professional practice.

Each and every one of them has provided me with incalculable value, where I can establish the subtle difference between theory and practice, understand that there is always an exception to the rule, and truly comprehend why one structure is completely different from another universe.

I can understand the needs of the human body, its limitations, and help connect its dissociated parts.

In my journey, a student’s “I can’t” represents a challenge for me, a motivation as an educator, and a patient’s “it hurts” represents putting on the Sherlock Holmes cap for me and starting to investigate, discover, and marvel at the answer or the different answers.

The body, people, reactions, results, and processes fascinate me, giving meaning to my life on a scale that only a few understand.

Thanks to all the students, patients, and teachers who have inspired me and continue to show me the infinite possibilities in which the body can sing, dance, express, and feel.