2025 MAESTROS
Improver, intermediate and advanced groups are taught by Sofia Victoria Mira & Fernando Waisberg, Nina Krook & Michalis Georgopoulos and Carina Quiroga & Arttu Artkoski. Each pair teaches each group for 1-2 lessons. The beginner course is taught from start to finish by Seita Keloluoto & Ari Sirén, and the double role group by Heini Soutamo-Kohlrausch & Saana Kalliokoski.
Sofia Victoria & Fernando
Sofia Victoria Mira & Fernando Waisberg
The magic of Argentine Tango brought Jessica and Somer together in 2012 in Tallinn, Estonia where they are currently based and teaching regularly. They have been invited to perform around the world and provide classes and intensive learning opportunities for dancers at all levels. They have been committed to grow Estonian tango community for the past ten years with longterm students for whom the tango has become a lifestyle.
Words like elegant, effortless and spontaneous are often used to describe their style. Somer and Jessica believe strongly in beauty of connection and art of improvisation.
The dance they have created reflects their true selves. They have a foundation of years of dance training. Through their strong connection with each other and music, they delight in the excitement of dancing with spontaneity based on pure improvisation.
Their elegance and effortless movements are easy to take for granted.
Clarity and precision of their instruction have won Jessica and Somer profound respect as teachers.
Nina & Michalis
Nina Krook & Michalis Georgopoulos
Nina:
Nina Krook is a dance artist and a choreographer, who teaches and performs both domestically and internationally.
Nina began studying Argentinian Tango in 1993, in New York, where her first teacher was Jorge Torres. Nina is a graduate of the Finnish 10-dance professional education in Finland, and the international IDTA - Latin Member - certification in London, U.K.
Nina also is a researcher of Argentinian Tango for STOL, the Federation for Dance Teachers in Finland.
Michalis:
Michalis has been dancing and teaching Tango for more than 25 years. He started Tango in Greece, being one of the very first organisers of milongas, participating in theatrical performances and shows, as well as DJing. He has been taught by most of the top maestros in Argentina and among his teachers have been: Gustavo Naveira and Gisele Anne, Chicho and Juana, Arce and Montes, and many others.
Michalis has also been a teacher in college and a coach for a Volleyball team for many years and that experience allows him to understand the human body and also apply teaching techniques that fit the individual student when teaching Tango. His focus is on musicality, embrace and expression, as well as technique, to allow a couple to improvise and interpret the music. Nina and Michalis have been teaching together on several occasions since 2022.
Carina & Arttu
Carina Quiroga & Arttu Artkoski
Carina (AR/FI) and Arttu (FI) are long-standing dancers and teachers of Argentine tango. Arttu is also a tango DJ and Carina has experience in contemporary dance and body dramaturgy.
"We use technique as a tool for freedom of body expression."
They use and teach a technique based on the body´s natural movements, which gives everyone the opportunity to develop their own dance and express themselves freely, and also creates space for couple dancing. In their teaching they also use changing roles to expand the understanding of dance and the challenges of both roles.
Their teaching is nourished by the elements of new tango, tango salon, canyenge and stage tango. Their dance is a delicious combination of traditional Argentinian tango and new style.
They also perform and teach Argentine folk dances.
Arttu has been dancing tango for over 15 years and Carina for over 25 years. They met in 2008 at the well known DNI Tango school in Buenos Aires. Since 2010, they have danced and taught together in Argentina, Europe and all around Finland.
In 2017, they opened La Fábrica del Tango - dance school with their friends and colleagues Pasi and Maria Laurén. The dream came true and they have their own tango school in the heart of Tampere.
TangoPiantao is the business name of Arttu and Carina, under which they dance, teach and sell e.g. shoes suitable for tango dancing and Luna de Tango dance clothing for women designed and handmade by Carina.
Seita & Ari
Seita Keloluoto & Ari Sirén
Seita has been dancing Argentine tango since 2008 and since then she has devoted herself to practicing the dance closely. She has been teaching since 2011. Seita's tango studies also include annual international tango festivals and social dancing.
Ari has been dancing Argentine tango since year 1999. He started teaching regularly in 2008 and has taught e.g. at Finland's international Tango Frostbite festival. He has great enthusiasm and takes keen interest in developing his dance so tango festivals around the world and their diverse teachings are part of his annual program.
Ari and Seita have teaching together for over ten years, of which in four they have participated at the summer camp organized by Amigos del Tango. In addition to the weekly teaching classes in Helsinki, they have been invited to teach across Finland. They dance and teach Argentine tango with dynamic flavours and emphasize good technique, contact and communication between couples without forgetting musicality and the joy of dancing. Ari and Seita's goal is to give every dancer a good foundation, on which everyone can create their own interpretation of Argentine tango.
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Heini-Elina & Saana
Heini-Elina Soutamo Kohlrausch
"I started tango argentino in Tampere in 1997. It was love at first hearing. My trip to the double role world began in 1999, when I started teaching tango in dance club Spiral together with Maija Matikainen and Pertti Wessman all the way up to 2005. I was there organizing the first summer tango camps and teaching the beginner’s course so it was nice to get back to the roots.
After moving to Germany I continued teaching tango and developing the local tango community. In the process I started also playing and organizing a local milonga near Münich in 2007. From Germany my trip continued to Andalusia in Spain, where I have been teaching since 2014 ja hosting a local milonga. Some years later I ran into a Belgian organizer of Totally in Tango - events.We are now their Spanish partner and also organize double role events in Andalusia together with them.
In tango and in teaching it, it’s important for me to find the connection with the music and with the partner. The aim is to find the natural movement and trust in the wisdom of one’s body and to open up in hearing the music and the partner. To let the energy flow between partners and to create a conversation where the leader and the follower are transformed into two equal dancers in a shared movement."
Saana Kalliokoski
Saana Kalliokoski has actively danced tango since 2011, for the last 10 years dancing both roles. Saana is still honing her skills by practicing continuosly with many different partners, and by participating in international two-role events. Saana has taught two-role groups in both, Helsinki and Tampere.
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Characteristic to Saana´s lessons is to attempt to create a safe and accepting environment, as well as a curious and exploring attitude. As a teacher, Saana is clear, objective driven and playful. In dancing, she emphasizes presence, forming a connection to the dance partner, and a flowing, natural movement. In addition, she emphasizes the understanding of tango structure, technique and music to create a pleasant and inspiring dance experience.
In addition to Argentinian Tango, Saana is vastly experienced in other dances, both as a dancer and a teacher. Saana is a graduate of the 3 year professional Alexander-technique teacher training, a MA of social science and a physiotherapist.