About Us
Get to know our talented team of Tango instructors at El Olivo Tango Club.
Experienced Instructors Who Inspire Passionate Learning
At El Olivo Tango Club, we believe in the power of learning from experienced instructors. Our teachers are passionate about sharing their knowledge and love for Argentine Tango, ensuring that each student receives the highest quality instruction.
our approach
Our teaching approach is focused on providing personalized instruction tailored to each student’s needs and goals.
Extensive Dance Experience
Our teaching team has years of experience performing and teaching Argentine Tango.
Passion for Tango Music
We are dedicated to sharing our love for tango music with our students.
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Meet Our Team
Discover the talented team behind El Olivo Tango Club.
Roxana suarez
As the master instructor and artistic director of our club, Roxana Suarez is one of today’s most appreciated and followed female dancers and teachers in the world. Her tango journey began before she even took her first steps, as she swayed to the rhythms of tango in her mother’s womb. Growing up in her grandmother’s milonga in Buenos Aires, Roxana had the privilege of witnessing and learning from the finest dancers of the era.
Embodying the experience of years of living and breathing the authentic tango scene of Buenos Aires, at a very young age, in February 2007, Roxana began her professional tango career. Since then, she has been attending tango events and prestigious international festivals around the world.
She knows the embrace of the most renowned tango dancers such as Facundo Piñero, Javier Rodríguez, Mariano Chicho Frúmboli… and probably her greatest virtue is her ability to adapt and still be herself.
Firmly rooted in the belief that to be a remarkable teacher, one must first be a dedicated student, she never ceased to explore, study, and evolve her dance, constantly refining her teaching methods.
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Radi shafie
In 2009, Radi Shafie started dancing tango and immediately became immersed in it. His pursuit of dancing and studying tango has never stopped, and he considers himself first and foremost a student of this exquisite and complex dance. Over the years, he also obtained a PhD in Critical Dance Studies, focusing his research on the “popular milongas” of Buenos Aires. He finds the endless potential for learning that this dance offers to be most inspiring and is always striving to improve himself. His main teachers have included Carlitos Espinoza, Moira Castellano, and Roxana Suarez.
He experiences tango as a moving meditation; a unique kind of meditation since it involves another person. This meditative experience is possible only through the cooperation of the other. To be more precise, what makes this experience unique for Radi is that it requires a constant embodied awareness of the other. When he is attuned to the finest details of the presence and movement of his partner, he has truly arrived.
Radi has a passion for teaching tango and has taught in both community and university settings over the past decade. In more recent years, he has primarily taught with his partner Oldřiška, focusing not only on teaching movement but also on sensitivity and awareness. He views the exploration of ways to transmit the nuances of this dance as a rewarding challenge.
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Oldřiška Prokopová
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Chicho
Mariano “Chicho” Frumboli is one of the most influential tango dancers of our time. He has undoubtedly played the main role in the creative evolution of Tango for more than 20 years. Owner of a unique style, he is renowned worldwide for his personality, musicality and creativity. An artist in every sense of the word, he is not just a dancer but a musician, a composer, an actor, and a teacher; a very sensitive person, clearly.
He travels the globe along with Juana, his dance partner, to perform in the biggest tango festivals and teach workshops and intensive seminars where they are sought after by the crowds who try to absorb some of their knowledge. But for a very long time since Chicho hasn’t been teaching regular classes in a single location, so we believe this is a huge opportunity for the tango community in Barcelona (and perhaps the whole of Europe) to improve and to push forward their tango standards. And we feel so proud that he has decided to do it in El Olivo.
Chicho has given the world of Tango one of the greatest gifts that an artist could ever give: he has become an example himself of continuous questioning and endless search.
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Pamela Damia
Pamela Damia is an Argentine dancer, teacher, and choreographer of tango. Since 2007, she has been invited to tango festivals and encuentros internationally, and has participated and contributed to various tango shows in Argentina, Italy, and Japan, where she has also organized practicas and milongas.
Pamela developed her pedagogy as staff member of different schools such as La Viruta Tango (Buenos Aires), La Fundación Tiempo Iberoamericano (Japan), Calabriatango Tangueando Argentango (Italy), and diverse cultural spaces in Barcelona where she currently lives.
In addition to tango, she has studied various disciplines such as ballet, contemporary, aerial, lyrical jazz, flamenco, theatre, contact improvisation, lindy hop, rock, and Argentine Folklore. Passionate about technique, communication, and history, in her classes she creates enthusiasm for deepening and understanding tango culture while teaching in Spanish, Catalán, English, and Italian.
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“Super cool tango venue!”
Katrin Vaga
“Excellent milonga and school in Barcelona. Comfortable and elegant atmosphere to learn and dance. Special mention to Radi and Oldriska, two great people and teachers. Highly recommended for tango lovers.”
Franco Placenti
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Preserving the Rich History of Tango Dance
El Olivo Tango Club is dedicated to preserving the rich history and tradition of Tango dance. With a team of experienced instructors and a welcoming community, we strive to provide the highest quality dance education and promote the beauty and elegance of Tango.