Cecilia Piccinni TANGO: New Project 2017 - Cecilia Piccinni & Rolo Valdivia

HISTORY

Cecilia is one of the few female dancers in the world who has the ability to adapt to any leader thanks to her profound body awareness and knowledge of technique, which is her main focus while teaching

Cecilia Piccinni started to dance ballet when she was a child. In her teens, she studied drama theatre as well. At the end of this artistic adolescence, she started the tango.

She was training in her city, meanwhile she studied Foreign Trade at the University and worked in a multinational company.

In 2003, she decided to become a full time milonguera.

So she also studied contemporary dance, contact improvisation, folk, jazz, etc. She's nowadays focused on Ashtanga Yoga.

Cecilia has performed in most well known milongas in Buenos Aires and has been a resident teacher of the well known Tango Brujo school.

She has also worked in many festivals around the world such as Tangoweeks Vienna 2009/2013, Narcotango Bucharest 2009, El Puente Krakow 2009/10, F.I.T.A. Paris 2010, Istanbul 2010, Tango Apasionado London 2011, Tango Safari Berlin 2010 and Arezzo 2016/2017, Beirut International 2011, Festival Internacional de Lisboa 2012, Anivertango Timisoara 2012, Tango Fest Dresden 2013, Tonhalle Düsseldorf 2013, Tango de Soie Lyon 2013, Copenhagen 2013, Wawel Krakow 2013, Milonga El Garrón Paris 2013, Mediterranean Summer Porec 2013, Festivalito Malmø 2013/2016/2017, Tango Cazino Cluj 2014, Winter Tango Napoli 2014, Stockholm Tango Festival 2016, etc

She was also invited as honor guest by the Argentinian embassy in Moscow for El Huracan Tango Marathon 2015.

Her first tour in the US was in 2011, participating in Tango Element Festival, Baltimore.

In 2015 she was invited to San Diego Tango Festival, Fire & Ice Tango Festival Ann Arbor and Valentango Portland.

In 2016 she went back to the prestigious Tango Element Festival in Baltimore.
She also gave workshops in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Boulder, Denver, San Diego and Portland.

In the last years, she's been very active in Buenos Aires teaching at La Maleva Estudio and performing in different milongas and events, including CITA 2016 and 2017.