Michalis Pantelides & Tota Maragkou
Michalis & Tota started working together in 2016. Their main goal is to make every student fall in love with Tango, understand and respect this mesmerizing dance. The teaching experience of Michalis in combination with the deep understanding of the body structure of Tota, make their class interesting and joyful even if they focus on the tango technique.
All the above make a perfect teaching combination as they complement each other’s qualities.
Michalis, is an active member of the Cypriot Tango community for more than 10 years. He has been teaching for 8 years of which the last 6 in Shakallis Danced School. His passion for Tango makes him travel all over the world and take private and group classes with a lot of renown Maestros. He has been organizing various Tango events since 2009. This Tango experience and the interaction with Shakallis Danced School made fissile his idea for an international level Tango festival in Cyprus, the “Cyprus Tango Meeting” which is now on its 5th edition and for the iTango Project in 2017. In 2014 the warm colour sound of bandoneon and the absence of a Tango Orchestra in Cyprus, intricate him to start learning bandoneon and in 2017 to form the first stable Tango Orchestra on the island. His experience, musical background and his unique teaching method make his Tango classes interesting, and attractive for each participant.
Tota, a passionate Tango dancer and instructor, started rhythmic gymnastics at the age of 8 in Greece. During her studies in Civil Engineering in Cyprus, she came in touch with Tango and took her first classes with Michalis. She became a dance couple with Michalis in 2016 and since then, she started working intensively focusing on her technique. Later she took classes in Cyprus and abroad with several distinguished greek and Argentinean maestros and participated in festivals and tango events in Greece and Italy. She started teaching tango with Michalis at Shakallis Dance School in 2017. She is always looking for the precision in every step and the perfection in every move. The rhythmic gymnastics education, helped her understand deeply the body structure and body mechanics in relation to Tango. All this helped her delve particularly in Tango technique.