Tango Touch is an Argentine Tango school located in Italy (Milan and Como) in Lithuania (Vilnius) e in Malaysia (Singapore). The Italian team is a close-knit group of teachers and contributors: find out who they are!
Sara Casotti
Founder and Teacher
Sara Casotti’s first approach to Argentine Tango is in 2007. She attends the “Academia TangoPuro”, directed by Alejandro Angelica and then she pursues her studies to become a teacher. She learns different styles and techniques taking classes and workshops, in Milan and in Buenos Aires, with dancers like Alberto Colombo, Mariela Sametband, Tali Gon, Aurora Luibiz, Graziella Gonzalez, Maria Filali. She also explores Argentine Folklore with Vidala Barboza.
Together with two friends she creates “Oltretango”, a non-profit group that organize social tango events and fundraising milongas to support charitable associations.
She considers Tango as an extraordinary opportunity to get in touch with an other person bringing all of ourselves and giving to the partner the same chance, a special dance where everything starts with an embrace which represents not only a physical connection but also and above all our taking care of the partner.
Gabriele Sassetti
Teacher
Gabriele Sassetti holds regular tango classes in various schools in Milan, Pisa, and Livorno. He trained with maestros Luca Trupiano and Alberto Colombo in Italy and Ernesto Carmona in Buenos Aires. Thanks to the latter, he also became passionate about Argentine Folklore. During his frequent stays in Buenos Aires, he perfected his skills studying with Mariano Chico Frumboli and Juana Sepulveda, Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne, Horacio Godoy and Maddalena Gutierrez, and Bruno Tombari and Mariangeles Caamaño.
His approach to tango is based on a reciprocal listening between man and woman. Both partners collaborate so the couple can freely interpret the music, the true bond between the two dancers. While respecting their roles, both dancers can express themselves and, together, give life to what is not just a dance but a true world to share.
Eleonora Paparo
Teacher
Eleonora Paparo, a psychologist and psychotherapist, co-founded the Pablo Tango T21 project in 2015 alongside Giovanni Eredia, dedicated to young adults with Down Syndrome. She began studying tango in 2005, training in her early years in Florence with masters Graciela Rostom and Alejandro Aquino. Since 2012, she has studied continuously with Giovanni Eredia and Cesira Miceli. In recent years, she has integrated psychology with tango, creating communication workshops that use tango as a metaphor. Her approach to tango is learning to embrace oneself in order to embrace another—drawing together a narrative of emotions through a tanda: an encounter, a listening, a farewell… and then continuing to walk with one’s own tango steps.
Graziano Brambilla
Teacher
His passion for tango music began as a child, listening to and unconsciously absorbing it from the records played at home. Over the years, his love for music first, and studying an instrument later, naturally grew into a passion for improvisation and a curiosity for the dance itself—danced tango. A discovery, a journey at first unexpected and then intensely sought and lived in everyday life through years of study, practice, and dancing in the milongas, defining the contours of a great passion. His current study of the dance is born from the Argentine tango of the new millennium, rooted in the tradition and musicality of classic tango—free from fixed codes and open to true improvisation in movement and musical interpretation. Graziano trained with masters Marianna Fontana and Enrico Massironi, and continues to deepen his study alongside many of the leading Argentine dancers, including Pablo Inza, Mariano “Chicho” Frumboli, Eugenia Parrilla, Noelia Hurtado, Juana Sepulveda, Matias Facio, Hector Corona, Silvina Machado, Gaston Torelli, Mariana Dragone, Martin Maldonado, Maurizio Ghella, Rodrigo Palacio, Agustina Berenstein, and many others through festivals and seminars over the years.
Federico Galli
Collaborator
Federico’s tango journey began in Milan in 2012, where he honed his skills with maestros such as Julio Alvarez, Alberto Colombo, and Lucia Conde de Ben.
Through his travels, he had the opportunity to deepen his knowledge with internationally renowned figures, from Chico and Juana to Carlitos and Noelia, as well as Jonathan and Clarisa and Zeynep and Serkan. His research focuses particularly on musicality, an element that pushes him to experiment and constantly find new ways to express his dance.
His motto? “Dance the music, not the steps.”
Margherita Martucci
Collaborator
Margherita fell in love with tango in 2013, starting her studies in France with Carolina Udoviko. After moving to Milan, she continued her training under various teachers, including Riccardo Biemmi, Tali Gon, Luca Napoli, Sara Casotti, and Gabriele Sassetti. Since 2016, she has been dancing with Federico Galli, deepening her skills through workshops with international instructors such as Mariano “Chicho” Frumboli and Juana Sepulveda, as well as Sebastián Achaval and Roxana Suarez, particularly during her trips to Buenos Aires and at festivals. Passionate about music and dance in all their nuance, she began supporting Tango Touch in 2017.
Anna Rita Ferrantino
Collaborator
