Festivalito - our teachers

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Fausto Carpino (ITA) started with ballroom and switched to tango together with his sister Barbara ad her boyfriend Claudio. His dance background makes him a notoriously quick learner. Barbara, Claudio and Fausto started Paladanze tangoschool in Syracuse where Fausto has been teaching eversince. Fausto has a unique gift for tangodancing! Fausto is also a well known tangoDJ.

Stephanie Fesneau (FRA) discoverd argentine tango at the age of 16. Since dance and theater were always present in her life, she made a great progress in no time. As time went by, dancing and eventually teaching, tango became her way of life. In her short but intense tango career she had cooperated with many tango schools, teaching mostly in Paris and Warsaw. She has also experience presenting her passion in theaters. At the moment she teaches in Florence.

The Couple
Fausto and Stephanie dedicate them selves to transmit their passion to others. They believe that the connection, musicality and technique are the keys to fully appreciate the beauty of tango. In their classes they want to concentrate on how to be comfortable inside the embrace, based on the logic and naturalness of the movement.

Akin Gokkaya (TUR) started his dance life when he was 8 years old with Turkish folk dance. He met Tango in 2004 in Istanbul. After some years he became one of the known dancers and instructors in Turkey. He has been teaching and performing in many festivals and given workshops and also has his own school “Antalya Tango”.
Akin likes to combine Tango with many different ideas and ways of dance. Feeling, improvisation and music is the main instruments for him. He has been also djing in many marathons and festivals.

Ellinor Westrup (SWE) has become a familiar face at many festivals and is an active teacher of tango throughout Europe and USA. She has been an integral part of Tangokompaniet based in Malmö, Sweden since 2007.
With elegance and a dynamic expression in the tango she wants to inspire others to dance with feelings. As a teacher she uses good pedagogic skills to give her students awareness of their bodies to better understand the technique, which will help them to find a nice flow of movements and the joy in tango.