Personal information:
    Place of Birth: San Salvador de Jujuy, Province of Jujuy, Argentina.
Nationality: Argentinian.
Member of the Argentinian Musicians’ Union (SAdeM) no.: 25.667
Member of AMBCTA no.: 496
2009
Workshop in Rome, Italy, 10 January

2008
Festival TangoFusion, Rimini, Italy, 27-31 December
Workshop and performances in Hong Kong, 16-24 September
Taiwan Tango Festival, Taipei, 11-15 September
Tango Holiday, Elba Island, Italy, 4-7 September
Workshop and performances in Stuttgart, Germany, 16-17 August
Tour with the show "Tango", Compania Argentina de Tango Roberto Herrera with Quinteto Decarisimo (Marina di Pietrasanta, Spello, Frascati, Rapallo, Assago, Catania, Trapani, La Spezia, Sanremo, Castiglioncello, Paestum, Fermo, Conversano, Porto Recanati, Trento), 28 July - 15 August
Workshop and performances in Rio de Janeiro and Campinas, 26 May - 2 June
Workshop and performances in San Paulo, Brazil, 21-25 May
Chocotangofestival, Perugia, Italy, 15-18 May
Workshop and performances in Catania, Italy, 1-5 May
Workshop and performances, Campania, Italy, 21-28 April
Pescara Tango Festival, Italy, 18-20 April
Workshop and performances in Parma, Italy, 9-12 April
Workshop in Pescara, Italy, 27-30 March
Workshop and performances in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8-10 March
Workshop and performances in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2-7 March
Tour with the show "Tango", Compania Argentina de Tango Roberto Herrera with Quinteto Decarisimo (Ascoli Piceno, Rossano Calabro, Altamura, Pescara, Napoli, Piano di Sorrento, Foligno, Concorezzo, Cuneo, Vercelli, Gallarate, Finale Emilia, Mantova, Orvieto), 22 January - 16 February.

2007
Workshop and performances in Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 24 August - 4 September.
Tour with the show "Tango", Compania Argentina de Tango Roberto Herrera with Quinteto Decarisimo, (Capena, Frascati, Falconara, Vignale, Siracusa, Milazzo, Mascalucia, Palermo, Sanremo, Viterbo, Catania, Villapiana, Tropea, Castiglioncello, Alba Adriatica, La Spezia, Porto Recanati, Marina di Pietrasanta, Spello, Montecatini Terme, Pescara), Italy, 21 July - 19 August.
Judge of the Campeonato Mundial de Tango in Rosario, Argentina, 6-7 July.
Workshop and performances in Pescara, Italy, 29 June - 1 July.
Workshop and performances in Parma, Italy, 22-24 June.
Workshop and performances in Catania, Italy, 8-10 June.
Genova Tango Festival, workshop and performances, Genoa, Italy, 31 May - 3 June.
Lusitango Festival, workshop and performances, Lisbon, Portugal, 22-29 May.
Workshop and performances in Warsaw, Poland, 18-20 May.
Tour with the show "Tango Nuevo", Compania Argentina de Tango Roberto Herrera, Singapore, Jakarta and Bali, Indonesia, 6-12 May. Spring Tango Festival, workshop and performances, Seoul, Korea, 27 March - 8 April.
Show "Buenos Aires Tango" with Orquesta El Arranque at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, 21-25 March.
Show "Buenos Aires Tango" with Orquesta El Arranque, Gran Teatro, Brescia, Italy, 16 March.
Workshop and performances in San Paulo and Belo Horizonte, Brazil, March.
Tour with the show "Tango" de Roberto Herrera with Orchestra Ensemble Hyperion, (Catania, Marsala, Naples, Ascoli Piceno, Lugano, Varese, Bari, Brescia, Padua, Pescara), Italy and Switzerland, 31 January - 11 February.
Workshop and performances in the Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria of Sorrento, Italy, 19-21 January.
Workshop and performances in Istanbul, Turkey, 12-15 January.
GAS fashion show during the men's fashion week in Florence, Italy, 11 January.
Oulu Tango Festival, Finland, workshop and performances, 2-9 January.
Meditango Festival, workshop and performance, Rome, Italy, 1 January.
2006
Show "Tango", Compania Argentina de Tango Roberto Herrera with Orchestra Ensemble Hyperion, Imola and Sanremo, Italy, 28-29 December.
TangoBall, performance and workshop in Vienna, Austria, 30 November - 3 December.
"TangoXposed" art&tango event, Singapore, 14-25 November.
Munich Tango Festival, workshop and performances, 10-12 November.
Workshop and performances in Sydney, Australia, 31 October - 8 November.
Workshop and performance in Brisbane, Australia, 24-30 October.
Judge of the Final of the Campeonato Regional de Tango, Auckland, New Zealand, October.
Auckland Tango Festival, New Zealand, workshop and performances, 20-23 October.
"World Tango Festival", workshop and performances, Buenos Aires, 9-15 October.
Performance in Salón Canning, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 6 October. Show "Tango Argentino", directed by Claudio Segovia at the Gran Rex Theatre, Buenos Aires, 2 October.
"Buenos Aires Tango" Festival, workshops and performances at the Auditorium in Rome, Italy, 11-24 September.
Judge of the Fourth Campeonato Mundial de Tango, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 18-27 August.
Performance in La Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19 August.
Performance in Sunderland Club, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 12 August.
Tango Greece Festival in Paros, Greece, 26-30 July.
Workshops and performances in Seoul, Korea, 14-23 July.
Workshops and performances in Bogota, Colombia, 23 June - 6 July.
"Buenos Aires Tango 3" Festival, workshops and performances at Chaillot Theatre in Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium, 8-16 June.
Judge of the semifinals of the Fourth Campeonato Mundial de Tango, Cali, Colombia, 16-21 May.
Tango Festival, workshops and performances, Florianopolis, Brazil, 1-6 March.

2005

Tour of Europe, Asia and Australia
- Munich Tango Festival, Germany, 11-15 November.
- Tango Bali Club, Indonesia, 17-23 November.
- Patio de Tango, Sydney, Australia, 24 November - 1 December.
- I Monza Tango Festival, Italy, 2-3 December.
- Academia de Roberto Herrera c/o Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa, Italy, 5-14 December.
- Performance in Alessandria, Italy, 15 December.
- Stockholm Tango Festival, Sweden, 27 December - 1 January 2006.

- World Tango Festival, Buenos Aires, 10-17 October.

European tour.
- Tango World 2005 - V Festival Internazionale di Tango Argentino", Fivizzano, Italy 8-11 September.
- Beginning of the activity of the Academia de Tango de Roberto Herrera in Genoa, Italy, at the Tango School of the Carlo Felice Theatre, 12-15 September.
- Invited to perform for the closure of the Tango Summer Programme organised by the city council of Torino, Italy, 15 September.
- Performance and workshops in Athens, Greece, 23-25 September.
- Performance and workshops in Ulm, Germany, 30 September - 3 October.

Judge of the Third Campeonato Mundial de Tango - World Tango Championship, Buenos Aires, August.

Tour of Europe and Asia. European premiere of the show Tango Nuevo of the Compañía Roberto Herrera.
- Berlin Tango Festival, Germany, 13-16 May.
- Lusitango Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, 25-29 May.
- Genova Tango Festival, Genoa, Italy, 5-9 June.
- Tokyo Tango Festival and Kyoto Tango Festival, Japan, 7-20 June.
- "Joyas y Estrellas" Tango Festival, Padua, Italy 24-26 June.
- III Napolitano Tango Festival and special show of the Compañía Roberto Herrera in Tango Nuestro, Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples, Italy, 28 June - 3 July.
- Rassegna internazionale di danza e balletto "Invito alla Danza", European premiere of the show "Tango Nuevo" of the Compañía Roberto Herrera, Rome, Italy, 4-5 July.
- Festival internazionale di danza "Vetrinadanza", show "Tango Nuevo" of the Compañía Roberto Herrera, Rovigo, Italy, 7 July.
- Tangomania Summerfestival, show "Tango Nuevo" of the Compañía Roberto Herrera, Sasso Marconi (Bologna), Italy, 8 July.
- Emilia Romagna Festival, show "Tango Nuevo" of the Compañía Roberto Herrera, Imola, Italy, 11 July.
- Torino Punti Verdi ai Giardini di Palazzo Reale, show "Tango Nuevo" of the Compañía Roberto Herrera, Turin, Italy, 13 July.
- Sitges Tango Festival, Spain, 14-17 July.
- Performance at the Grande Albergo Excelsior Vittoria in Sorrento, Italy, 18 July.

2004
European tour.
- Vallerano Poetry Festival, performance, 20 November.
- Workshop in Frankfurt and performance in the International Theatre, 27-28 November.
- Workshop and performance in Salerno, 4-5 December.
- Workshop and performances in Roma, 10-12 December.
- “Boulevard Tango”, show with the Orchestra Ensemble Hyperion, Petrarca Theatre, Arezzo, 17-18 December.
- “El Gran Baile del Año” Festival, workshop and performances. From 28 December 2004 to 2 January 2005.

“3rd World Tango Festival”, Buenos Aires, performances in Niño Bien and Salón Canning, 10-17 October 2004.

European tour.
- “7th International Festival Tango Argentino Tarbes”, 18-22 August.
- “Tango World 2004 – VI Festival Internazionale di Tango Argentino”, Fivizzano, 8-12 September.
- Workshop in Padua and performance at Caffè Pedrocchi, 18-19 September.
- Workshop in Athens and performance, 1-3 October.
- “II Teramo Tango Festival” together with Color Tango Orchestra, 3-10 October.

Member of the Jury of the 2nd World Tango Championship, Buenos Aires, August 2004.

Tour of Europe and Japan.
- “2nd Lisbon International Tango Festival” and Puro Tango Show, Coliseu dos Recreios Theatre, 6-9 May.
- “Berlin International Tango Festival”, 28-31 May.
- “Genova Tango 2004”, International Festival, 3-6 June.
- ”Kyoto Tango Festival 2004”, 12-19 June.
- “Workshop – Milonga Party 2004”, Japan.
- “2nd Napolitano Tango Festival”, Naples, 26 June-4 July.

Tour of Northern Argentina (Jujuy and Salta), with the show Tango Nuevo, 23-24 April.

“6° Congreso Internacional de Tango Argentino – CITA 2004”, workshops and shows, 14-21 March.

Guest Principal Dancer in the Musical Tanguera, El Nacional Theatre, Buenos Aires, Argentina, month of March.

“6th Festival Buenos Aires Tango”, organised by the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, workshops and exhibitions, 28 February-7 March.

2003 “El Gran Baile del Año” Festival, Nalen Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden. Workshops and performances, from 26 December 2003 to 2 January 2004.

Show in honour of the famous tango couple Gloria y Eduardo, Lola Membrives Theatre, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 8 December.

Performances in various Milongas of Buenos Aires: “La Estrella”, “Canning”,

“Torcuato Tasso” with the orchestras Sans Souci and Los Reyes del Tango,

“La Baldosa” with ColorTango, “El Viejo Correo”, “El Sunderland”, “La Barranca”.

“2nd Mentekulta Tango Festival” in Portugal. Workshops and shows in the Coliseu Theatre in Porto, in the Municipal Theatre of Figueira Da Foz and in the Belém Cultural Centre in Lisbon, 11-18 October.

20th Anniversary of the show Tango Argentino. Hotel Plaza, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 30 August.

“1st Argentine Tango Festival” in Mendoza, Argentina.

“1st International Tango Festival” in Lisbon, Portugal. Workshops and shows in the São Luiz Municipal Theatre, 30 April-4 May.

“5° Congreso Internacional de Tango Argentino – CITA 2003”, workshops and shows, 16-23 March.

40-day Japanese Tour. Beba Pugliese Orchestra with Roberto Herrera y Natacha Poberaj. Stage and Choreographic Direction.


2002 European Tour. “Turin Tango Festival”, Italy. Workshops and performances in Milan (Italy) and Vienna (Austria).

Presentation of the show Tango, una historia argentina, directed by Roberto Herrera, in Seoul, Korea, as a cultural exchange project within the framework of the 2002 World Football Championship.

European Tour. “3rd International Argentine Tango Festival” in Venice, Italy.

Workshops and performances in Rome (Italy). “3rd Genova Tango Festival”, Italy. “6th Paris Tango Festival”, France. “International Tango Festival” in Stuttgart, Germany.

Scandinavian Tour. “Bergen Tango Festival”, Norway. Workshops and performances in Stockholm (Sweden).

“6° Encuentro de Tango con los Grandes”, Madrid, Spain, 4-8 December.

2001 ““2nd International Argentine Tango Festival” in Venice, Italy.

“Tango Festival” in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Tango, una historia. El Querandí Bar-Restaurant, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Cover photo of the CD “El Querandí”, recorded in Moebio and Morestudio, Buenos Aires, Argentina.


2000 “1st International Argentine Tango Festival”, Casino del Lido, Venice, Italy. Workshops and performances.

Tango, una historia. El Querandí Bar-Restaurant, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1999-2000 Tango Argentino. Opera Theatre, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Directed by Claudio Segovia.

Tango Argentino. Gershwin Theater, Broadway, New York, USA. Directed by Claudio Segovia.


1999 Tango, una historia. Creation, performance and general direction. El Querandí Bar-Restaurant, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Japanese Tour. Beba Pugliese Orchestra with Roberto y Vanina.

Tango, una historia. Tour of Brazil.

Inauguration of the Buenos Aires-Atlanta flights. Performance in Atlanta, USA.

Tangos from the Heart CD cover photo, BMG Music, New York, USA.

Tango CD cover photo, Super Now, Japan.

Cover photo of the book Tango, published by DTV, Munich, Germany.

1997 “International Cinema Festival”, Mar del Plata, Argentina. Choreographer and soloist dancer of the tango show.

Choreographer and tango dancer for the premiere of the movie “Evita”, directed by Alan Parker, Buenos Aires, Argentina.


1996 Japanese Tour. Choreographer and dancer with the Orchestra directed by Julián Plaza.

Japanese Tour with Los Grandes del Tango Argentino.

Japanese Tour. Dancer with the Leopoldo Federico Orchestra.

Tango, una Historia CD cover photo, NCM Records, Argentina.

Tango, una historia. El Querandí Bar-Restaurant, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Mention and photo in the chapter entitled “Camino al fin del Siglo 20” of the book El Siglo de Oro del Tango, by Horacio Ferrer, published by Manrique Zago, Buenos Aires, Argentina.


1995-2001 Tango, una historia show. El Querandí Bar-Restaurant, Buenos Aires. Creation, performance and general direction.

1995 Japanese Tour with the Orchestra directed by Leopoldo Federico.

Tango Pasión show.

Soloist couple of the Gran Orquesta directed by Osvaldo Pugliese.

Tango Deluxe CD cover photo, Victor, Japan.


1994 Muchas Gracias, Maestro. Biographical film about Osvaldo Pugliese, directed by Luis Segura.

Tango Pasión show.

Soloist couple of the Gran Orquesta directed by Osvaldo Pugliese.


1993-1995 Tango Pasión show. Tour of Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Austria, the USA and Turkey. Soloist couple with Sexteto Mayor Orchestra directed by José Libertella and Luis Stazzo. Produced by Mel Howard. Directed by Héctor Zaraspe.

1992-1995 Soloist couple of the Gran Orquesta directed by Osvaldo Pugliese. Tour of Netherlands, Spain, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina.

1992-1994 Shows in Michelangelo restaurant with Roberto Goyeneche, María Graña, Adriana Varela, Horacio Ferrer, Raúl Lavié, Sexteto Mayor and the Orchestras of Julián Plaza and José Colángelo.

1992 Tango Argentino show. Lola Membrives Theatre, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Directed by Claudio Segovia.

Japanese Tour with the Orchestra directed by Ramos.


1990-1992

Principal dancer and choreography assistant of the Ballet Folklórico Nacional of Argentina.


1990-1991 Imágenes de Tango y Folklore show. Soloist couple with the Orchestra of Horacio Salgán. Choreography by Ana Maria Stekelman. Directed by Héctor Aure.

1986 Tango Bar. Film by Marcos Surinaga. Soloist couple.

1986-1990 Principal dancer of the Ballet Popular Argentino, directed by Santiago Ayala “El Chúcaro” and Norma Viola.

1973-1985 Teacher of Argentine folk dances. San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina.

Study of Latin American folk dances. San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina.

  Since 1992 he has been teaching tango to professional and amateur dancers.
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