Diego "El Pájaro" Riemer & Mariana Dragone

Diego "El Pájaro" Riemer , multifaceted artist in dance, music, design and advertising, takes up tango in Buenos Aires, his hometown, where he is formed with the maestro Tito Molinari and learns from the "old" dancers and milongueros, among which Teté, his inspiration. He thereafter perfects his technique with several professional dancers.
In 2000 he leaves for Europe and is first installed in Berlin and then in Lyon where he single-handedly develops a successful international career, becoming a reference and inspiration for many dancers, especially for his musicality in tango and his way of dancing milonga.
He has danced with Maria Plazaola, Elina Roldan, Mercedes Espinel, Victoria Vieyra, Eugenia Parrilla, Alejandra Mantin, Sigrid Van Tilbeurgh and since 2008 with Maria Belen Giachello.
As a former drummer, he explores the rhythms of the tango, waltz and milonga in a very particular manner. Owner of a unique and original musical expression in his dancing and improviser par excellence, he is internationally recognized and sought for his exploration of the traspié, the caminata and the giros with adornments (enrosques and lapices), in addition to his special and thorough technique and pedagogy for the transmission of tango and its culture.

Mariana Dragone began studying ballet at the age of 11 in the national school of dance in the city of Rosario, studying contemporary dance and theatre.
At the age of 16 she discovered and fell in love tango, in 1996 she goes to live in the city of Buenos Aires to improve herself and take classes with the maestros (Tete, Graciela Gonzales and Mingo Pugliese) and in the same year forms her first tango couple with Pedro “El Indio” Benavente. She travels to USA, Europe, Japan, Australia, Russia and Central America and dances with various dancers, such as Hernan Obispo, Fabrizio Forti, Ezequiel Farfaro, Mariano Chicho Frumboli.
Since 2006 she has been part of the company "Tango x 2" Dancing with Federico Farfaro, Miguel Angel Zotto and Pablo Garcia in the best theatres of the world such as "City Center" Broadway, London, Rome Grand Theatre and the Theatre "Astral" in Buenos Aires.