The dance, generation by generation

Tango is born in the 1880s in the arrabales and conventillos of Buenos Aires and Montevideo; by 1913 it is the rage of Paris.

• Casimiro Aín1882–1940
• El Cachafaz1885–1942
• Carmencita Calderón1905–2005

From 1935 the big orchestras play every weekend, and young men learn in prácticas before facing the club milongas.

• Petróleo1913–1995
• Beba Bidart1924–1994
• Virulazo1926–1990
• Elvira Santamaría1929–1999
• FIFinito1929–1987
• Jorge Uzunian1930–2022
• Juan Carlos Copes1931–2021
• Maria Nieves1934–2026
• Elba Biscayb. 1941
• El Negro Lavandina

  learned from Petróleo · source

After 1955 the dance fades. A few kept dancing in downtown confiterías, and when the world came asking they became the teachers.

• Gerardo Portalea1928–2007
• Antonio Todaro1929–1994
• Ricardo Vidort1929–2006
• Toto Faraldo1929–2023
• Eduardo Parejab. 1930
• Pepito Avellaneda1930–1996
• Pocho Carreras1931–2012
• Raúl Bravo1931–2023
• Mingo Pugliese1932–2017
• Rodolfo Cieri1932–2000
• Puppi Castello1935–2007
• Alberto Dassieu1936–2013
• Eduardo Arquimbaub. 1936
• Flaco Dany1936–2019
• Nito Garciab. 1936
• Tete Rusconi1936–2010
• Osvaldo Cartery1938–2015
• Cacho Dante1939–2019
• Martha Anton1939–2015
• Carlos Gavito1942–2005
• Maria la Turcab. 1952
• Carlos Perez
• Coca Cartery
• El Chino Perico
• Esther Pugliese
• Facundo Posadas
• GMGallego Manolo
• Gloria Arquimbau
• Maria Cieri
• Rosa Forte

Tango Argentino puts the dance back on the world stage in 1983; the research groups of the 1990s take it apart and rebuild it.

• Carlos Copellob. 1950
• Rodolfo Dinzel1950–2015
• Carlos Rivarolab. 1952
• Luis Solanasb. 1956

  learned from Pepito Avellaneda · source

• Maria Rivarolab. 1957
• Miguel Angel Zottob. 1958

  learned from Rodolfo Dinzel · source

  learned from Antonio Todaro · source

  learned from Juan Carlos Copes · source

  learned from Virulazo · source

  learned from Pepito Avellaneda · source

• Omar Vega Boston1959–2008

  learned from Pepito Avellaneda · source

• Cecilia Narovab. 1960
• Gustavo Naveirab. 1960

  learned from Rodolfo Dinzel · source

  learned from Gloria Dinzel · source

  learned from Antonio Todaro · source

  learned from Pepito Avellaneda · source

• Milena Plebsb. 1961
• Fabian Salasb. 1963
• Osvaldo Zotto1963–2010
• Roberto Herrerab. 1963
• Guillermina Quirogab. 1965
• Julio Balmaceda1965–2019
• Norberto Esbrez1966–2014
• Mariano Chicho Frúmbolib. 1970

  learned from Gustavo Naveira · source

• Vanina Bilousb. 1970

  learned from Antonio Todaro · source

  learned from Pepito Avellaneda · source

  learned from Juan Carlos Copes · source

  learned from Gustavo Naveira · source

  learned from Olga Besio · source

• Mora Godoyb. 1972

  learned from Graciela Gonzalez · source

  learned from Juan Carlos Copes · source

  learned from Miguel Angel Zotto · source

  learned from Antonio Todaro · source

  learned from Pepito Avellaneda · source

• Andrea Misse1976–2012

  learned from Osvaldo Zotto · source

  learned from Antonio Todaro · source

  learned from Carlos Rivarola · source

  learned from Miguel Angel Zotto · source

• Johanna Copesb. 1976
• Sebastián Arceb. 1980
• Geraldine Rojasb. 1981
• Adrian Veredice
• Alejandra Mantinan
• Alejandro Aquino
• Alicia Monti
• Carlitos Espinoza

  learned from Sergio Natario · source

• Claudia Codega

  learned from Antonio Todaro · source

• Corina de la Rosa
• Daniel Trenner

  learned from Mingo Pugliese · source

  learned from Miguel Balmaceda · source

  learned from Gustavo Naveira · source

• Enriqueta Kleinman
• Ernesto Balmaceda
• Esteban Moreno

  learned from Antonio Todaro · source

• Fabián Peralta

  learned from Carlos Perez · source

• Giselle Anne

  learned from Pepito Avellaneda · source

  learned from Antonio Todaro · source

• Gloria Dinzel
• Gustavo Benzecry Sabá
• Gustavo Russo

  learned from Antonio Todaro · source

• Horacio Pebete Godoy

  learned from Miguel Angel Zotto · source

• Javier Rodríguez
• Leonardo Barrionuevo
• Lorena Ermocida

  learned from Gustavo Naveira · source

  learned from Eduardo Arquimbau · source

  learned from Olga Besio · source

  learned from Gloria Arquimbau · source

  learned from Antonio Todaro · source

  learned from Mingo Pugliese · source

• Lucia Mazer
• Marcela Duran
• Mariana Montes
• Miriam Larici
• Myriam Pincen
• Natacha Poberaj

  learned from Carlos Perez · source

• Olga Besio
• Pablo Inza
• Pablo Verón
• Pancho Martinez Pey
• Rebecca Shulman

  learned from Gustavo Naveira · source

  learned from Mingo Pugliese · source

  learned from Antonio Todaro · source

  learned from Juan Bruno · source

  learned from Olga Besio · source

• Ruben Veliz
• Sabrina Veliz
• Stella Baez

Champions of the Mundial, first held in 2003, and the teachers of festivals on every continent.

• Alper Ergökmenb. 1984
• Agustín Agnez
• Aldana Silveyra
• Alejandra Gutty
• Alejandro Berón
• Alejandro Larenas
• Aoniken Quiroga

  learned from Carlos Gavito · source

  learned from Rosa Perez · source

• Ariadna Naveira
• Barbara Ferreyra
• Betsabet Flores

  learned from Francisco Forquera · source

  learned from Carolina Bonaventura · source

• Brenno Marques
• Bruna Estellita
• Bruno Tombari
• Carlos Paredes
• Cecilia Berra
• Chizuko Kuwamoto
• Christian Marquez

  learned from Raúl Bravo · source

  learned from Natalia Games · source

  learned from Toto Faraldo · source

  learned from Mingo Pugliese · source

  learned from Gabriel Angio · source

• Clarisa Aragón
• Constanza Vieyto
• Corina Herrera
• Cristian Correa
• Cristina Sosa
• Cyntia Palacios
• Damian Rosenthal

  learned from Mariano Chicho Frúmboli · source

  learned from Gustavo Naveira · source

  learned from Fabian Salas · source

• Daniel Nacucchio
• Dante Sánchez

  learned from Rosa Perez · source

  learned from Carlos Perez · source

• Diana Giraldo
• Diego Benavidez
• Diego Ortega
• Dmitry Vasin
• Emmanuel Casal
• Eugenia Parrilla
• Facundo Piñero
• Fatima Caracoch
• Fatima Vitale

  learned from Lorena Ermocida · source

  learned from Osvaldo Zotto · source

  learned from Gabriel Missé · source

• Federico Naveira
• Fernando Sanchez
• Florencia Zárate
• Gaspar Godoy
• Gaston Torelli
• German Cornejo
• Gisela Galeassi
• Guido Palacios
• Guille Barrionuevo
• Hiroshi Yamao

  learned from Rosa Perez · source

  learned from Carlos Perez · source

  learned from Fabián Peralta · source

• Hugo Mastrolorenzo
• Ines Muzzopappa

  learned from Rosa Perez · source

  learned from Carlos Perez · source

• Jesica Arfenoni
• Joe Corbata
• Jonathan Saavedra
• Jonathan Spitel

  learned from Francisco Forquera · source

  learned from Carolina Bonaventura · source

• Jonny Carvajal
• Jose Fernandez
• Josefina Bermúdez
• Juan Malizia
• Juana Sepulveda
• Julian Sanchez
• Kyoko Yamao

  learned from Rosa Perez · source

  learned from Fabián Peralta · source

  learned from Carlos Perez · source

• Leandro Bojko
• Lucila Cionci
• Luis Ramirez
• Maksim Gerasimov
• Manuela Rossi
• Maria Inés Bogado
• María Ximena Gallicchio

  learned from Carlos Perez · source

• Mariela Sametband
• Marisol Morales
• Maxi Copello
• Maximiliano Cristiani
• Melody Celatti
• Micaela García
• Miriam Copello
• Moira Castellano
• Natasha Agudelo
• Noelia Hurtado

  learned from Carlos Perez · source

  learned from Rosa Forte · source

• Octavio Fernández

  learned from Rodolfo Dinzel · source

• Pepa Palazon
• Ricardo Astrada
• Sebastian Bolivar
• Sebastian Jimenez
• Solange Acosta
• Suyay Quiroga
• Vanesa Villalba
• Virginia Gomez

  learned from Mingo Pugliese · source

  learned from Toto Faraldo · source

  learned from Raúl Bravo · source

  learned from Gabriel Angio · source

  learned from Natalia Games · source

• Virginia Pandolfi
• Yanina Muzyka

Their Record names no generation and no year of birth yet. They move to their row once a source dates them.

• Alicia Pons
• Elba Garcia
• Esther Malagrino
• Graciela Gonzalez
• Susana Miller