Dance Workshops
TEACHERS
Maria Belen Giachello (ARG)
Maria Belén is a versatile Argentine artist. Internationally renowned, Maria began dancing at the age of 9. She first discovered Argentine folklore and performed all over Argentina. Later, she immersed herself in the world of tango, which took her around the world as both a dancer and a professional teacher.
At the same time, she explored singing, theater, and various other Latin dances such as bachata, kizomba, merengue, salsa, cha-cha-cha, forró, as well as contemporary dance and the Charleston and blues as a hobby. She happily discovered Fusion dance in Thierry’s fusion parties
Naturally creative and joyful, she expresses herself and shares her love for dance with every step.
With 30 years of experience, she is a passionate, essential dancer and an exceptional teacher.
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Claire Metais (FRA)
Claire has been dancing for years now. Starting with ballet and modern jazz, she has been practicing west coast swing, blues, lindy hop, balboa, salsa, tango, etc. for the last 15 years.
She also teaches west coast swing and is used to regularly DJ in WCS, fusion and blues parties.
Rolando Cruz (FRA/Paris)
Rolando began his artistic journey through drawing, theater, hip-hop, and dance in his native Costa Rica. Upon arriving in France, he fell in love—first with West Coast Swing, then with Fusion. Rolando's dance style emphasizes connection and harmony with his partner. In his rich teaching, technique serves the exploration of sensations and artistic expression.
Sylvain Nguyen (FRA)
Insatiable and endlessly curious, Sylvain discovered partner dancing while studying at the University of Nancy. There, he started with boogie and acrobatic rock, then explored Cuban salsa, Brazilian zouk, and lindy hop. After earning a dance instructor certification, he started teaching at the university and later in various associations and dance schools.
Always eager to explore new styles, he tried his hand at classical, jazz, and contemporary dance before diving into West Coast Swing — attracted by its precision, energy, and musical variety.
When he moved to Toulouse, he discovered fusion dance — a practice focused on connection, listening, tolerance, and well-being. Sylvain loves bringing together his rich dance background and authentic leading style to create moments of genuine connection and emotion on the dance floor
Carole Baraud (FRA)
Carole started her dance journey with gymnastics and ballet, and rapidly fell into afro-american dances — modern jazz, rock, boogie, lindy and blues — as well as ballroom dances and latin dances.
The discovery of fusion dance was a revelation, as it shed some new light on the way she had always approached social dancing : mixing various dance moves and vibes, to express herself in any dancing/music context, with any partner. This pushes her to start learning tango recently in her continued quest to become the most possible versatile dancer.
The existence of a vibrant dance scene is one of the main reasons she moved to the city of Toulouse. If you don’t see her on the dance floor, she might be behind the DJ booth playing some smooth micro fusion songs.
For over 25 years, she has been sharing her passion by teaching various dances and participating in numerous swing and fusion festivals
Tango Class for Fusion - Program By Maria Belen Giachello
Prerequisite : You already dance at least 1 social dance (latin, WCS, Blues, Lindy...)and have already experimented fusion dance. You are looking to understand tango connection elements to enrich your dance when dancing fusion. Friday workshops are for Tango beginners. Saturday and Sunday workshops are built as a progression and will benefit both beginners that did Friday workshops and dancers that already have Tango background
Friday #1 (1hr) : Discovering Tango: The Fundamentals
Balance, Walking, Leading, Posture, Musicality
Friday#2 (1hr) : The Language of Tango Style Applied to Fusion
Simplified tango movements for fun and fusion integration
Saturday#1 (1hr) : Double Role in Tango : learn how to lead and follow
Saturday#2 (1hr) : Simplified Improvisation
Tools to open all the doors to create your oun figures
Saturday#3 (1hr) : The Language of Tango 3: Sacadas and Ganchos
Sunday#1(1hr) : Poses During and at the End of Tango
Sunday#2(1hr) :The Language of Tango 4: Soltadas
Sunday#3 (1hr) : Playing with Different Types of Embrace in Tango
Fusion Class Program
Prerequisite : You dance Tango and want to enrich your dance and musicality by understanding new ways to connect and move your body musically. Although primary expected audience are Tango dancers, fusion Dancers looking to improve their technical tool set and experimented social dance dancers willing to discover Fusion can also greatly benefit from the course. Friday workshops are for Fusion beginners. Saturday and Sunday workshops are built as a progression and will benefit both Fusion beginners that did Friday workshops and dancers that already have more Fusion dance background
Friday #1 (1hr) : Stepping outside your box to explore new connections in dance
connection through tension & compression, how to build and absorb energy to create movement
Friday#2 (1hr) : Musicality, draw the music with my body and find different colours
Listening differently to the music, dance with the whole body, use music rythms
Saturday#1 (1h30) : Adapt my connection to speak several languages
How to stay connected when dancing and improvising
Saturday#2 (1h30) :Explore the richness of all music through simple movements
Keep working on musicality and connection through simple movements
Sunday#1 (1H30) : Amplitude and intensity in the Dance
Small movements and big sensations-introduction to micro fusion
Sunday#2 (1h30) : we change role ....or not
change roles or use the space to enrich the dance without changing roles
Important :
although workshops tickets are either for tango class or for fusion class, we'll try to make it possible to change/choose class during the week-end IF space permits