Diamond Lessons: Special Tango Workshop with Josefina Stellato & Maestro Maxi

Do you recall the first time that watching a tango performance virtually swept you off your feet?!? That’s the feeling you’ll get watching and learning with Josefina Stellato! The closeness, the confidence, the breath-taking swoops and tantalizing pauses.

Josefina Stellato has been dancing Argentine tango at the highest level for more than two decades. She’s now arrived at Still & Moving Center as our Artist in Residence for about 6 months!

As a performer, Josefina has been a member of renowned choreographer Leonardo Cuello’s tango company at the National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She’s been a cast member of Social Tango Project for the past decade, performing in multiple theaters in Buenos Aires! In 2023, Josefina participated in the company’s North American tour and performed at Kennedy Center in New York City.

As a teacher, Josefina deepened her understanding of pedagogy under the direction of Dana Frigoli and the DNI Tango school in Buenos Aires, where Josefina served as a senior faculty member. She was also an official member of the DNI Tango Company, where she participated in the live shows “Dos, lo que se disuelve”, “Asimétrico”, “Seres Materiales”; a film version of “Dos”, and “Remueve la piel suspire”, which Josefina created and choreographed.

Josefina has taught and performed at international festivals in Europe and during the pandemic gained a devoted following for her online lessons. Welcome to Still & Moving Center, live and in person, Josefina!

Maximiliano Cristiani is considered one of the great teachers of today, known for his charisma, ability and system to teach, in the last 20 years he has managed to accompany hundreds of students in their professional development, whether in competitions or in their personal dance. His methodology focuses on functionality and not on dance style. He knows, without a doubt, how to discover the greatest potential in each student to find a comfortable dance and discover his own style. Maestro Mazi has deeply studied social dance, salon and milonguero style, as well as the tango escenario. From these, he has extracted a wealth of new techniques to apply to the social dancing of Tango.

Beyond teaching, Maximiliano is considered to hold the highest number of titles obtained in tango championships. He has organized the official preliminaries for MUNDIAL DE TANGO BA in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

He has created productions such as:
“Angel” a tango short film
“WORLD TANGO PISTA CHAMPION 2013”
“2012 CHAMPION Buenos Aires Tango Metropolitan
“2012 CHAMPION “Milonga” Metropolitan Buenos Aires
“Sub World Champion “Tango Stage” (2nd)
Tango show “Tangostory”
Tango video clip “Tigre viejo”
Tango video clip “Recuerdo en La Viruta”.