Four teachers, four distinct perspectives, brought together around one goal: helping you become a more confident, capable, and connected social tango leader.
Your hosts & facilitators
The Chicas Buenos Aires Intensive is shaped by a shared belief: tango is not only something you learn in class. It is something you absorb through the body, the music, the floor, the city, and the people who carry it.
This week brings together two worlds: the Chicas del Tango community, created by Yelizaveta, and La Maleva, the Buenos Aires home created by Mariana Dragone.
Together, we are creating a small, focused training experience for women who lead - rooted in technique, musicality, social dancing, and the living culture of Buenos Aires.
Yelizaveta
Yelizaveta is a tango dancer, teacher, DJ, and the founder of IMSO Tango School Online and Chicas del Tango.
Her teaching is built around a simple question: how do we help dancers feel more capable, more musical, and more at home on the social dance floor?
Rather than treating tango as a collection of steps, Yelizaveta teaches it as a living system of movement, music, attention, and choice. Her work often focuses on the practical details that make social dancing feel better: body mechanics, musical timing, floorcraft, connection, adaptability, and the confidence to make clear decisions in real time.
Chicas del Tango grew from this same approach. It is a space for women who want to understand tango more deeply, explore both roles, and develop their leading without losing sensitivity, nuance, or artistry.
For Yelizaveta, this Buenos Aires Intensive is not simply a trip. It is a way to bring women into deeper contact with the dance: through training, community, and the experience of dancing in the city where tango continues to breathe.
Mariana Dragone
Mariana Dragone is a dancer, teacher, performer, and the owner and general manager of La Maleva Casa Hotel in Buenos Aires.
Originally from Rosario, Argentina, Mariana knew from the age of four that she wanted to be a dancer. She began her training at a local dance school and later moved to Buenos Aires at age 20 to immerse herself in tango.
Her professional career grew in Buenos Aires, where she became part of Miguel Ángel Zotto’s renowned Tango x2 Company. Through that work, she toured internationally, taught tango, and performed in exhibitions around the world.
Since 2010, Mariana has co-managed La Maleva Casa Hotel with Mathieu Brossard. For her, La Maleva is not simply a hotel. It is a place where guests can dance, meet people, share mate, and experience Argentine culture from the inside.
Mariana brings to this intensive a lifetime of dance experience, a deep Buenos Aires perspective, and a special gift for helping dancers understand their own bodies through solo technique, movement, and embodied awareness.
Visiting teachers:
Corina de la Rosa
Corina de la Rosa is one of Argentina's most respected tango educators, known for combining deep social tango knowledge with decades of research into movement, anatomy, and body awareness.
After partnering with Julio Balmaceda for more than twenty years, she helped shape a generation of tango dancers through an innovative teaching approach rooted in both tradition and conscious movement. Their work with Forever Tango, international touring, and years of teaching established Corina as one of the leading voices in contemporary tango education.
Today she directs Estudio de la Rosa in Buenos Aires and leads Inspiring Tango, where she integrates tango with somatic practices including Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Alexander Technique, and other movement disciplines. Her classes help dancers move with greater efficiency, freedom, and authenticity while honoring the essence of Argentine tango.
Katrin Urwitz
Katrin Urwitz is an international tango teacher whose work explores communication, role versatility, and the shared language between leading and following. Dancing both roles since the beginning of her tango journey, she has developed a teaching approach that helps dancers deepen their understanding of connection from every perspective.
Together with her partner Jorge, Katrine has spent years researching fluid role change in tango—not as a performance element, but as a way to cultivate greater listening, responsiveness, and clarity in social dancing. Their work emphasizes communication, adaptability, and the ability to remain fully present with a partner, whether leading, following, or transitioning between roles.
Drawing on her background in Tai Chi, Chi Gong, and movement education, Katrine brings a thoughtful and body-aware perspective that encourages dancers to move with greater ease, curiosity, and connection. She is also the founder of Katrinski, a boutique line of tango shoes known for their elegant design and comfortable tango flats, reflecting her ongoing commitment to supporting dancers both on and off the dance floor.
Why this teaching team
Yelizaveta first studied with Mariana in Buenos Aires in 2015.
That experience became part of the foundation of Yelizaveta’s own teaching. Mariana’s approach to solo technique, body organization, and embodied clarity continues to influence the way Yelizaveta understands tango movement today.
This intensive brings that connection full circle - and expands it.
Yelizaveta brings the Chicas del Tango community, the teaching framework, and an understanding of what visiting dancers need in order to feel prepared, supported, and challenged.
Mariana brings the Buenos Aires home base, the local perspective, and the lived knowledge of someone who has spent decades inside the professional and social tango world.
They are joined by Corina de la Rosa and Katrine Urwitz, two visiting teachers chosen because their work complements the larger purpose of the intensive.
Corina brings decades of investigation into body organization, conscious movement, and finding greater ease and possibility within the dance. Katrine brings a deeply developed perspective on dancing both roles, with an emphasis on listening, communication, adaptability, and the shared language between leading and following.
The week isn’t about learning one “right” way to dance. It’s an opportunity to spend time with different teachers, different ideas, and with tango itself in Buenos Aire - and to discover what becomes useful in your own dancing.
We want the experience to be structured but not rigid, serious about the work without taking itself too seriously, and grounded in the real experience of dancing tango in Buenos Aires.
