Curriculum Vitae
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Andrea Monti
Andrea Monti was born in Buenos Aires and since her childhood she has been immersed in the Tango
environment. Her parents were faithful Tango fans who introduced her to the magical world of dancing when
she was very young.
A few years later, -in1994-,she became deeply involved in Tango schools, Cultural
centers and tango “prácticas” such as "La Galeria del Tango", "Centro Cultural Rojas" and "Cochabamba".
Then, she continued her studies as a professional dancer and perfected her technique with distinguished
masters and dancers, among them Susana Rojo, Graciela González, Esther and Mingo Pugliese, Gustavo Naveira, Olga Besio, Roberto Herrera
and Alejandra Arrué.
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Her solid training as a professional Tango dancer is based on the contributions of these tango masters as well
as almost two decades of studies in contemporary jazz dance, classical technique and stretching.**
Andrea also studied Foreign Language Education at Teacher´s College and Graphic Design at the University
of Buenos Aires (Design and Urbanism). She finished those studies in 1991 and 1994 respectively. This has
helped her tango career as she learned about quality teaching and student teacher relations. These classes
included: Theory of the learning process; Theory of the education process; Psychology; Methodology; and the
practice of teaching; Management & School organization; Ethics and Professional Deontology, Philosophy and
Sociology. Due to her dual education in dance and liberal arts, and her experience in teaching and directing
groups of all ages, her tango classes and technique seminars have been requested in many cities abroad for
many years.
As a dancer, Andrea has outstanding technique and walking style. As a teacher, she is outstanding by her
dedication and methodology, achieving an optimal level of communication with her students. Since 1998,
she has been teaching seminars specifically for ladies, using a method and system that she has developed through years of experience and drawing from her studies in tango, in technique and in the modern-
contemporary jazz dance. Her objective is that the student reaches the best possible technique and dance
level according to their learning capabilities through a series of exercises carefully designed and framed within
a system she has created so that the learning process happens in a natural, gradual way, making it incredibly
effective.
Andrea created, choreographed and was a member of the tango-dance group “Sin Ellos” together with dancer
Andrea Ponzetti, performing mostly in Barcelona: August and September 2002-2003.
She met tango dancer Hugo “Gato” Valdez in 1998 with whom she formed a professional tango couple as well as a life couple.
Since then, they have been dancing and teaching together very successfully both in Argentina and around the
world, being the most visited countries the USA, England, Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia,
Singapore, Indonesia, Brazil and Costa Rica.
Nowadays they proudly run and direct the official argentine tango competition Argentine Tango USA
Festival and USA Official Championship in San Francisco, which is branch of Tango Buenos Aires
Dance World Cup, organized by the Ministry of Culture of Buenos Aires.
Andrea was selected as an official Judge of the “Mundial de Tango de Buenos Aires” (Tango
Buenos Aires Dance World Cup August) in 2010 and 2011, which is yearly organized by the
Ministry of Culture of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires.
**Starting in 1984, Andrea studied modern-jazz at different dance schools and institutions in Buenos Aires for many years. She has been influenced by one of the best jazz dance masters and choreographers, MANUEL VALLEJOS,
who was her teacher from 1995 to 2001 and with whom she has been training since 2006. She participated in a
great number of dance events and presentations in many distinguished theatres and auditoriums "porteños", such
as: "Astros", "Alvear", "Coliseo”, “El Globo”, “Auditorio de Belgrano”, and "La Plaza Complex", where she danced under the
direction of master Manuel Vallejos.
She also studied a few years of classical technique and stretching with Master Monica Souto.
Andrea directed groups of children and adolescents in different institutions and schools for five years. One of her groups
got the first prize in the National Competition "All the Dance", category Jazz-Dance adolescents, which took place in the
famous "Astral" theatre in December, 1996.
She continues taking stretching and Jazz Dance classes to keep trained up to date at
MONICA SOUTO STUDIO
Other Dances/Studies
Yoga
Pilates
Salsa
Rock and Roll
