Margarita Klurfan Argentine Tango
Professional Dancer

Margarita Klurfan was born in Buenos Aires. After a thorough education in ballet, she vowed to Argentine tango, followed by the teachings of Mingo Pugliese, Vanina and Roberto Herrera, Claudio Gonzales and Ana Maria Stekelmann, who invited her to take part to Los Ensayos show, with the Tangokinesis company, in 1997. In the same period, Margarita Klurfan starts studying theatre with Beatriz Spelzini, Eugenia Levin and Daniel Kuznieka.

Her passion for dance led her to a deeper knowledge of diverse dance styles and expressions: while still in Buenos Aires, she got to develop jazz repertory – with Gaby Goldberg – and also the contemporary style – studying with Giuliana Rosetti and Lolerley Postolosky. She kept up with ballet, followed by teachers Luis Baldasarre and Liliana Cepeda in Buenos Aires, and by Maria Ines Camou in Montevideo. When she went to Italy, she took lessons from Patrizia Comini.

Thanks to her extensive and polyhedric training, Margarita Klurfan has also developed excellent didactic skills. Her experience as a teacher started in Argentine, holding special classes for the dancers of Tangou company, at Musicarte, besides teaching at the dance school of Ana Deutsch. In recent years, in Italy, she regularly collaborated with and gave lessons at every level in several dance schools and associations, among which Danzarteatro and La milonga Rotonda of Padua, E allora Tango of Mantua, Dolomitango of Belluno, Tango my vida of Brescia, CaminitoTango of Catania, Gattango of Vicenza, Todotango of Trento, Oltredanza of Verona, La Compagnia del Tango of Cremona.

The organizers of national and international tango festivals often invites her for stages and specific workshops. She also collaborated with Festival Oriente Occidente, with Tangopolis Association of Rome, with association Le temps du tango of Paris, with the Warsaw Tango Academy, Tango im Fluß of Regensburg, besides with institutions and dance centres of several other Italian and European cities.

Another basic hue of Margarita Klurfan’s artistic profile is concerned with her activity as a dancer in shows and performances, both live and for TV and cinema screens, among which the most relevant are: a tour in Bolovia together with Nestor Marconi, the show Tangou by Anibal Pachano in Punta del Este and Montevideo, Paradis Tango by Coco Dias in Paris, the several performances together with the musicians of Piazzolla Project, the participations to “Festival Wakacyny” in Poland, to “Festival Sani” in Greece, to “Tango Sardinia” and to “Catania Tango Festival”.
For what concerns her experiences on TV and cinema screens, Margarita Klurfan was in the cast of Carlo Saura’s movie, Tango, in 1997. She also worked on a documentary on Eva Peron’s life, together with actress Akiko Kuno, and under the direction by Hideya Yamaguchi for the Japanese television group NHK.

Together with her current partner, Walter Cardozo, she continues to collaborate with various associations and school dances, taking part to festivals and tango events, such as Bridge Project with musicians of Trio Riverado in Berlin, Cracow and Warsaw (September 2003); Festival Altlantide at Teatro Nuovo of Verona with the music group Tangox3 and the Orchestra Accademia i Filarmonici (March 2006); quartet Four Four Tango at the Philarmonic Theatres of Warsaw and Cracow (June 2006).

In 2005, they were invited by contemporary dance company Naturalis Labor (Vicenza - Italy) to be tango coreographers as well as dancers for the show Declaracion, that was presented at Danza Comacchio 2005/2006 (Ferrara), Operastate di Bassano2005 (Vicenza), Brescia Festival di Danza 2006, Teatro Verdi of Pisa, Teatro Carignano of Torino, Teatro Camploy of Verona, Vignale Danza 2006, Treffpunkt Stuttgart 2006 (Germany), Festival Abanodanza (Padua) 2006, etc.

Since July 2006, Margarita Klurfan collaborates with Teatro Stabile of Verona as a coreographer for the theatre opera “Sette Piani” by Dino Buzzati, with Ugo Pagliai and Paola Gassman, which will be touring in 2006/2007 season.