Walter Cardozo Argentine Tango
Professional Dancer

Walter Cardozo was born in Buenos Aires. His education as a tango dancer started in 1987. After taking his teaching degree in folk dances, he improved tango technique and styles studying with Rodolfo Dinzel and Gustavo Naveira, in 1990.

In Argentina, he took part to several television programs, among which “Grandes valores del Tango” and “Teleobjectivo”. He performed in the shows La Historia del Tango and Crecer en 2x4, realized at Centro Cultural General San Martin; in addition, he appeared in diverse shows and events with the Tango Orchestra of Buenos Aires. As a permanent dancer of Ballet Buenos Aires Tango, he won the first “Hispanic-American Biennial of Young Arts”, organized by Secreteria de Cultura of Buenos Aires.

In 1996, he became director of Ballet Municipal de Zarate, at request by Secretaria de Cultura of the Province of Buenos Aires. He performed in various casas de tango of Buenos Aires, among which La Veda and Cafè Homero.

He moved to Italy in 1997, where he developed his intense artistic activity, while performing in several milongas and theatres.

In addition, he took part to the following shows and events:
“Profumo di Tango” at the Roman Theatre in Verona with Milva and Vinicio Capossela.
"Giornata Internazionale di Tango Argentino": performance on the dance floor of the antique and prestigious Caffè Pedrocchi in Padua.
"Festa della Musica": performances in various squares of Milan’s historic centre, with the accompaniment by Estilo Tango orchestra, with whom he also collaborated at Cà Bianca in Milan in 1999-2000.
Performance in the Maffeiana Hall of Accademia Filarmonica of Verona with the show “Tango Variationen”.
"Primo Festival di Tango Argentino" organized by the Municipality of Brescia and the Tango mi vida Association.
Performance in Forte dei Marmi with the orchestra Progetto Piazzolla and bandoneon player Juan José Mosalini jr.
" Festival Internazionale di Tango Argentino Riviera dei Ciclopi" in Acicastello (Catania), organized by Caminito Tango Association of Catania (in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006).

Performance at the milonga Il Paradiso di Sedico (Belluno) accompanied by Terapia Tango Group.
Performance – accompanied by bandoneon player Rodolfo Mederos – during the television charity marathon for Argentina, that was live telecast worldwide by RAI Sat.

Together with his current partner Margarita Klurfan, he keeps on to collaborate with many associations and dance schools, besides taking part to festivals and tango events, such as: Bridge Project with the musicians of Trio Revirado in Berlin, Crakow and Warsaw (Sept. 2003); Atlantide Festival at Teatro Nuovo of Verona with Tango x 3 group and Accademia i Filarmonici (March 2006) ; quartet Four Four Tango at the Philarmonic Theatres of Warsaw and Krakov (June 2006).

In 2005, the couple was invited by the contemporary dance company Naturalis Labor (Vicenza) as tango choreographers and dancers for the show Declaracion, presented at Comacchio Danza 2005/8 (Ferrara), Operastate of Bassano (Vicenza) 2005, Brescia Festival di Danza 2006, Verdi Theatre of Pisa, Carignano Theatre of Torino, Camploy Theatre of Verona, Vignale Danza 2006, Treffpunkt Stuttgart (Germany) 2006, Festival Abano Danza (Padua) 2006, etc.