Madeleine E. Hackney

Back to all Madeleine E. Hackney is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine and a Research Health Scientist with the Atlanta VA. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance from New York University Tisch School of the Arts and a PhD in Movement Science from Washington University in St. Louis. […]

Julián Graciano

Back to all Julián Graciano is a tango guitarist, composer, and arranger in Buenos Aires. Raised in a family of tango musicians, he has systematically worked out a pedagogical method for teaching tango based on his jazz studies. He is the author of Roberto Grela “La guitarra del tango” (February 2024, Melos), Método de guitarra […]

Nicolás Enrich

Back to all Nicolás Enrich is an Argentine bandoneonist and composer who has played with most of the best musicians and singers in the Buenos Aires tango scene, and since 2014 he has been a member of the Orquesta Nacional de Música Argentina ’’Juan de Dios Filiberto.’’ He has maintained an intense international solo career […]

Shelley Brooks

Back to all Shelley Brooks is a classically trained lover of dance, presently teaching and sharing Tango in Atlanta. She has studied all forms of dance, including courses in kinesiology. Tango captivated her, the way ballet did, twenty years ago. She is trained and certified in Adapted Tango, was a member of Tango Evolution, hosted […]

Damián Bolotin

Back to all Damián Bolotin is a composer and award-winning violinist. With over 30 years of experience as a session musician and 200 album credits, he has collaborated with such artists as Mercedes Sosa, Horacio Salgán, and Arturo Sandoval (Latin Grammy recipient), and on the international platform Musiversal Studios since 2021. He has played as […]

Paul Bhasin

Back to all Paul Bhasin is the Director of Orchestral Studies and Donna & Marvin Schwartz Professor of Practice at Emory University. His work as a conductor, trumpeter, and composer has led to performances/premieres with the San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony, St. Louis Opera Theater, and at the festivals of Aspen, Tanglewood, and Ravinia. […]

Yuiko Asaba

Back to all Yuiko Asaba Lecturer (equiv. Assistant Professor) in Music at SOAS University of London. She is the author of the book, Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, in production for publication in 2025). Her research examines the significant presence of Latin American music cultures in the Asia-Pacific, […]

Horacio Arcidiacono

Back to all Horacio Arcidiacono is a native of Buenos Aires who began teaching tango in 1995. After moving to Atlanta in 2002, he became a key figure in the local tango community, leading workshops throughout South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, and Virginia. He taught at Tangueros Emory for nine years and served as DJ […]