Welcome to Team TAN-Z
At TAN-Z, we believe in the power of community—and our team reflects the diversity, dedication, and shared passion that bring our vision to life.
Together, we create spaces where movement becomes connection and every participant feels welcome.
Luigi Troia: Tango for the Real Dance Floor
Both a painter and a tango teacher, Luigi Troia is known for his grounded, artistic, and deeply musical approach to Tango Argentino. Drawing from his background in the visual arts, he brings a painter’s sense of balance, rhythm, and composition to the dance floor.
Rather than relying on showy choreography, he focuses on practical, expressive movement—techniques and figures that truly work in the social setting of a milonga. His teaching emphasizes clear communication between partners, adaptability, and spatial awareness, all guided by a strong musical sensibility.
For Luigi, dancing tango means embodying the music with precision and presence. His teaching highlights that great tango is not only about complexity, but about clarity, connection, and the ability to translate sound into motion—qualities that let dancers move with grace and harmony on even the most crowded floor.
Painter &
Tango Teacher
Engineer & Tango Teacher
Gunter Klein-Carl: Exploring Role & Fluidity in Tango
Former engineer, approaches Tango Argentino as both a system and a dialogue. His teaching delves into the dynamics between leading and following, exploring how roles can shift, overlap, or dissolve. Rather than fixing dancers into predefined patterns, he invites them to understand the underlying mechanics and energy exchange that make movement possible.
His analytical background informs a methodical yet open exploration: how structure can support freedom, and how precision can lead to genuine connection. For Gunter, tango becomes a space where roles are not rigid, but fluid, reflective, and co-created—a moving conversation between two equals.
F¡ona Tan: Embodied Communication & The Art of Meaning in Motion
Linguist, actress, and dancer whose work bridges language, movement, and philosophy. As a lecturer at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, she teaches Master’s students in Cultural and Cognitive Linguistics, exploring how language shapes thought, culture, and perception. Her academic focus lies in the philosophy of language—how meaning emerges in interaction, and how communication becomes an embodied act.
Trained as both an actress and a dancer, Fiona works as a choreographer on set, where she merges linguistic precision with the expressiveness of the body. Her artistic path has led her through contemporary and classical forms to her enduring passion: Tango Argentino and martial arts. In both, she finds a unique fusion of discipline and freedom, structure and improvisation—a living dialogue of body and mind.
Through TAN-Z, Fiona brings these worlds together. The project embodies her vision of dance as a form of communication—spontaneous yet deeply reflective, grounded in presence and open to the endless ways we understand and create meaning together.