Maura Laudicina
Multifaceted Artist with a Classical and Humanistic Education, Graduated in Philosophy of Language, Dancer, Choreographer, Burlesque Performer, Teacher, Technician, and Federal Judge FIDESM/CIDS. Trainer and Examiner of MIDAS Argentine Dances, FIDESM/MIDAS/CIDS Sicily Region Representative for Argentine Dances.
Since 2001, she has been the artistic and organizational director of the cultural association “ColorTango Palermo,” the first tango school and organization in Western Sicily. From 2001 to 2010, she organized the International Festival “Sicilia Tango Festival,” which showcased the most prestigious names in World Tango, contributing to the spread of Tanguera culture in Italy and training new generations of dancers, teachers, and organizers.
Formed as a TJ since 2000 with the great Felix Picherna, she has performed in Palermo and throughout Sicily at the dawn of Sicilian Tango. She has also performed in various Italian and European cities, both in milongas and large festivals (Rome, Cagliari, Bologna, Florence, Ravenna-Conventello, Verona, Milan, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Madrid, London, Stockholm, etc.). She is a fine connoisseur of music and tango, sensitive to the soul of the dancers. She loves to create a palpable, tangible wave on the dance floor, touching everyone with joy, energy, sensuality, and rhythm, filling the milonga with joy and fun! Hasta romper los zapatos…
“Se potessi dirlo con le parole, non avrei bisogno di ballare.”
“If I could say it with words, I wouldn’t need to dance.”
Isadora Duncan
Maurizio Maiorana
Multifaceted Musician and Performer
Trained as a singer of Renaissance music under Claudia Carbi, Wolfgang Fromme, and Gabriel Garrido, as an actor-marionettist with the Teatro Vagante company, and as a baroque flutist at the Palermo Conservatory of Music, he later developed a variety of musical interests in world music and improvised music while also learning the guitar as an accompanying instrument and various wind instruments. He also studied composition privately, setting a variety of opera librettos to music.
These interests led him to participate in and create various musical groups during 39 years of professional activity. He has been a member of the music group Agricantus and founded the Cuarteto Palermo, Palatinum Trio, Mokarta Quartet, the Palermo Band, Faust Group, etc. He has participated in some of the most important jazz festivals with Giorgio Occhipinti’s “Hereo Nonetto” group. He also collaborates with a variety of artists and composers in the field of contemporary music and was among the first to spread the Gardelian-style “Tango Cancion” in Italy. He lives in Palermo, with frequent forays in Italy and abroad.
“Non basta avere la voce più melodiosa per intonare un tango. No. Bisogna anche sentirlo. Bisogna viverne lo spirito.”
“It is not enough to have the most melodious voice to sing a tango. No. One must also feel it. You have to live the spirit of it.”
Carlos Gardel
