Christian Petitto

Highlights

• Christian Petitto started his teaching experience in the martial arts within ITF (International Taekwon-do federation) at the age of 14, teaching all levels from children to adults and then continuing his training at the INEF University (National Institute of Physical Education) in Buenos Aires, where he also refined his teaching technique by studying psychology, pedagogy and methodology of learning.
  
  His first approach to tango was in 2005, when asked by a friend who at the time was giving group tango lessons to join a class; he fell totally in love with the music and the dance. Since then he simply could not stop dancing and started taking lessons with Carla Calcaterra and several other teachers such as Julio Balmaceda, Pablo Veron, Gabriel Angio, Omar Quiroga & Veronica Palacios, Sebastian Arce & Mariana Montes, Fernando Sanchez & Ariadna Naveira and Inés Muzzopappa & Dante Sanchez.
  
  His tango teaching experience started in 2010 when he organised group tango lessons at various London locations such as Imperial College, Notting Hill Art Centre and the Troubadour Gallery. Since then, he's been doing classes in many other venues such as Milonga 8, The Dome, Tango Terra, Carablanca, as well teaching private classes. Currently, he is teaching group lessons at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
  
  Christian has also performed in tango shows in restaurants like Buenos Aires, Latin Corner and Russian Revels, in cultural events organised by the Anglo Argentine Society, in the Vintage Cirque-Olympique Cabaret produced by Richard Peacock at Hackney House, burlesque shows like Someone Call Me A Cabaret, and also in milongas, like at the special Seven Sins Milonga in Brighton . His first dancing partner was Laura de Altube; nowadays he is in a partnership with Nayla Vacca.
  
  Christian Petitto stars in many videos including DJ Shadow's music video 'Listen' and Nicola Benedetti's video "Por una cabeza".
  
  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nayla-Chris-Tango/141031262740132?ref=hl
  
  http://chrisnaylatango.wix.com/chrisnaylatango
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  I have participated in a fashion show for "Ugly lovely" milliners
• Criatian Petitto:
  I've worked in shorts for artists, which have been presented in art exhibitions all throghout the UK:
  www.SmallActsOfIntervention.com
  I have also starred in the following music videos, by artists Nicola Benedetti and Dj Shadow, both as actor and dancer and as choreographer:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1RznkLDngg
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOY2NQdFHuc
  
  Nayla has a degree in Performing Arts (2003-2005), and has participated in many musicals such as Sister Act, Gypsy, Little Shop of Horrors (playing the main character Audrey), and others. She has also starred with a small part in the Argentine-Spanish co-production "La puta y la ballena" (2004) , and has participated in the opera production "Orfeo and Euridice" of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina.