
CLAUDIO ASPREA
Born and raised in Argentina, Mr. Asprea dance background includes classical ballet (Colon Theater Superior Institute of Art – I.S.A. – Buenos Aires, Argentina) and modern dance (Taller de Danza Contemporanea del Teatro San Martin de Buenos Aires). Since 2015 he is an American Ballet Theater Certified Teacher.
In 1990 Mr. Asprea joined As an argentine tango dancer his long list of credits includes his work as choreographer and performer with the original cast of “Tango 2000” (1997, artistic director Néstor Marconi), with “Tango Argentino Show” that officially represented the Argentine Republic at the Universal Exposition 1998 (Lisbon, Portugal), with Pablo Ziegler’s “Tango: Passion and Swing – When Tango meets Jazz” at the Umbria Jazz Winter Festival #8 (Orvieto Italy, 2001) featuring Paquito de Rivera, Joe Lavano, and Julia Zenko, among other artists, with he Sexteto Mayor’s “Tango Show – Hommage to Astor Piazzolla”, featuring Amelita Baltar (Artistic Director and principal bandoneonist José Libertella), with the Nueva Compania Tanguera for the production “Catalogo Tanguero” at the Duse Theater in Bologna, Italy, in 2005 (artistic director Mariachiara Michieli, musical director Cesar Stroscio), with “Milonguero Nights”-Moscow Tango Festival” (Moscow, 2006), and with “Emozione Pura”-Florence International Tango Festival (2007, Florence, Italy).
Mr. Asprea has performed and taught argentine tango workshops in 20 countries and more than 150 cities around the world, including Buenos Aires (Argentina), Paris, Nimes, Le Mans, Amiens, Metz, Strasbourg, etc. (France); London, Manchester, Bristol, Norkfolk, (UK); Rome, Milan, Florence, Bologna, Genova, Ancona, Venice, etc. (Italy); Frankfurt, Hannover, Karlsruhe, Konstanz, Munich, Freiburg, etc. (Germany); Montreal, Toronto, Victoria, Quebec (Canada); Lisboa, Porto, Viseu, etc.(Portugal); Madrid, Barcelona, etc.(Spain); Zurich, Basel, Chur, Pizol, etc. (Switzerland); Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yaroslav (Russia); Kazan (Kazakhstan); Prague (Czech Republic); Feldkirch (Austria); Brussels (Belgium); Luxembourg (Luxembourg); Malmo (Sweden); Athens, Santorini, (Greece); Istambul (Turkey); Montevideo (Uruguay); New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Miami, Seattle, Albuquerque, etc. (US) and many others cities around the world.
In 2012 the mega latin music star Charly Garcia commissioned Mr. Asprea to create a choreography for Garcia’s song “No Soy un Extraño”, which was premiered and performed by ABT member Luciana Paris and Claudio Asprea himself within Charly Garcia’s Broadway show at the Best Buy Theater in New York in April 2012.
Luciana Paris and Claudio Asprea have performed on NYC, Germany, Luxembourg and France.
In 2013 Mr. Asprea was guest performer and argentine tango master teacher at both the “The Official USA Championship & USA TANGO FESTIVAL” in San Francisco, CA, from April 17 to 20, 2013 (Official Local Branch Tango Buenos Aires Festival & Dance World Cup), and at the “13th New York City Tango Festival- “Celebrate Tango” from 22 to 28 July, 2013.
He currently teaches argentine tango at Steps on Broadway Dance Studios, and at Paul Pellicoro’s DanceSport Studios, in New York.
In 2015 Mr. Asprea is Guest Artist with Musical Bridges Around the World Festival, where his new choreographic work on composer and bandoneonist Juan Pablo Jofre’s Hard Tango will premiere at Tobin Center for the Performing HEB Performance Hall, featuring Juan Pablo Jofre, the Grammy award nominated St. Petersburg String Quartet, and Claudio Asprea partnered by award-winner dancer Snejana Petrova, a regular on Dancing with the Stars and You Think You Can Dance TV shows.