GIORGIA MARCHIORI
Author, performer and choreographer
Giorgia MARCHIORI is a dancer, choreographer, actress, circus artist and graduate in philosophy.
Born in Rome, she began classical dance at the age of 4. She continued her studies in jazz dance at the Balletto di Roma and Argentine tango in Buenos Aires with the greatest masters. Alongside her mime work, she made her stage debut in 2003 with Goldoni's La Locandiera in the role of Mirandolina.
After studying Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on the individual-species relationship in Aristotle's Categories, in 2003 she began her artistic collaboration with Marcelo Guardiola, to form the duo Los Guardiola, whose originality consists in telling stories without words that mix mime and dance.
Apart from his collaboration with the Teatro Potlach in the shows Felliniana and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, since 2003 his career has continued to develop under the name of Los Guardiola, as a choreographer and performer in the following shows: Death and the Maiden, Pasolini's Theorem, L'Italiana del Tango, Borges and Tango, Once Upon a Time in Tango, Recital CanTango, Tango Querido!, Andersen's Tales, Fêtes Galantes, Tango Secret, The Comedy of Tango and Ephemera.
MARCELO GUARDIOLA
Author, performer and director
Marcelo GUARDIOLA is an actor, dancer, musician and theatre director, based in Paris.
He began his studies at the age of eight at the Municipal Conservatory of Bahía Blanca. In 1976, at the age of ten, he made his stage debut as a musician, and later worked with different artistic companies.
In 1996, integrating several artistic forms (music, theater, dance, acrobatics and photography), he began his experimental work which led to the show "El Varieté", with which he made his debut as a director.
Between 1997 and 1998, he undertook an artistic and anthropological journey across the European, African, Asian and American continents, following which he created the "Tango Teatro", an experimental research whose objective was to create a new form of spectacle, using tango dance as expressive physical training, and music as a source of inspiration for stage creation.
In 1999, during the "10th International Group Theatre Meetings" held in Humahuaca (Argentina), chaired by Eugenio Barba, he met the company "Teatro dei Naviganti" from Messina (Italy) with whom he initiated an artistic exchange to present various shows from 2000.
In 2003 he moved to Italy, created the show Tango Migrante and began his collaboration with Giorgia Marchiori by forming the duo Los Guardiola.
LOS GUARDIOLA
Marcelo GUARDIOLA and Giorgia MARCHIORI, artistically known as Los Guardiolas , form " one of the most original and appreciated couples ", according to the Buenos Aires press. Their shows have toured theaters and festivals around the world.
In 2004, in Buenos Aires, they received the honorary diploma "Nueva Generación" for their work as tango dancers. For their specific and original use of tango in the theater, they were invited in 2011 to Denmark, to the VIII Holstebro Festuge, organized by the Odin Teatret and directed by Eugenio Barba.
In 2016, the National Tango Academy of the Argentine Republic awarded them its institutional sponsorship "as artists who disseminate the culture of Argentine tango through dance, mime and tango lyrics."
Authors and performers of all their shows, they gave, in 2016, the premiere of their creation "Los Guardiola - La Comédie du Tango" (at the origin of the current form of the show), in the famous Maipo theater in Buenos Aires. Since then, this show has been performed more than 450 times, in about fifteen countries: England, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Scotland, Spain, France, Italy, Qatar, Oman, Russia, Slovenia and Switzerland.