Manolis is a tango and salsa teacher from Heraklion in Crete. He has been teaching tango in different cities in Crete since 2004. He has built up the tango community in Crete by initiating tango courses and groups in many different places in Crete; he had a decisive impact on their development. He organized weekly milongas at “La Brasserie” in Heraklion and at the “Centre for Byzantine Art” in Rethymno. Together with Nikos Dalamagkas, he organizes the Cretango Festival in Heraklion in March and the Crete tango trip to Sitia in May.

Manolis founded the “Tangolatino”, “Tango Salsa Heraklion” in Heraklion and the “Tango in Rethymno” in Rethymno. He founded and still organizes, in cooperation with all tango groups in Crete, the famous Ctangomeeting, which is held every first Saturday of August in Bali in the north of Crete.

Since he moved to Munich in 2017, he has been working as a physics teacher at the Greek School Munich and as a tango and salsa teacher at different locations in Bavaria.

In his dance classes, he focusses on musicality and movement, deconstructing figure elements to make them clear to his students. He loves to teach his students the knowledge he has acquired through years of hard work, patience and effort. He tries to explain complex themes and difficult dance figures in a simple way so that everyone can understand them.

Manolis developed the idea of an ongoing cultural and dance exchange between the tango communities in Munich and Crete; the result is “Tango MUC-HER”, which includes teachers from Germany and Greece.