My name is Francesco.
I was born and raised in a small town of Friuli, the north-eastern part of Italy. A region with proud people and centuries-old language, tradition and culture, briefly chocked by fascist hands, slowly resurrecting, for the best and for the worst. I spent my childhood in the fields, under sun and rain. Playing football, climbing trees, brawling with friends, in contact with fire and animals. At that time I got to know two passions that never left me: martial arts and ancient history.
During my teenage technology made its way into my life. My first computer had 640 Kb of RAM and no hard disk. After a couple of years, Internet arrived. Video games, first chats, hacking and cracking. Music also became an important aspect of my life: punk, heavy metal and classical music. Shy and unsuccessful attempts of playing guitar. A rebel during high school times, studying just what I liked, despising to the extremes of idiocy everything commercial and popular, I graduated from high school with the lowest grades. Soon after, I developed a deep interest in writing.
I started to give my contributions to archaeology at the early age of fifteen. First as a volunteer, then as a professionist, excavating various and different sites. After high school and two years spent looking for myself and being in the army, I finally enrolled at the university, I studied ancient history and archaeology, and eventually graduated with honors. In the meanwhile, during a martial art tournament, I got severely injured, which resulted in leaving the competitive level and in developing rapidly a new interest, that later became my present job: Tango Argentino.
One year later, at the age of twenty-seven, growing the strong feeling that I could not realize myself in Italy, pushed by academic, work-related and sentimental disappointments, I started to explore Germany. First Heidelberg, during a student exchange program; then Berlin, where I currently live, thanks to a small scholarship. While doing random jobs for sustenance, I’ve also been working on a intellectually rewarding papyrological project at the Pergamon Museum of Berlin. At the same time, I carried on studying intensively Tango, in Berlin and Buenos Aires, increasing both skills and passion.
In the beginning Tango was just a second job, since 2014 I decided to dedicate myself completely to it. I teach, perform, musicalize and organize events. I am often invited abroad to work, mainly as DJ and teacher. The possibility of traveling and interaction with different cultures and people made me fall even more in love with Tango, and I have always been grateful, excited and happy to accept those invitations: from Taiwan to Argentina, from Lebanon to Sweden, and from all the many countries and cities of Europe.