Born in Tostado, in the province of Santa Fe, in Argentina, Carina was introduced to dance through folklore argentino. At the age of 17 she moved to Paraná to study Social Communication in the National University of Entre Rios. After this she started to dance tango and met Pablo Villarraza, with whom she organized several milongas in and around Paraná.
In the years after Carina traveled, usually to Buenos Aires, taking classes from the other renowned maestros of the time. She attended seminars, workshops, directed choreographies for the theater and was a member of diverse tango dance companies.
Her artistic search continued to evolve by studying contemporary dance, acting, investigation and production of movement, dramatic art of the body and corporal training.
In 2000 Carina returned to take classes with Pablo and met Dana Frigoli. In 2006 she entered DNI Tango School and decided that this would be her place to continue her search. She was also the producer of the premiere of “La Colección, los tangos de una vida”, the first show of the DNI Tango Dance Company.
After working for ten years as a graphic designer in Paraná, she moved to Buenos Aires in the summer of 2008. She attended classes daily for a year at DNI, and then worked as a teacher giving private and group classes. She was a member of the DNI Tango Company.
With the DNI Tango Company she held exhibitions in the following milongas: Salón Canning, Club Grisel, Club Villa Malcom, La Baldosa, La Catedral. And also at the Alvear Theatre, Margarita Xirgu, Maipo Theatre and El Cubo presenting the shows “A-realidades” and “La Musa del Capricho”. She also danced at the presentation of the CD “Zorro Gris” of the Tubatango Orchestra.
In 2008 Carina met the finnish tango dancer Arttu Artkoski and in 2010 they began to work together as tango dancers and teachers in Argentina and Europe. They conducted several workshops and performed in different cities of Finland, the Summer Tango Festival Finland, Seinäjoki Tango World Summit 2011 (Finland), DNI Práctica and Milonga del Pañuelo Blanco (Buenos Aires), in Basel and Zürich (Switzerland), in Stockholm and Ystad (Sweden) among other places.
Since 2013 she has been living in the city of Tampere (Finland).
In 2017, she was one of the founders of La Fábrica del Tango – dance school with her partner Arttu and their friends and colleagues Pasi and Maria Laurén. The dream came true and they have their own tango school in the heart of Tampere.
After many years working as a dancer and teacher she continues investigating and working with the same concepts: connection, organic movement and technique. Related natural body movements with the movements of tango, making this technique possible for each person. Offering everyone the possibility of an analytical tool to investigate classic elements to newer elements and develop their own dance.
