Norberto “El Pulpo” Esbrez has more than twenty-two years of professional experience as a dancer, tango teacher and choreographer. He is the third generation of a tanguero family, son and grandson of bandoneon players. He has worked for the most important theatres and show-places in Buenos Aires, such as Teatro San Martin, Teatro Astral, Café Tortoni. El Viejo Almacen, La Ventana  and many others.

Norberto’s style is characterized by creativity and improvisation. This avant-garde artist, was the first to use the expression “Tango Nuevo” to talk about dance. Since the beginning of his career he showed his capacity to innovate, creating a very personal image. He is considered as Rey de los ganchos (King of ganchos).His perfect understanding of technique enables him to invent and improvise complex sequences of ganchos, sacadas, enganches, that made him known as Pulpo (The Octopus). This vision of dance is wonderfully applied when he performs, always improvising. His dance is based on the communication and understanding with his partner, and characterized by continuous, round, soft movements.

Today, after 22 years studying Tango, el Pulpo manages to join the tango’s close embrace with the legs ability of Tango Nuevo.

Stéphanie began dancing tango when she moved from France to Buenos Aires to write her Masters thesis on the history of the social and cultural aspects of tango. Since 2004 she has been studying extensively with maestro Rodolfo Dinzel, with particular interest in improvisation and role definition in tango dance. She participated in the creation of tango events mixing dance, music and pictures of Argentinean and foreign artists in the Club Estrella de Maldonado, Buenos Aires, and performed in Argentina and Colombia. After she received as an historian she dedicated herself to dance, also discovering dance-theatre with José Garófalo. She began partnering with el Pulpo Esbrez in 2008, and they have been teaching and performing in Brazil, the United States, Argentina and France.
They have taught together at Pulpo´s Tango Week 2008.
Pulpo’s style according to Stephanie:“What characterizes Norberto's dance is the improvisation and the communication of the couple. This is possible thanks to his very clear definition of the roles. He interprets the music; I interpret and prolong the movement that he initiates. Norberto seems to contain, as a dancer, all the possibilities of the Tango. He can be tender, soft, slow, passionate, very fast. He can stop, use the contact and has an incredible energy with which he is playing all the time. Dancing with Norberto offered me the technical tools to facilitate and to generate the improvisation. His goal in the technique is the balance, for the man as for the woman.With Norberto, we dance since we knew each other in close embrace, but he always asks me to control my proper weight and balance. It is an embrace that one adapts to the needs of the dance, where I control my own movements being near to him.The figures are given really in his space or mine, not in the way of the two. All the figures go out of this contact of legs. The drafts gain depth. The movements are not understood anymore in fragments of figures but in an infinity of possibilities.I think Norberto is the perfect mixing, with a clear, soft and firm leading, and the opening mind to improvise with me.”