Tango 02 Ensemble
Benoît Leseure – violin
Ignaas Vermeiren – double bass
Pieter Baert – piano
Pato Lorente (Patrick Vankeirsbilck) – bandoneón
Cristina Cortés – choreographer & dancer
Cristian Taffarello – dancer
Many in the international tango community know Pato Lorente from his fifteen-year artistic collaboration with Alfredo Marcucci in Orquesta Veritango, performing in concerts and milongas throughout Europe. Marcucci himself was a legendary figure of the Golden Age of tango, having performed in the orchestras of Julio De Caro and Carlos Di Sarli in the 1940s and 50s—placing Tango 02 directly in the lineage of one of tango’s most influential traditions.
Following Marcucci’s passing in 2010, Pato Lorente continued to expand his artistic path and founded Tango 02 in Belgium, now celebrating over 25 years of activity. The ensemble is dedicated to tango for the dance floor and for the stage, performing widely across Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Italy, and Germany.
In 2022, Tango 02 released an album of entirely new, original tango compositions, adding a Belgian chapter to the evolving history of Tango Rioplatense—urban music that is passionate, expressive, and alive with subtle humor and self-reflection. Around this repertoire, the ensemble created the concert production Por Eso, joined by Argentine dancer and choreographer Cristina Cortés, renowned for her fusion of tango and contemporary dance, and formerly of A.M. Stekelman’s Tangokinesis Company—a pioneering force in tango-contemporary stage work.