Pasos Libres World Championship · 2026

Talks

Three talks about the job, not the steps: what to do when something goes wrong on stage, how to handle your accounts and what really works on social media. Included with the Full Pass.

Dr. Alessandro Massaro

Thursday 22 OCT · 11:00 – 11:55 · Piano Bar

Mistakes on stage

How to refocus on the spot when something goes wrong in front of an audience.

Dr. Alessandro Massaro

Clinical and sports psychologist · International choreographer and judge

Who they are

A clinical psychologist with a psychodynamic approach, he brings psychology and dance together in a single career. Trained in Sports Psychology through the Psyco Sport Master's and in Clinical Sexology, he is currently specialising in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the SPP in Turin. He sits on the IDO Medical-Scientific Committee as a sports psychologist and is Regional Counsellor for Piedmont at FIPSIS. Technical and Artistic Director of Al Ma Academy, he is an international judge and coach to multi-champion athletes. Thirty years in dance let him speak to dancers from an unusual place: someone who knows the floor through his own body, not only through theory.

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Esteban Molina Pérez

Friday 23 OCT · 10:00 – 10:50 · Piano Bar

Tax and business

The first steps to starting your business: how to set it up and grow it, plus everything about taxes and social security.

Esteban Molina Pérez

Chartered economist · Specialist in dance schools and performers

Who they are

A graduate in Economics and Business from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a member of the Madrid Association of Economists. He specialises in the tax treatment of companies and the self-employed, and in the business side of dance schools and performers. His firm, founded in 2005, currently looks after more than 60 companies in the dance and music industry.

Manuel Ruiz

Friday 23 OCT · 11:00 – 11:50 · Piano Bar

Social media without the hype

What works, what doesn't, and what AI is bringing to our industry.

Manuel Ruiz

Digital strategy consultant · 25 years and over 500 clients

Who they are

25 years of uninterrupted practice and more than 500 clients: large corporations, government bodies, SMEs and start-ups. He has been a CTO, a founder and a consultant in the creation of four technology companies. The last 10 years he has devoted to the growth of one of the big brands in the Inditex group, leading its architecture and the development teams behind it. In his talk he explains, with real cases, how social media works from the inside and how AI is changing the job of anyone who makes a living teaching dance.

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