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I love helping passionate organizers grow local tango scenes, fostering innovation, and joyful explorations with committed collaborators.

Portrait by Andrei Andreev

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I’m available for 1:1 instruction online or in-person! You can organize a private lesson via these links or text me.

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Current projects:

• Partner with student clubs, local facilitators, and colleges/universities to create sustainable campus tango clubs that leverage peer learning and proven curriculum to foster connection
• Convene a founding cohort of badass local women tango teachers and organizers with the Women’s Tango Guild.
• Help dancers and teachers break out of ruts, patterns, and old habits and establish new methods of deliberate practice through the Tango Fairytale Game
• Continue developing a tango innovation ecosystem at Awaken Tango

Learn about me and my work:

• An interview with Elizabeth Sabatiuk for Humans of Tango about my tango journey and philosophy
• An interview with Yelizaveta Neresova for IMSO Tango about my explorations of tango and resulting innovations
• A short film about Oxygen Tango, the school Stefan Fabry and I co-founded in Los Angeles
• An interview with Sabine Ibes about our Tango Challenge program
• A rough video from a San Diego beginner bootcamp that shows the learning lab model in action and benefits to learners

Performances that were special to me: Julio De Caro’s El Pensamiento with Stefan Fabry in Houston, where we broke free of thought and judgment | Blaine Kamalani Kia’s Kamali'i o Ka Po with Stefan Fabry danced in honor of my nephew’s first birthday | Di Sarli-Podestà’s Llueve Otra Vez with Eli Leserowitz in Houston | Di Sarli-Podestà’s Volver a Vernos with Evan Griffiths at Oxygen Tango’s opening milonga

Peer collaborators

Stefan Fabry: Oxygen Tango and The Tango Challenge David Lampson: lexicon which underlies the Tango Fairytale Game Sabine Ibes: Tango Challenge growth and expansion Korey Ireland: the impulse that led to Awaken Tango Andrei Andreev: peer-pairing buddy system software Thomas Fischer: peer-to-peer learning lab model Avik Basu: tango inner experience research project

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I’m excited to announce my 2025-2026 offerings for festivals and weekend workshops.

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Influences

Tango influences

Carina Moeller as a committed community developer, Jaimes Friedgen for his systematic approach to curriculum development, Brigitta Winkler for holistic facilitation, Daniel Trenner on the follower’s role, Estudio Dinzel as a motivating and creative learning community, and the nuevo analysis cohort for its commitment to discovery through investigation and friendship.

Related influences

Education: Maria Montessori, Azar Safavi, Viola Spolin, Chet Bowers, David Marshak, TheoryU

Social Technologies: Marshall Rosenberg, Robert Gilman, J. Kim Wright, Diana Leafe Christian

Somatics: Anne Waxman (Alexander technique), Stefan Fabry (contact improvisation)

Work with me

🎒 If you’d like to work with me on your tango learning strategy, community development approach, instructional design, or other aspects of teaching/facilitation book me here.

Image Acknowledgment

Some of the photographs on this site include moments from my years leading and co-creating Oxygen Tango (2009–2017), a beloved community where so much creative learning took place. These images are shared in the spirit of honoring that history and the people who made it possible.

If you appear in a photo and would prefer it not be displayed, please just let me know! I respect each friend pictured here and honor your preferences.

Reach me: 💌 [email protected] ☎️ (310) 854-2466 Substack | LinkedIn | Insta | Facebook