How it started
I started dancing Argentine Tango in 2014 at Warwick University, more or less on a whim. I went to a beginner's class, and that was that. There's something about tango that gets hold of you — the music, the connection, the constant pursuit of something that always feels slightly just out of reach. I was quickly hooked.
I became President of the Warwick Argentine Tango Society, which meant running classes, organising socials, and generally immersing myself in a world I hadn't expected to find at university. By the time I graduated I wasn't just a dancer — I was a teacher.
Buenos Aires
In 2018 I spent two months in Buenos Aires, which for a tango dancer is the equivalent of a pilgrimage. I danced almost every night in the city's milongas — the social dance venues where tango lives — and trained during the days. Buenos Aires tango has a quality to it that's hard to describe: more serious, more tender, more present. You feel it from the first dance.
I went back in December 2025, partly for the tango and partly to escape the Madison winter. Both reasons were equally valid. Landing in Buenos Aires and being on the dancefloor within hours felt like coming home to somewhere I'd only visited twice.
Teaching & performing
Over the years I've taught tango at Oxford Tango Academy (2018–2020), Northern Tango Academy in York (2022–2023), and now at UW-Madison Tango Club (2025–present). Teaching is its own education — you understand something differently when you have to explain it to someone else.
I also supported Oxford Tango Academy's tour to Argentina, which brought a group of British dancers to Buenos Aires to learn in the city where the dance was born. There's something wonderful about watching people encounter tango in its home for the first time.
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