Since 2005 we have introduced over 1500 people to Tango, and taught over 2000 group lessons. You will benefit from this huge experience and our passion for Tango.
We are supported by many local tango enthusiasts who enjoy sharing their love for tango by helping with the running of our lessons and events.
Charles Long
I have been dancing Argentinian tango since 2000. My background is in the Motor and Insurance industries, but in 2004 I left the corporate world and since then I have committed myself to tango. I have danced in Europe, the USA, and Buenos Aires and I continue to study regularly with visiting maestros as well as enjoying milongas in London and around the UK.
I'm passionate about sharing tango with a wide audience. I think that dancing tango should be rewarding and enjoyable. This is reflected in our dancing, our lessons, and our events; we have a lot of fun learning tango!
Tango can be challenging, but it allows us to share a unique experience. What’s important for me is not only how it looks from the outside, but most importantly what both dancers are experiencing in a dance that is special and exclusive to them. It’s something I hope everyone can share.
With my wife, Sarah, I run the Eton Milongas, Eton Tea Dances, Junction 8 milongas, and special events like Yule Tango and Easter Tango. I'm usually the DJ at these events; I select from a library of over 20,000 tracks and spend a lot of my time between lessons researching and developing my tango music collection.
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Telephone Charles on 07793 142743
Email Charles at: dance@thamesvalleytango.co.uk
Irina Zoueva
My affair with Tango started a long time ago. Born in Moscow in the Soviet times, I never cared too much about the enthusiastic and wholesome 
songs about "the builders of communism". By contrast, the Tango - dangerous, dark and moody - captured my imagination even when I was a child. If not openly forbidden, Tango was certainly frowned upon and was regarded as yet another sign of the decadence of the West - which, of course, made Tango even more seductive.
Come the teen age and Tango went into the background but was never forgotten. Salsa, Ceroc - they were just pastimes... the news that Tango was taught in a neighbouring town came as a shock. I started lessons immediately and there was no looking back after that. For the last few years, I have been dancing or taking lessons five or six days a week, initially as a follower then also as a leader.
In early 2006 I started helping with Tango lessons and this re-awakened my passion for teaching (I was a maths and language teacher in Moscow before moving to the UK, where I work now as a journalist/translator for the BBC). For me Tango is much more than just a beautiful dance to beautiful music. Most of all, Tango is about a brief (only 3 minutes!) but intense relationship: total trust on the follower's part and total care and responsibility of the part of the leader. It is this profound connection - passionate communication without words - that makes Tango stand out among all other dances for me. And this is what we are trying to teach: how to connect with your partner.
If I can share my love for this wonderful dance, if I can encourage and inspire our students... for a teacher, there can be no greater reward!
Telephone Irina on 07889 045620
Email Irina at: i_zet@me.com
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