About Us

MELANIE JARMAN

Melanie and Lucas met in a tango dance floor in New Zealand, as far from Norwich (Melanie’s birth place) and Buenos Aires (Lucas’) as can possibly be. By that time, Lucas was a backpacker and trying to taste a little bit of everything and everywhere, having done classic guitar and piano as a musician, Lindy Hop, contemporary dance, dance theatre and corporal expressionism among others. But tango was taking over after having heard it from an early age when his mother and grandfather sat in the sofa to sing tangos and milongas to the family.
Melanie had a classic ballet background, playing with modern and acrobatics on the way until reaching the fever of tango in those distant lands, inspired by a group of doctors who wanted to find a more human connection with their patients.
Since then, they both have been dancing, learning and teaching together, half of their lives in Buenos Aires and the other half in England. They have travelled from an open embrace and a more experimental approach to a more traditional and technical style of dancing but trying always to keep the fun and the passion which gave them the best tandas and a tiny tanguera and tanguero, Eloisa and Leon.