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About me - by my students:
“Just wanted to say that I think your lessons are great. They're varied, challenging (for me!) - but most of all, they are FUN!!!" “The Best! - Irina, Wanted to drop a note to say how much I enjoyed the lesson last night. I have work to do but really can feel I am dancing :) This is in large part due to your excellent teaching and I wanted you to know it. When I was helping the newcomers I realised just how patient and skilful your teaching is. So Thanks!” “I just wanted to thank-you so much for introducing me to the joy of Argentine Tango in such a fun and relaxed way this year. ... Thank-you for all the love and effort you put into making the classes so entertaining and individual.” “In this crazy world of Tango you are the only person who has consistently made sense to me” “It's pretty obvious that you love tango and love teaching and are exquisitely good at both.” “... am still smiling today - feel absolutely thrilled to bits - all down to you being a brilliant teacher” “I wanted to say that I am so grateful to have been taught by you. If it wasn't for your encouragement I may have given up. Thank you Irina, you have given me the confidence to dance anywhere!” “Also thanks for the great lesson, as usual left me on a high.” “Thank you so much for dancing with us all last night Irina - you are the very best teacher ever - and we love you to madness!!!” “we have very much valued and enjoyed your teaching over the last 5 years that we have been attending.” “You were the first person to teach me about the embrace and about musicality. Watching you in lessons gave me something to aspire to and showed me what tango could really be like. Your enthusiasm, attention to detail and ability to identify where things are going wrong were inspirational and a big factor in making me the dancer I am now. I hope you carry on to so that many more people can be inspired by you.” “If it hadn't been for all your patient teaching I don't think I'd be dancing now. I'd thoroughly recommend any leader to take a few private lessons with you.” “we have very much valued and enjoyed your teaching over the last 5 years that we have been attending.” “Anyone that has spoken to me over the last few days cannot praise you enough.” “You taught me the utter joy in tango and have inspired so many dancers on their tango journey. I think from the first time I saw you dance, I knew it had to be tango for me” “Thankyou Irina for everything you taught me. ... Your strength and resiliance as a woman was inspirational to me.” “Irina you have been one of the biggest influences in my Tango journey. Very few people get thru to me the way you do….you are truly a gifted Tango coach and I hope we will continue to work together in the future.” “I for one benefited so much from your help in getting started in Tango. .. you are held in such high regard by so many ...” “Thanks for all you have done to help me with my Tango journey, I will always remember you helping me overcome my inability to dance milonga, which I now love to dance” “I would like to thank you from the heart for your splendid teaching over the time… It has been a great experience and I'm very glad that you're not departing the scene. I am in no doubt that you will retain a dedicated following!” “So many people have told me how great you are in private lessons” “Thank you for all you have done for me over the last year. You are a fantastically talented teacher and I appreciate your patient approach and inspiring lessons. And not forgetting offering your friendship and support. You are a star!” “Please never stop teaching tango. There are just not enough teachers who can give what you possess.” “you developed, and conveyed, your passion for music and technique; not simply the amassing of steps… a more committed and disciplined teaching style that I always found in our private lessons” “May I say, again, that without you I could not have developed the confidence to continue or to attempt to progress to the levels to which I aspire now.” “In whatever you choose to do I wish you every happiness. I hope that might include sharing with others, through teaching, your skill and passion for the finer points that make tango more than simply a dance.” “Many thanks for your contribution so far, I for one would not still be tango-ing if it were not for you, your teaching and your example. We have enormously enjoyed our lessons with you and have learnt loads and we look forward to continuing wherever and when ever “ "Today is 1 year of tango for me. Thank you Irina Zoueva, for teaching me the best tango. I am SO grateful for all your fabulous guidance and encouragement. Crowded milongas are now my favourite place. My life is immeasurably different now and I have made so many great friends along the way. Long may it continue! x" |
About me - by me
IRINA 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. But it was only when I moved to UK that my proper tango journey started. It took me to Buenos Aires, New York, Paris and Lisbon, Venice and Hamburg… With nearly 20 years’ experience of dancing and teaching, I have calculated that I have tangoed several times round the equator! In addition to dancing, teaching and organising tango events, I love DJ-ing at our own milongas and practicas and happily accept invitations to DJ at other milongas, in UK and abroad. It has been a great pleasure and privilege to select music at Tango encuentros and marathons around Europe and work alongside other international DJs. Tango is now a very big part of my and my husband's life. It gives us joy and sense of fulfilment. It gives us a wonderful circle of friends in UK and almost any other country. You may not know their language but when you take them in a tango embrace, you feel that words are not really needed. You too can become part of this magical world community of tango. You too can learn this wonderful common language that will connect you with like-minded people in every corner of the world. A warning though: tango is highly addictive and can change your life forever, like it did for us and so many of our friends… Happy dancing! Some snapshots from our tango travels:
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