Melina Sedó was born in London to a German mother and a Spanish father. She is – like tango – international. Melina has been dancing since her early childhood. After exploring ballet, modern dance, ballroom dances and flamenco, she finally discovered tango and fell under its spell.
Melina is a psychologist and has worked in youth-services before deciding to pursue tango exclusively. She has explored tango music intensively and has gained an excellent reputation as a tango DJ. She has also studied yoga and is a certified Director for Therapeutic Dance. Read about Melina’s work here.
Melina started dancing Tango in 1995.
Detlef Engel is German and brings the analytical thinking of an engineer to tango. His perceptiveness is remarkable. He pinpoints the source of problems which plague a student and hinder progress exactly. This is astounding considering that Detlef has never seen a dance school from the inside – as if he had saved all his energy for the tango.
Detlef´s second angle of approach is through music. During his pre-tango life he played the saxophone, and today this training enables him to translate the smallest nuances of music to movement. A few years ago, he started combining tango with comedy and bringing it to schools in France.
Detlef started dancing Tango in 1997.
Our Tango Teachers
We have studied with many Argentine milongueros, the icons of tango nuevo as well as a few European tango teachers. We could of course list them, but the truth is: In our formative years, knowledge about musicality, communication and improvisation was rarely given in classes. Very often, only figures we taught and we rather learned how we did not want to dance or teach. Our tango as well as our pedagogy was developed primarily through research, trial and error, the experience on the social dance floor and the teaching process itself. This is why we are grateful to our students who have inspired us with their questions and ideas. You have been our most important teachers and we will continue learning from you!