Co-founder of Esquina Tango, Monica is the operational director
and events co-director. She began teaching tango in 1997, in
Austin, Texas. Her career in tango began as a teanager in her
hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her family moved to the
States taking her along when she was 17. In Austin, her love
for the arts did not leave but rather intensified. Parallel to
working in college, where she studied theatre, Monica found herself
in search of other tango lovers in town. Slowly she found
some other enthusiast and they started practicing in a living room;
with time curious eyes began joining them and slowly but surely the
living room became too small and they had to move to a bigger spot.
This was the birth of the Austin Argentine tango community.
Monica has trained with masters like Nito & Elba, Carolina
& Diego, Lorena Ermocida, as well as many other renowned
teachers. By the time the idea of Esquina Tango was materialized,
Monica had already been teaching tango to the Austin community for
10 years. Her motivation for teaching was and continues to be
to share her love for the dance, the music, and the culture. Her
incentive is to get people “out in the street” dancing. Her
charisma and warm personality engages students. Monica’s tango
teaching style helps dancers build on their technical abilities
while placing relevance on the connection of leading/following and
on dancing to the music. Furthermore, Monica works towards creating
dancers that have great social skills and etiquette in the
“Milongas”.
Esquina Tango has been an amazing dream come true for the
continuation of building of social dancers along with a community
of wonderful people of friends. At Esquina Tango teaching goes
beyond the mere act of conveying information, it’s the creating
links and crossroads between people, sharing, and making the love
for dance and music contagious.
