Fernando &
Tara met and found a shared
connection and passion for Tango. Fernando moved from
England and continued his teaching and performing
around Europe and America, while Tara stayed exploring
the Tango in Europe. Their friendship continued to grow
and they became partners both in dancing and life. With
Tango they have travelled together to Buenos Aires,
Barcelona, Holland, Croatia, Norway and all around
England, Performing and Teaching.
For Tara and
Fernando Argentinean tango is
an improvisatory dance. In their classes they use
exercise to encourage improvisation from an early stage
as well showing short sequences of steps to grasp a
concept. They provide to the students tools to
understand the principles that govern each movement.
They create exercises that enable to them to experience
something first, and then reflect on it. All this
surrounded by a young, friendly learning environment!
In their classes they only with some exception use
sequences, instead they provide the student tools to
understand the principles that govern each movement, or
exercises that enable to the student experience
something first, and then reflect on it.
Today we are organising and focusing on developing the
Tango scene in and around Exeter. We believe that soon
Exeter will become a reference of Tango Argentino in
England and in Europe. Although we are still working in
Europe and around England continuing with the workshop
weekends we are very happy to be creating a lively
Tango Argentino community nearer our home.
A bit about us before we met
Fernando Guidi is a young
dynamic Tango teacher from Argentina. He combines
young, friendly, charm with a great understanding of
teaching tango. In his 20's he performed and toured in
show's El Tango Baila su Historia" y "Esa diablura el
Tango" around Argentina, he also acted in may plays at
the Festival de Teatro Regional de la provincia de
Buenos Aires.
His television and media work include appearances in
advertisement in Television Chanal 7 and in the movie
“De guerreras y cautivas” in Argentina. In 2003 he
worked together with Carlton TV in Devon , on the show
"Dance in the South West". Fernando also working with
the BBC on the programme "Strictly Dance Fever"
From very early stage in his career he adopted an
attitude of developer and researcher about the dance.
He extended the same attitude when he started to teach,
to understand a concept and to find the best way to
explain it to students. Coming up with a simple, clear
a unique way of teaching.
Tara is a young and sensitive
Tango teacher with a great understanding of Argentine
culture. She has always loved to dance from a very
early age she studied ballet, modern and tap, which she
continued into her teens. Through her teen years she
took part in different kinds of stage performances from
dance to drama.
After leaving school her interest in the body and how
it works became her main interest. Tara has studied
many forms of body work including holistic therapies
and is qualified in many different areas of holistic
therapies. She has taken part in many organised group
workshops about relating to each other and
communication, this is still a love of hers.
Her love for movement and dance continued taking her
into the world of contemporary and contact dance where
she spent some time at Laban (London). Although she
loved all these different areas of movement and dance
she never really found one that caught her passion
until she found Tango.
Tara has been able to bring
her two main focus together her love of Tango and her
understanding about relating and communicating within
the dance.