Tango enthusiast and teacher Alicia Jumar-Loffler has over 30 years of experience as a modern dancer and teacher. She started studying dance in her native Argentina, continuing after moving to the U.S. at the University of Minnesota and later at Yale University and at Stanford University. In Minneapolis she performed with several groups, including the University of Minnesota Repertory Dance Group and Sol-Chi Five Women, a dance group that she co-founded.
At Yale she was a member of the Yaledancers dance group, and at Stanford she took classes on dance composition, technique, and improvisation. While in California, she taught children's dance in the Palo Alto schools and at Stanford University and served as vice president of Dance Visions, a non-profit dance cooperative where she also choreographed and performed.
Tango music has been part of Alicia's life since she was born (her parents met dancing "Nostalgias" and she remembers dancing as a small child in the arms of her father), but she was not interested in the dance until the late 90's. After taking tango classes and attending a few milongas in California, she became an avid tanguera. She has concentrated on tango dancing for the past five years, and has taken classes with many Argentine and American teachers. She has been involved with tango activities in Bend since 2003.
Any person who can walk can learn to dance tango,
regardless of
gender, age, dance experience or body type.