Ricardo Peixoto

If Ricardo received a penny every time he thinks about tango he would be extremely rich. Unfortunately, things don't work out that way. He came across tango a few years ago whilst suffering from his birthday hangover and got hooked on it ever since.

Ricardo's connection with music started quite early. He started his schooling at Calouste Gulbenkian Conservatory of Music in Portugal, where he learnt the core of music as well as learning to play various instruments. He was also a guitarrist/vocalist in a not-so-famous indie band.

Ricardo learnt the core of tango in Edinburgh with Jenny Frances and Ricardo Oria, and with Jessie Kennedy and Monica Tamariz, along with influences from Juan Capriotti and Graciana Romeo, who are based in Lisbon, Portugal.

Ricardo's tango is a blend of different styles, reflecting the multitude of influences he has had from his tango heroes. Though, he is committed to develop his own style rather than adapt that of his heroes. Open and close embraces, traditional and neo tango are words that make no sense to him. Tango is the only word he knows. The embrace, the tool to dance. The energy, the source of the dance. The balance, the equilibrium.

Ricardo was also involved in the creation of the much talked about La Otra Milonga in Edinburgh, one of the grooviest milongas on this side of the planet. Together with Su, Ricardo created TANGO WARWICK as a response to the lack of Argentine Tango in the South West of the Midlands. Since then, they have organised regular classes, practicas and milongas, and not forgetting Warwickshire's very own tango festival, Tango Spa, which became an instant success!

Ricardo is also a tango DJ with an eclectic approach. He has DJed at a variety of milongas in Scotland, England and Portugal. He is available to DJ at your milonga.

When not thinking about tango Ricardo is a postgraduate medical student.

Su Park

Su's journey with Tango Argentino began during the Freshers Week at Edinburgh University, when she was captured by the magical performance by her teachers-to-be, Jenny Frances and Ricardo Oria. Previous to this encounter, her passion was in music and had been an avid classical pianist for 13 years and an innocent choir girl whilst at secondary school. But when tango took Su by storm, her commitment to piano and singing all flew out of the window.

At university, Su took regular tango lessons with the university tango society and outside university with Jenny & Ricardo, frequently attended practicas and milongas. By the end of her first year, she was so enthusiastic about the dance that she was ready to whip the university tango society into shape by jumping on the committee wagon. She managed to recruit so many male members to the society that the female:male ratio soon became male:female ratio. With her fellow committee member, she organised numerous successful tango events. To seek more buzz, she arduously trained with her peer dancers to do a number of stage performances under the guidance of Jenny & Ricardo.

Having organised many more exciting events, taken workshops given by prestigious dancers, tangoed at various festivals in different countries, and having also finished her study, Su has now returned to the Midlands to be employed in a non-tango world, and has set up TANGO WARWICK together with Ricardo Peixoto. In their spare time, Su and Ricardo give tango lessons, host milongas and deviously plot other tango-related things. Su has recently decided to combine tango with her estranged piano by founding a mini tango band, Los Tanguitos and made her debut at the first Argentine Tango festival in the West Midlands, Tango Spa, which was of course organised by TANGO WARWICK.