Korey Ireland is a professional composer turned tango-addict. He brings a lifetime of musical experience and an unquenchable thirst for tango to his teaching. He developed his dancing on social dance floors of the world's tango capitols and with a great deal of guidance from some spectacular teachers (Winkler, Jeurissen, Valle, Naviera, Krebs.) Originally from Kansas City, Korey has spent the better part of the last five years traveling and teaching tango in England, Holland, Spain, Germany, Russia and Argentina, sharing his passion for tango, music, expression, and connection. In recent years, this mission has grown to include work with aspiring tango musicians at festival throughout North America and Europe to create live music for dancers. Korey has accepted a position to begin teaching this spring at the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri in Kansas City; he will teach tango dancing and direct a tango orchestra, while continuing work on a recording a CD of original tango music.

While quietly going about his business, Lung-Kuei has attracted both envy and affection throughout the tango community. The men want to dance like him, and the women like to dance with him. His immersion in the tango world has been a happy success.

An integral part of the U.S. tango scene, he runs off to the best festivals across the country with tremendous zeal. As a result, he's one of the more sought-after leaders in the country, and has also developed a keen sensitivity toward what makes a milonga go well. Although his dancing is already very clean and quite musical, he's constantly working to make it more musical, more precise, and more lovely for his partner. His most influential teachers have been Rebecca Shulman, Robin Thomas, Evan Griffiths, Diego Di Falco, and Silvina Valz.

Lung-Kuei started studying tango in 2005 and began deejaying in 2007. Gradually he built a solid reputation as a deejay and now he's invited to spin tunes at the most popular and best milongas and practicas in town. Tango festivals fly him in to DJ. His choices are not strange: he just plays one good song after another, placed in sequence with sensitivity.

Lung-Kuei has zero attitude about what he does well, and always keeps a sense of humor about things, while remaining a serious milonguero, 100% dedicated to the craft, the life, and the music of tango.

Shorey's first exposure to tango, watching a tall, skinny guy in a beret teach a group of awkward college kids how to walk with grace, immediately captured her imagination and she has hardly looked away since. Coming from a background in martial arts and classical music, she is driven by the desire to make her own movement as clean, fluid and musical as possible. She counts among her strongest influences Tomás Howlin, Cecilia González and Alex Krebs. Shorey is an accomplished teacher whose primary goal is to give her students those tools necessary to make their dancing as enjoyable as possible in the shortest amount of time. As great as her love of the dance is her love of the music, a passion which is evident whenever she steps behind the DJ booth. She DJs all over the country (Portland, New York City, Washington DC, San Francisco, Seattle, Ann Arbor, etc). She loves to keep both very traditional and very alternative crowds dancing all night long. Shorey is happily living in the San Francisco, though she still travels as much as is humanly possible.

Andreas started out as a ballroom dancer while still a high school student in Germany. Despite his enthusiasm for ballroom dancing, the true addiction didn't start until he discovered Argentine tango about 7 years ago. Andreas has traveled to multiple national and international festivals (Sitges, Capri, Siracusa) and, for the last several years has been involved in teaching in the Ann Arbor community and DJing at festivals, milongas and practicas.

Since Tango music is such an integral part of the dance, Michael feels that DJs are highly influential with respect to tango development within a community by the music they choose to play. DJs are responsible for establishing and controlling the energy/flow at milongas and consequently, impact how well people dance together and the overall success of the event. As a DJ, Michael's goal is to engage the dancers on the floor with the music and each other to create an intimate tango experience.