Ramu took his first tango lesson in 2000 in Buenos Aires and was hooked instantly. He started the Michigan Argentine Tango Club at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and has danced, DJ’d, and taught all over the US and Canada. The host, DJ, and resident teacher at Milonga Zandunga, a regular DC area dance party, Ramu joined the Tango Mercurio faculty in 2013. His teaching and dancing are characterized by a keen musical interpretation, infectious enthusiasm, and a deep love of both the music and dance. He teaches tango for the social dance floor with an emphasis on connection, musicality, and improvisation.

Sarah has been dancing since her childhood. Her dance and body education experience ranges from ballet, yoga and pilates, to international ballroom dancing. After enjoying competitive ballroom dancing in the U.S. for many years, she fell in love with Argentine tango in Washington, DC in 2013.

She joined Tango Mercurio as tango instructor in 2015. Inspired by the music and her dance partner, she brings elegance and grace to the dance. As a medical professional, Sarah enthusiastically communicates the potential of Argentine tango for maintaining mental and physical well-being with the DC community.

Joerg has been dancing since his teenage years in Germany. With his wife Sarah, he founded and managed a ballroom dance club in New York City and participated in numerous ballroom competitions in the U.S. He placed 2nd in the National Championships in waltz and international style tango in 2009.

After discovering Argentine tango in 2013, Joerg focused on developing his passion for tango through musicality and connection. He started teaching tango with Tango Mercurio in 2015. As a professional educator, he enjoys inspiring new dancers to appreciate Argentine tango.

Wonseon started dancing Argentine tango in 2007. She still fondly remembers her first tango class in a run-down house in Chevy Chase with an old fireplace, sqeaky floor, and the music that made her feel like a heroine in an old black and white movie. She instantly fell in love with the music and the improvisational nature of dance. Since then she has traveled to Buenos Aires, Seoul, all over the US, Canada, and Europe to learn and dance tango. She co-founded the Seoul National University Alumni Argentine Tango Club in 2021 and joined the Tango Mercurio faculty in 2023. Through decades of training in piano and ballet since her childhood, Wonseon has become a firm believer of artistic freedom based on solid technical foundation. Her teaching thus focuses on proper technique, quality of movements, and musical interpretation to help students enjoy deep connection with a partner and the music.

Nick Thompson is an Argentine Tango dancer who was born and raised in Washington DC. Nick has been dancing Argentine Tango since the beginning of 2009 when he was attending college in Portland, Oregon as an Art major. During that first year, Nick was exposed to, the tango club at his university, the local practicas and milongas, as well as his first festival. Nick was so inspired, the next year he did a summer abroad in Argentina to get the chance to study with local teacher there. After finishing university, he went on to become a teacher abroad in Xi’an, China, where he taught English, Art, and eventually Argentine tango in classrooms. The next year he started teaching in the local coffee shops and soon built the first tango community in Xi’an, China. Nick finally returned to the US in 2016 and has been dancing, teaching, organizing, and hosting milongas in the DMV ever since.