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Who We Are

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Director Patricia “Gigi” Jensen has dedicated three decades to the beautiful dances of Argentina. She  founded Tango & More Argentine Dance with her husband and teaching partner, Warren Jensen. Popular hosts of Argentine tango and cultural events in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 20 years, they specialize in Salon style Argentine tango & related dances.  They became favorites of the senior daytime dance community, and enjoyed working with older adults wishing to realize their dreams of dancing tango. As former professional credentialed educators, they have always given time to support public school and university dance education.

 

Everything came to a halt in 2020 due to COVID. The Jensens moved to Spokane, Washington, for family reasons. They have recently began to give private and semi-private tango lessons. They are actively seeking a dance home to offer group classes. They are also available for private events, lecture demonstrations, and wedding preparation.

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Gigi Jensen
Photo by Marc 

Gigi’s preliminary dance studies included a smattering of ballroom, modern dance, and Latin dances. In 1997 she fell in love with Argentine tango after attending the hit stage show, “Forever Tango”. That journey included a career change from being a California credentialed educator to owning and operating a show production and dance education business. Initially, she and Argentine maestro Pampa Cortes founded Tango A Media Luz, dedicating their efforts to professional show production, performances, and dance teaching.

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Dance Career Highlights

 

  • 1998 Grand Prix Champion, San Francisco International Grand Ball

  • 2011 Winner, Seattle Tangoearth Immersion tango competition

  • 2014 Semi-Finalist, 2014 Argentine Tango USA championships

  • Dance teacher & performer, Guatemala (6x)

 

Professional Credits

  • Panelist, Isadora Duncan Dance Awards (5 years)

  • Grant panelist, C.A.S.H. Grants, Dancers’ Group, San Francisco, CA

  • Grant panelist, Oakland Cultural Affairs Community Grants Oakland, CA (2x)

  • Judge, San Francisco Carnaval Parade & Royalty Competition

  • Dance faculty, Stockton Folk Dance Camp (3x)

  • Tango teacher, Graciela Andrade de Paiz Cultural Center, Guatemala City (6x) 

 

Appearances: 

  • Master of Ceremonies & Narrator: “Asi se baila el tango”, television, narrator, San Francisco, CA

  • Radio interview w/ Marcos Gutierrez , "Hecho en California", San Francisco, CA

  • Performances & radio interview, Patzcuaro, Mexico

  • Dance performance, Antigua, Guatemala

  • Radio interview, "Alma de Tango", Jujuy, Argentina

  • Narrator, California Academy of Sciences programs (3x)

  • Narrator, Music at Noon, Santa Clara University, CA (3x)

  • Dance performance, 25th Annual Argentine Tango Festival, Washington, D.C.

  • San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, dancer in Ballet Pampa Argentina, CA

 

Published author:

  • Article: Danza Hoy, international Spanish language dance webzine

  • Column:  “Speaking about dance”, Let’s Dance! California Federation of Folk Dance, (3 years)

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Warren Jensen

Photo by Jan Rowe

An educator and avid downhill skier, Warren Jensen considered dancing a “maybe someday” goal. However, when his wife began to dance tango, he found himself attending classes, and eventually becoming an integral part of the teaching team. He studied with Argentine dance master, Pampa Cortés, and his partner Christy Cote, as well as maestro George Guim.

 

He has taught with his wife, Gigi, for twelve years in the San Francisco Bay Area, and now Spokane, WA. He was a guest instructor at California State University East Bay. Warren has performed in numerous benefit and educational shows, at Stockton Folk Dance Camp, and BA Tango’s “Tango in the Square”  in Union Square in San Francisco.

 

Mr. Jensen was technical director for Tango A Media Luz, and continues in that capacity for Tango & More Dance.

Professional Associations

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Bay Area Argentine Tango Association  www.tangomango.org​

Folk Dance Federation of California, Northern California  www.folkdance.com​

National Folk Organization  www.nfo-usa.org​

Northwest Folk Dancers  www.nwfolkdancers.org​

Spokane Folklore Society  www.spokanefolkfestival.org

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Our director, Gigi Jensen, will host this wonderful opportunity to learn about Chinese folk dances in a virtual conversation with David Lei. Mr. Lei is a lifelong advocate for Chinese folk arts and a leading scholar of lion dance traditions. He co-founded the Chung Ngai Dance Troupe in 1966 and helped shape San Francisco’s Chinese New Year Parade as its director and cultural advisor. Through decades of performance, education, and leadership—including his co-authorship of Chinese Lion Dance Explained—Lei has championed the preservation and evolution of Chinese dance in North America.

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