Tova and Carlos became professional tango instructors in 2002 in Baltimore where they established a welcoming tango community. Now living in Boston while Carlos pursues a graduate degree, the Morenos are among the favorite instructors of New England's university tangueros, teaching regularly at MIT, Harvard, and Brandeis University. Their youth, energy and zestiness enable them to connect particularly well with students.
They began performing tango early in their dance career and were original members of Michelle Badion's tango dance group with performances at the Broadway Performance Hall in Seattle and at the Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon. Their Boston performance in a well-received tango show in 2005 was declared by the Boston Globe as "the most sizzling tango".
Carlos sings tangos so well it makes women (and some men) swoon, and Tova organizes a very popular festival in Boston in November, Tango de los Muertos, which draws tango dance and music addicts from all over the world. They also host a milonga in Boston, Milonga Naranja.
On top of all this teaching, dancing, organizing, and singing, they lead a double-life. During the daytime, Tova makes costumes for the American Repertory Theater and Carlos is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, where he studies turning and dodging in terrestrial animals. He aims to graduate with his PhD in the spring of 2009.
