Buenos Aires Tango Tour

Patricia Paz Biography
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Patricia Paz is a native of Argentina. She was born in San Isidro, province of Buenos Aires. After some years, her family moved to Nunez located at the capital where she lived all her childhood. In high school she moved to Belgrano and then finally to Saavedra, which she considers her home town. Patricia moved permanently to the US in 2000. She married in 2001. In 2002, she had a son called Neyen, that translated from “araucano/mapuche” means “soft breath of animal”.  Patricia maintains a close connection with her family, friends and culture in Buenos Aires.

Patricia has two professional degrees. She is a Physical Education teacher, qualified by the Instituto de Educacion Fisica “Enrique Romero Brest” (INEF) and is also qualified as a Folk  and Native Dances Professor from the Instituto Nacional Superior de Folklore (INSF).

As a Physical Education teacher she worked for the Instituto Santisima Trinidad in San Isidro County at the high school level. She also organized and directed the Sport Camp for this institute.

In 1985 Patricia began Folk Dances Fusion Workshop with Beatriz Durante at the University of Buenos Aires. One year later year she became a member of the Uballet, “ Ballet de Tango y Folklore de la Universidad de Buenos Aires”. With this troupe she toured Brazil in 1991, and France in 1993. As a singer, she performed with the Musical Troupe at the Instituto Superior de Arte Folklorico while she was a student there.

Patricia began to teach tango in 1987 teaching workshops and performing choreographies throughout Argentina

In 1995, the University of Cincinnati invited her to present a tango show “Tango, poesia y baile en un mismo escenario” (“Tango, poetry and dance in the same scene”). That same year, she also taught tango for the Cincinnati Argentine Tango Society at the University YMCA. Between 1995 and 2000 she traveled between the US and Argentina to teach workshops and private lessons.

In 1996, Patricia continued her formal voice training through singing classes with Marga Grajer, one of the most prestigious teachers for popular music in Buenos Aires. In 1998, she co-wrote and performed in a Tango concert “Maldito Rimmel” with Marcela Bublik.


Patricia produced her first CD “Improvisando” in 1999. For 5 years, she has served as the Artistic Director of the Silver River Arts Project (SRAP) a non-profit educational group organized for the promotion of Argentine Art and Culture.

Patricia begin to dance Salsa in 1994 and start to teach in 1996. In 1997 she took Rueda de Casino Classes teach this style a year later.
In 2005, she forms, direct and dance with the group Rueda de Casino “ Pan y Canela”. First Rueda de Casino performing group in Cincinnati.

With Barbara Bill, Patricia open the most old milonga in Cincinnati, Los Berretines, wich has been on every first Saturday of each month since 2003.
In 2006, form Dos Minas Crazy with Barbara Bill, to promote and organize latin cultural events such as Eduardo Tami Trio Concert at the Argentine Bean and at the  Music Hall Pre-show for the Tango Flamenco in October 2005. . She teaches in diferent locations in Northen Kentucky such Step'n OUt Studio, Locomotion on the Leeve, and Communiversity since fall 2011.

Since September 2010 she is the Director of Arts and Culture of LULAC Cincinnati, the oldest Hispanic Organization in the Unite States. 
She also  teaches Argentine Folk Dances at AMIS, Academy of Multilingual Inmersion Studies for the Dance Team that bring latinamerican dance to elementary school children with Latino and African roots.