Vivian Bui

Born and raised in the East Bay, Vivian Bui played the piano and studied music theory for 12 years before discovering dance in high school. She performed hula and Tahitian dance throughout the Bay Area and for the University of California, Davis for 3 years as well as dabbled in flamenco dancing in Santa Cruz, California, before she stumbled upon the Latin dances and Argentine tango while going to graduate school in Seattle, Washington. She has studied tango with various instructors in Seattle, the Bay Area, and Buenos Aires. She has also been a tango teaching assistant in Seattle and taught salsa-dancing to high school students in the East Bay.

Vivian has been dancing tango for 3 years and credits social dancing with keeping her calm and relaxed during otherwise stressful times. Tango has helped balance out the more technical aspects of her profession as a wildlife biologist, for example, while she was writing her Master’s thesis and during various field work expeditions. When she was working for a parrot conservation project in the Bolivian Amazon rainforest, Vivian would still find time to practice her Tango, even if it meant dancing barefoot in the dirt with nothing but a solar-powered iPod! This type of joy and creativity is what Vivian hopes to share with others while helping to teach Tango.

Lindsey Newbold

Lindsey Newbold, a graduate student originally from Pennsylvania,first began dancing tango while she was in college near Philadelphia, with tango teacher David Walter.  She has been a leader of two college/university tango clubs and loves introducing new people toTango. 

She took a few classes with Damian Lobato in Panama and Philadelphia, and after moving to the Bay Area she has taken classes with Sean Dockery and Charity Lebron and of course Jean-Pierre Sighe, among others.   She discovered tango after years of dancing square dance, contra dance, swing, Scottish country dancing, and still occasionally enjoys these dances, as well as salsa and Kuna folk dancing (in Panama).  She loves tango and is excited about being an assistant Tango teacher.