Promoting and teaching Argentine Tango in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill in NC by Jae Youn Grisham Goal: Promote and teach Argentine Tango.
Summary: Jae Youn is an internationally recognized dancer, teacher and DJ of Argentine Tango. Biographical Highlights:
* Placed Second in the Milonga International category at the 2021 European Tango Cup (with partner Yatma Diallo). She is the only American to have placed in the competition’s history.
* Has taught, by invitation, in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Milan (Italy), Tel
Aviv (Isreal); Asheville, Atlanta, Augusta, Brattleboro, Charleston, Charlotte, Charlottesville, Chicago, Knoxville, Minneapolis, Washington DC.
* Has DJ’d, by invitation, at festivals, milongas, marathons and encuentro milongueros in: Calabria (Italy), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Milan (Italy), Tel Aviv (Israel), Tenerife (Spain); Albuquerque, Asheville, Atlanta, August, Charleston, Charlotte, Chicago, Columbia, Knoxville, Louisville, Minneapolis, Nashville, Newport News, Phoenix, Santa Fe, Salida, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Tucson, Washington DC.
* Jae has been teaching Tango in the Triangle since 2011, where she also organizes a weekly practica, and a monthly milonga. Teaching:
Jae’s approach emphasizes, and seeks to blend, the physical and mental connections, and musical properties of the dance. She embraces tango as a medium through which we may express ourselves, communicate with our partners and immerse ourselves in the music and ambient energy that is the social tango experience. DJ-ing:
As a DJ, Jae loves the challenge of keeping dancers on the floor to the very last tanda. Her music selection is responsive, guided by her sensitivity to the energy of a milonga. Her music library is focused on the traditional masters.
05/28/2026
See you tomorrow for our class series 6:30-8:30pm beginner and intermediate series and práctica follows 8:30-11pm!
Teacher Jae will be building on our May Classes focusing on milonga technique-smooth ways to enter and exit moves and building our confidence in our turning and rotational vocabulary!
Cannot wait to see you!
DJ Pawel will be spinning our tandas tomorrow!
Come support lovely community!
💓✨💖✨
05/20/2026
We are so excited to end our Thursday with you with continued growth in our class series as well as playtime in a positive space in our práctica afterwards from 8:30-11pm!
Let us know any questions-new beginners are welcome at our 6:30-7:30pm class bring a friend-much love & abrazos! 🫂
05/15/2026
Thank you for a beautiful session of classes & práctica last night-turnout in the community was amazing!
Each one of you enriches not only our experience but the collective we form in Durham. There maybe magic-but it comes from you!
Thank you to DJ Mitch Lee
Big love-🫂✨💓
05/12/2026
Thursday is already around the corner!
Our May class series is in our second class, please come join us and stay for práctica 8:30-11pm!
05/10/2026
Still doing powerful and intentional giros after Christian & Anna’s wonderful class that pushed us to finding our confidence in asking for power in our dance. ✨✨✨🙌🏼
Last night was filled with beautiful souls-our Virgina crew represented and we will share the love back very soon!
Dancers supporting dancers is the best.
We appreciate all your support and filling your spaces and hearts with joy and community through tango!
Till soon!
05/09/2026
Tonight! We welcome Anna Leon and Christian Bravo to our Milonga Utopia! Come enjoy their pre-milonga lesson 7-8pm "POWER AND CONNECTION IN FORWARD OCHOS" stay and express your love of tango and your new perspective from Anna & Christian, milonga is from 8-1am!
Our local DJ Mitch will be curating the tone of our tandas tonight and creating memories! Cannot wait to see you!
Triangle dance studios-lower studio tonight our address is 2603 S Miami Blvd, Durham, NC 27703
We love you 💞
05/07/2026
Our beginners series flows on today!
See you at 6:30-7:30pm
We are continuing to build slowly and consistently with form and function.
Finding our axis, flowing from our inner spiral 🌀 keeping our 🫂 connection in the embrace intact and fluid!
05/06/2026
We kick off our May class series tommorrow!
Intermediate class we are focusing on Vals and musicality! 🎶✨
See you there
7:30-8:30pm
Upper studio
Jae Youn will be teaching! Supported by developing follow Coco Hare!
Then stay for our practilonga! 8:30-11pm!
05/05/2026
New month! Welcome May and you all!
Our beginner and intermediate series classes start again this Thursday!
Beginners series 6:30-7:30pm will focus on welcoming new dancers, bring your friends to our sweet tango community and continue to build confidence in newer dancers.
Build your skills in our intermediate series 7:30-8:30pm where we will continue to build our confidence in milongas open and closed embrace-techniques learned last month and continue to unlock our love and fluidity of expression in tango.
Cannot wait to see you-2 days till we embrace!
BONUS shout out! see below for our May Milonga Utopia this Saturday the 9th!