DIANA JENSEN
Tango at Sea Cruise Director

I have been a ballroom dancer since my teen years and American Tango was always my favorite. In 1995, Bob Moretti brought Argentine Tango instructor, Nora Dinzelbacher, to Chico, CA for a series of workshops which lasted several months. Bob and I lived in Chico at the time and we took every opportunity to practice to improve our skills. After private lessons with Nora and the late Nestor Ray, El Indio, Oscar Mandagaran and Nito & Elba Garcia in San Francisco, Sacramento and New York, my Tango skills grew quickly. Other instructors who have had an impact on my love of Tango are Orlando Paiva, Carlos Gavito, Fernanda Ghi and Guillermo Merlo, Daniel Lapadula and Oscar Mandagaran.

In January 1996 a terrific tango dancer and a professional skier Mark Wolford lit the spark within me with the idea to cruise the world with Tango instructors and dancers.  Mark and I shared this idea for over 18 months.  In 1997 our dream came true when we embarked on our first of eight Tango at Sea cruises to the Western Caribbean. Initially, Nora Dinzelbacher was our headliner along with other Argentine and USA instructors.  Tango dancers from across the world were invited to join our cruises.  We have had guests from Argentina, Japan, France, Sweden, Denmark, Israel, Russia, United Kingdom, Canada and South Africa.  We have since cruised to Eastern Caribbean, Mexican Riviera, Alaska, Hawaii and back to the Western Caribbean.  And in 2004 we sailed out of Venice, Italy for seven fantastic days on the Adriatic Sea stopping at several Greek Isles and Turkey. 

Visit our web site often as plans to future adventures in cruising, tangoing, and fun times will be announced.  Also, please take a moment to sign our guestbook and look at the group photos from past cruises in our galleries.

EMILIO FLORES
DJ, San Francisco

Emilio Flores is an Argentine DJ who grew up listening to the great tango orchestras of the 40s and 50s. He has been dancing tango, on and off, for 30 years. As a professional DJ he currently works at La Mariposa (Verdi Club), the Danceasy, the Lake Merritt Dance Center in Oakland, CA, the Studio Gracia in San Francisco, and Nora's milongas in the San Francisco Bay Area. Emilio also has worked for many years in Nora's Tango Week and Weekend, and in other special events, like Las Vegas Tango and the Passionate Tango Weekend in 2005 in Washington DC. He has also been invited as a guest DJ in Los Angeles and Seattle.