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Irene Miguel"I can’t tell you how to dance – I can tell you how to find yourself and give you the tools to be free"Salsa champion, fitness instructor, professional dancer, teacher, choreographer and performer. Irene combines a lifetime’s experience of dance and fitness with a profound desire to help individuals to reach their goals and improve their lives. She is ideally qualified to have co-created a training programme that does more than just help you to dance better. profileIrene began her dance training at the age of six in her homeland of Argentina. She studied ballet, jazz and contemporary dance and both performed and taught from a young age. She moved to the UK in 1991 and danced for prestigious companies such as Sadlers Wells in London.She began dancing salsa in 1993 and was asked to teach for top Latin promoters such as Elder Sanchez. She formed two performance groups – La Dinamica (‘the dynamic’) and Ahora Si (‘right now’) – with a range of top dancers from the capital’s growing scene.During this time she worked with Robert Charlemagne, Homero Gonzalez, Leon Rose, Tamambo, Susana Montero, SuperMario, Laith Sami and a host of others.In 1998 she discovered New York On-2 style mambo when Descarga Latina first performed in the UK. She studied with leading New York teachers such as Nelson Flores and Eddie Torres and found that mambo brought together the professional side of dancing – the lines, beauty and elegance – with the flavour of salsa, in a way that she craved and had never experienced before.In New York she met Edgard Del Rosario in 2000 and they became dance partners and began teaching and performing all over the world. They spent four years developing the MamboLifestyle system and Irene has launched the training system in London in 2006.