Fernando Ulises & Jenny Jiang return to Seattle, August 2026
Fernando and Jenny return, briefly, to the origin point of their tango journey together!
Fernando will be the Special Guest Instructor at the pre-milonga class at La Garúa on Sunday, August 9, 2026, 4:30 – 5:30 pm and will DJ the milonga 5:30 – 9:00 pm. Contact Ken Brown or Fernando to schedule private lessons.
Fernando Ulises was born into a tango family that split their lives between Seattle and Argentina. His parents hosted visiting teachers and organized La Garúa, one of the earliest milongas in the Pacific Northwest, which they started in the early 1990s and continues to this day.
Fernando carries a direct connection to the way the old milongueros danced during the Golden Age. Jenny Jiang discovered tango by chance in 2008 while wandering the streets of San Telmo, Buenos Aires. She nearly quit after an intense year of lessons in Seattle until she attended La Garúa in spring 2009, where she met Fernando via cabeceo and danced their first tanda together.
With her passion reignited, she convinced Fernando to teach and together carry forward the milonguero tradition. In 2010 they opened one of the first tango schools there and taught fulltime for the next decade. When Covid struck while they were abroad, they were unable to return for four years and eventually had to close the school. They spent most of 2021–2023 based in Buenos Aires, where they organized and DJ’d a weekly milonga at the legendary El Beso and assisted regularly with classes at Susana Miller and Maria Plazaola’s La Academia de Tango Milonguero. Fernando has DJ’d at festivals, marathons, encuentros, and milongas across Europe, Asia, Argentina, and the United States. Choosing quality over quantity, his well-balanced sets nurture satisfying, intimate connections on the dance floor. Today, Fernando and Jenny are fulltime nomadic tango teachers with deep roots in the milonga tradition and decades of combined experience training dancers and DJs in China, Argentina, and beyond. Their teaching is hands-on and practical, with the goal of helping dancers become more efficient, adaptable, and authentic in their personal expression of this beautiful medium of emotional exchange — Argentine Tango.