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.
Irene 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.

Experience & Training

BA Dance and Performing Arts
BSc (Hons) Sports Science, Fitness and Health
UKA Salsa Teacher Diploma
BSY Yoga Teacher Diploma
YMCA RSA Exercise to Music – teaching qualification
Pilates Teacher Diploma Stott Pilates
BSY Shiatsu Diploma
Ashtanga Yoga Teacher
AFAA Aerobics Instructor
Bawla Fitness Leader
Red Cross Life Saving Certificate
NVQ 1 and 2 Video Production
NVQ 1 and 2 Music Production

Awards & Media Coverage

Lifetime Achievement Award at the UK Salsa Congress 2006
Bar Salsa Champion 1998 (2nd place with Garcia)
European Salsa Champion 2000 (1st place with Tamambo)

Judge for the following competitions:

* British Salsa Championship 1998 or 1999
* Bacardi Paris Salsa Competition 2001
* Club Salsa UK 2001
* Salsa Open Argentina 2005
* European Salsa Open 2006 at the UK Salsa Congress

Instructional DVDs:

* Everybody Salsa 1 and 2
* Latin Fiesta Fever
* Keep Fit The Latin Way
* Wow Let’s Dance Latino
* Mambolifestyle Pure Freedom
* Ladies styling through Music interpretation

Irene has also produced a CD with her own group of musicians:
Mambolifestyle Spirit 1:understanding the music and timing CD