Portrait by Andrei Andreev
About Mitra
Mitra Martin is a deeply resourced tango teaching artist and community development partner.
She has immersed in many of the interconnected disciplines of tango: leading, following, DJing, teaching, organizing, mentorship, and dance theater. Many of her students have gone on to be festival dancers, DJs, and teaching organizers.
Mitra currently directs research and editorial at an emerging innovation ecosystem, Awaken Tango. She consults leaders, teachers, and community developers who are seeking to develop wise ecologies for learning, she teaches curious dancers, and she dances for sheer joy.
The tango school I co-founded
Humans of Tango Podcast Interview
Select Performances
Our Morning Practice
Papers & Articles
Judgment and Acceptance while dancing Argentine Tango: A data-driven approach to explore the inner experience of tango dancers by Mitra Martin and Avik Basu, Feb 2025
The Tango World COVID Study, A summary of insights and implications, Aug, 2020
Why Argentine Tango? Oct, 2020
The Problem with Tango Group Classes, Jan 2020
A Fragile Hatchery: State Of U.S. Campus Tango Clubs, Aug 2017
Dear women of Tango. Let your joyful, unbridled, innocent, sensual self find the dances it wants, Dec 2015
The gentle, excellent, chivalrous, skillful, sexy men who Tango, Nov 2015