Nola has studied with hundreds of dance teachers from around the world for the past ten years. She has spent significant time studying in Montreal, Paris, Buenos Aires, and the United States.  She has taught dance throughout the United States and organized practicas in Buenos Aires.  

She has been involved in many types of  dance including social dance, modern, contact improve, theater, tap, hip hop, African, square and other folk dances.

Nola pursues an accessible dance for all people. She has dedicated time teaching populations usually not exposed to Tango and other social dances, folks with disabilities, young people, working class young people from inner city Chicago, New Orleans and New York and GLBT populations. The importance of integration of dance into people’s everyday lives for Nola is profoundly connected to her  pursuit of community in the modern world.

 Since 1995,  Nola has been dancing both lead and follow.  Her love of both roles makes her a  unique teacher of Tango; fully qualified to teach either role.

Her unique approach is TodoTango.  She teaches a fundamental framework as a jumping off space to the infinite dances that are tango.

“I have literally studied with hundreds of teachers to explore the actual scope of this amazing dance. Studying with so many schools of thoughts gives my students freedom. My purpose as a teacher is not to make my students dance like Gustavo or Chico or Susanna, but to dance like themselves. “

 I dance, study and explore all facets. I study with different teachers who often give contradictory and opposing view. This is the beauty of Tango: paradox, magic, and emotion.

Nola teaches beginning group and private lessons so her students feel the essence of the dance from the beginning.  Nola has taught tango in Northampton, Massachusetts, Pennisulvania, Portland, Oregon, . She organized an on-going teacher based woman’s practica in Buenos Aires. She has studied lead and follow with some of the greatest masters of Tango but still dances as Nola.