Helaine’s Biography

Helaine Treitman has danced Argentine Tango since 1994 and taught tango as her full-time profession since 2001. Having researched the evolution of tango’s music and dance from its primitive forms through contemporary innovation, today Helaine is a dancer of close-embrace, Salon Style Tango. She now spends about half of each year dancing and teaching in Buenos Aires. As a tango educator, she specializes in musicality, improvisation, and how to have unshakable tango confidence.


In 2008, Helaine developed the “Permission Seduction™ Tango Learning System”, a guide to teaching tango effectively and getting gratifying results for students, while cultivating the full expression of their masculinity or femininity. Helaine also created the “Tango Improvisation Mastery™” suite of online home study programs, which has hundreds of members in more than 30 countries around the world.


Since 1994, Helaine has trained in the US, Europe and Buenos Aires with legendary tango masters, as well as with younger, world-class Argentine artists. But the most important aspect of her early trips to Buenos Aires was her dancing nightly in milongas with the milongueros – natives of Buenos Aires with 40-50+ years of tango experience – who conveyed to her their authentic and deeply-felt interpretation of the music.


A resident of Italy for 20 years, Helaine was presented frequently in the Italian media as “the woman who brought Tango to Umbria”. Her school “UmbriaTango” (January 2001 – November 2008), with headquarters in Perugia, reached enrollments of 150 students per year. She then found new leadership for her school and relocated to Naples, Florida, where she established the “Naples Tango Club”, teaching local and visiting tangueros and tangueras with her unique curriculum. In 2012, she closed the studio to dedicate her full attention to creating and delivering her online courses and teleseminar trainings, specializing more and more in tango musicality.


Since 2013, tango enthusiasts from North America and Europe have flown to Buenos Aires for private coaching retreats with Helaine. In her 20 years as a full-time tango professional, Helaine taught thousands of people to dance tango and get closer to fulfilling their potential as dancers, enjoying greater confidence in both their tango and their masculine or feminine identities, on and off the dance floor.