Meredith Klein has been dancing tango for 25 years, including three years spent living in Buenos Aires. Meredith directs the Philadelphia Argentine Tango School (since 2008), the Philadelphia Tango Festival (since 2010), Milonga Tours (offering tango tours of Buenos Aires for dancers since 2009), and the tango record label Bochinche Records (since 2023). Before tango, Meredith came from a background in music, and has made it her life’s mission to help tango dancers and tango musicians understand each other a little better. Her Bochinche Records released Psicoporteño by Tipica Messiez in June 2023, and will release a new album by Sexteto Fantasma in 2024. An album by Orquesta Misteriosa Buenos Aires is also in the works for 2024.

Meredith has taught and performed in more than 40 cities worldwide, including Istanbul, Sydney and Byron Bay (Australia), Gdansk and Brzeg (Poland), Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Beirut (Lebanon), Nicosia (Cyprus), Vancouver and Montreal (Canada), and more than 30 cities in the United States.

Like many tango dancers, Meredith is fascinated by the transformative potential of tango. When we arrive completely into the moment, in our own body, present with another person, and indeed, with an entire roomful of people (i.e. when we dance tango), magic and healing happen. She is thrilled to help more people access this magic through all the projects that she directs.

In 2024, she started a dance partnership with Ignacio Ondartz, from Mar del Plata, Argentina, who has lived in Buenos Aires for twenty years. He is an extraordinary tango dancer, and literally the very best milonga dancer in the entire world.

In July 2024, Meredith became one of very few foreigners in the world to be named an Honorary Academic of the National Academy of Tango in Buenos Aires, a program of the Argentine Ministry of Culture and Department of Education. She is overwhelmed by this unexpected honor.