Chelsea Eng

Chelsea has been featured in La Milonga magazine, listed among the “Stars” of CosmoTango.com, and served on the Board of Jurors of Premios Tango, all based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has made 25 trips to Argentina since 1994, performing eight times (five with CITA, the Congreso Internacional de Tango Argentino, and three with Tanghetto) on the stage of the ND Teatro/Buenos Aires, and multiple times in famous Buenos Aires milongas. Chelsea was one half of the first all-female pair and the first American pair, to teach at CITA/Buenos Aires (in 2010, 2014-2019, 2023-2024). She has performed and taught at the São Paulo Tango Festival 2019 and 2018 in the only female pair, and the only pair representing the United States. Chelsea participated in the 2019 and 2018 International Tango Summits/Los Angeles as a performer, teacher, judge and monitor. She has taught and performed in cities across the U.S. and performed in major hometown San Francisco theaters. 

She has collaborated with directors Philip Kan Gotanda and Max Masri/Tanghetto on Telly and Anthem award-winning dance films that continue to screen in the international film festival circuit.

Chelsea holds a Master’s Degree in Education-Dance Specialization from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She founded and ran the popular Argentine Tango Program at City College of San Francisco from 2000-2021. 

Chelsea’s writing has been published internationally and performed live. Since 2020 she has written soul-baring personal narrative for the purpose of tikkun olam, the Jewish concept of healing the world. She is an Abby Freeman Artist in Residence (writer) with Los Angeles-based theater company The Braid/Inspiring Jewish Stories. The Braid most recently featured one of her stories in the groundbreaking Asian Jewish show, What Do I Do With All This Heritage? – covered in over 80 media outlets nationwide. Chelsea completed the 2024 Vashon Artist Residency as a writer. Her long poem “Tacoma Then/Tacoma Now: Maternal Seasons” was selected for a print anthology: Voices of Tacoma (Editor: Burl E. Battersby. Release date: October 12, 2024. Available for pre-order). Her chapter "In Hindsight: A Tango Dancer Reflects at Mid-Life" will soon be published in Joy, Meaning and Wisdom: Voices from Examined Lives (Curator: Jenny Tallman). Chelsea is associate-editing Awakening Hearts in Prison, a book written by the men of Paws for Life K9 Rescue.