ABOUT US

Kele is the Argentine Tango dance consultant for "Strictly Come Dancing" (BBC1, 2006-8), and with Ralf Schiller choreograph the Argentine Tango dances and coach the dancers. Kele and Ralf recently co-choreographed "It Ain't Necessarily So", performed by Darren Bennett & Lilia Kopylova for English National Ballet's show "Strictly Gershwin". Kele staged the dancing and coached the actors for Stephen Poliakoff's BBC1 drama "Joe's Palace" (TalkBalk Thames, 2006). Kele has appeared as dance expert and teacher on "Bump 'n' Grind 2" (Trouble TV, 2005), "Would Like To Meet" (BBC2 & BBC3, 2003), and "Tell It To Me Straight" (Channel 4, 2001). She has worked with Royal Ballet Artistic Director Deborah Bull on her television programmes "Travels With My Tutu" (BBC2, 2000) and "The Dancer's Body" (BBC2, 2002).

Kele is co-director of the Kensington Dance Studio, and founder and organizer of Tango Al Fresco and The Broadwalk Ballroom. She received her bachelor's degree in drama at Northwestern University, and a graduate studies certificate from London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Kele is also a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique.

A native New Yorker, Kele has been teaching dance since 1994. In the UK, Kele has taught for the Oxford University Dance Society, University of London Union Ballroom & Latin American Dance Society, North London Performing Arts Centre, the Gwenethe Walshe Dance Studio (now known as Central London Dance Studio), and The Flirting Academy. She was a member of the Alternative Rhythms Faculty of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (2001-2003). In the US, Kele has taught at Dance New York, Stepping Out Dance Studio (New York) and the Fred Astaire Dance Studio (Red Bank, NJ).