Allyson trained as a classical dancer and actress, earning honors at every level of the Royal Academy of Dancing and performed professionally from the age of twelve. She completed her teachers certificate for children's ballet and continued to explore the world of dance performing Flamenco, Salsa, and Ballroom.She has choreographed and taught dance for Montreal's "Cirque du Soleil" and was Artistic Coordinator for Cirque du Soleil's "Quidam" and "Mystere". Finally, upon discovering the Argentine Tango, she became passionately involved with performing and teaching this poetic and evocative dance. Allyson is the founder of "Le Studio Tango de Montreal", "La Tangueria", and "Le Societe Argentine, Quebec, Canada". Wouter Brave, a student of the late master Antonio Todaro, was her first teacher. She has performed, & taught for the last 13 years of dancing tango, in Canada, Mexico & now the USA. Since teaming with Gabriel Manta, they find their combined love of pedagogy and analysis of movement to be perfectly placed in teaching the marvelously complex Argentine Tango.