The talk isn’t about dance as Ines Cuesta arrives in Birmingham with her show Tango Fire.

Rather Ines, paying her third visit to the country, admits that she’s missing the high street chain Woolworths.

She tells me that her daughter Luna, aged five, has been able to join her and husband and dance partner Mauricio Celis on the British leg of the tour.

“Luna loves tango – she loves all the dresses and the make-up,” says Ines fondly.

“I loved Woolworths for that. I bought her so many pretty dresses and presents from there. Now it has gone. I will have to go to find somewhere else instead.”

Ines is sure Luna will follow in her dancing footsteps and with both parents part of the internationally touring show it is no surprise that she loves tango.

But Ines admits she actually came to dance late.

“I was older, about 16,” she recalls. “It was strange because I started because a friend invited me to see a lesson with her. And then I saw the teacher and the dancing I knew I wanted to do tango.”

From those early steps Ines has gone on to dance across the globe. Tango Fire has been touring for four years and has been as far afield as Japan, Australia and the United States of America.

But Ines admits she has a soft spot for the UK.

“My favourite place is London,” she says. “The first time I came here it was only for two days and that was very crazy but then we had more time the second time around. This time we are in London for four weeks and will have time to really see the city. Luna is really looking forward to it. When we have time we will take her to see all the tourist places.”

But she admits that after touring the US, she finds British audiences a little quiet.

“Over there they shout and scream so here it is a very different audience,” she says. “People here are very respectable and quiet.”

Tango Fire brings together five couples in a series of group and solo pieces. The first half aims to recreate a milonga, or informal tango evening, in a Buenos Aires bar with the second half being a series of fast-paced dances. Interspersed with tango music and song, the show aims to bring Argentinian tango alive in the most dramatic of ways.

And Ines admits it is hard work – particularly when so much of the action involves lifts, turns and throws.

“The show mixes all different forms of tango with traditional and modern dance. But it is very real,” she says.

n Tango Fire arrives at Birmingham Alexandra Theatre on September 14. Tickets: www.alexandratheatre.org.uk and 0844 847 2291.