This Saturday 16th March 2024 we will work on ‘Parallel and Cross systems’, and how being able to change from one system to the other. This ability will give you as a couple so many more possibilities. The simple explanation of walking ‘In Parallel’ is that when the couple are walking together, with the leader […]
read articleSaturday 8th March class on sacadas and volcadas
This Saturday 9th March 2024 our class continues with the theme of: sacadas, and this week we will be adding volcadas. With good connection, good proprioception, and full awareness of our partner, we can easily see how slight changes result in very different outcomes. This week we will start with a range of exercises to […]
read articleActive listening gives you inspiration part 3
Active listening will inspire you and improve your dancing. It will help you to improve your understanding of using movement dynamics and refining the quality of your dancing. Click below for interesting listening recommendations of less well known but still frequently played band leaders. This week our three suggested names of Tango Orchestra leaders and […]
read articleSaturday 2nd March class on possibilities and variations with sacadas
This Saturday 2nd March 2024 Tony and Anita’s class is on possibilities and variations. We will help you to understand how slight changes to a lead or a response can produce many different movements or outcomes. We will demonstrate this with different nuances on sacadas. As a precise lead is important in sacadas. We need […]
read articleActive listening gives you inspiration part 2
Last week we suggested you listen to music recorded by the orchestras of Carlos Di Sarli and of Osvaldo Pugliese. We also mentioned a few titles, and in looking those up we hope you discovered a whole lot more. They are still relevant to this week’s lesson, so do listen to more of them. In […]
read articleSaturday 24th February class on sacadas and ochos
This Saturday 24th February 2024 Tony and Anita will help you to take your time. Do things slowly in a controlled way, and definitely together. Starting with exercises we will build up from walking in time, ‘sacadas’ and ‘ochos’, to ‘paradas’ and ‘barridas’. But most importantly, really doing everything together, so that we savour and […]
read articleActive listening for inspiration on dynamic dancing
The following listening suggestions are to inspire you and to imagine and practice dancing the music meaning dancing out how the music makes you feel and or want to move. Or the dynamics in the music; how the music is played loud, soft, percussive or lyrical, hard, strong or gentle. How would you translate these […]
read articleSaturday 10th February class on Tango Vals
This Saturday 10th February 2024 Tony and Anita will work on Tango Vals, and how to play with it. We will start with some simple exercises to see how Tango Vals, which has evolved from Vals Peruano and Vals Criollo, can include not just one simple over-riding rhythm, but actually contains several rhythms at once. Some might have heard […]
read articleSaturday 3rd February class on going in and out of axis
This Saturday 3rd February 2024 Tony and Anita will work on the importance of ‘Axis’ (plural Axes) and balance. Finding, understanding and controlling our own axis, and the axis of our partner is very important in partner dancing, and especially in Argentine tango. We will work on exercises to help us to find our axes, to understand them, and […]
read articleGetting to know the three sub styles in Tango music.
Just watch and listen to some classic and well known tango, vals and milonga pieces, and look at some examples of people dancing to them. When listening try to hear the difference between the tango sub styles; vals, milonga and tango. When watching can you identify if there are certain moves that are only danced […]
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