Saturday 6th April 2024 Tango E14 proudly presents two new guest teachers: Luciano Millaqueo and Maria Celeste Cimino. Their dance style is a no fuss, intimate, tender and authentic approach to tango, that is not to be missed! Luciano and Maria Celeste are world acclaimed dancers and teachers. This is how they describe themselves: Celeste […]
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Saturday 30th March 24 class on different rhythms danced together
This Saturday 30th March 2024 we will have a class on different rhythms danced by the follower and leader but somehow together. Here is a challenge ! How can we dance together doing different interpretations of the music? How can a couple dance together doing different things, but keeping synchronised with each other? We are getting to the essence […]
read articleSaturday 23rd March class on cross vs. parallel systems part 2
This Saturday 23rd March 2024 we continue our second week on ‘Parallel and Cross systems’. This is a fundamental skill and understanding in Argentine Tango, and gives rise to an amazing range of possibilities. We know the simple concept of walking ‘In Parallel’, where the couple are walking together. The leader going forwards with say his left foot, the […]
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 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 […]
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