Intention-based social tango
Social Tango starts with a walking hug.
It’s not about the moves. It’s about making the moves you have better, cleaner and clearer.
900+ videos and articles for leads and follows: technique, musical interpretation through the 5 Pause Types, and how to dance well in a real milonga.
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Golden Age This is a reference to a particular time period in Tango music, usually from about 1928 to about 1952, when Tango music essentially 'grew up'. Musically it expands and becomes deeper, and richer as a form. It becomes far more complex than the simple rhythm… See more
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Close Embrace
Close embrace ideas and the vocabulary that goes with them.
The Basics
Walking, extensions and embraces. You do need it.
Colgadas & Volcadas
Shared axis and balance, kept inside the line of dance.
The Cortados
The 8 types of ocho cortados, plus enganche variations.
The Crazy Stuff
Technique for the figures thought of as wild vocabulary.
The Ochos
All the technique for the 8 types of ochos.
The Sacadas
Social, simple, back and golden sacadas.
The Social Figures
The five social figures for safe, clean social tango.
The Turns
The 8 types of turns, including the milonguero turn.
Music
Hear the 5 Pause Types in every golden-age tango
Musical rests with specific characteristics that make them easy to identify, once you know what to listen for.