Wednesday: Tango or Salsa in Spanish
Tango lessons: every Wednesday from 7.30 to 9 pm. Free for our students!
An enjoyable way to start dancing tango or develop your current skills. Our goal is to take the students from owning the basic resources needed for a pleasant trip accross the dance floor. This simple and sure background will be helpful for further learning. As long as they want to go on. Of course, as our first target is fun, there are no restrictions regarding age or appearance.
A basic plan for learning tango
- Weight management. “Marca”. Connection. Intention.
- Posture and embrace, Salon and Milonguero style.
- Basic movements: Walking. In every direction, with all possible combinations, intention and following the rythm of the music.
- “Vayven”, cadence, stationary and in motion, following a line or a circle. In time and double time.
- Changing direction.
- “El Cruce” (the crossing). “Marca”. Simple ways to get there.
- The Basic step. Regular or cross starting, combined with the previous elements. Tempo variations.
- The “Ochos”.
- Classic resources for tango dance developing “sanguchito, freno, barrida, sacada, voleo, gancho” and their use in simple steps.
- “Giros” turnarounds.
