Argentine Tango
Tango Dance instruction with Spencer and Vanessa!
Argentine Tango sophisticated steps are easy and fun to learn. Tango dance is a healthy mild exercise that brings out your hidden talents. Tango lessons make it easy to make new friends. Learn tango and you will find that you are dancing with total confidence in a reasonable short time.
Tango Argentino was close to the heart for Spencer and Vanessa from early in their lives. Learn to Tango became a compelling interest at an early time. Tango lesson attendance soon became a weekly regular activity for them. Tango classes administered by some professional teachers in Argentina provided them a solid background of the fundamentals. Argentine Tango dance took Spencer and Vanessa to dance and teach classes in the past decades to Argentina, USA, and Europe.
- You do not need any experience in dancing at all. If you never danced before it's fine.
- You learn sooner if you have a dance partner. it is beneficial to you but not a must.
- You do not need to be familiar with the music either. We will provide you with music CDs
- You only need to have a love for music and enjoy dancing to it.
- Leather-sole or suede dance shoes recommended.
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Argentine Tango “What it is”
Argentine Tango is a social dance that originated in Argentina and moved to the rest of the world later on. In the United States, it is commonly confused with Ballroom Tango and International Tango, though these are later derivations.
Argentine Tango is danced in an embrace that can vary from an “open embrace”, in which leader and follower connect at a certain distance, to “closed embrace”, in which the connection is much closer. . Close embrace is often associated with the more traditional styles, while open embrace leaves room for some of the figures and embellishments that are associated with Salon-Style and other newer styles evolved recently.
Tango Argentino is essentially walking with a partner and the music. Argentinian Tango Musicality (i.e. dancing appropriately to the emotion and speed of a tango) is an extremely important element of dancing tango. Tango schools teach that a good dancer is one who makes you feel and see the music. Also, dancers generally keep their feet close to the floor as they walk, the ankles and knees brushing as one leg passes the other.
Argentine Tango relies heavily on improvisation; although certain patterns of movement have been codified by instructors over the years as a device to instruct dancers, there is no "basic step."
Argentine Tango has a constant present in all styles. It is that the follower will usually be led to alternate feet. Another is that both partners rarely have the weight on both feet at the same time. Argentine tango is a new orientation of couple dancing. As most dances have a rational-pattern which can be predicted by the follower, the ballast of previous perceptions about strict rules has to be thrown overboard and replaced by the embrace contact communication, creating a direct non-verbal dialogue. Tango Argentino is a living act in the moment as it happens.
Argentine Tango is danced counterclockwise around the dance floor (the "line of dance") thus creating a dance traffic navigation system. It is considered rude to interfere in any manner with the navigation of dancers in the floor.
Chart of Argentine Tango Orchestras 1875-2005 by Spencer Larkin.
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