Tango Workshop

Please note you can follow up the Intensive Crash Course with our regular Saturday Classes and Milonga if you like too. Details are here: https://www.tango-amistoso.co.uk/milonga-amistosa-05-apr-2025/

Our Intensive Crash Courses run for three hours, typically on a Saturday afternoon. You’ll work with our expert teachers on acquiring and rapidly developing your skills across the breadth of tango. These are the current Crash Courses that we are running:

• Milonga Intensive - Musicality and Sequences
• Vals Intensive - Musicality and Cadenas
• Voleos and Ganchos Intensive - Let the legs fly
• Out of Axis - Colgadas Intensive
• Out of Axis - Volcadas Intensive
• Musicality Intensive - Basics, Syncopations, Triples, Quarters, Pauses
• Giros Intensive - Giros with Sacadas and Enrosques
• Milonguero Style Intensive - Technique and Sequences
• Followers Technique
• Leaders 5x5 Mapping System

Who are the courses for?

Our Intensive Crash Courses are for students who want to progress faster in their journey. They are intensive by design and the student has to be willing to work hard and expect a challenging three hours. The courses will work for you if:

• You are looking to progress faster after having learnt the basics of tango; or,
• You you are an experienced dancer and want to make sure that you have got the foundations right for each one of the topics.

You can sign up on your own, we will change partners throughout the course. Alternatively, you can sign up with a fixed partner and stay with them while the rest of the class rotates their partners.

In the course: On each afternoon you’ll focus on just one of these topics, with seven hours’ worth of teaching compressed into one key class. You’ll cover all the basics of each specialism, building your technique from the ground up, and ultimately covering more challenging and advanced concepts in the last hour, to really help push you in taking your tango to the next level. Our structured way of teaching will focus on key tango grammar points and the precise technique for executing movements smoothly on the dance floor; this is a series of courses designed to fast-track ambitious students who want to progress to higher levels of dance more quickly. The nature of our courses is incredibly successful, and we’re always glad to see how quickly students progress after working with us.

This week’s focus is on Followers Technique.

Join us this Saturday 5th April, 1-4pm at Claremont Project, for the Followers Technique Intensive with Nana & Silvia.

Ready to take your tango to new heights with Silvia and Nana? In this intensive we’ll cover important aspects of followers technique, from posture and walking technique all the way to pivots and giros. And of course, once we have a very good base, embellishments are not to be missed! Finally, we will put it all into practice with a fun and challenging choreography on music that ties everything together. Perfect for dancers at any level!

• Important Grammar Points
• Posture & alignment
• Projections, walking, changes of weight
• Pivots -> Ochos
• Giros
• Embellishments - understanding when & how
• Musicality
• What happens between the beats: double time, syncopations, triples & quarters
• Pauses
• Types of phrases