Tango Workshop

5X5 Mapping System is a revolutionary way to approach Tango Creativity and Development as a leader. It is based on a lot of research into the psychology of the leader's mind, good understanding of the biomechanics needed to be a strong leader and using technology and processes to simplify and speed up the very complex nature of decoding Tango. I took up Tango with no dance background and having been just a software engineer all my life. I developed this system over the past many years to be able to improve myself as a creative leader and also help my students learn faster and in a very enjoyable way without having to go through the usual frustrations that come with learning Tango.

In this crash course of the 5X5 Mapping System you will get these:

• Tools to improve creativity immediately
• A strategy for long term improvements in an organic way
• Understand the pitfalls of popular myths that stop the development of a leader
• Introduction to an App (yes, technology!) to help you with creativity
• Ready-made collection of countless options for Vocabulary and the option to be part of the community effort to continue expanding it
• Essential tools for the mind to become a super fun leader

Come along, be part of a super creative community, use technology and tools to save years worth of development as a leader!

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-17-may-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 topic is Leaders 5x5 Mapping System.

You can bring a follower for FREE to this workshop. If you are a follower who is interested in coming along as a volunteer to help the leaders, please contact Silvia Bivolaru.