Tango Workshop

Our 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
  

Who are the courses for?

Our 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 Musicality Intensive - Basics, Syncopations, Triples, Quarters, Pauses.

Musicality Intensive - Basics, Syncopations, Triples, Quarters, Pauses

There is no Tango without Musicality. When someone dances Tango without understanding the music/connecting with it, it is no more a dance, it is merely an activity. Tango Musicality can be very complex. We have broken this down and built a nice and easy structure that anyone can understand and build on. In the first hour, we will go through the basics and the foundations of Musicality and from there we will build on to more complex concepts. All of this will be done with real dancing with partners using sequences that are applicable in social dancing. As a leader, you will understand the possibilities and how to execute them and propose them to the followers. As a follower, you will understand the possibilities and how to bring your part to the partnership both with your quality of movements and adornments. Some of the concepts that will be covered are:

• Rhythmical structures (strong beats, weak beats, etc)
• Phrases
• Syncopations
• Triples
• Quarters
• Different Types of Pauses