Argentine Tango School

Marcelo Solis teaches Argentine Tango private lessons

Argentine Tango private lessons

Argentine Tango private lessons

Marcelo Solís teaching a virtual Argentine Tango lesson

Imagine Learning Tango in its Golden Era…

If you had lived in Buenos Aires, or another city along the bank of Rio de la Plata, in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, you would have danced Tango.

You would have learned from your relatives and friends.
You would have seen them practicing at home, and they may have taken you and tried to dance with you, given you some instruction, and in doing so integrated you into the culture of Tango, which was part of the culture of that geographic area at the time.

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In your teenage years, you would have gone to “practicas”, Argentine Tango practice gatherings in your neighborhood, where experienced dancers would help you improve your dance.

Money was not involved in this transference of knowledge, beyond paying the club fee at the facility where the practica took place.

The system functioned based on familiar connections and on your interest and commitment to dance well:

if you were committed to improving, you would get more practice and more precise explanations on details, and get to practice more complex dance patterns.

Your eventual connection to the milongas and the community of dancers who were regulars there was rooted at the practicas in your neighborhood.

A relative or friend you make at practicas would take you to your first milonga, and over time help you to integrate.

El Cachafaz with Carmencita Calderón dancing Argentine Tango

On the other hand, there were Argentine Tango maestros, to whom those, outside of the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires and other cities, upper-class citizens or foreigners, would approach for classes.

These maestros were great dancers themselves. 
We know who they were:
Among others.

In the 1960s, there was a gentleman called Gaeta, who taught Tango by mail, copying the idea from Arthur Murray, and would send you paper patterns to place on the floor to guide your footwork.

However, I don’t know anyone in the milongas who learned this way…

How to learn to dance Tango today?

In our private lessons we combine elements of the practicas, tutoring, observing, and dancing with you, with the more straight forward dance lesson mode of the maestros.
 
The first approach is necessary because Tango is a culture, as shown at the practicas, and the lesson mode is necessary too because we don’t live along the bank of Rio de la Plata in the 1930s, 40s, or 50s.

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Our goal is to share with you the powerful beauty of Tango, as it is a jewel that needs to be passed as part of the best of our human nature.

During private lessons we focus on:

  • Good, relaxed posture.
  • Awareness about your body, surrounding space, and your partner’s presence.
  • A nice embrace that connects you to your dance partner.
  • Musical sense: how to listen to Tango music.
  • Moving interpreting the music:
    • Walking.
    • Walking with your partner.
    • Pausing.
    • Changing weight.
  • Footwork and technique.
  • Basic Argentine Tango patterns.
  • More complex patterns and combinations.
Also, we introduce you to the essential socio-cultural aspects of Tango:
  • The milongas where you will dance.
  • Códigos of the milongas (etiquette).
  • Tango music and the Orquesta Típicas of the Golden Era.
  • Historical background of Argentine Tango.

We are confident in your ability to become a great dancer.

Our teaching method and information we share with you will guide you to become a great dancer, a true milonguero or milonguera.
We know you will share our love for Tango.

The duty of a Tango maestro is to introduce you to the milongas and help you to be part of this community.

Neither group classes nor private lessons alone will make you a good dancer. You need both.
If you take only private lessons, you make Tango a private relationship with your maestro, which is not enough to understand what is Tango, and make you a milonguero/a.
 
If you only take group classes, you are not going to get deep enough into the fine details and the profundity of Tango to make you a good dancer.

To dance Tango you must be a good dancer.

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Marcelo Solis practicing Argentine Tango chair exercise

How to practice and improve your Tango: chair exercises

How to practice and improve your Tango: chair exercises

What is what makes you good as a dancer?

To dance Tango well, it is very important to be able to dance well by yourself before engaging in the dialog with a partner that dancing Tango requires.

A great and handy prop for your training is a chair.
Here you will find a variety of chair exercises that will help you greatly to improve your dance.

1- These exercises are very important to your Tango training. There you’ll have all possible movements of Tango: forward step, backward step, forward and backward pivots, isolation of the torso, counter body movement, and turns.

2- Practicing by yourself is essential to your Tango, and one of the most complete exercises is the chair exercise.

3- This exercise is a wonderful way of improving your Tango.

4- Here is another variation of the chair exercise. Master it and you’ll master Tango.

5- Here’s another wonderful approach to conditioning your dance with this new variation of the chair exercise.

6- The wonderful thing is that with no more than a chair you can do so much good for your Tango!

7- Keep practicing and do these exercises.

8- Here’s is another wonderful way you can improve your Tango.

9- Your Tango keeps getting better!

10- Observe, listen, exercise and practice. You will become a great dancer!

11- Learn these elements and when you become able to put them together, you’ll dance!

12- For everything that has value, working is the means of obtaining results. Observe with careful attention, learn, practice and thus you will become a good dancer.

13- Our life is defined in our habits, and our habits originate in our emotions. What do you care about? I like to drive my emotions towards producing a life that is worth living. To dance Argentine Tango is to make your life a work of art. 

Here you can find more chair exercises:

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Three questions regarding Argentine Tango

Three questions regarding Argentine Tango

Marcelo and Miranda dancing Argentine Tango in San Francisco Union Square, July 2019.

We are curious…

We’d like to know how that magic spark which ignited your passion for Tango started.

Please respond to these three simple questions and I will reply back to you telling you my own story.

Also, if you want to share with us more about Tango and you, or you have any question, please let us know:

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Thank you so much!

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Virtual Argentine Tango classes online with Marcelo Solis and Miranda Lindelow.

Argentine Tango virtual classes and private lessons online

Argentine Tango virtual classes and private lessons online

Argentine Tango virtual class online with Marcelo Solís

Learn Argentine Tango online in our virtual classes

For some time now, we have been considering ways to bring Tango to more people throughout the world, as well as to provide a more convenient option for local students.

With the ongoing COVID-19 situation, we have accelerated our plans to offer you virtual classes.

If this is your first time taking a virtual class, we want to reassure you that we’ve chosen a user-friendly platform to ease you into online learning.

If you’re wondering whether you’ll receive the full benefits of an in-person class, the feedback we receive from students is that virtual group classes and private lessons are just as impactful as in person, if not more so in some cases.

The key to a positive online learning journey is possessing the discipline to put in the necessary effort and maintain flexibility.

You will have the instant connection with your teachers or peers, and the motivation to concentrate on work and not be distracted, perhaps even more than during regular in person classes.

Online classes and private lessons can actually be an advantage.

You’ll be surprised to receive advice and observations from your teachers that can be more meaningful than what you might find in a traditional classroom.

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Virtual online classes with Marcelo Solis

There are many advantages to online group classes and private lessons, among them is that it takes place from the comfort of your home.
Are you ready to learn Argentine Tango with our online virtual classes and private lessons? Many already started and they are very satisfied with them.

Tango is waiting for you… Don’t miss out!!!

Here you can take a look to one of the exercises we work during our virtual online classes:

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Argentine Tango lesson 6, pivots

How to practice and improve your Argentine Tango: Lesson 6

How to practice and improve your Tango: Lesson 6

Exercise, practice and learn more…

Tango is waiting for you… Don’t miss out!!!

In this lesson we focus on pivots.

1-Walk

Pendulum and circle exercise.


2-Forward and backward ochos

Exercise:

3-Chair exercise


4-One, two, three

5-Combination

We have lots of videos for you to learn, practice and improve and Virtual classes online!!!

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