Argentine Tango School

Marcelo Solis with Myriam Pincen at a milonga in Buenos Aires a night of Argentine Tango dancing.

Argentine Tango class with Myriam Pincen, Buenos Aires, March 2019.

Argentine Tango class with Myriam Pincen, Buenos Aires, March 2019.

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From Myriam Pincen:

“My classes aim to instruct and encourage the dance of Tango Salón Tradicional Argentino, a knowledge that I have acquired over more than 30 years of study with various teachers such as Miguel Gutierrez, Eduardo Arquimbau, Mingo Pugliese, Pepito Avellaneda, J.C. Copes among others, with whom I not only learned to dance but also to teach dance, scene, and choreography.

In my classes we work on everything you need to dance Tango on a dance floor: posture, musicality, balance, cadence, styles, different orchestras, lead and follow, adornments, codes, floor craft, etc.

The final goal is that all can access to enjoy a good tango dance and also to transcend our Buenos Aires’ culture for the next generations.”


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Marcelo Solis and Mimi dancing Argentine Tango

Argentine Tango class on 1-2-3 structure of turns

Argentine Tango class on 1-2-3 structure of turns










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I lead and I follow.

When leading, I like my partner to be sensitive to my lead, reciprocating with being sensitive to her interpretation of music.

Together we do the dance of a being that is not her or me, but the couple.


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Argentine Tango classes by Marcelo Solis. Dancing vals with Mimi.

Argentine Tango class on vals

Argentine Tango class on vals






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Looking for tips about learning Argentine Tango dance?

Because you have realized the value of Tango, namely that Tango is highly important to you, I am offering here a guide into your Tango journey.

  1. Be disciplined, regular, and committed to your study of Tango. While dancing Tango is amusing, it is also different from other ways to amuse yourself. Choose these unique characteristics of Tango to be the main core of your dedication to learning it. Steps, choreographic patterns, socializing, close proximity to partners, are all aspects that Tango has in common with other dances and other kinds of activities. On the other hand, its music is unique; and, also, unique is the approach that milongueros have in relation to Tango: for them, Tango is not a “way of life”, but “Life” itself. 
  2. If Tango is life, then your Tango teacher is a life-coach. He or she is teaching you how to live Tango. Your relationship between you and your teacher is based on trust, mutual understanding, sympathy, and patience. Tango makes both of you meet at a very humane level, where both need to accept their own limitations and flows, as well as good qualities. The potential for improvement of Tango is infinite. In the face of such a wide-open horizon, both student and teacher are students of Tango. Your teacher is your guide through Tango, but also your road companion. Choose carefully.
  3. Tango is a world. Your Tango teacher is a bridge to it. Allow yourself to know that world, its inhabitants, its culture. A Tango teacher that is making a good job, will have different levels of approximation to your definitive contact with Tango and, eventually, living-breathing-existing-embodying Tango. The first pool in your “decanting” to Tango would be your teacher’s inner group of students. Not anyone who shows up in class, but those who showing up in class regularly, are noticeably there to learn about Tango. Be perceptive to this difference. Then, your teacher with or without this inner group will take you to your first local milongas. New questions will arise there, that you will need to discuss with your teacher. Eventually, you will visit Buenos Aires. You must trust this to your teacher. He or she, if authentic, is your most reliable connection to Tango in Buenos Aires. 

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Argentine Tango dance classes with Marcelo & Mimi.

Argentine Tango class: counterclockwise direction turn to salida cruzada

Argentine Tango virtual classes with Marcelo Solis and Mimi Mehaouchi.

Argentine Tango class: walking variations and turns

Argentine Tango class: walking variations and turns



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Dancing Tango requires the training and improvement of your whole self, developing your ability to be fully engaged and ready to give good answers to your present moment anytime, all the time.

Thrive and keep improving!


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