Argentine Tango dancing by Marcelo Solis and Mimi at Pulgas Water Temple, San Francisco, California, doing shadow position.

Elevate Your Tango Experience: Warm-Up Exercises for Argentine Tango

Warming up is an essential in Argentine Tango. Just like any dance form, preparing your body and mind for the intricate movements and connections that Tango demands is crucial.

I give you a clue that may help you to understand Tango better: Tango is close to you.

You may have missed it in the lyrics. They always talk about things that are familiar, things that sometimes we miss very much because they are so close to our emotions that become strongly present even in their absence. It is the neighborhood were you grow up, it is your close relationships with relatives and friends, your loved ones, those familiar things and tasks of every day, even when they are in a distant past. They are part of you forever. They are embracing you.

There is also an opposite idea of what Tango may be: it is the belief that Tango is something that happens far away, in a place from which we are excluded. For instance: a stage, a space that you are not allowed in, a scenography of unreality, flashy lights that leave you in the shadows, a fancy wardrobe that you’ll never wear, a script that cannot be interrupted, all things from which you must remain outside and quiet.

Which one is Tango for you?

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Marcelo Solis practicing Argentine Tango chair exercise

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.

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Sometimes my paternal grandma would nanny us. She would stay home with us.

She taught me to play cards and at night we watch together “Grandes valores del Tango” in the TV, a program dedicated exclusively to Tango. She was in love with one of the regulars: Juan Carlos Thorry, actor, play writer, director, singer, composer, poet and lyricist of “Indiferencia” (with music by Rodolfo Biagi), “Mi serenata” (with music by Edgardo Donato), “Qué importa” (with music by Ricardo Tanturi), and “Vida querida” (with music by Lalo Scalise).