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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. 

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“De puro guapo” by Pedro Laurenz y su Orquesta Típica with Juan Carlos Casas in vocals, 1940 (English translation).

“De puro guapo” by Pedro Laurenz y su Orquesta Típica with Juan Carlos Casas in vocals, 1940 (English translation).

Music: Pedro Laurenz. Lyrics: Manuel Meaños.

Between cortes y quebradas,
I softly grumbled in your ear
all my flowery verb
that my love told you.

You showed in your smile
all your flirtation,
and I, my manhood defeated …
I, who always knew how to win.

To get your love
I want to bet my life
to the card that I liked …
It is not the first game
in which my rest I have gambled …
And if in the end I take over and win,
—valiant I am in the situation—
there is a knife, brave hand,
courage and bravery
to assert myself.

I have what I want,
and that for valiant and for brave …
It is enough that in one arm I have the rag
and in another the knife …
If my deeds are not enough
I put my courage to the test.
No one advantages my lead
when your love is at stake!

More Argentine Tango lyrics

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We are happy to have a collaboration with the people from tangotunes.com from whom some of you may have heard, they do high-quality transfers from original tango shellacs.

It is the number 1 source for professional Tango DJs all over the world.

  • Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
    You will find two compilations at the beginning, one tango and one vals compilation in amazing quality.
    The price is 50€ each (for 32 songs each compilation) and now the good news!

If you enter the promo code 8343 when you register at this site you will get a 20% discount!

Thanks for supporting this project, you will find other useful information on the site, a great initiative.

Letra original en castellano

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Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda at our virtual class broadcasted from San Francisco

Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda at our virtual class broadcasted from San Francisco

The two most important requirements to dance Tango are patience and generosity.

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“Mandria” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Echagüe in vocals, 1939.

“Mandria” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Echagüe in vocals, 1939.

Francisco Brancatti

Lyricist, singer, guitarist and composer (July 2, 1890 – June 4, 1980)

He was a great figure in Argentine popular music.

He wrote with Juan Velich“Mandria”, versed in 1926.

The music belongs to the Argentine pianist Juan Carlos Rodríguez.

It became a long lasting success.

Read more about Francisco Brancatti at www.todotango.com

Listen and buy:

  • Amazon music

  • iTunes music

  • Spotify

We are happy to have a collaboration with the people from tangotunes.com from whom some of you may have heard, they do high-quality transfers from original tango shellacs.

It is the number 1 source for professional Tango DJs all over the world.

  • Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
    You will find two compilations at the beginning, one tango and one vals compilation in amazing quality.
    The price is 50€ each (for 32 songs each compilation) and now the good news!

If you enter the promo code 8343 when you register at this site you will get a 20% discount!

Thanks for supporting this project, you will find other useful information on the site, a great initiative.

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“Qué importa” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Echagüe in vocals, 1939 (English translation).

“Qué importa” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Echagüe in vocals, 1939 (English translation).

Music: Ricardo Tanturi. Lyrics: Juan Carlos Thorry.

A short time ago it was your love
the light that illuminated my existence
and for both of us, it was only yesterday,
there was no word absence.

Ours was the love of twenty years,
love of Margarita and Duval.
But, the usual, a disappointment
in the end she had to push us away.

What does it matters
to be told that you have changed
and that you have placed a jewel
on the site of the heart!

What does it matters
if you left my side,
only I know why it was
I paid for your love
with evil and treason.

More Argentine Tango lyrics

Letra original en español

Listen and buy:

  • Amazon music

  • iTunes music

  • Spotify

More Argentine Tango music selected for you:

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