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Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda: final review of intermediate class

Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda: final review of intermediate class

We should, at any point, pause in life, by stepping out of the frantic rhythm we have become accustomed for various reasons (let’s not waste more time trying to list them all.)

Perhaps, in our eager race to reach (where?), we forgot simple things: to breathe, to take a conscious look at our direction, to gauge the way ahead, to prepare our tactics, to develop a strategy, to remember to close our mouth to avoid being misunderstood, or worse, misunderstand ourselves.
 
The time is now. Now is when you woke up. You may choose to get cozy and snooze for a few more years, and on and on for the rest of your life. Time goes either way. 
 
We age; what matters is how: you can improve yourself, becoming a better version of your persona everyday. To pursue this goal (which is never complete) you need to consider your body.
 
At the entrance of the temple of Apollo, in the Oracle of Delphi, it is written “Know thyself”.
 
What you are is placed in your body. Knowing your body is essential to achieve indispensable wisdom.
 
The art of Tango teaches you ways to explore your whole self, assisting you with comprehending your emotions, your quiet thoughts, your unconscious habits interacting with others that often mislead you and make you fall into your own involuntary traps.

Tango helps you acquire a knowledge without which you could one day find yourself to be a stranger.

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area and want to learn to dance Tango, you can:

Learn to dance Argentine Tango

Argentine Tango private lesson with Marcelo Solis

Private lessons

Are the way to learn Argentine Tango

  • At our private lessons we work intensely on foundations, rhythm, musicality and connection with partner. We design a program according to your own goals and requirements.

  • While group classes are necessary to work on the social aspects of this beautiful art form, during private lessons we focus on the specific details of your dance which are important in achieving your goal of being a great dancer, a true milonguera or milonguero.

Book your private lesson

“El Tango es una historia” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Chanel in vocals, 1944 with English translation of the lyrics.

“El Tango es una historia” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica with Roberto Chanel in vocals, 1944; with English translation of the lyrics.

El Tango es una historia- Disco

Music: Roberto Chanel. Lyrics: Reinaldo Yiso.

In cress leaves, with a crying feather,
the old suburb wrote his story.
Then a bohemian with the soul of a saint,
gave it harmony, made it immortal.
Like the humble grass of the sidewalks,
that are born a day without cause and reason,
that’s how tango was born, and today it’s a star
that shines in the sky of every emotion.

Tango is a story,
Every sentence is a memory,
each part is a life with a hidden grief
and all the tango is what belongs to us.
Emotion that becomes a complain
in the voice of the bandoneon.
Tango is always a story
which has in all its pages
words from the heart.

More music recorded by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica

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.

Ver este artículo en español

We have lots more music and history

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“Bahía Blanca” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica, 1958.

“Bahía Blanca” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica, 1958.

Carlos Di Sarli in 1969

Carlos Di Sarli

Pianist, leader and composer (January 7, 1903 – January 12, 1960)

Like nobody else, he knew how to combine the rhythmic cadence of tango with a harmonic structure, apparently simple but full of nuances and subtleties.

He was not enrolled for any of the two streams of his time. His was neither a traditional orchestra, styled after Roberto Firpo or Francisco Canaro, nor a follower of the De Caro renewal.

Di Sarli imposed a seal of his own; a different musical profile, which remained, unaltered throughout his prolonged career.

He was a talented pianist, maybe one of the most important, who conducted his orchestra from his instrument, with which he mastered the synchrony and the performance of the outfit.

Of his work as a composer, we undoubtedly highlight “Bahía Blanca”, a true jewel of the genre.

Carlos Di Sarli was the final piece of the puzzle of tango in the 40s, that made neither concessions to strident fashions, nor to rhythmic extravagances and who, however represented with extreme delicacy, the interpretative paradigm of danceable tango.

Read more about Carlos Di Sarli and listen more of his music

Listen and buy:

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.

We have lots more music and history

Ver este artículo en español

Argentine Tango intermediate class: turn variation with sacada

Argentine Tango intermediate class: turn variation with sacada

  • Argentine Tango intermediate class with Mimi: turn variation with sacada.

Do you have questions about Argentine Tango dance?

More video lessons

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area and want to learn to dance Tango, you can:

Learn to dance Argentine Tango

Argentine Tango private lesson with Marcelo Solis

Private lessons

Are the way to learn Argentine Tango

  • At our private lessons we work intensely on foundations, rhythm, musicality and connection with partner. We design a program according to your own goals and requirements.

  • While group classes are necessary to work on the social aspects of this beautiful art form, during private lessons we focus on the specific details of your dance which are important in achieving your goal of being a great dancer, a true milonguera or milonguero.

Book your private lesson

Argentine Tango intermediate class: crossed system salida to crossed system

Argentine Tango intermediate class: crossed system salida to crossed system

  • Argentine Tango intermediate class with Mimi: crossed system salida to crossed system.

Do you have questions about Argentine Tango dance?

More video lessons

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area and want to learn to dance Tango, you can:

Learn to dance Argentine Tango

Argentine Tango private lesson with Marcelo Solis

Private lessons

Are the way to learn Argentine Tango

  • At our private lessons we work intensely on foundations, rhythm, musicality and connection with partner. We design a program according to your own goals and requirements.

  • While group classes are necessary to work on the social aspects of this beautiful art form, during private lessons we focus on the specific details of your dance which are important in achieving your goal of being a great dancer, a true milonguera or milonguero.

Book your private lesson