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2 years ago
I’m currently taking lessons, I’m planning to carry on and hopefully build up my confidence and technique. Any tips?
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How to get really good at Argentine Tango
It made me
Joyful 
"Dancing tango has been a path of self-discovery.. I've seen both the best & worst in myself, as well as others, of course. But we're all just mirrors of one another anyway, right? ;)"
How I did it: Like many things, it was a matter of degrees.. the 1st few introductory lessons before an event gave way to group classes.. to workshops.. then festivals and even international events!
Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but 5 minutes a day is better than 1 hour a week. Human nature is to look for shortcuts, but there's really no substitute for the basic willingness to persist.
Lessons & tips: Be patient with yourself - tango is a patient dance.
Be humble and value the fact that we're all learning - whether you've danced 8 minutes or 8 yrs!
No, really - followers, appreciate the fact that the leader is really trying! Leaders, this should be a given for you, too! Your real skill is to allow the follower to shine no matter what level they are!
Resources: Initially, excellent teachers who taught about life, as well as tango.
Then, friends who helped to make the journey a little less lonely.
Finally, some special connections - ones that I cherish and take with me into each tango yet to be danced. "You dance your life," the old milongueros implore.
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Wow! All I gotta say is HOT!
I’m definitely addicted to Tango now!
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what's different from normal tango?
3 years ago
I took this from some website:
Argentine Tango is a social dance (i.e. lead and followed, not choreographed). Argentine Tango has very few of the lunges and dips, nor do partners stride across the room with arms out and a rose between the lips. Instead, partners are almost completely in a close, closed posion, very inward in attitude, trading footsteps and decorations.
The Argentine basic steps are built out of grapevines, figure eights, turns, and walking, to which are added dramatic pauses, quick steps, syncopations, foot decorations and leg hooks, to mention a few. One wierd and wonderful thing is that the dancers may walk in crossed feet (left with left) rather than the mirror we are used to. While the leader “walks” the follower around, the leader’s feet may pause, switch to crossed feet, step into the stride of the follower, or appear to displace the followers footsteps.
I love to Tango...
3 years ago
I tried it for the first time 5 years ago and knew it was the dance for me. Since then I’ve taken beg. classes on and off (mostly off). I don’t know why I let my relationships infringe on my passions, but now that I’m single – I’m ready to come back to Tango and truly take it seriously. I’m hoping to find a partner; and if you’re hot that’s a bonus!!! Just kidding.
Argentines kick butt
4 years ago
That’s a lame reason to learn to Tango but one of my 43 things is “Get Real” so if I want to Tango because Argentines kick butt, then so be it.
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4 years ago
but had to stop to focus on getting my black belt. Now I want to get back into it. It’s so fun!
I used to go to milongas frequently
4 years ago
Then I met somebody who wanted nothing to do with it, and unfortunately, I went along with that non-dancing program. Silly me! I am better off without such a friend, because now I can dance any time I wish! YAY!
I'd settle for Uruguayan tango too....
4 years ago
One time we had a party at the anarchist social center in montevideo and the older anarchists were teaching tango. I’m really bad at it. I think to learn i need to stay focused. Thankfully there are plenty of places which give lessions.
I went to the tango festival in buenos aires one year, they had blocks and blocks of the center of the city closed off with live music and thousands or tens of thousands of people dancing tango. It was amazing.
Once you learn tango, you have to know there is a whole specalized slang which goes with it, lunfardo (i think that’s how it’s spelled).
