©  by Mariano Díaz Campos, 12. March 2024 Tutorial of the day! Try these playful rhythmical adornos out. We covered this in our TangoMasterclass Uffelte and in our TangoMasterclass Spring Courses Online.  The origin of thes adornos are from the Orillera style. Famous representatives of this style are El Cachafáz y Carmencita Calderón. FOCUS: Focus on keeping your upper body calm and quiet, to maintain a good connection and the embrace with your partner. ATTENTION: don't bounce back and front or up and down!   Here is a step by step guide how to practice: STEP 1: SOLO - RIGHT ..read more

In our new tango tutorial we improvise with sacadas for leader & follower. At the Tango Masterclass Texel 2024 we covered improvisations with sacadas (back, side, front), crossed system cunitas and low boleos (social tango, respect the ronda). This is a demo of improvisation with the material that we covered. Follow our youtube channel for more.   ..read more

by Mariano Díaz Campos, 10-01-2024 27 / 28 January 2024 Double Role Tango Bootcamp >> 'If you really want to learn tango, you have to learn the other role as well', is an expression that tango teachers, me included, often say to students. As a teacher, when I say this to students, I hear them sigh loudly. And when I heard this sentence myself from my maestro some thirty years ago, I sighed myself. Why is it so hard to learn the other role? When you learn something, you will get new insight of your learning process. In our case as tango dancers we learn that the tango dance of the ..read more

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by Mariano Diaz Campos "In milonga you can't lie" is a saying that I often heard from the milongueros. In tango it is possible to 'cheat' a little bit; to solve smalll misunderstandings in the connection within the couple. But in milonga that is not possible, because of the fast pace and the super precise steps. Just a very small difference in foot placement, timing, or turning direction, can cause quite a disconnection within the couple.  A good milonga dancer is a good tango dancer, but not necessarily vice versa.   In this blog we will explain more about the dance genre Milo ..read more

© by Mariano Díaz Campos   Before Al Pacino and Gabrielle Anwar danced to Por Una Cabeza in the movie Scent of a Woman (1992), this beautiful tango was already very popular and famous. Composed by Carlos Gardel, with lyrics by Alfredo Le Pera, this tango stole the hearts of so many tango lovers. Not only for those who came to the concerts of Carlos Gardel, but also all who watched and admired Gardel on the big screen in the movie Tango Bar (1935).  Carlos Gardel, el Zorzal del Tango, is considered the best tangosinger of all times. The Zorzal is the bird "song thrush", that ..read more

In this blog we listen to a tango from the Syrian-Egyptian composer and singer Farid Al-Atrash. Next we listen to the arrangement of this tango by the Uzbeks composer and singer singer, writer, poet, painter and actor Botir Zokirov. Then we listen to the tango by the Turkish composer and singer Ibrahim Özgür.     Tango: Zahra Fe Khayali (flower in my imagination) Syrian-Egyptian composer & singer: Farid Al-Atrash Lyrics written by Saleh Jawdat in Arabic Lyrics translation: Oh flower of my imagination, I guarded her in my heart  The nights hurt her, and hands threw her away ..read more

Photo above: Gabriel Menendez with Karin Bloemen at Gouden Notekraker, the Dutch award for musicians and actors.  Interview with Tango Singer Gabriel Menendez This interview was first published in May 2020 in our Online Tango Masterclass Community. May 2023 we published the interview at our Tango Masterclass Youtube Channel. Subtitles on youtube will follow soon. If you speak Spanish, you can already listen to the interview now.   Photo above: Leo Vervelde (bandoneon, musical director), Gabriel Menendez (singer), Karin Bloemen (cabaretier).  Sexteto Canyengue with singer Gab ..read more

by Mariano Díaz Campos Saludos Tangueros From Buenos Aires I am sending you my Saludos Tangueros! I am currently visiting my birthcountry, Argentina. I still have my Argentine nationality and DNI. My previous visit to Argentina was in 2018, when I travelled with my mother to her birthtown Tapalqué; the town where she grew up, where her father (my grandfather) had his milonga, and where I was baptized. We visited the church in Tapalqué where I was baptized. We met many family members that I had not met before. In March 2023 my mother Mirta Campós was honoured by the Municipalidad de Tapalqué a ..read more

In tango the flowing movement of the free leg is so important. The free leg will only relax and move with flow, when we feel very stable on the standing leg. Isolation in the hip joint of the free leg is also key. In this exercise we train these skills. Stability and good alignment of the standing leg and a good coordination and relaxation of the free leg. We practice with socks, so that we can feel the full motion of each joint without limitations of the materials of the shoes. We have been teaching this exercise for over 20 years to thousands of students, from absolute beginners to professio ..read more