Key insights Elegance in Tango is crucial, it’s all about the quality and how you do the movements and embrace. The key to elegant tango lies in maintaining contact with your feet, regardless of the pace of the dance. It’s important for leaders to give the time and space for their followers to collect in tango, creating a strong connection and smooth transitions. Lifting my center will make her have more space to collect, like I’m hanging her from the ceiling. Be aware of the lines you are creating in Tango to maintain visual elegance and connection with your partner. Tango dancers shou ..read more

Struggling with balance during back pivots in tango? This video has 4 tips to help you find your center and maintain balance, whether you’re a leader or a follower. Being grounded is crucial for successful back pivoting in tango, and these tips will help you develop body awareness and correct alignment to improve your balance and overall tango technique. Don’t let balance hold you back from mastering this essential tango move! We’re about to open registrations for our Dance With Confidence Experience – it’s a 3-day tango transformation event taking place in California in September 2024. Don ..read more

When I was studying theatre, one of our teachers always make us do gruelling physical exercise before working on a scene. We arrived on stage so exhausted that it was sometimes difficult to simply stand up and speak. We’d stand in front all of the other actors…. sweating, shaking from the intense effort, holding our monologues on a sheet of paper… And didn’t even have the time to think about the emotions we wanted to portray before getting into character. And, often, the results were breathtaking: moments of grace with simple, raw acting coming from the heart. The teacher said that the physica ..read more

Dear dancer, Recently, we were in in our studio in London to work. And, obviously, when night came, we went to the big milonga he organises on Tuesdays in Central London. It’s a beautiful space in Covent Garden with a big, square wooden floor, white walls and a high ceiling. In the middle of the night, as the atmosphere was picking up, we sat next to the DJ and started watching the couples move seamlessly across the dancefloor. It’s always such a joy to watch people dancing. The level was good, yet something was not quite working. There lacked a sense of flow in the ronda. When looking closer ..read more

Have you ever felt that tango dancing is incredibly difficult? Does it look like there is so much to learn? Or that you need to keep learning new steps or decorations in order to go on the dancefloor, or invite that person you’ve always dreamt of dancing with? We used to believe this too. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. You can actually dance a full tango song with the simplest tango movements and make it incredibly fun, musical and connected! You can dance wonderful dances from the beginning of your tango journey… even with the simplest steps. In fact, in this week’s video, this ..read more

Dear Dancer, Here’s how Pablo has been spending his afternoons recently. Making some matte with the Yerba his mum sends him from Argentina. Sitting down at his computer… And speaking with many of you on zoom. Pretty cool, right? He’s been doing a series of one-to-one online sessions for our students registered to the Intensive Tango Weekend in Paris in May 2022 (we do that to help you prepare for it!) And one thing he’s noticed is that he’s correcting the same thing over and over again, for students across the globe: You sometimes run out of ideas when you don’t have much space in milongas. Es ..read more

Dear Dancer, “When we change our weight, both sides of our body need to be present” This quote is just ONE of the pieces of golden wisdom that this week’s video lesson guest, Corina Herrera, shares today. If you don’t know Corinna, she’s an all-time favorite here at Tango Space – a tango queen who’s danced all over the world and has been teaching for years. One thing we love about Corinna is that she truly lives and shares the essence of tango dancing. And we have no doubt that this lesson will transform how you use your body when you’re dancing: for more connection, more fluidity, and more or ..read more

Dear Dancer, Picture this… You’re at a milonga, dancing a tanda with a partner you’ve been dying to dance with for some time… Yet, at some point, it feels like you can’t really connect… You’re not sure if you’re communicating correctly, and your mind starts racing: is something wrong? Are we disconnected? Am I “getting it right”?  If that has ever happened to you, we’d like to teach an important way to practice, so you are always connected when you are dancing, whether in close or embrace embrace.  We’ll show you how to “practice correctly”, so that you can exchange energy in your em ..read more

Dear Dancer, I don’t know if you noticed… But our dancing is quite simple. We’ll rarely teach you fancy volcadas or crazy sacada combinations. We prefer focusing on the quality of the connection and the journey in-between the steps. We’ve lost students because of that – some people are really excited by the steps, and it’s ok. To each their own What Pablo does masterfully, yet, is take simple steps and elevate them: with musicality, with an interesting use of the cross system, with a different way to lead… This is one of the tools we’d like to explore with you today: The difference between le ..read more

Dear dancer, When I first heard of Pablo’s mum, what someone said to me was “she’s radiant”. And she is. She has a big heart, laughs easily, and loves her children to bits. She’s also very creative. For example, she used to take the traditional Argentine “empanadas” recipe, and turn it from a sweet & savory treat for her kids. Instead of stuffing it with chicken, beef, onions as is usually done, she’d add sugar, olives, raisins… A bit unconventional but Pablo loved it! And this is what we’re inviting you to do with this week’s video lesson: taking a traditional tango movement, and shaking ..read more