Located at Old Sears Building, 3435 Cesar Chavez (at Valencia), San Francisco CA.
There is 1 hour parking slots inside. Street parking is good.
When you arrive, please dial 204 at the communicator to get to open the door.
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Learn to dance and find out that dancing is the highest wisdom.
For San Francisco Tango lovers interested in learning Argentine Tango close to home, we offer semi-private (small group) classes and private lessons at La Pista Dance Studio.
3450 3rd Street, San Francisco CA 94124
Wednesdays 8 pm - Intermediate level
Parking: See availability...
Small group classes limited to 6 couples. Group exercises with personalized attention to technique and body awareness. Bring your own partner or contact us to arrange a partner for you.
Registration needed
Registration for in-person semi-private classes
For San Jose and other South Bay Tango lovers interested in learning Argentine Tango close to home, we offer semi-private (small group) classes and private lessons on Bollinger Rd. in San Jose, and at Dance Boulevard on Hillsdale in San Jose.
6148 Bollinger Road, San Jose, CA 95129
Mondays 8pm - Intermediate level
Great parking
Small group classes limited to 6 couples. Group exercises with personalized attention to technique and body awareness. Bring your own partner or contact us to arrange a partner for you.
Registration needed.
Bandoneon player, director and composer (10 October 1902 - 7 July 1972)
A great tango personality, basically as bandoneon player and composer. Relatively less though still significant was his influence as orchestra director. He was a bandoneon player of great techniques, skilful with both hands (high and low-pitches), superb in sound, energetic in performances and vehement in phrases. He was the founder of a performance school.
As a composer —one of the greatest in the tango history— his work mingled with those of Pedro Maffia and the brothers Julio and Francisco De Caro, but then it flew on his own. Among his best compositions, now classic tangos, is “Orgullo criollo” (with the cooperation of Julio De Caro).
Read more at www.todotango.com
We have lots more music and history
I teach private lessons every Saturday at Dance Boulevard Studio
1824 Hillsdale Ave, San Jose, CA 95124.
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In dancing Tango we show off our capacity to hug, making it a work of art.
Our hug is visible as far as our footwork and beyond.
This particular way of embracing is what distinguishes Argentine Tango from other partner dances.
It is precisely this characteristic that makes private lessons an essential part of your learning path.
Embracing your partner and dancing Argentine Tango is to have a profound and creative conversation, full of joy and awakenings.
The process of learning to dance Argentine Tango requires training yourself in the art of such conversation.
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Shift your weight from one foot to the other, making sure to align your body's axis, that is, the vertical line that organizes your body so that you have a good balance on that foot.
Walk trying to gradually put your foot on the floor while moving your axis between both feet, until letting your axis be completely aligned on one foot, and thus begin the same process again.
My intention is to be sure about where I put my foot before I commit my full body weight on that foot, moving carefully and, at the same time, free enough to accept risks and safe enough to choose certain risky situations to be able to play with my movements, making my dance in this way pleasant and interesting at the same time, like a happy, deep, and witty chat with my dance partner.
We can add a "tap" between steps so that we have to develop our sensitivity in relation to the alignment of our axis on each foot alternately.
We can also do a "tap" between each weight change.
Walking slower helps us better control the gradual shift of our weight from one foot to the other.
For San Francisco Tango lovers interested in learning Argentine Tango close to home, we offer semi-private (small group) classes and private lessons at La Pista Dance Studio.
3450 3rd Street, San Francisco CA 94124
Wednesdays 8 pm - Intermediate level
Parking: See availability...
Small group classes limited to 6 couples. Group exercises with personalized attention to technique and body awareness. Bring your own partner or contact us to arrange a partner for you.
Registration needed
Registration for in-person semi-private classes
For San Francisco Tango lovers interested in learning Argentine Tango close to home, we offer semi-private (small group) classes and private lessons at La Pista Dance Studio.
3450 3rd Street, San Francisco CA 94124
Wednesdays 8 pm - Intermediate level
Parking: See availability...
Small group classes limited to 6 couples. Group exercises with personalized attention to technique and body awareness. Bring your own partner or contact us to arrange a partner for you.
Registration needed
Registration for in-person semi-private classes
A selection of tangos, milongas, and valses ready for you to practice, playing in class, or enjoy dancing.
Know more about Argentine Tango music
Learn about Argentine Tango's history
Learn to dance Argentine Tango
