Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda at intermediate class in San Franci...

Tango is not my profession in the same sense that your profession is for you. For instance: everything you do in relation to your profession is effort, while in my case it is effortless.

Argentine Tango dancing: milonga in Lafayette. With Suzanne. Third song ...

What is Argentine Tango? Since dancing Argentine Tango is not an abstraction, I cannot explain by talking or writing about it in generalizations. Besides dancing itself, I can only use my own personal experiences to explain it to you.

Argentine Tango dancing at a milonga in Lafayette, California, August 2019

Lafayette classes and milonga (Argentine Tango dance parties) are the most similar to a Buenos Aires neighborhood class and milonga.

Argentine Tango Dancing with Miranda in San Francisco, Union Square, Jul...

How to become a great Tango dancer?

Firstly, you need to change in you vocabulary the expression “Tango dancer” for “milonguero/a”.

Secondly, if you dance Tango, you can’t be less than great.

Start with classes. Your first class could be a group class or a private lesson. To learn to dance you need both, regularly, more than once a week.

I am blessed by my group of regular students and my assistants. It worth many trillion dollars (if you like to express it in quantities) to count on them as part of my life. You should not miss your opportunity to make them part of your life too.

In group classes and private lessons, from your teachers, you will learn the value of Tango.

Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda in San Francisco, July 2019

We dance because we value a fulfilling life. We remain committed to our body, recognizing it as the source of our existence. We receive it without having asked for it. That means, for me, that we were challenged to live. What would be the price of such a life? A life built step by step as an interpretation of the music of your everyday reality. A life that does not reject anything that happens, incorporating every action in the chain of your own history, saying: "It was necessary that it happen, it had to happen, I wanted it to happen".

Argentine Tango dance with Mimi at a beginner's class in San Jose, Calif...

I cannot oblige my students to be passionate about Tango, but I can share my passion with them.

Some may judge me crazy, obsessed, neurotic, and I would reply that while you judge, you cannot dance.

Dancing Tango implies dancing every single note, every nuance in the expressivity of each musician of each song.

I am satisfied if the new student learns, at least, to respect Tango for what it is.

I am very patient. Tango made me so. You do not have to rush in getting to know Tango. Tango is infinite. Also, you have to enjoy your path in becoming a real milonguera or milonguero.

Argentine Tango dance party | Milonga in Lafayette, California

Dancing is not…
A choreography.
When you see dancing, you can objectively describe the movements that you see and note the coincidence of those movements with sounds in the music. A description like this, accurate and precise, cannot replace the experience of witnessing the phenomena of the dance. Your words may be very effective in producing emotions in your audience, but you will be performing poetry, not dancing.

Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda at beginner class in San Francisco,...

What is dancing?

How do you put into words an experience that is mainly physical and emotional? 

Imagine that one day you feel completely aware. Suddenly you feel that you are awake, that until now you were in a semi-sleeping state. 

Now you will always want to be awake and aware. 

That is dancing. 

What is it to be a dancer? 

It is to make of your desire of returning to that sensation of being awake and aware the source and the guide of all other elements composing your life. 

Historia del Tango Parte 9: Eduardo Arolas La evolución de la músic...

"Viborita" es otro de sus delicados tangos, con la peculiaridad de tener solo dos partes, sin trío, como era su costumbre. Grabado en 1920 por primera vez por la Orquesta Típica Select de Osvaldo Fresedo. Su partitura musical no se publicó hasta después de 1930, cuando el sobrino de Arolas recibió un paquete con manuscritos. Por eso aparece publicado como obra póstuma.

Argentine Tango Dancing with Mimi at a Beginner's class in San Jose, Jul...

You are a dancer because dancing is your priority.

Historia del Tango - Parte 9: Eduardo Arolas: La evolución de la músi...

En 1918, la orquesta de Eduardo Arolas se formó con él, como primer bandoneón y director, Manuel Pizzarro en el segundo bandoneón, Rafael Tuegols en el primer violín, Horacio Gomila en el segundo violín, Roberto Goyeneche en el piano y Luis Bernstein en contrabajo. Este fue el pico de su carrera, tocando tanto en Buenos Aires como en Montevideo. Pronto, Julio De Caro se uniría a su orquesta.

Argentine Tango Dancing with Miranda in San Francisco, June 12 2019

What to take seriously?

How do I shape my habits, act with the aim of producing delight in others and myself, seek to cultivate an existence that I can be proud of, a beautiful life to be regarded as an example?

Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda in San Francisco, June 2019

Argentine Tango dancing with Mimi in San Jose, California, June 2019

Dancing requires your absolute presence.

Historia del Tango - Parte 9: Eduardo Arolas. La evolución de la música ...

Entre 1913 y 1916, la composición y producción musical de Eduardo Arolas mostró una mejora evidente debido a sus estudios musicales y la experiencia adquirida en su profesión. Consolidó su fama, llevando a su orquesta al nivel de los más destacados, dejando los cafés de su barrio, tocando en la calle Corrientes y en los lujosos lugares de Palermo, en el interior de Argentina y en Montevideo.