Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda at our beginner's class in San Fran...

How do you want to be?
This is an important question you need to ask yourself if you want to dance: how do you move, how do you present yourself, who -in essence- are you?
Make your life a work of art. Dance Tango!

Argentine Tango dancing with sticks at a beginner class

There is always room for improvement. An artist needs to know well the conditions of the raw material which will compose his or her work of art.

Argentine Tango Dancing with Mimi in San Jose, California, October 2019

Tango is a social and partner dance that originated in the city of Buenos Aires, where, together with its music, poetry and culture, the population consider it their identity.
To learn it, you will embrace not only your partner, but Tango itself, its music, culture, and home city.
In my classes, I will guide you into the beauty of Tango music, how to interpret this music with your body, how to enter the dance floor and stay there while you dance. I am going to guide you into the embrace of your partner, into the society of the milonga (Tango dance party), into the culture of Tango, and into the city of Buenos Aires.

Argentine Tango Dancing with Miranda in San Francisco, October 2019

You never did anything more profound in your life: it is to be intimately connected at all levels to another human being in a beautiful way.

Argentine Tango Dancing with Miranda in San Francisco, October 2019

You never did anything more profound in your life: it is to be intimately connected at all levels to another human being in a beautiful way.

Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda at a beginner's class in Lafayette,...

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 with Mimi at beginner class in San Jose, October...

If you want to dance, you must be with dancers.
Everything is social for humans.
Tango gives you a unique opportunity to get to know people of remarkable quality.
To improve you need to be in company of the best.

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

There are innumerable ways to spend your time without transforming yourself, without sweating, without emotions, and without any effort. All this sounds very appealing, I guess, since most individuals at the present time choose to spend their time in such ways. If there is a seed of a dancer in the soil of your existence, you will feel a kind of nausea, in different degrees, if you happen to have to try any of these ways to consume your time.

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.