Tango Elegante

As some of you know I bought myself a bread-maker as a Christmas present, and of course being a man I plunged ahead and started on the first inaugural loaf. I had all the ingredients (well apart from the odd substitute here and there). I had most of the tools required (or thought I did … Continue reading “Baking a Tasty Tango”

In the second part of this series we looked at which elements of a tango tune could be expressed in your dance, and in order to look at those elements in more detail we need to first have a quick look at the orchestra, the instruments and how they express different elements of the music … Continue reading “Musicality in Tango Dancing – Part Three”

The Argentine Tango music which tends to be played at the majority of social dances is traditional music from the period between the 1930’s to mid 1950’s (often called Golden Age music). While it is possible to dance the tango to more modern music (known as Nuevo from the 1960’s onward, and ‘Alternative’ which is … Continue reading “Musicality in Tango Dancing – Part Two”

In this series of articles about the important subject of musicality I will look at elements of music and some basic terminology (this article), followed by articles on Orchestra instruments, the structure of tango music, and then I’ll take a look at some famous Tango Orchestras and tunes and how the arrangers changed a tune … Continue reading “Musicality in Tango Dancing – Part One”

Argentine tango is an ideal dance for couples because both follower and leader have to co-operate in order to make the dance work. In other partner dance classes, such as Modern Jive or Salsa, the leader can ‘muscle’ the follower into position if the follower is deemed to be following ‘incorrectly’. In Argentine tango couples … Continue reading “Couples Dance Classes”