Before we tell you about this tango-transformative training in Paris, let's talk about who this is really for...

You are a tango dancer, leader or follower, who’s tired of being stuck in your head when you’re dancing and who’s ready to improve the quality of your dancing, move as one with your partner, and dance fluidly. 

Whether you’re:

• A leader who is thinking too much when you’re dancing and not always sure what to do next, and who know that improving the quality of your dancing is the key to improvising easily with the music
• A follower who sometimes gets anxious when you’re dancing, wondering if you understand your partner clearly, and looking for ways to express yourself more when you are dancing.
• A tango dancer who wants to get rid of the need to “do it right”, speed up your rate of improvement and learn how to adapt to new partners.

You’re in the right place!

And we’re going to tell you exactly how the Intensive Tango Weekend in Paris will give you the skills, inspiration and community support on your journey to become an elegant and creative tango dancer faster. 

By the end of the Intensive Tango Weekend 2024,

you will have…

• Added power to your tango walking 

  And discovered how small alignment changes in your ochos will make you feel less wobbly in your dancing, and make your movements more organic and fluid

• Developed your ability to connect in the close and open embrace 

  So that your partners love dancing with you

• Improved your connection and musicality in the tango turns

  And learned how to play with the free leg of the follower to be more creative when you’re dancing

• Developed your personality in your dancing

  so you can express who you truly are on the dance floor

• Discovered the different styles of tango music and how to adapt your embrace, steps and decorations to the music

  so that you are in the flow with your partner

• Received personalised feedback

  on what you need to focus on in the next 2 months after the course to keep improving your tango dancing

• Joined a community of friendly tango dancers

  Dancers from all over the world who are, like you, highly motivated to improve and want to create a more meaningful connection in the dance

Event details at a glance

• Dates: 18, 19, 20 May 2024
• Times: 10 AM to 5PM
• Address: 69 rue de Turbigot, 75003 Paris, France
• Limited spaces:  equal number of leaders. & followers
• You can join with or without a partner

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A small sample of our amazing alumni...

Detailed programme:

How we’re going to take your tango dancing to the next level fast together 

Session 1

Elevating your tango walk

Here’s what we know for sure: you can’t dance tango fluidly, musically and elegantly if you don't master the tango walk. 

Indeed, we need to make sure you’re creating your dancing on solid foundations. We’ll start our 3-days together with a deep tango walking technique session, where we’ll add power and control to your walk.

This will help you develop precise body awareness so that you are able to “self-correct” when you are dancing with a partner.

We’ll refine your connection in the walk in close embrace, so you are always deeply connected when you dance tango.

Highlights:

• Finding your own correct posture when walking so you can play more with steps and musicality when you’re dancing 
• Walking powerfully and with control in the close embrace
• Step-by-step exercises to feel comfortable when walking in the close embrace

Session 2

Helping you discover the secrets of Connection In The Close & Open Embrace

In this session, we will work on creating your presence in your embrace, making sure your partners always feel comfortable in your arms, and help you communicate better with your partners. We are helping you move as one with your partner and relax, knowing your embrace is comfortable.

If you’ve ever felt worried about whether or not you’re communicating clearly, or if you’re understanding your partner correctly, this session is for you.

Highlights:

• The 3 styles of embraces and when to use them in the dance

• The 5 points of connection in the embrace (what they are and when we use them), to help you communicate clearly with your partner. 

•  How to close and open the embrace smoothly. This will help you keep a sense of connection throughout your dancing, and help you be more precise in your lead and following of complex movements. 

•  Subtle exchange of energy in the embrace to play with dynamics. 

  We’ll work on the density of your embrace so you can exchange the movement’s energy with your partner and play with speed, strength and elasticity in your dancing. This will help you be more in tune with the music. 

Followed by: Guided practica to practice with new partners, and get any additional questions answered.

Session 3

Elevating your dancing with linearity & the cross-system

The cross-system is incredibly sophisticated, and creates an even deeper connection between the partners. Even if you’ve never heard of the cross-system as a name, rest assured that you’ve already used it! In this session, we refine together how and when you use that system, to add more “interesting friction” in your tango dancing, and add a sense of contrast to your dancing. 

Highlights:

• The leader & the follower’s cross-system technique: We’ll break down the leading and following technique so that you understand clearly what to do when you are dancing it, and build the muscle memory.  A point that is often overlooked is that the followers play an active role in the cross system: they need to adapt their embrace, their posture, the way they walk…. in order for the cross system to work. 
• Moving smoothly from cross to open system: we show you how to switch between parallel and cross-system, so that you can easily add variations to your dancing. 
• Elevating common steps with the cross-system: we adapt common tango movements to the cross-system technique, so that you understand how to play more with movements you already love.

Session 4

Communication & connection in the circular movements 

In this session, we work on the circularity of your tango dancing, to give you the tools you need when expressing the melodic moments of tango music. 

This will help you create contrast in your dancing between linearity and circularity. As circularity is a key building stone of tango dancing, the balance and relaxation you will find in this session will impact all of your dancing.

Highlights:

•  The follower’s role in powering the turns: followers play an active role in the circular moments of tango music. We help you improve your balance, and investigate the fine balance followers need to find between powering through the turns and keeping a “following” mindset
• Using the frame to protect the giro’s dynamics : we investigate how to use the frame of your embrace to be clear and connected in your turns, in order for the bodies to move fluidly and organically as a consequence of the embrace
• Balance in circular movements: exploring how subtle changes in your posture will impact how grounded you are throughout the dance

Followed by: Guided practica to practice with new partners, and get any additional questions answered.

Session 5

Interpreting the 4 pillars of tango music

In this session, we explore how to interpret the 4 most influential orchestras of tango music. Each have a distinct style, and interpreting them correctly will ensure that you never feel “boring” and can truly express yourself when dancing tango. We adapt your embrace and technique to the different styles of music, and decide which layer of the music you want to dance to. 

Our goal is to help you connect with your partner beyond the physical skills of leading and following, and do so through the music.

Highlights:

• The 4 most influential orchestras of tango music and how to interpret them: did you know that 4 of the tango orchestras influenced the whole of tango music?  If you can recognize each style, and adapt your dancing to it, then you can interpret all orchestras. 
• What to do when in the music: we help you recognize the phrasing of the music and identify what movement to do when, in order to be in the flow of the song
• Choosing which layer of the music to dance to: we help you hear the different layers of tango music, how the most influential orchestras use them, and decide how you want to express them - whether you are a leader or a follower 

Session 6

Making your dancing playful by adding suspensions and changes of dynamics

Creativity in tango is not only about the steps we use... but mostly about the subtle changes of dynamics we add to our dancing.

Whether you're a leader or a follower, inviting your partner to add suspensions or changes the dynamics in your dancing is what makes you a dancer instead of someone who is merely recreating steps. 

We will build on what we learned in session 5 to help you interpret the different layers of the music clearly.

 Here, we make you fully connect with your creativity: reaching this level means that you, as a dancer, are not dancing with your head, thinking about the movements, but are completely guided by the music.

 Highlights:

• How to use the tonicity of the body to play with dynamics in the dance: what this means for your embrace, and how to communicate it with your partner
• Linking the free leg with the music: understanding how the leader and the follower can delay and speed up the free leg movements in order to express the music differently.  
• How both the leader and the follower can add suspensions in the music, in order to move as one with the orchestra

Followed by: Guided practica to practice with new partners, and get any additional questions answered.

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