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The Secret Pleasures Of Argentine Tango

Social Dance

Tango as a social dance grew from the idea of improvising together by using a rich mix of movements, constantly developing as tango subculture keeps evolving. Tango can be compared to a language used to communicate with another person, each conversation being unique. At every moment the partners decide what they will “converse” about, depending on the music, skills, and desires. Given a very rich movement vocabulary, these “conversations” may vary in an almost infinite number of ways. Here the most important thing will always be not what the dance looks like to the outsiders but how you feel dancing it with this particular partner to this particular music. Many people come to tango to try out something new, something they always wanted to try, sometimes just to meet the opposite sex, to socialize, to dance, to move their body.

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The Top 5 Mistakes In Tango Milongas

Mistake # 1 – Tandas

At a milonga, music is played in sets called “tandas.” Usually, three or four songs are played by the same orchestra followed by the “cortina” (the curtain) which signals the end of the “tanda”. If you ask someone to dance and they accept, it is assumed that it will be for the entire “tanda”. You must walk your dance partner back to their table.

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Dojo Dance Company.com is putting together the first Annual Tango Festival of the Hudson Valley in April of 2020. They are looking for volunteers in the Hudson Valley Tango Community who have skills to make it become a reality. They need FREE or very low-cost locations in the Hudson Valley to hold the Milongas. They need volunteers with marketing, public relations, and festival organizing skills.
The festival will be a week long coming together of the Hudson Valley Tango Community with the added benefit of instructors and performers direct from Argentina.

Dojo Dance Company: http://www.DoJoDanceCompany.com

So what are you waiting for call them to today: Phone 845-475-6006