Argentine Tango Instruction in Tucson, AZ

New to Argentine Tango? Already dance some Argentine Tango? Expand your horizons, improve your tango and become a part of the sophisticated crowd that dances Argentine Tango.

Awaiting you right now is a new way of connecting...
        with yourself...
                 with another human being...
                                 with the beautiful musc...
                                                     with the the world around you!

Let us help you move into this beautiful dance mind, body and partner... by unraveling the matrix of tango we will help you see through the mystic into rhythms and beauty of this fascinating cultural icon we call tango.

"How we behave as individuals in regard to our inner world is just as important and may even be more important than how we behave in regard to our outer world." - Carl Jung

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Private Lessons

Private lessons will greatly shorten your learning curve and will produce a dancer with a solid foundation and progressive improvement. Private lessons are one on one with your instructor providing a more in-depth look at techniques, musicality, figuras, body mechanics and how these help you in discovering your own steps and personal style. A mixture of progressive groups and private lessons is the best way to get started and for a satisfactory level of progression. Use this link to view private lesson packages!

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Argentine Tango Group Classes in Tucson

There are many group learning options available throughout the week. Tuesday offers a sequence of progressive series with committed groups and Thursday classes are open to drop-ins and offer one-time unique topics.

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Tuesday:

Progressive/Semester courses: These are usually 6 or 8 weeks in length with a committed group all working collaboratively towards the same goal. Everyone signs up for the full series, no drop-ins are allowed, and the group is usually of a smaller size, similar level and lead/follow balanced. These are a great way to progress on a weekly basis. Link here to see what courses are currently scheduled!

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Thursday:

7pm Beginning and 8pm Intermediate
Thursday night at 7:00pm is a entry-level class for the beginning student to tango or for those that want to improve their existing foundation. Participants in this class will progress over time as we review steps, embrace, connection and musicality each week with different approaches. This class overlaps with the 8:00 PM Intermediate class and beginners are welcome to stay the entire evening if they feel energized to do so. The conceptual flow is here:

1. 7:00-8:00 - Why the WALK is so important: 9 ways to walk forward, 3 ways to walk back Fundamentals of Moving with your Partner: Embrace, rhythm and making crosses (cruzadas).
2. 8:00-9:00 Turns (molinete) - Of course we can’t walk in a stright line forever, so we need to learn to make turns. There is one very simple system of turning in tango. If your tango turns are complicated you need this class! Turns are an important element often skipped in tango lessons, the turns and system of teaching turns in the class is revolutionary! While we turn we do: Sacadas – Enrosques – Lapiz – Colgada – Barridas This class will teach you all the above and more!

During all of our classes we provide information on the history of Argentine Tango and the traditional music, along with the codigos and dance floor navigation to prepare you for the "Milonga" (the name of the event where we get together and dance tango). Our objective is to enable you to be confident, successful and a sought after dancer at the milongas here in Tucson and out in the rest of the tango world including Buenos Aires. Classes are $15 for the full evening. AZ Ballet Theatre
2512 E. 6th St.
Tucson, AZ 85716
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The ABCs of Tango

Utilizing The Tango Matrix System of Learning

Foundation Class:
1. Tango Walking - Tango is known as The Walking Dance it is imperative that your walk is honed and refined into a strong, sensibly organic bi-pedal movement that is effortless and effective for sending and receiving information. Tango has a slow cadence once you organize your walk correctly you have lots of time to lead and follow one another.
2. 9 Ways to Walk Forward - 3 Ways to Walk Back - To navigate the floor and remove all the complexities of learning tango, we have broken the walk down into its simplest elements making it easy to learn.
3. The Corrida - Corrida means "to run". Using the above types of walking you a center beat to meet up with the phrase of the music.
4. Left Rock Turn - Containing the "Crown Jewel of Tango" the left rock turn is your firs introduction to the contra-lateral-spiral that is so predominant in tango, and it happens to be easy to do.
5. The Famous "Cruzada" - Cruzada means: "cross". The cruzada is the hallmark of tango. We get you comfortable in your own body first and then in the arms of the other dancers.
6. Turns We can't walk in a straight line there are other people dancing there :) Turns are simple with our revolutionary method of showing you exactly how they work. There are three simple rules to turning. We help you master these by delivering a game of sorts that immediately changes the way you turn forever.

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AZ Ballet Theatre 2512 E. 6th St. Tucson, AZ 85716

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Advanced Class and Milonguita

Every Friday we have a Milonguita (See the Calendar) where we don't ask you to abide by the strict codigos of the Milonga but we maintain the structure of tandas, line of dance, floor craft (your floor navigation is easily learned at the Milonguita)

7pm-8pm Advanced Class 8pm-10:30pm Milonguita

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Tucson Tango Festivals

Here is where you get an international look at tango. Over 400 regular people just like you come from all over the US, Argentina and even Europe come to the Tucson Tango Festival to dance tango with their friends and local tango dancers. This is what it is all about. Not competing as ballroom dancing does, but rather actually dancing with a person you have never met and having it work. It is the ultimate joy in your tango experience.

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Between everything we offer you can absolutely learn to tango in Tucson, Arizona!