Fundamentals 2 July - September 2024

EVENTS

SoTango Practilongas

Our Practilongas are especially designed to help you build up skills and confidence for dancing tango socially (at milongas). They're not to be missed if you want to take your tango to the next level and it's included in your course rate.  Click below for more details...

LESSONS

Lessons 4 - 7 

We refined and linked all moves from this course. Please refer to previous weeks for videos for all moves.

In the video below you see the Medialuna and Sandwich linked to the Change of Direction move that was introduced in the last lesson of Fundamentals 1:

Lessons 2 & 3: 29 July & 5 August

In these lessons we introduced  and reviewed the Giro to the Right from the Parallel Cross. 

Lesson 1: 22 July

In Lesson 1 we introduced the Sandwich known in Spanish as the Sanguch or Sanguchito (little Sandwich)

Tango Music - for practicing 

Spotify 

Check out Sophia's Spotify lists:

Tango (Trad) Best for practicing musicality - walking to single, double and half time.

Tango (Neo) contemporary songs (good for practicing technique)

Link to 250 songs

The following link will download a fabulous collection of 250 of the most popular songs (tango, vals and milonga) played in milongas around the world! Focus for now only on the tangos. Also focus on instrumental songs as opposed to vocals as these are easier to find the beat. Di Sarli is one of the better orchestras to start with:

http://www.muraterdemsel.com/250TANGO.zip 

This link goes to a zip file (little less than a 1 GB file). 

Here's a link to help you better understand tango music for dancing

Good habits for tango dancers