Tango Essence

08/06/2026

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Following a really lovely class last Saturday, exploring what we can do with 'media luna,' this is the theme for this week.
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What a great class we had last Wednesday - all sorts of things we can do in the Cross System. On Friday and Saturday we continued on this theme and then moved on to play with rebounds and ‘media luna.’

02/06/2026

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In this week's newsletter - three tango classes, practicas, information about milongas and the theme for this week is - In and out of Cross System. Fingers crossed the weather will be good for outdoor tango on Friday and Saturday.

In this week’s classes we return to the cross system, how to get into it, what you can do while you’re there and how to get out of it. Far more than that though, of course, is the fact that the cross system opens up all sorts of opportunities for dancing in different and creative ways. It will b...

25/05/2026

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Here's this week's newsletter.
Two classes, and a quiet weekend as we will be away (dancing).

The class on Wednesday on cut steps was very popular, and we will return to that. The class on Friday was in the garden with the usual black bird accompaniment and covered a really great approach to leading and following.

11/05/2026

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Exploring the music of Juan D'Arienzo,
Examples to listen to, and think about how you could dance to the music in an interesting and creative way.
Three classes gain this week, information in the newsletter.

This week we will focus on the music of Juan D’Arienzo and I have added a couple of tracks in the videos below. What do you notice about his style of music? How would you dance to it? Often we say the strong beats are the 1 and 3 …. is this the case here?

05/05/2026

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Three classes this week.
Information about our upcoming milongas.
Such lovely ideas for dancing.
Here's this week's newsletter.

After a phenomenal weekend of classes and seminars with Horacio Godoy and Maricel Giacomini, our heads are buzzing with ideas about which parts or layers of the music you can choose to dance to, and how you can do that.

26/04/2026

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Just one class this week, but it's a good one.

Information about our next three Milongas in this newsletter.

Last week we had some fun playing with different Ocho Cortados and what they could lead in to. In Friday’s class we explored leg wraps. Both of them, really enjoyable classes.

20/04/2026

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In this week's newsletter - A change in venue and time, and our monthly Milonga on Saturday.
There are two classes this week. Hopefully the Friday class will be at our Outdoor Dance Space.

This week we will be working on Ocho Cortado. It has a basic structure and rhythm which many tango dancers are familiar with, and then there are subtle alterations that can be made - sometimes more circular, sometimes more linear and even sometimes in the rhythm. This means that this movement can be...

12/04/2026

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Classes Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
Also an insight into Canyengue (something that cropped up in Saturday's class.

Our focus this week is Milonga. We have so much joy in dancing Milonga and love to share that. There is also a great variety in Milonga music. Some of it fast, but certainly not all of it.

08/03/2026

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Just the one class this week, on Wednesday. The theme is Vals and we have a couple of new ideas (variations of things we have done before) to share.

Last week’s theme of Milonga was really enjoyable. We played with some new ideas for different levels of experience following the weekend in Hereford with Jenny and Ricardo.

02/03/2026

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Three great classes this week. The theme is Milonga and we will be sharing some lovely new ideas from Jenny and Ricardo's classes at the weekend to add to your 'Milonga Toolbox.'