how to improve your tango

The most important part of improving your tango is practice. We hope that you practice at least once a week in addition to your classes. If you are not learning with a partner we recommend that you invite someone from the class to meet up for a practice session once a week. your body needs to learn this dance, and that takes time.
We recommend that you find a teacher who you like and stick with them. Since every teacher has a different approach, if you bounce around too much you will get a lot of confusing information. Also, we recommend learning from teachers instead of other dancers, who may not be well trained, and who also may give you a lot of confusing information. Once you find a teacher you like, we recommend following their approach for one to two years. it’s fine to take workshops with visiting teachers, but when you have questions or problems, go back to your teacher.

After your first 6 months of dancing, we recommend taking a private lesson once per month. Here you will get essential corrections to your dance which will take you about a month to integrate.

It’s great to go to workshops with visiting instructors. These are often very interesting, draw a mix of people so you have the opportunity to meet new people, and you will get very good instruction in more difficult moves. Be sure to call in advance (or have us call for you) to make the sure the teacher welcomes women leaders and queer students. Go with a friend or in a group to make sure you have partners to change with.