What are the KEY features of TangoBETTER?
TangoBETTER is not a dance school, a couple of teachers or an organiser. TangoBETTER is an evolving PROJECT aimed at improving tango in London, inspiring people and breathing a new dance life into experienced local and foreign dancers. Here is what those different things mean: 1) TangoBETTER Intense Practicas -
Whole intense weekend of interactive work with best invited maestros. For advanced and professional dancers only (international) so they can work well together and l
How to improve your tango FAST
WHAT is the MOST PRODUCTIVE WAY to STUDY and GET BETTER? ******
You want to improve and become a great dancer. You have options: continue taking group classes with various teachers, taking privates, dancing socially. What is the best? We highly recommend the following formula for the best result: 1) DO TAKE REGULAR GROUP CLASSES. Most important! No matter what your level is, regular group classes is where you get your "checkpoints", as I call them. It's a weekly portion of s
Looking for a PERFECT partner #2
PARTNER QUESTION #2 If you have no partner, but you want to improve anyway, what do you do? To continue with the first article on the topic of partners, we have some more useful tips! OK, you might need a partner for most workshops and classes. At least, it is MUCH more beneficial if you make all the effort possible to come with a partner. But then you need to PRACTICE all the learned material, and nobody is available. I know the problem, I've been there many times. Here is w
Fashions and styles in tango
TangoBETTER questions: What kind of tango is the right tango to learn and to dance?
___________ Take a look at this video. It's ballet, perhaps the most rigid dance, interpreting a modern song, reinventing itself with new kinds of moves. The Royal Ballet is very classical, very strict and they are the stronghold of the conservative dancing. And yet, they produce these things. Tango has fashions. We change dance clothes (make no mistake, beautiful flowing and wide silky skirt
Finding a PERFECT partner #1
IMPORTANT QUESTION that never stops popping up, registration after registration.
HOW DO WE FIND YOU, DEAR PERFECT PARTNERS? Practical tips.
_____________ You are very eager to learn and improve, you want to take workshops and practice as much as possible. All you need is a partner (in crime). How do you find him/her? Here is what we do to find our own partners, and so far it has always worked. Give it a try! 1. Sit down and actually write down a list of all people you lik
Are you bored with your tango?
Do you ever feel stuck or bored with your own dance? It happens to absolutely everyone. Some of the most experienced dancers sometimes feel terribly bored. Yes, if you always do the same things, for years, you will get tired of them. One of the ways to get over boredom is to practice elements in a "mirrored" way. For example, take a simple sandwich and do it to the other side. If you always lead it to your right, try leading it to your left. Or try NOT starting a boleo with a
Why should I continue to improve?
So, you keep telling me I should study, take workshops, improve? But why??? I'm happy! I have my partners, cabeceo works and I get to dance wonderfully at almost every milonga. I don't need to improve. I'm good enough! Right? - Well, yes and no. There are two ways to be tango-happy. I tried both, and here is my story. I discovered I was tango-gifted early on, went to many classes, started travelling to festivals and marathons after less than a year in tango, got to know and d
How do we invite Maestros?
TangoBETTER invites amazing, very well-known teachers and dancers over to London to teach and make us BETTER. How do we decide which dancers we invite?
_____________________ Here is how we pick: 1) INSPIRATION.
All our guests are, firstly, a huge inspiration to thousands of other dancers all over the world. The main idea of TangoBETTER is to breathe new life into our tango, so we always look for truly inspiring couples. 2) OUTSTANDING TEACHERS.
The organiser personally
Why is a marine shell our symbol?
Have you ever wondered why a marine shell would become a symbol for a Tango Project? Shell of Nautilus Pompilius almost perfectly fits into the "ideal" Golden Spiral. It is a symbol of harmony, of endless continuation and beautiful aesthetic. Tango developments for us never ends, there is no "I've reached the goal and became a great dancer, now I can stop", because you can always get BETTER, more interesting, more versatile, have better technique. That is the absolute beauty
How did TangoBETTER start and WHY?
After dancing mainly socially for years, in the beginning of 2016 I discovered that I actually enjoy studying and working on my tango more and more. It was more fulfilling and interesting to make new discoveries, not repeating same things over and over. What I lacked was a good partner to practice with. I had nobody in London, so I thought, why not IMPORT a partner, even if temporarily? And when you invite someone to practice with you, you should also import great teachers to
