Friday Night Argentine Tango Lessons

Madison, Wisconsin

TappIt Studio, 1957 Winnebago Street (enter through rear)

Instructors: Elly & Carl

(608) 334-9854

Please arrive early for classes to be able to change into dance shoes. No street shoes may be worn on the studio floor. Stocking feet acceptable.

For more about Argentine Tango in Madison
see the Madison Tango Society website.

Argentine Tango classes and milongas in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Frequently Asked Questions

Other links

• Advice for a Beginning Leader

• The Basic Step in Argentine Tango

• Connecting with the Partner

• Embellishments (Adornos)

• The Essential Tango - Dancing in the Moment
  "Striving to be ourselves while we learn to pay attention to others can be a transformative experience. As a result of the creative process of learning and dancing the tango, an encounter takes place between what is inside you and what is inside your partner. This connection is magical and uplifting."

• Evening Etiquette at the Argentine Dance Hall

• Frequently Asked Questions about Leading and Following (Dancing in General)

  • How Followers Can Help Beginning Leaders

  • On the Importance of Dancing With Beginners

• A History of Argentine Tango

• A History of Tango by Jorge Luis Borges
  "The tango can be debated, and we have debates over it, but it still guards, as does all that is truthful, a secret."

  • Part I

  • Part II

  • Part III

  • Conclusion
     

• The History of Tango - A Sense of Where You Were - The Economist
  "Tango, that 'reptile from the brothels', is making a comeback."

• Interview with Kara Wenham
  "at some point in our learning process we have to learn technique. Technique doesn’t just give us the capacity to dance better but it also allows us to enjoy the dance more. And the second thing is that the dance is also much more than just technique."

• Keys to Learning Tango for Beginners

• Milonga Experience

• Milongas - for dancing - not teaching

• Ochos - Forward Ocho and then Back Ocho from A Passion for Tango

• One Hundred Best Tango Recordings (CDs) - Tango Montreal

• Photos; Tango Dream - these links will change from time to time!

• Relationships between Tango, Milonga & Waltz

• Sensual dance ignites interest even in chilly Midwest (A story about Argentine Tango in Madison - Wis. State Journal - 2004)
  "What they are seeing is a milonga, one of regular tango dance parties that are part of a growing Madison subculture. In addition to the milongas, the tangoers meet regularly for practices and classes."
   
• Shoes - Dance Shoes in Madison Wisconsin - Davis Dance Wear. If you are a member of the Madison Tango Society, show your card for a discount!

• Sunday is Tango Day at the Hot Water Saloon in Milwaukee, Lessons! Milonga!

• Tango Flow Chart - Herman Mui - a flowchart of possible movements in Tango for the logical mind - you have to see it to believe it!

• This is The Tango - Guadalupe Jolicoeur - Canadian Broadcasting Company - Radio Program - 3 hours - go to original site to download program to your hard drive so you can listen even if you are offline. (Original page also has much information about the program.) Contains wonderful music, too.
  •     Part I - The Songwriters (Real Audio)
  •     Part II - The Dance Lesson (Real Audio)
  •     Part III - El Nuevo Tango (Real Audio)
     

• Too Old to Start Tango?

• Too Young to Learn Tango?

• Why Tango? - What Makes Argentine Tango Different? Special?

• Why Tango? - A Leader's Appreciation
  "They move again in an expression that will never be exactly repeated, even though their feet are doing the same steps they have learned in class. This moment is how they feel right now - and it will never be precisely the same again. This is the dance that was invented for a universe of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Dynamic. Uncertain and slightly scary. Personal."
   
• Why Tango? - Two Women's Thoughts
  "I could hardly keep my eyes open! What I mean is...that his depth naturally awakened me to my depth and it was hard to focus on the outer environment much at all---meaning anything beyond my body and his. [So here I am dancing in this tango-zoo with my eyes closed!! Transported to an inner world where the music and close movement seemed to meld our bodies into one.]"

Other Venues

• Michigan Argentine Tango Club - UM - Ann Arbor, MI
   
• Tango Noticias - Chicago (Midwest) Tango magazine
   

• Tango Society of Central Illinois

• Tango Society of Minnesota

• University of Wisconsin Madison Ballroom Dance Association (UWMBDA)

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