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Thoughts on Tango

Celebrating 20 Years of All-Night Tango Dancing in the SF Bay Area

January 25, 2020

2020 marks a momentous milestone for tango dancers in the SF Bay Area. Since 2000, there has been a monthly milonga in the region where dancers could dance all night to their hearts’ and feets’ content. The All-Night Milonga (ANM), or “The All-nighter” as it is often referred, is held at The Beat, a dance studio in West Berkeley. It happens on the 4th Saturday of every month, from the evening until the wee hours of Sunday morning - a schedule which has not changed since its beginning. Once … Continue reading

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Articles by Guest Writers

Tango Confessions by Tanguera Escondida

SF Loves Tango is thrilled to introduce Tanguera Escondida, our new guest writer. “Tango Confessions by Tanguera Escondida” will be a regular series at SF Loves Tango. Tanguera Escondida (TE) shares her stories, with honesty and a wry sense of humor, the joys and frustrations of dancing Tango in the Bay Area.  TE frequents all the […]

More Tango Confessions by Tanguera Escondida

Another humorous story by guest writer Tanguera Escondida: Situations In Which Followers Should Be Paid To Go To Group Classes I recently decided to take a group class with one of my favorite instructors in the Bay area. I love his focus on the basics, his salon tango embrace, the way he walks around the […]

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How Many Tandas?

Half a tanda or 10? When do you leave a tanda, and for how many do you stay? The latest from guest writer Tanguera Escondida. One of my worst experiences in tango happened recently. I was sitting along the wall at a popular milonga when a dignified-looking man approached, wearing a pin-striped suit and button-up […]

Tango Dancing with the Stars

Everyone has to start somewhere. In Tango, we were all beginners at one point. But once we get past the point of being a beginner and become moderately competent, most of us do not want the challenge of dancing with a beginner again. It might make us look bad, or much worse, we may get […]

Practicing Tango

Tanguera Escondida returns with more thoughtful and humorous observations on the benefits of practice and a salad with tuna: A couples months ago I said something truly ridiculous to my tango partner, Klondike. He had remarked that I’d danced beautifully at a recent milonga with good posture and elegance. I really took this compliment to […]

Alejandro Gee

What Tango Taught Me About Relationships

I’m thrilled to announce we have a guest post by Sasha Cagen.  Sasha  is an Oakland tanguera and the author of “Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics”.  In this post Sasha explains how Tango is a LOT more that just a dance…   Tango is more than a dance. It can teach us a lot […]

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Interviews with Bay Area Teachers and Dancers

Interview with Veronika

July 6, 2018

San Francisco is such a dynamic, vibrant city that people all over the world are drawn to its charms. When I first moved to San Francisco in 2008, I was enamored by its unique and high quality tango scene. Ney and Jennifer had a dance studio on one of the narrow, hilly streets of Nob […]

Spotlight on Tango Con*Fusión

March 1, 2018

Support the women of Tango Con*Fusíon on their first European Tour! They need to raise $3000 per dancer to make this tour a reality for the members of Tango Con*Fusion. Each of the 8 dancers is working individually to raise $1000 and the company hopes to raise an additional $8000 through donations to make this […]

Dancing through the Golden Years

March 3, 2017

With much excitement I introduce a new guest contributor, Andrea Bindereif of Andrea’s Tango Blog.  I came across her blog recently and was blown away by her journalistic style of writing and in-depth stories on the Bay Area Tango community.  Andrea, born, raised and educated in Germany, came to California in 1994, worked as a […]

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Argentine Tango in San Francisco Bay Area

We miss you! Since the Pandemic started last March, we have taken a break from posting. But do not lament, we are returning soon with updates on your favorite Bay Area instructors, Zoom classes, virtual milonga and soon, in-person classes and events. Stay tuned!

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