Dancing tango since the early 1990s, Luciana Valle is regarded around the world as one of the most dynamic and articulate teachers of Argentine Tango. In her popular tango school "El Motivo" in Buenos Aires, Luciana offers a compendium of thematic workshops and inspires dancers with her remarkable insight, energy, and clarity. Through her teaching, a prodigious number of great … [Read more...]
Teacher Spotlight: Erin & Doruk
There are some tango teaching couples that are so fun, artistic, talented and sweet that you just want to follow them everywhere. Erin and Doruk are one such couple. Erin and Doruk moved to the Bay Area from New York over five years ago and quickly become popular in the tango community as they are both lovely dancers and good at both leading and following. It was only more … [Read more...]
Pushing Boundaries with Fusion Tango
Some would say true creativity can only happen when we push the boundaries on tradition. Tango has evolved a lot in the past 20 years. But then again, it has evolved a lot since its humble beginnings on the streets of Buenos Aires in the late 1800's. Although many still revere the "Golden Age" of tango music and dance (the period generally from about 1935 to 1952 that is still … [Read more...]
Ney Melo and Melina Mistral Teaching in Bay Area
Many of you may remember TangoVida, the Argentine Tango studio run by Ney Melo and Jennifer Bratt. It was a lovely studio in Nob Hill with regular classes, milongas, Comme Il Faut for sale and rotating art work on the walls. In 2011 they closed the studio’s doors and left the Bay Area, and after a quick stint in Miami, returned home to the East Coast. (They also managed to … [Read more...]
Feeling Good with Mauro Peralta and Jennifer Olson
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, we dance Tango because of the way it makes us FEEL. We may start dancing for various reasons: to be more social, to learn a new dance, for exercise, to meet the opposite sex, but we would not continue if it did not make us feel good. We even choose our dance partners by the way they make us feel. How many of us avoid people that are … [Read more...]