Changing weight can be especially hard for followers, because: They’re wearing heels. They don’t control the displacement timing. They don’t control the weight-change timing. Basically, they’re wearing uncomfortable wobbly shoes and don’t know how fast you want to move or change weight…and they’re not able to float themselves in the air while you decide. So […]

AXIS – stand right in front of your partner. Weight over the mid-arch or front-arch of your foot. SURROUND – spread your arms and shoulder blades…wrap all the way around your partner. CONTACT – close the circle of your arms containing your partner inside your embrace. Get comfortable…then step off and dance away!

Mollinetes are the simple FORWARD-SIDE-BACK-SIDE pattern that goes on and on forever. And typically, you’d mark each step as you change weight fully to that one foot. FORWARD is when you land forward on one foot, SIDE is when you land sideways into one foot. But what if you were to change that up?

This was something many teachers tried to teach me, but I just didn’t “get it”. You can never just push something, you must also absorb it at the same time. It is 2-way communication through all parts of your body at all times. You must give AND receive. Some people only give and others only

How much should I train for tango? Nobody knows. This is personal. How much should one eat? How much should a person work out? Tango isn’t a pre-determined social routine like showering everyday. You can do as much or as little of it at your own pace. Nobody cares but you. Ok fine, there are

This is a simple trick I picked up not too long ago. It’s to lead double-time movements using ONE impulse, not three! Many of us already do that for turns (during back-side-forward) but we still lead other double-times using 3 impulses. Besides the unnecessary noise, I think it’s less enjoyable and also doesn’t help the

There are many tango dancers that cross-train in other exercises and physical training to complement their tango training. I’ve tried a handful of them myself and can share what I like and don’t like about each one.

I have the widest feet of anybody I know (and I know because I checked) and will tell you that the search for the perfect tango shoes continues to elude me. The problem is that many Argentineans are genetically Italians and their common shoe shape is modeled after the Italian foot (which is a narrow

One of the hardest things to figure out is setting the perfect embrace. It often feels like the embrace needs to be many things for many purposes, and all at once. While some people would rather just focus on an comfortable embrace and not care about function (or leading fancy moves), I would say your