Dance Lessons : How to Learn Tango Dance Steps

Here’s the number 1 reason why tango dancers don’t manage to connect their steps with the music. They don’t hear there are dancing layers in tango music… and end up being stuck dancing to the rhythmic base and counting the beat in their head, instead of being in the flow of the music. Our students often describe tango music as “a big bowl of sound”. And it’s true that when you’re starting out, it is often hard to differentiate the different instruments, the melody, the countermelody, the musical

Don’t wait until you “know enough tango steps” before you start exploring tango musicality. Why? Because musicality has nothing to do with WHAT you do, but with HOW you dance. You can be an experienced dancer with a wide vocabulary… if you don’t know how to connect your steps to the music, your partners won’t enjoy dancing with you! Whereas if a tango beginner dances the simplest steps with great musicality… they’ll be in demand dancers! We see too many tango students who push back studying tang