Tango Cities

Below are facebook group links by city and country, where tango is happening. Secondly, you’ll see a
list below for a series of Tango Groups where Tango is being discussed and shared. This list will be updated as time goes by,
so check back, and share this post with everyone you know. If you do not see your group or city listed, you can submit a listing here
Note: All Facebook Pages, or a Facebook Group promoting a singular milonga will not be accepted. Any submission must
be for a Facebook Group where there is community oriented discussion about local events and happenings.

Tango Cities & States – Facebook Group List:

North & Central America Cities (May include states or regions)
Ann Arbor, Anchorage, Austin, Boston (1), Boston (2), Brattleboro VTCalgary, Cape Cod (Region), Chicago, Colorado (Denver), Columbus, Costa Rica, Durango (Colorado), Edmonton, Fairbanks, FlagstaffGeorgia, HartfordHawaiiHouston, IthacaKansas City, Los Angeles (1), Los Angeles (2), Las Vegas, MiamiMemphis (1), Memphis (2)Mexico City, Montreal, NYC (1), NYC (2), NYC (3)New OrleansPhiladelphia, PittsburghPortlandProvidence, Reno, Seattle (1), Seattle (2), Seattle (3)San FranciscoSan DiegoSt.Louis, Tampa (1)Tampa (2)Toronto, Traverse City, Vancouver, Vermont (State), Washington DC, Winnipeg

Another Resource for Tango Happenings, Practicas, Milongas in the United States: Tango Mango!
Looking for an up-to-date Marathon and Encuentro Listing ? Look at the Tango Marathon Directory.
Looking for an updated yearly list of Encuentros ? Look at Melina Sedo’s list of Encuentros.

European Cities
Amsterdam, Aarhus (Denmark)AthensBerlin (Berlin Tango Guide), BremenBrussels, Bucharest, Budapest, CasertaCopenhagen, Denmark, EdinburghFrankfurt, GentHamburgHelsinki, Kassel & Hessen, KrakowLincoln Linconlnshire UK, Lisbon, LeipzigLondon, N.London, London Tango, LiverpoolMadridMalta, Milan, MunichNijmegen – El Corte, Nurnberg, Oslo, ParisPragueRomeStockholm, Stuttgart, TorunVienna, WroclawZurich

Middle East/Asia/Au/Nz
Auroville, Bangalore, BeruitBrisbane, CairnsChinaHobart, AUHong KongMelbourne, MinskMoscow, Newcastle, AU, New DelhiPerth, PhilippinesShanghai, SingaporeSt. Petersburg (Russia) (Tango Map in Russian), Sydney, Tokyo, Turkey

For All Buenos Aires Milongas, see ‘Hoy Milonga’, also consider downloading their app for iOS and Android devices.

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Tango Facebook Groups List:
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Key: Op = Open, Ci = Other City Group, Co = Country Group, Dg= Discussion Group – No Ads, Dga = Discussion Group with Ads,  = Closed Group, Qu = Questions to enter)

Tango in Italy (Op, Co, Dga), Tango in Italy Too (Op, Co, Dga), Italia Tango Events (Op, Dga), Tango in Belgium (Op, Dga),  Tango Belgium (Op, Dga), Tango Serbia (Op, Co, Dg), Republika Beograd (Op, Co, Dg), The Tango Social Revolution (Dg, Qu), Tango at the Beat (Cg, Dg), El Groupo Del Tango (Ci – Melbourne, Cg, Dg), Tango in the Balkans (Op, Co, Dga), Tango in the USA (Op, Co, Dga), Tango Events in Europe (Co, Op, Dga), Tango a Roma (Op, Co, Dga), Tango France (Op, Co, Dga), Tango Orlando (Op, Dga, Ci), Encuentro Events Only (Op, Dga), Tango in Vietnam (Op, Co, Dga), Where to dance in Berlin (Ci, Dg), United Tango (Dg), Yo Soy Milonguero (Op, Dga), United Tango Chicago (Ci, Op, Dga), Tango at Penn State (Cg, Dga), Tango Austria (Op, Co, Dga), Finland (Co, Dga), The Tango Spot (Op, Dga), Todo Tango Chicago (Op, Dga), Tango De Tres Paises  – NL, DE, BE (Op, Dga), SouthEast Tango (Op, Dga), Tango in Las Vegas (Op, Dga), Philadelphia Tango (Op, Dga), Milongueros (Op, Dga), Irish Tango (Cg, Dga), Tangueros (Op, Dga), Tango Germany (Cg, Dga), Tango Frankfurt (Op, Dga), Tango (Op, Dga), Tango Noticias (Op, Dga), Tangueros y Tangueras de Miami (Op, Dga), It’s Carlos Di Sarli (Op, Dg), Where to Dance in San Francisco ? (Op, Dg), Cabeceo (Op, Dg), NeoTango Events (Op, Dga), Berlin Tango Classes (Op, Dga), Queer Tango London (Op, Dga), TangoPolix Group (Op, Dga), Tango Poland (Op, Dga), Tango Portal – Germany, Festivals & Marathons (Op, Dga), Tango Too (Op, Dga), Tango In The Rheinland (Op, Dga), Tango Events in Poland (Op, Dga), Tango Embrace! (Op, Dg), Tangoville (Op, Dga), QueerTango Zurich (Op, Dga), Tango FFS (Op, Dg), Tu Tango (Op),  Yorkshire Argentine Tango Dance Community Group (Op).

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Facility

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Body Contortion

A good portion of people come into the embrace, Lead or Follow, and in one way, shape, or form, contort their bodies to make the dance work while dancing, rather than employ proper technique.

Contort ? Yes. For example: As a Lead or Follow they might dance with a ‘head tilt‘ towards (buried into) or away from their partner, or as a Lead they’ll employ ‘waiter arm and hand’, or as a Follower they’ll dance in their Lead’s armpit, twisting their body to the side, and un-leveling their shoulders. This is contortion. 

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Wood Floors

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The Tango Haus

What’s below is a small snippet of 13m:06s audio podcast of Today’s Topic on the benefits and detractors of building community using the idea of a Tango House. “What I refer to as the Tango ‘Haus’ idea. In this case this is the German spelling of ‘HAUS’. I just like the way it sounds. But we can use the American spelling of ‘House’. So a few years back and I may be bastardizing some history here. There was a tango house, and I’m not going to name the city, that grew up out of a U.S. based city. This community, at the time had a number of teachers in its area, and they were all using the typical model of how they wanted their students to learn to dance.

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The Blame Game

The dance starts out on an even footing. It’s quite clear two steps later that one of you is clearly better than the other. Usually the Lead believes that they’re all that, and the Follower is just trying to survive the compressive embrace, let alone actually dance. In reality…well let’s just say that no one is perfect and leave it at that, shall we ?

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10 REASONS TO SUBSCRIBE

There are 4 Levels of Access: Free, Basic, Premium, and Premium+. Free pays nothing but gets a perk just for signing up. 

1.) Free Users get to see 5 of the 125 Different Tango Topics on the site. Plus you get access to the entire Tango Reminders and Tango Ideas sections of the site. These are short form Topic descriptors with a little detail about the topic and the video.

2.) 
Basic and Premium users Save A BOATLOAD of MONEY! Buying this stuff outright is expensive.

3.) Basic, Premium, and Premium+ users get access to the ALL ARTICLES and THE FULL ARTICLE which you can’t see right now.

4.) Basic, Premium, and Premium+ users have way better video resolution: Free = 420p, Basic = 720p, Premium = 1080p and 4K. 

5.) Basic, Premium, and Premium+ users get the ‘Dancing Perspectives’ & ‘The Soup’ sections of the document you just read (Lead, Follow, and Dancing) which are open to you. And that’s where all the good stuff is at. 

6.) Video Downloads! 

7.) Access to the Tango Topics Music Library (22 Curated Golden Age Orchestras)

8.) Access to ‘Tango Del Dia’ – Our Music Education System with access to 14 Days of Music, 30 Days of Music Education, and 30 More Days of Tango Del Dia. 

9.) We explain things, break the vocabulary down in a visual way, from multiple angles, showing feet, hands, and close ups! Yes there’s a lot of talking but we want you to understand what it is that you’re doing and why, not just steps, patterns, and figure

and #10:
No more annoying ads at the bottom of the page, begging you to subscribe! 

Keep something in the back of your mind: What you’re seeing in a youtube video is a couple that is performing for the 15th row for a room full of people. They’re not social dancingWhereas this website is all about ‘Social Tango’  or how to make things function on a social dance floor. Social Dance floor ? Your local milonga! They are showing you flashy moves as a presentation, to show off! But not stopping and talking about how this works which is what you need to see. This website and all of it’s content show you the how and  why you’d want to put that piece of vocabulary there, or how to make things work. This website is all about those things and more!

You could watch Tango YouTube videos and thereby spend your time, trying to infer, and figure out how things may work in that particular situation. Bend your body this way or that, twist and force this position or that. Place your foot here or there and figure it out. This is known as Tango Twister.  Which can be a lot of fun, but more than likely it won’t help you, because you’re missing something: The explanation from an experienced teacher showing you how to properly excute this stuff from a Leading Perspective as well as from a Following Perspective!

The goal of YouTube videos is to get you to study with those teachers in person. The goal of Tango Topics videos allows you to work at your own pace, in the comfort of your own space, so that you can play them over and over again to improve your understanding of the vocabulary or technique being described to therefore better your dancing experience. The goal of classes and workshops is to get you to come back over and over and over again, thereby spending more money with that teacher. This website and the videos under it are here to act as a resource for you to help you to improve your dance. Pay once and you’re done.

Eventually, one way or another you’re going to pay for this lesson, either here and now, or with them. TANSTAAFL! The difference between that lesson and this ? Is that you get to play this lesson over and over and over again. Further still, there are supporting materials (other videos) that help to explain the language and the underlying technique of how and why things work, so you can easily reference those things in the corresponding articles that go with the material, and or any language in the Tango Topics Dictionary. 

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