Beyond the Tango Argentino Vocabulary

A tango workshop for tango dancers who are curious about moving beyond familiar figures.

How often do you get the chance to question habitual movement patterns and discover new possibilities within your tango?

What happens when negotiating space becomes movement?

How might a familiar step feel if you approach it differently?

What if expanding your repertoire didn't mean copying another tango figure?

Tango Argentino has an incredibly rich movement language, and still, once we've learned its foundational vocabulary, it's easy to keep looking for new steps while moving in essentially the same ways.

This workshop takes a different approach.

We'll explore how ideas from other movement practices can open new possibilities inside tango. The goal isn't to turn tango into something else, or to collect extravagant tricks, but to explore movement ideas beyond the usual tango vocabulary and investigate what they can bring into your dance.

We'll use movement exploration to question some of our habitual patterns and discover what else is already possible within the tango we know: different pathways, spirals, elasticity, momentum and ways of negotiating space can transform how familiar tango movements feel and look, way beyond what another figure adds to the equation.

You might discover multiple pathways in a familiar ocho and how it can have a completely different quality, that losing and recovering balance can become movement rather than a mistake, that connection can continue (and be enhanced) even when the movement doesn't look like a conventional tango figure.

We'll move between individual exploration, partner work and tango improvisation, bringing new movement ideas back into a recognizable tango context.

Who is it for

This workshop is for tango dancers who already have some experience and feel curious about expanding their movement possibilities beyond the usual vocabulary of tango figures.

Come with the tango you already have, and see what happens when you give it a little more room to move and grow.

Contact Tango Jam

Saturday's contact tango jam is included in the workshop's fee.

Price and payment

The price when registering and paying the deposit in advance is CZK 750, including Saturday's Contact Tango Jam.

After submitting the registration form, you will receive an e-mail with instructions for paying a non-refundable deposit of CZK 250. Your place is reserved once the deposit has been received.

The price when paying at the door is CZK 950, including the jam.

Capacity is limited, so save your spot!