Denver Tango Festival Takes One Step Forward in Cheesman Park

By Yesenia Robles, The Denver Post.

DENVER May 27, 2012 . People traveled from across the country for Denver's tango festival, which hosted a dance Sunday night in Cheesman Park. "You have to come to festivals like this to get a nice variety of people and styles," one dancer said.

A social Argentine Tango dance is called a milonga, which means "dance party" (Milonga also refers to a style of dance & music). This is a place to see and be seen (so the lights are up bright), and a place to meet other tango dancers, many of whom have spent months and years perfecting their steps. It is not

The Roots of Argentine Tango.

Argentine Tango as a dance and musical form developed in Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th Century, and arrived in Europe and then the US in the first decades of the 1900s. This is the mode of dance that evolved into Ballroom tango, familiar to us from Rudy Valentino in the classic,

Beginner Tango: Vocabulary

• “Walking in a straight line”
• Simple Walks:
• 1, 2, 3, come together (4).
• 1, 2, 1, 2
• 1, 2, 3, cross.
• Weave to the not-cross
• Weave to the cross
• Simple Rythm Step:
• 1 AND 2 (hold) 3 AND 4
• Also known as “rock step”.
• Rock step turn:
• 1 and-pivot, (2) 3 and 4.
• Dramatic Pause:
• 0 AND

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Fantastic workshop conducted this weekend by Tom Stermitz and Amy Beaudet! ... I sincerely believe we are a much better tango community for their efforts. A workshop by this incredibly dedicated teaching duo entails not just beginner and intermediate levels of group instruction but also extremely interesting and edifying discussion on the history and culture of tango in the

Tango is danced to orchestras from Buenos Aires of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. This was the "Golden Era" of tango, matching the best decades of swing music in the US. Modern tango music like Astor Piazzola is not used for tango dancing (except perhaps for performances). So, it may be difficult to find or choose appropriate tango music

Tango has a variety of styles. The two basic categories are dramatic, athletic stage dancing, and close, subtle social dance. We emphasize the social-style tango (not performance) typical of 1940s Argentina, "as danced today in the milongas of Buenos Aires". Our style is adaptable, however, easily moving from close to open embrace. Social tango is easier to take out

Special upcoming event: "Introduction to Argentine Tango for Experienced Ballroowm Dancers", sponsored by Jim Borzym on December 11, 2019 at 7:00 pm. This event will take place at the Avalon Ballroom Wednesday night "Waltz, Etcetera" dance. Stay after the class for dancing to an eclectic mix of ballroom dances from 

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