TANGOCOOL! English Version

From the very beginning of Tango, there have always been dances (milongas, clubs, etc.) and practices, where tango dancers would gather to develop new variations and refine their dancing. For many years, this concept of practice was lost, but today it has been revived, gaining recognition as a movement both locally and globally. Today, Tangocool has become the meeting point for the new generations of tango dancers from Buenos Aires and around the world. Every Friday, they start the night gathering with friends and dancing non-stop to Tango, alternative music, and folklore in a warm and friendly environment. (See Video) The beginning of this movement emerged from the need of a group of dancers to meet, practice, and develop new variations in Tango. For several months, 10 couples met in a dance hall to exchange concepts and create new movements and ways of dancing. Later, we felt it would be good to open the proposal to more people. This led to the creation of monthly Fiestas Tangueras ...

The origin of the prácticas belongs to a distant past, as dancers would get together to practice amongst themselves, or at the “academies”, since the early days of the tango. The prácticas, as we know them today, emerged in the 90s when certain teachers organized lessons and people stayed after the lesson to dance and experiment. One of these is Gustavo Naveira who organized in Cochabamba 444. Over the years others followed in his footsteps, organizing their own prácticas and maintaining the enthusiasm of the search and of creativity. For various reasons, however, the phenomenon has only recently been recognized as such. Various factors generated the rise of the prácticas, a main factor being the economic crisis of 2001 that, despite all the bad, brought about an awareness in the Argentine population regarding the effects of the decade of the 90s, as well as a strong wave of tourism. Since then, more and more people have become interested in culture and the arts, and in the tango, whi...

It’s common to hear this said to a dancer: “When you stop worrying about the technical your dance will appear…” This affirmation leads us to the question of why this occurs. The tango has reached a high level of theoretical and practical development. The last two decades were crucial in that process. Nonetheless, defining one single technique for dancing it has not yet been achieved. Given the dancers’ incessant experimentation, it becomes necessary to know certain principles or technical codes in order to execute complex movements that require great bodily control. Therefore, the teaching methods are being re-formulated and little by little it appears the tendency of many instructors is that of leaving the teaching system that focuses on structure and steps. Instead they opt for those ideas related to body awareness and the natural development of movements in dance. Broadly speaking, two systems of teaching or transmitting the tango can be identified. The Traditional (which has nothin...