ESSENTIAL TANGO SKILLS: What it takes for you to get to your next level of dance! One way is to learn the foundational and critical tango skills required to dance the actual techniques of tango. I call these skills Essential Tango Skills. When you cultivate any of the Essential Tango Skills, your whole way of dancing changes dramatically! My Tango workshops are experiential classes that teach 1 or 2 Essential Tango Skills, then assist each participant to explore those skills with specific exercises and/ or games.  Beginning Dancers Essential Tango Skills provide the opportunity to learn how to avoid bad habits that will later take 3 times as long to unlearn, and cultivate the good skills to be able to quickly learn Tango from any Tango instructor. Intermediate Dancers Essential Tango Skills provide the opportunity to quickly increase your skill with what you have already learned, and quickly begin to change your bad habits and learn what makes Tango work. Advanced Dancers Essential Tango Skills provide the opportunity to go so much deeper and to the next level of your skills. In fact, by focusing on advanced techniques in Essential Tango Skills you can dramatically shift how you dance. Just by learning more steps or advanced vocabulary, you will not shift your dance. Professional Dancers Essential Tango Skills provide the opportunity to understand at a deep level the foundational skills needed in Argentine Tango, and an increased ability to teach all of what you know. WORKSHOP METHODOLOGY: EQUAL MATERIAL FOR FOLLOWS: During all Tango workshops I present material for both LEADS and FOLLOWS - aren't many of you tired of so many workshops being mostly for leads?  I am. EXPERIENTIAL: My Tango workshops are experiential with emphasis on working with concepts, so you find what works best for you.  There is not one way or my way - I will assist you to find YOUR way to learn, adapt and integrate critical and foundational skills.  What you learn you can work with outside of my Tango workshops. PRACTICE TIME AFTER: What is exciting is that I often conduct my Tango workshops where there is a milonga or practica scheduled shortly after, so you and your dance partner/s can immediately experience what you have worked on changing. In addition, you can put your changes into practice, thereby adapting them to your body and transferring them into body memory. Dancing and putting your changes into practice right after the training dramatically accelerates your learning. GENDER BALANCE NOT CRITICAL: For many of my Tango workshops there is not always a need for a gender balance for I am teaching essential foundational skills and ways of being and exploring, which are easily trained by you working as a follow AND lead.  In fact some of what I teach is enhanced when you are having a harder time learning.  I encourage all of you to learn to lead and follow! With that said, I encourage you to bring someone you would like to train with so you can practice after the training, helping each other to review the material. INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT: I assess where each participant is at. I train what is most needed for the majority of participants. I make it a point to go around to each individual to address their unique needs. I am able to quickly assess where people are at with any of the 10 Essential Tango Skills, and thereby able to present to an individual what is most needed to advance their Tango skills. ORGANIZED & TAUGHT FOR RAPID LEARNING: In my Tango workshops I present my information from prepared organized notes so my information is easily understood, resulting in you learning faster, and putting greater focus on learning instead trying to organize information. I use several elements from my accelerated learning approach in all my Tango workshops to accelerate your learning. I also infuse all learning with creative exploration and fun. This infusion contributes to accelerated learning along with greater comprehension, adaptation, integration and retention of all material worked on. I offer a way for all of you to make a fundamental change in how you hold and move your body in each of my Tango workshops. For complete benefits of ACCELERATED LEARNING refer to this page: Accelerated Tango Learning PROFESSIONAL CODE OF CONDUCT: I adhere to My Code of Professional Conduct which address integrity in the areas of time, respecting physical boundaries, competency, honest assessment, and confidentiality. ON TIME: I start and end all Tango workshops ON TIME.   I do not penalize on-time or early people by starting late!  Please arrive early so you are ready to start on time. When you are ready to start on time, you get the most for your time, money and respect other participants. 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