Program
The Tango was born in the region of the Río de la Plata. However, Buenos Aires is the most important center of Tango today. A few years ago the Tango has become fashionable all over the world. And as a consequence Buenos Aires became the top destination for many Tango dancers.
Buenos Aires offers a big number of places to dance and practice Tango.
We have prepared a program for all passionate Tango dancers which combines learning Spanish with classes of Tango, for example a course of 10 hours/week of Spanish and 6 hours/week of Tango.
All those, who still want more, may join an intensive Tango course and participate at some of the biggest Milonga and Tango palaces of Buenos Aires. For this option, please contact us, because it is not part of the regular program of the institute. We will take care to find the best solution according to how often and for how long you wish to dance Tango.

A brief history of the Tango
The origins of the Tango

It is difficult to differentiate specific stages in the evolution of the Tango. As a matter of fact the Tango is historically progressive and regressive, which means that every period shows a perfect combination of traditional and innovative elements corresponding to the author's creativity.

However, it is agreed that the starting point lies between 1880 and the first years of the 20th century. The most important characteristic was the arrival of a huge number of immigrants and the peculiar slang called lunfardo which since then appears in songs, their majority anonymous, influenced by four main tendencies of music: the Candombe, the Habanera, the Tango of Andalusia and the Milonga.
These four styles gave birth to the Tango by transforming and blending each other to a new one, the Tango which was sung and danced in cafés and brothels at the harbour. In the beginning it used to be a style played and danced exclusively by men.

In the bars (the Necochea street in the La Boca quarter was an epicentre of the first steps of Tango) this funny, young and picaresque music succeeded with the names of: Rosendo Mendizábal, Eduardo Arolas, Angel Villoldo. There were many more Tango interpreters. The majority of them were self-educated musicians, who didn't even know what a full-score was.

The dance always was an important element in the Tango. It began as an improvised dance with two characteristic features: the dissociation of the movement of the legs from those of the body and while the dancers concentrate on the rhythm, the music makes the melody.

The dance was so fundamental to give rise to a revival of the music in 1913 when during one of the repeated crises it triumphed in Paris. The same happened in 1985 when, for the success of the Tango Argentino group in Northern America and Europe, it found its way back to its native city. But let's go back to the beginning of the Tango. Carlos Gardel became a living legend to the Tango with the unforgettable song "Mi noche triste".