I am an improver Tango dancer and I’d like to visit Buenos Aires, to take Tango classes and go to Milonga‘s but also for Spanish immersion and sight sighting

I speak Spanish and I’ve traveled in Latin America- but never alone.

Organized Tango trips are extremely expensive. I am on the Tango Vida group, which is super helpful. Does anyone know of any homestay or language immersion programs in BA that would complement a Tango focused trip?

Or any other tips?

You walk into the room, and out of the couple hundred people, you probably know 10-20. Sampling the dancing, so you can cabeceo selectively, would take ages. That's not what you came for. From shoes, fancy tango clothes, toned body, to posture when sitting or standing, they got all the trix down. So, you just dance.

And end up with 10% outstanding tandas, 30% OKish tandas, 30% meh tandas, and 30% really bad tandas. It feels like any ordinary Milonga anywhere in the world. Which makes you question why you travelled and paid hundreds of bucks for attendance.

What’s your strategy to make this a better experience?

Something simple, like back ochos or molinete or ocho cortado - these are led very differently. What do leaders do that will result in these feeling very different from one another? This connects to the age old question of, do leaders need to know a lot of different steps/sequences or can they do something to make the same motions feel different.

Hi ! I've been recently digging Firpo and love his fast tangos and milonga but I've been lost on some of them as it's the first time I can't really decide if it's tango or milonga ?

If you could help that'd be amazing thanks!

Sergio Paolo, Ernesto Baffa, Ubaldo De Lío and Ado Falasca performing together at El Viejo Almacén, Buenos Aires, in 1987. A memorable moment from the Buenos Aires tango scene.

How often do you feel lust while dancing? I danced maybe with 30 or 40 different women and always feel it to 3 of them. Women, do you feel something that?

Tango music lives by orchestra and era more than any genre label, so this might be a strange fit, and that is exactly what I want to find out.

Tempo Tunes builds playlists where every song matches a target tempo. Pick a BPM, set a tolerance, lean toward artists, pin an era, and it generates a playlist that holds that tempo, pulled from 1.5M+ tempo-verified tracks and growing. There is an Obscure to Popular slider for deep cuts versus familiar songs. Playlists save straight to Apple Music, Tidal, or YouTube Music. Free, no ads, on iPhone, Android, and web at tempo-tunes.com.

Where I suspect it could earn a place in tango, and where I need honest answers:

• Alternative and nuevo sets: finding non-tango songs that sit at a danceable tango tempo seems like the strongest use. If you DJ alternative milongas, is tempo hunting a real chore?
• Practicas: a playlist that holds one steady tempo for drilling. Useful, or do you only ever practice to the classics?
• The honest weakness: the library skews toward streaming-era catalogs. Golden age recordings are in there through remasters, but I would not claim deep coverage of every D'Arienzo transfer. If you try it and your orchestra is missing, tell me, that is exactly the feedback I want.

Dev here, happy to answer anything. Dancers in the ballroom and west coast swing subs already reshaped parts of the app with their feedback, so blunt answers are welcome.

Roberto Goyeneche, Ernesto Baffa, Rubén Castro y Sergio Paolo actuando juntos en Buenos Aires.

Hola a todos y gracias por leer este post, mi hijo tiene un souvenir Argentino el cual es una cajita musical y nos gustaría saber si la canción que toca es un tango y el nombre de la canción, si alguien lo sabe agradecemos compartir la información, gracia.

Añado un video de la cajita musical

A recent comment in a thread about Tango DJing made me think that the answer will actually be no
for many people.

Yes, you could listen to your favorite orchestra live. But the music will vary every time from the recordings you are used to.

Sergio Paolo, Oscar De Elia and Ernesto Baffa performing together at Théâtre Graslin in Nantes, France, in 1992. This photo captures the final bow of the show, during the Buenos Aires edition of the Festival Les Allumés.

What is your experience taking privates from visiting maestros during tango festivals? How do you decide what to ask from them or what to aim for? How do you compare that with taking privates from someone local and someone you meet regularly? ¡gracias!

This is my girlfriend Jone dancing tango in Leipzig with her teacher.
I’ve seen her dance many times.
But this one is different.
The way she moves.
The way she carries herself.
The way the two of them speak without a single word.
Something about it is so unique that the first time I watched the video, my breath literally caught in my throat.
Every single time I rewatch it, I get goosebumps from head to toe.
I can’t explain it properly.
I just know I’ve never seen anything quite like this.
I wanted to share it here.

Hello I will be in Paris with my husband for 1 week soon. Any good teachers in Paris recommended for private lessons for quickly grasping a good overview of basic Argentine tango especially for my husband ? Yes I know it takes a long time to learn this dance but I’d like to get a quick exposure before heading back home since we don’t have any tango classes where we live.

We found a 1914 article describing Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish’s unusual “no‑touch” tango, an attempt to make the dance more socially acceptable.

The newspapers say the audience actually loved it, but we are guessing they didn't want to upset Mrs. Fish, a powerful New York Socialite.

Thankfully we don't dance the tango life this today!

Tango, But Don’t Touch! — Historic Music of Newport - Preserving Newport's Musical Heritage

If I attend some class where I see that a number of other students are dancing better than me, the class feels challenging and productive, I would be happy to continue attending such a class.

And yet, I've heard a number people telling me that they've experienced being in such a class once, and have felt discouraged to attend such class again.

Could someone explain, why is that the case?

For those of you unfamiliar with it, the Albuquerque Tango Festival is one of the largest, oldest, and most esteemed festivals of Argentine Tango in the United States. Every year it attracts 600 to 700 serious tango dancers for milongas, classes, and fun.

Every year, about 80% of dancers who attend the event purchase their pass (full or milonga only) at the legendary 24 hour sale. The event really does last only 24 hours so don't miss it.

Check out this top US festival and get your pass at a great price but remember, the sale lasts one day only, Sunday, August 2.

AlbuquerqueTangoFestival.com

Hi all, I really want a closed-toe men's shoe with a wide toe box that I can comfortably both lead and follow in without having to switch shoes. I've previously found that a 4cm heel is comfortable for both following in tango and leading in other dances, and outside of dancing I pretty much exclusively wear barefoot/minimalist shoes. So, I'm currently saving up to buy myself a pair of custom Barefoot Frankies from Harlem Shoes. I've looked at a couple of tariff calculator tools and used that to build an estimate of what I expect to pay in tariffs into my savings goal.

I'm wondering, has anyone else recently ordered dance shoes from Turkey/the EU to the US? Would you be willing to share what you paid in tariffs as a percentage of the shoe's price, and when?

Mariano Mores at the piano with Argentine tango double bass player Eduardo Lettera, at the Astor Piazzolla Hall of the Teatro Auditorium in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on February 22, 2012.

Eduardo Lettera was the double bass player of Mariano Mores' sextet, which also included Cacho Gianini, Juan Agustín Scaffino, Ado Falasca, Gabriel Mores and Jorge Orlando.

The concert was part of Mariano Mores' final period of performances. Mores later returned to the stage in February 2013, conducting at the National Tango Festival in Junín.

Photo: Eduardo Lettera and Mariano Mores.