If you would like to organize weekend workshops with us or any other tango event, we're more than happy to be a part of it! Below you'll find some basic organizational details:
1. The easiest way to contact us is to just send us an e-mail: tomatango@gmail.com We usually respond within one - two days. We speak Polish, Hungarian, English, Spanish and German.
2. We can stay both at a flat or in a separate room as well as the hotel.
3. We can teach up to 3 classes (1,5h each) a day, for a total of 6 classes during a two day weekend workshop. We can also teach one of our special classes before a milonga, however, not if you would like us to demo / perform at the same milonga. We can work on a fixed rate or a percentage split (usually 75% for us, 25% for the organizer) - depending on the local situation though and organizer's limitations we are open to negotiation. We prefer to teach in English.
4. Here are some of our past workshops topics and our suggestions, however, we're flexible when it comes both to the topics and the level of the classes:
beginner:
- simple turns
- dynamic walk & how and when gracefully pause
- perfecting navigation skills through simple changes of directions / alterations
- milonga lisa - finding the strong beat
- understanding the basic musicality in vals
intermediate:
- sandwich variations and the pull energy
- introduction to planeos from projections of the stepping leg
- exploring height change: planeos
- the anatomy of the embrace: close vs. open
- use of disassocation for rebounds & changes of direction
- elegant paradas and pasadas
- introduction to circular boleos: developing countermovement, rebound and triangles
- forward boleos
- low and high back boleos
- social style volcadas
- milonga-proof leg wraps
- introduction to linear boleos
- variations on the back cross and enganchadas
- turns to the right in vals
- playful milonga traspie combinations
- follower's sacadas
- leader's sacadas
- working with elastiticity in sacadas
advanced:
- transitions between open and close embrace using ochos and boleos
- creating new combinations: weight changes for one partner only
- rhythmical games: understanding the music of Edgardo Donato
- crazy paradas & pasadas (overturned, with ganchos and boleos)
- multiple boleos
- high boleos combinations
- winter workshop: frozen movements
- high ganchos
- piernozos
- tango fusion: combining tango de salon with tango nuevo
open-level:
- "SLOW tango" : connection & harmony, quality of the movement
- musicality: understanding the structure of tango, the beat, pausing
- navigation skills for milongas
Technique for couples
Follower's technique - can be taught as a class during the workshop with focus on one particular element (90 minutes) or as an intensive seminar covering various topics (4x60 minutes):
beginner/ intermediate:
- balance exercises
- stable, elegant, dynamic walk
- technique for backward ochos
- technique for forward ochos
- adornos for ochos
- use of heel and footwork
- simple adornos/embellishments on the floor
intermediate/ advanced:
- giros for close and open embrace
- different timing of giros (musicality)
- active following
- technique of turns (+footwork)
- low and high boleos
- ganchos
Special classes: (60 minute classes which can be taught before a milonga or practica)
- tango games: a selection of our favourite tango games developing sensitivity, awarness and creativity
- improving communication: a class with focus on developing sensitivity and enhancing the connection between the dancers
DJ seminar
5. We'll be happy to do a performance of 3 songs during the milonga. The compensation for the performance is open to negotiation.
6. We're available for private classes outside the main workshop days, i.e., if the workshop takes place on Saturday and Sunday, we'll be happy to teach up to 4 private classes on Friday and Monday. Private classes can be taken with both of us or only with one of us. We recommend that students come with their partner so that we can work with both dancers. The price is the same whether we're teaching together or whether you want a class with only one of us.
7. Apart from teaching, we both enjoy DJing - we can DJ a milonga for you if we're not performing during it and if the schedule is not too intense. More about how we DJ. The compensation for DJing is open to negotiation.
8. Food: we can pay for our food and buy food ourselves, however, we need to have some time for that on the day before the workshops or during the workshop breaks. If that's not the case, it would be great to have some fruit (bananas, apples), natural yoghurt, skim milk or soy milk, whole grain muesli and some lean meat with vegetables. And plenty of natural mineral water :)






