San Francisco

Join us every Tuesday night at La Pista (first floor), located at 766 Brannan Street, (between 6th & 7th) in San Francisco.

No special clothes are required; what feels comfortable for you is fine. Please do come with a pair of smooth-soled shoes, either leather or suede will work on the dance floor. Later you might feel the wish to buy tango shoes and we can easily advise you about that. Come by yourslef or with a partner.

Tuesdays:

8pm - 9pm Beginners Level Tango Class.

9pm - 10pm Intermediate Level Tango Class.

10pm Guided Practica for all levels with Gustavo & Jesica.

Where:

La Pista Studio, first floor

766 Brannan Street (between 6th & 7th)

San Francisco, CA

Please click here for a map and directions to this location.

Price:

$ 15/ Drop-in

$ 10 for high school or college students under 25 years of age.

$ 50/ 4 weeks (one class)

$ 90/ 4 weeks (both classes)

Practica is free when you take a class.

For both Beginner and Intermediate levels we will work on these fundamentals:

1. Warm up and stretching: tuning our instrument

2. Weight change exercises: creating “we”

3. Footwork placement skills

4. Proper use of joints and muscles: dance with the whole body

5. Leading and following exercises

6. Building a Good Balance

7. Being grounded, the floor is your friend

8. Finding the Best Posture for Tango

9. Open and Close Embrace exercises

10. Connection: creating togetherness

11. Floor navigation exercises

12. Improvisation and Creativity: tango as a dialogue

13. Change of speed and direction exercises

14. Musicality exercises for Tango, Vals and Milonga

15. Tango etiquette

BEGINNER LEVEL:

A friendly initiation to the Tango. We will focus on the basics needed to enter the world of Tango with confidence and joy. You will learn exercices in balance, body posture, and how to walk, lead or follow properly.

As a beginner you will learn the following Argentine Tango steps:

1. El Abrazo (the embrace)

2. La Marca (the lead)

3. Cambio de Peso (changing weight)

4. How to start and end any movement together

5. Doing One Step Forward, Backward and Sideways

6. Caminada (walking) in Open and Close Embrace

7. La Baldosa (the tile) with four and six steps

8. Molinetes (little windmill)

9. La Cruzada ( the cross): Linear & Spiral variations

10. El Basico (the basic eight step tango pattern)

11. Moving in Parallel and Crossed system

12. Giros (turns) and change of directions

13. Calesita (carousel)

14. Cadencias (rock steps)

15. Forward and Backward Ochos (figure eight)

16. Introduction to tango, vals and milonga rhythms

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL:

So...you have studied in a beginner class for a reasonable time and you have enough experience dancing tango and would like to move to the next level? Then, you will be training with us doing more complex movements. We will teach you the subtleness of the this dance and amazing patterns that make the tango so divine.

1. Caminada, Walking Technique: refinements and variations

2. Getting the most from the cross and parallel systems

3. Going to la cruzada: refinements and variations

4. Corridas, Suspensiones, Pausas and Paradas

5. Forward and Backward Ocho variations

6. Ocho Cortado with variations

7. Advanced Giros

8. Boleos variations

9. Ganchos and Enganches

10. Barridas, Llevadas y Planeos

11. Sacadas, Contra-sacadas and Back sacadas

12. Volcadas and Colgadas variations

13. Embellishments for Leaders and Followers

14. Tango, Vals and Milonga rhythm, refinement of the technique

While learning all these different patterns the connection, navigation and musicality will be always emphasized.

We are currently teaching private lessons every Tuesday at La Pista studio in San Francisco. After many years teaching tango, our experience tells us that taking private lessons is the best way to learn. For some people, learning in a group is not always the best option. Maybe you want to maximize the time you spend learning, keeping your own learning pace, or you want to go over something in detail, or may you are bit shy about dancing in public. Then, we strongly recommend taking our private lessons from the very beginning.

Since we are devoting the whole time just to you, we can assure you that you will be learning faster, easier and unleashing your full Tango potential !

Each private lesson is for one hour. The rate varies depending on how many you want to take. Also, as a way to reward your commitment, the more lessons you take the better price you get, for example:

  1 Private lesson only $ 100 (one person only)

  $ 120 (one couple)

  Package of 5 Private lessons $ 475 = $ 95 each class (one person only)

  $ 575 (one couple)

  Package of 10 Private lessons $ 900 = $ 90 each class (one person only)

  $ 1,100 (one couple)

  Package of 20 Private Lessons $ 1,700 = $ 85 each class (one person only)

  $ 2,100 (one couple)

  Package of 50 Private Lessons $ 4,000 = $ 80 (one person only)

  $ 5,000 (one couple)

Click here to watch an HD video clip of Gustavo and Jesica teaching tango.

To Book By Phone

 

 

Call: (415) 573-5735