Traditional Tangos for Dancing - Beginners's Collection

LOCAL TANGO CALENDARS:

www.atanh.com - Argentine Tango Association of New Hampshire

www.porttango.com - Portland, ME calendar of events. Portland has a very nice group of dancers, regular practicas on Wd nites.

www.bostontango.org - listing of events in Boston area

ESSENTIAL MATERIAL ON INTERNET TO LISTEN/DOWNLOAD/WATCH:

Tango Demo by GONZALO CABRERA y ROXANA SUAREZ on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExVfDwqbFPA

Almost no fansy-shmansy stuff, just walking around. Clearly the guy is not a professional dancer, but any stretch of imagination, but notice how he initiates the step and his energy. Also,  notice the ladies' response and her footwork.

You can dance more or less like this if you practice!

Tango Demo by La Turca with a partner (Villa Urquiza style, nothing fancy, but that's how you otta dance!) http://www.neymelo.com/jorgedispari.htm

Play list of on-line tango demos (historic & new) http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=neymelo. Maintained by Ney Melo, who dances with his partner Jennifer in great style of social tango

Absolutely the best site about Argentine Tango http://www.todotango.com

A lot of articles in English. A lot of music to listen to.

How people dance http://www.tangotales.com/archive/HowPeopleDance.htm

This is my radio show dedicated to the exploration of the principles of dance movement. Excuse my self-praise, but I received a lot of praise from the serious dancers for this show. DO NOT LEARN DANCING HARD, LEARN IT SMART! Some of those principles were my intuitive guesses, confirmed by writings & teachings of the professionals.

The brief history of tango as told by Max Valentinuzzi. http://www.tangotales.com/archive/MaxTangoHistory.htm Max played piano in amateur tango bands in the golden age of tango. This is a history of tango music (with abandant music samples + translations of the lyrics). Very informative to understand tango evolution.

Milonga etiquette (how to behave at the tango dancing party) http://www.tangotales.com/archive/Etiquette.htm written by the wonderful person Lorie Coyle from Philly

Plenty of other informative shows on tango music/dance are available on www.tangotales.com.