Dancing Tango at the Old port Montreal

It was a beautiful fall evening (Sep. 23rd) when Alain Guillot and Silvia Rios decided to go and on the streets of the Old Port Montreal. They asked for the assistance of their friend Rowen Miles to film them and photograph them.

As Alain and Silvia danced, curious tourist looked at them and in some occasions they applauded.

It was a wonder experience. To share the love for this seductive music.

On October 6 2012, Alain and Silvia will perform a tango during the Dance Conmigo party.

Dance Conmigo host a party the first Saturday of every month. On October 6, Dance Conmigo will teach two dance classes at the same time. One dance Class will be West Coast Swing in one room and Argentine Tango in different room. After the classes the dancers will be able to choose among three different dance floors. One dance Floor for Salsa, merengue, cha-cha; one dance floor for Argentine Tango; and the last dance floor for West Coast Swing, waltz, rumba, cha-cha, foxtrot, etc.

Dance Conmigo hopes to have all dance floors full of happy dancers.

See you all there.

Dance Conmigo party Tango class with Rogerio and Jade.

For six years now (since October 2006) Dance Conmigo has been holding an open dance party the first Saturday of every month.

How it works: On the first Saturday of the month, we host a social dance party at Studio Metronome.  The night kicks off with an introductory dance class from 8-9pm, featuring one of the dance styles we teach at Dance Conmigo.  After the class, there is general dancing in three different rooms. One dance floor is for Salsa (plus Bachata, Merengue, Cha-Cha), one is for Argentine Tango, and the Main Ballroom features a mix of all the dance styles - including Ballroom, Swing and West Coast Swing.

On September 1st:  For the first time, Dance Conmigo hosted two introductory classes at the same time. Alain and Cheryl taught a beginner Bachata class in the main room, while Rogerio and Jade taught Argentine Tango in the "Tango Room".

Jade is a professional dance teacher with a lot of confidence developed from many years of training, but for Rogerio, a passionate student of tango himself, this was his first time teaching.

We are so proud of you, Rogerio. Every woman who came off of the tango floor, did so with a big smile, many saying "Wow, I just danced with Rogerio..." We are so happy to have you with us!

For you, Jade: Thank you so much for being part of the Dance Conmigo team. Your presence and experience, personality and charm brings so much to our little school!

Dance Conmigo invites its tango students to dance next to Mont Royal Metro

Elias from the Tango School "Comme Il Faut" has organised an event to dance tango in front of Metro Mont Royal Thursdays 16 and 23 of August from 7 to 9 pm.

Dance Conmigo would like to cooperate by inviting its students to come to dance tango in an urban environment.

Come Dance Argentine Tango with us at the heart of the Plateau Mont Royal  on Thursdays 16 and 23 of August from 7 to 9 pm.

Dance Conmigo will also be organizing a dance party on September 1st at studio Metronome from 8:00pm to midnight. The party will start with a Bachata class in on Dance floor and a Tango class in another dance floor. The cost will only be $6.

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Jeudi les 16 et 23 aout, entre 19h et 21h Tango Comme Il Faut organise une pratique d'ete en milieu urbain, devant le metro Mont Royal. Venez danser en plein coeur du Plateau Mont Royal.

Danse Conmigo organise une soirée dansante le 1er Septembre au studio métronome  à partir de 20h00 à minuit. La soirée débutera avec un cours de Bachata dans une salle de danse et un cours de Tango dans une autre salle de danse. Le coût  sera $6.

Sebastian Arce & Mariana Montes - Amurado - Palermo 2012

Sebastian Arce and Mariana Montes dancing Amurado in Palermo Italy.



From searching youtube, I am getting the impression that the best tango videos are presented in Italy. The speed and grace of this dancers is spectacular.

Dance Conmigo teaches Tango Classes in Montreal.

Changing directions with a Carrusel

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Dance Teacher: Alain Guillot and Jade Pollack

Carrusel is a wonderful way to change directions. Once you get used to it, you can change direction on a dime.

Grapevine exercise, Back Ocho, Cross System. Tango 2 lesson 1

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In This video we introduced the idea of the grapevine, by traveling in a straight line doing tango's three basic steps (front, back & side).

We incorporated the basic grapevine exercise into our basic tango structure (we started the grapevine on "3" and got out on "3".

Finally we added a "Back Ocho" and a "Cross System" to our figure.

Dance Teacher: Alain Guillot and Cheryl Williams

The Square, lesson #13

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Dance Teacher: Alain Guillot and Jade Pollack

This is the simplest step that I know. It is called Square. It is a great exercise that will give us the flexibility of many more movements to come.

Cross System of Tango. Lesson 11

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Cross system occurs when the leader and follower are both stepping simultaneous with their right foot or their left foot.

In its more fundamental form, the leader does a syncopation on "2" to change his weight from one foot to the other. At a given moment, the dancers go back to their regular "Parallel System"

In this video, the leader does a syncopation on "2" , they both do 3 and 4 and then, either the leader make a pause to allow time for the follower to go back into parallel system, or the follower does a syncopation on "5" to catch up with the leader.

Changing directions. Lesson 10

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Very often a leader needs to change direction (mostly to avoid bumping into other couples)

A simple way to change direction is by doing a bounce on "5" and then doing a pivot on 2 and 3. The change of direction could be as much as 180 degrees or as little as one eight of a turn.

Also, the bounce could be initiated from the simple walk. The leader could create the bounce at any time that he is stepping forward with the left foot.

Try this exercise several time and let me know how it woks out for you.