About Tango

Tango is generous. It can be many things and offers many possibilities. It's an entire culture: music, poetry and dance, and therefore both traditional and dynamic. It sprung from the early twentieth century melting pot at the banks of Río de la Plata. In Buenos Aires and Montevideo immigrants combined influences from Africa and Europe. The dancing began in the conventillos and made it from lower-class entertainment to upper-class salons when it became popular in Europe. Tango has been debated and reinvented, and nobody will ever determine it exactly. It is what happens when you embrace each other and translate music into movement together. It is pure dance.

Floor's Tango...emphasizes natural movement and quality of the contact. She wants to generate awareness of the own body, the body of the partner, the music and also the other dancers around. This consciousness merging individual and environment is what she seeks to share. Her tango is all about subtleties. It´s tango embracing everything, not limited by substantives as milonguero or nuevo or salon. Tango with a traditional basis, but open to investigate, to play with the contact and the music, with exchanging roles. For many tango is a serious matter, yet tango does not need to be difficult, nor does it need to be a power play between leader and follower. It is a dialogue involving fun and freedom. Floor helps dancers to enjoy tango, to find their own flow, to feel comfortable with improvising together, a feeling so delightful it's addictive.

Your Tango... is investigating how you communicate and connect, establishing an awareness of the body, the partner and others around you. It can be playful, creative, elegant, passionate, subtle, dense, ...

Interested?
Contact info@tangoenflor.com for your custom-made tango experience.