About us

We are a small group of Argentine Tango enthusiasts, who would like to share their experiences and love of this dance with you.

Some of the regular contributors to LearningTango.com:

David Bailey (The Godfather)

 
David will keep this brief, unlike others...

David has been dancing Argentine Tango for 5 years now, and currently runs both Learningtango.com and Jivetango.co.uk.

David also runs tango courses - the next being the Tango Foundations course.

Christopher O' Shea (The Thinker)

"No-one ever listens to Zathras. Quite mad, they say. It is good that Zathras does not mind. He's even grown to like it. Oh yes."

 

Christopher carefully avoids answering questions about how long he’s been dancing, because he feels it’s not a good indication of anything other than he’s always liked dancing. He has a great fondness for dancing rather than “just moving about while music is played” and asks “Why?” rather a lot.

While it’s a good thing to learn from your own mistakes, it’s much less painful to learn from others’ and so he feels that this website is a Very Good Idea.


Ken Royden (Tango Poet Laureate)

When Ken started doing MJ back in 1997 he went through all the beginners and Intermediate moves there were. Having bought the T-shirt and video, he then moved on to more advanced dance courses such as Jango, which then led to Tango.

He has also dabbled in that slotty world of West Coast Swing, but is now directing himself at the AT world, albeit with a bit of Jango, MJ & WCS thrown in as well. Ken has written two humourous books on Modern Jive: Reflections & Observations on Ceroc - Books 1 & 2, and he is currently working on Book 3.

Diana Shore

 Diana is totally in love with tango, and has been since she discovered its existence. Giving up all other forms to focus on this art, she has learnt more about life, friendship and the nature of connection, than she knew existed.

She practices more than she dances, and has a certain path she explores.

Like one with a nose for a good wine, she selects her music, her muses, and her moment to dance.

The rest as they say is history..

La Dulce

 

La Dulce cannot reveal her true identity or dancers will stop saying the extraordinary things they do, to her. (See previous blog entries under: Mackerel; Ferrari, Duracell Bunny and Bitch -- OK, I made that last one up, but I bet some have thought it after reading my blogs.)

If you'd like to spot her on a dance floor near you, look for the follower with the 'onanistic legs' (Tango Anarchist, 2009) I sought clarification and this is what he said:
"After Onan, son of Judah (Genesis 38:9).]
o'nan•ist n., o'nan•is'tic adj. o'nan•is'tical ger...
Connected or appertaining to the flagrant misuse of the legs in the maverick tanguera, whereby the follower intersperses her own pleasure twixt the intention and the consummation of her leader, thereby leading to connectus interruptus (qv) a state of fear and confusion induced in the male of the species resulting from said condition in the female.
Also termed as spilling one's seed outside the embrace (ibid), a medical condition leading to permanent inability to reach orgasmus tanguiticus, the higher plane of the dance. Treatment involves several applications of extravagant footwear over a number of years."

Anyway... Strictly Speaking:
I've had many years of formal dance training, have social-danced for near ten, but trial–by-tango is the latest way I punish my body and distract myself from the novel I should be writing. Argentine Tango is the most challenging dance form I've come across and the most fun I have with my clothes on. When I grow up I'd like to be a good follower; so good, that even poor TA, above, achieves 'orgasmus tanguiticus'. [(sic) ... Yeah, innit?]