NEW BEGINNER TANGO COURSE

✨ NEW BEGINNER COURSE ✨
Starts 10 November
🕖 Mondays · 7–8 PM
📍 Galway Rowing Club
💃 No partner needed
💶 7-week course €50 (promo)

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WEEKLY THEMES
1️⃣ Walking in Tango (Nov 10)
2️⃣ The Embrace (Nov 17)
3️⃣ Axis & Pivots (Nov 24)
4️⃣ Simple Patterns (Dec 1)
5️⃣ The Giro (Dec 8)
6️⃣ The Social Dance (Dec 15)
7️⃣ Stops & Ganchos (Dec 22)

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Teachers:
Josef · Alina · Matt · Marion

### 🩰 WEEK 1 – Walking in Tango

In tango, everything begins with the walk. It’s not about steps or choreography — it’s about connection, gravity, and rhythm.
We’ll explore how to move with awareness of the floor, how to share weight with your partner, and how to let the music guide your pace.
Walking becomes dancing when every step is alive with attention.

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### 🤝 WEEK 2 – The Embrace of the Tango Dancer

The embrace is the heart of tango. It’s how we communicate without words.
We’ll learn how to create comfort, safety, and responsiveness in the arms — how to hold and be held without tension.
Through subtle tone and listening, you’ll discover how an embrace can be both grounding and free, intimate and respectful.

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### ⚖️ WEEK 3 – Axis and Pivots

Every dancer moves around their own vertical line — the axis.
This week we explore how to find your balance and how to share it in movement.
We’ll play with gentle pivots, discovering how rotation happens through softness and precision, and how connection keeps us steady even when we turn.

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### 🔄 WEEK 4 – Simple Patterns in the Dance

Once we can walk, embrace, and pivot, patterns begin to emerge.
We’ll look at how small combinations — side steps, forward and back crosses — create flow and musical expression.
Tango isn’t about memorizing moves; it’s about improvising within structure.
This week brings clarity and play to your movement vocabulary.

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### 🌪 WEEK 5 – The Giro

The giro, or “turn,” is one of tango’s most elegant movements.
We’ll learn how to spiral around each other with balance and ease — leader and follower each in continuous dialogue.
The giro teaches us fluidity, coordination, and trust: how to move as one body with two hearts.

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### 💃 WEEK 6 – Bringing It All Together: The Social Dance

This week we bring everything into relationship — walk, embrace, pivots, and turns — in a real dance.
We’ll practice connecting through the music, entering and leaving dances gracefully, and sharing the floor with others.
It’s about presence, awareness, and joy — the feeling of being part of a community dance.

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### ✨ WEEK 7 – Stops and Ganchos

The final week is all about musicality and expression.
We’ll explore pauses — the still moments where connection deepens — and introduce ganchos, the playful hooking leg movement that arises from clear intention and timing.
You’ll feel how freedom grows from good technique and trust.
From here, every tango you dance will begin to tell its own story.

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