💃✨ GALWAY TANGO – ADVANCED TERM ✨🕺
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For dancers ready to deepen their tango
Galway Rowing Club
Mondays · 8:00–9:00 PM
7-week term · Nov 10 – Dec 22
Teachers: with Josef · Alina · Matt · Marion & Ciara 💫
The beginner class (7–8 PM) introduces the weekly theme —the advanced class (8–9 PM) takes it further, exploding and deepening the same concept through musicality, connection, and refined technique.
The last 10 minutes of the beginner class is Open House — advanced dancers are invited to join, warm up, and support practice.
💶 Advanced drop-in: €15
💶 Full 7-week term: €90
💶 Add beginner class (same night): €5
Tango is a lifelong dance of discovery — each step, each embrace, another chance to listen, connect, and express.
WEEK 1 : Nov 10 — Refining the Walk
The walk becomes communication.
We’ll explore phrasing, rhythm, and how intention shapes every step you take together.
The walk becomes more than movement — it’s communication in motion.
We’ll explore groundedness, musical phrasing, and how to adapt the quality of your walk to different orchestras and moods.
You’ll learn to express rhythm, silence, and emotion through subtle variations in step length, weight transfer, and intention.
WEEK 2 : Nov 17 — The Evolving Embrace
The embrace comes alive.
We’ll find flexibility, tone, and connection that breathes — expanding and softening without losing clarity.
This week deepens your understanding of the embrace as a living structure.
We’ll explore flexibility in the connection — how the embrace breathes, expands, and adjusts between open and close without losing clarity.
You’ll learn how to maintain tone and dialogue even through transitions and turns.
WEEK 3 : Nov 24 — Shared Axis & Dynamic Pivots
Balance meets trust.
We’ll play with shared axis, leaning, and counterbalance — refining pivots with control and flow.
Now that you can find your own axis, we explore shared axis — how to play safely with leaning, counterbalance, and trust.
We’ll refine the mechanics of the pivot, using dissociation and spiral energy from the ground up.
The focus is on control, elasticity, and precision without rigidity.
WEEK 4 : Dec 1 — Musical Patterns & Improvisation
Movement becomes music.
We’ll build smooth combinations, listen for pauses, and improvise with confidence and creativity.
We’ll expand on simple structures to build fluid combinations and improvisational flow.
Learn to recognize musical phrasing, pauses, and accents — and how to shape your movement to fit the mood of each song.
You’ll start creating your own mini-sequences with confidence and creativity.
WEEK 5 : Dec 8 — The Giro in All Its Forms
Spirals, turns, and rhythm.
We’ll explore direction, flow, and energy — how the giro transforms from technique into expression.
This week takes the giro further — exploring direction changes, rhythm variations, and smooth transitions between turns.
We’ll work on both leader and follower technique: axis integrity, timing, and maintaining a relaxed yet connected embrace throughout the spiral.
You’ll feel how the giro can be soft, playful, or powerful, depending on your musical choice.
WEEK 6 : Dec 15 — Dancing Socially with Awareness
The floor becomes your orchestra.
We’ll practice navigation, timing, and grace — moving with awareness, adapting to every dance space.
The milonga floor is a living organism — this week we learn to dance with it.
We’ll practice navigation, floorcraft, and communication through subtle signals.
You’ll learn to enter and exit dances gracefully, adapt to crowded spaces, and keep the connection alive no matter what’s happening around you.
WEEK 7 : Dec 22 — Musical Expression: Stops, Ganchos & Play
Pause. Breathe. Sparkle.
We’ll explore playful stops, clean ganchos, and moments of stillness that make tango truly sing.
Refinement meets artistry.
We’ll explore controlled pauses, smooth weight changes, and clean ganchos that emerge naturally from the dialogue — never forced.
This week celebrates expression, musicality, and the joy of creative freedom built on solid technique.
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