Want to dance tango?
Saturday, December 13
Oberlin College Music Conservatory
Room - Bibbins 238
8:00 to 11:00
FREE
Live music by
Concert Piano - Peter Takac
Concert Violin - Jenny Elving
Our last dance for the semester and year
This has been my best class, EVER
Come and watch them tango

Saturday, Dec 20
Alegria
8778 Gatewood Drive
North Ridgeville, Ohio 44039
440/748-2204
9:00 to the weee hours of the morning
Breakfast served at 3:00 if anyone stays
FREE
Please bring a dish to share with others
Great Dance floor
Great sound system
Great company
Bring a friend

Where the Argentine Tango, Milonga, and Vals are danced and taught.
Tim and Joanne Pogros teach the close embrace, Milonguero or Apilado style of tango to their students.
We also have brought many instructors from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Cleveland to help in good instruction. People like, Carlos Gavito, Milena Plebs, Ricardo Vidort, Robert Hauk, and many, many, more.


The Argentine Tango is a dance of Passion, grace, speed and intricate steps. It is intensely individualistic and improvisational. The music is derived from black African rhythms, the melodies of southern Italy, Cuba and the Andalusian Tango. The theme of tango is passion, emotion and longing. It is reflected in the somber strains of the bandoneon, an accordion like instrument that breathes and signs with the pining of a lost love. Born around 1880 in the River Plate Region, Tango is an exclusively urban phenomenon whos major development took place in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. Initially only performed by amateurs, the tango was danced solely among men, who perfected their steps to impress the prostitutes at underground brothels. Women were included at the turn of the century, and the aristocracy embraced the dance in the late 1910s. 100 years since its birth, the tango is both the classic and modern form is again an integral part of Argentine culture, reclaimed by an older generation and discovered by the young.