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For more information about Tango San Francisco, call Ken Delmar at 415-468-8000 or write to him at info-at-sftango.com

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Argentine Tango

Argentine Tango

San Francisco Tango holds lessons and parties at:

Studio Gracia
19 Heron Street and Harrison)
San Francisco, CA 94103

(off 8th St. between Folsom and Harrison)

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San Francisco Tango is all about one thing: Argentine Tango in the San Francisco Bay Area: tango classes, parties, private lessons, college courses in Argentine tango, tango performances or lessons for your private parties or organizational events. Ken Delmar founded San Francisco Tango (also known as Tango San Francisco) in 1993 and has been devoting his energies full time ever since to bringing the joy of Argentine tango to the San Francisco Bay Area

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This romantic Argentine Tango
Step Requires a Lot of Balance, but you can learn to do it!

Argentine Tango
Group Classes
Progressive Series

Please click the following link for a tango class schedule:

Argentine tango class schedule in San Francisco and Brisbane

NOTE: more serious students take the classes on Saturday's and Tuesdays.

Dance Tango!

Let Your Heart Fly with Wings of Love
The power of the tango is that it can lift you up, both emotionally physically and even spirtually. Our goal at Tango San Francisco is to lift you up with Argentine tango. We will lift you up!

Tango Dance Lessons as Gifts

Private Dance Lessons Make Excellent Gifts! "Don't tell my wife what this about-- if she answers," a gentlemen said to us recently, "I'm reserving these tango lessons as a surprise birthday present for her." If you'd like to set some some private tango dance lessons, please call Ken Delmar. You can reach Ken at 415-468-8000. In the Sacramento/Roseville area, call Phil Seyer at 916-772-7555.

Let Everyone Dance Tango!

Here's idea for your next private, company or other organizational party -- let everyone dance tango.

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Argentine tango classs and parties -- click here for a full schedule.

Let Everyone Dance Tango!

Here's another idea. Hire Ken to add something special to your next party. Even if your friends have never danced before, Ken can have everyone dancing tango within a few minutes!. He does this by teaching simple walking and rocking steps along with the "tan-go close step that everyone loves.

NOTE: in the Sacramento area, you can hire Phil Seyer for your dance parties or special events.

Ken offers Saturday morning tango classes in San Francisco at Studio Gracia 19 Heron Street (off 8th St. between Folsom and Harrison) Here's a map to the location for these tango classes at Studio Gracia. You can see some pictures of Studio Gracia, here.

If you'd like to be notified about various Tango San Francisco events, including classes like these, please send a email to info- at-sftango. com (Change the "-at-" to an at-symbol.)

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Argentine Tango

Why Argentine Tango?

Argentine tango dancers are passionate about this 3 minute romance. Although each tune last only 3 minutes, many people enjoy dancing tango after tango, spending an entire evening dancing nothing but Argentine tango. Why?

Ballroom tango is nice -- but an entire evening of ballroom tango would be nimaginable. Why is Argentine tango able to hold ones interest so much more than "ballroom tango? "Part of it is the music. Argentine tango music is widely varied and the instruments and orchestras have quite different flavors. Even the same piece of tango music can vary widely its expressive qualities.

For an example of this wide expressive range in tango music, watch these two video clips of a bandoneon player at a San Francisco Tango Performance that Ken and Natasha cosponsored. Both clips are from the same piece of Argentine tango music performed at theAlcazar Theatre in San Francisco in 1998 .

Romantic tango video clip from Tango For You

Exciting video clip from Tango For you

NOTE: The tango music is Adios Nonino by Piazzolla.

When you attend a milonga (an Argentine tango dance party), you never know exactly what music to expect -- that's part of the excitement. When you dance tango at a ballroom party, the tango music doesn't vary much; but that's OK because rarely are any two tango tunes played in succession.

But another part of the facisnation people have with Argentine tango is the connection that can develop between partners. It is almost as if two become one -- a single being with 4 legs! In Argentine tango style, dancers are free to frequently pause and enjoy the moment and the music without the need to constantly move rhythmically to the beat.

In short Argentine tango is a uniquely sweet, romantic, intensely dramatic, exciting, sexy, intimate, mesmerizing dance that is highly improvised. Steps in other kinds of tango tend to be memorized and very staccato and detached -- almost to the point of being comical In contrast, Argentine tango can be either sweet, gentle, soft and flowing, while at other times fast and exciting. That's what makes Argentine tango so appropriate for a dance of love at wedding receptions and other parties. It also explains why people will dance Argentine tango all night long without the need to switch to other dances. Some like Argentine tango steps so much they will even use tango steps with jazz -- some (like Ken they won't wait for a milonga!) They will tango when a guitar and string bass are improvising background music for at a restaruant. (This link show a video clip of Ken dancing what he calls "club tango" style with Elaine Sirois-Lucha at a San Francisco restaurant.)

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Thanks for your interest in Tango in the San Francisco Bay Area. The more you go into tango, the more you will realize how sweet it is. Jacky Gleason used to say "How Sweet it Is!" -- he must have been talking about Argentine tango. For more information, you may wish to visit these related tango sites that feature information about...:

Tango Events in San Francisco
Tango in Sacramento
Tango Videos
Studio Gracia -- which features Argentine tango as well as other cool dance lessons and parties.

Thanks for your interest in
San Francisco Tango

(Also known as Tango San Francisco!)