Every tango move is based on the three simple steps - forward, backward or sideways - with or without a turn. It is entirely up to you how to combine them.

All you need for that is to learn the tango language (we hate the metaphor, but it's true) to talk and listen to your dance partner. For a more detailed attempt at the description of the tango, see this page.

So, the argentine tango isn't just about waving your (or somebody else's) feet over the waist-level. Accordingly, the purpose of our beginner classes is not to teach you fancy stuff. Instead, we concentrate on things that make tango so amazing and addictive:

• How to connect and interact with your partner.
• How to move around as a unified body.
• What are the various kinds of music and how do they help us dance.

It is up to you to decide, what you are going to do with your newly found musical mobility. And how you are going to dance.

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We don't like teaching long sequences, because we think they are useless. They don't help you stay with the music, and they keep you too conscious of your steps (instead of, say, your partner). At our classes, we prefer to disassemble sequences rather than assemble them.

It is most important for us to see parts as parts. Once that is done, nothing stops you from creating your own unique sequences, right on the spot and out the blue. And it becomes much easier to express the music in your dancing. Simple things, placed at the right moment, tend to form quite impressive combinations when you look back at them.

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The idea for this name came to us as we were planning a course on musicality (which we later called Face the Music). We realized that it actually doesn't take two to tango - as is claimed by the popular idiom, but three: you and your partner and the music. Without a connection to the music your tango is toast. Hence the name: three to tango. Or 3-2-Tango, which is more stylish and takes less space on a flyer.