Tips on learning Tango with your partner

While it may be a beautiful and timeless dance for couples, the Tango also has many lessons to teach. If you’re learning with your partner, you may discover insight that help your relationship grow. Read on for tango couple’s tips.

Sure, proper footwork and dance etiquette are woven into the lessons learned during tango, but there are also lessons that transcend the dance floor and reach into the couple's everyday lives. Learn how mastering this timeless dance style can improve both your footwork on the floor, and your partnership in real life.

Learning to dance the Tango is an exercise in partnership, both on and off the dance floor.
While our modern world prizes fierce independence and personal space, the Tango demands closeness and trust. It is impossible to move to the best of your ability while doing the Tango unless you first anticipate and appreciate the movements of your partner.

Your own rhythm is utterly lost without the synchronicity of the other person. You see? The Tango is not only fun and sexy, but the ultimate model for love and compatibility.

Old-fashioned? Absolutely. Awkward and quite clumsy at its beginning? You bet. Frustrating and baffling? Indeed. The Tango is all of these things, just like love itself. Couples that Tango must work through the kinks and the uncomfortable intimacy of the dance. Mastering the Tango is not really the goal, but rather the journey that each duo embarks upon together.

Rather than following their own pride and whims, both Tango partners must instead follow the tried-and-true rules of something bigger than themselves. Just as a man and woman dancing the Tango must obey the music and the rhythm that guides them.

Tango partners cannot be preoccupied by the notion of how they look on the dance floor; the dance is spoiled by concentrating on spectators, their reactions, or worrying about what viewers' perceptions and thoughts.
The Tango is at its best when the partners are only on one another. Of course, this doesn't mean you have to take one another seriously the entire time. Dancing is supposed to be a physical manifestation of joy, and the tango is no exception.
Ditch the preoccupations with what others think or see, and enjoy the learning experience between the two of you.

Laugh at mis-steps, forgive when your partner lands on your toe or forgets the next move, and remember the lightness of the practice. Carry this attitude with you off the dance floor, as well.

The Tango teaches lovers plenty of things. So why not see what it can show you and your mate? Learn the Tango together and see where it takes you. These tips will get you dancing in the right direction.