The core 8 dances and order of rotation taught :
Viennese Waltz, Tango, East Coast Swing, Mambo, Waltz, Cha-cha, Foxtrot and Rumba.
Welcome !
Social Success for Beginners is designed to provide new students an incremental advancement to their personal dance skills.
Partners are helpful. Singles are welcome!
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it was time well spent.
- Montaigne
A note on gender roles:
Traditionally, Ballroom and Latin dances are danced in male/female couples with roles assigned based on gender. Men lead and women follow. These roles require the acquisition of different skills, and the recent gains in liberating women and men from these gender roles in our society has not changed the gender roles on the dance floor.
While I would love every dancer to learn both roles, such a fantasy is at present is not practical. If you are male, you will be expected to lead and the same if you are female with regards to following. I will have to recommend that you spend time learning the role that is assigned to your gender.
N.D.C.A. guidelines constitutes a couple as one man and one woman. I do practice and follow all guidelines of the N.D.C.A.
However, if you chose to dance anything other than what is constituted in the N.D.C.A. guidelines..then more power to you!
Just remember anything other than that, will inhibit your enjoyment in social functions, limit your ability to compete and will not be considered traditional Ballroom dancing. (Could it be wrestling, maybe?)
Adult Group Classes
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Lori Gonzales & Teach Me Tango is committed to provide a safe and fun environment in which to learn. Accordingly, if anyone comes in under the influence of drugs or alcohol, displays destructive, threatening or disruptive behavior, displays fits of temper, brandishes any weapons or is inappropriately dressed will be asked to leave.
Advanced Open Choreography Team.
Couples are required for open routines.
Ballroom costumes and shoes are a required cost.
$100.00 Per month per couple.
90 Minute rehearsals.
This is a showcase group where you can learn fun
choreography to perform as either a group or as a
couple solo. What a great excuse to dress up and
dance all night!
This is a local performing group.
Students must have at least 18 month+
minimum intermediate Ballroom and Rhythm or private
instruction to meet the requirements of this group.Openings
take place semi-annually.Rehearsals meet on Friday evenings.
Every effort is made to keep costs down to a minimum.
Practice night every Tuesday 8:30-9:30$5.00 per person.
Social Success
students practice
FREE!
Class includes:
*Four (4) one hour classes per month.*Free 30 minute practice after class.
Dance shoes are recommended.
Email me with questions. Come in 10 minutes before class starts with your personal check.
Tuition is based on a monthly charge, not on lesson attendence.
Tuition: $45 per person per month.
Registration: $15.90/single $26.50/couple.
This class is ongoing.
There is no beginning or end to this class.
New students may enter whenever we start a new dance.
Social Success for Beginners!
Tue. Sept. 7, 8:15
Beginning Tango.
Bronze (Social) Level Intermediate Class
Tuition is $50.00 per person per month.
No registration for continuing students.
This class focuses on a continued learning in all core dances and we also learn 9 New dances.
September 1, 7:45 Intermediate Argentine Tango
Tue . Sept 21, 8:15
Beginning East Coast Swing
Adult Classes. I offer instruction beginning through advanced.
Teens and Kids.
Teens Performance Class ages 13-19
Friday evenings 7:00
A note on partnering:
Although non-performing singles are welcome in this class, young men and young women presently enrolled are equally paired for choreography work. Singles may take this class, but understandably particiaption in choreographed performances would require a partner. A partner is recommended but not manditory. Private lessons are always the easiest option to those without a partner. Best efforts are made to keep class expence to a minimum.
Shoes and black jazz pants for the girls. Shoes and dark fitted pants for the boys,
Black Teach Me Tango T-shirts will be provided for class. Young women must
have hair pulled away from the face before entering class.
Curriculum
Students have the opportunity to learn choreography as well as leading and following, technique and footwork. We will be working on Bronze Levels 1, 2 & 3. Classes start on September and carry through the summer.
Attire
Class attire and shoes are required. Performance costumes will be a required expense.
Tuition:
$30.00 per person per month.
Registration: $15.90 per person.
Kids 6-12.
Presently there is no class for this age group, however I would very much like to to start one. If you have a group of young gentlemen and young ladies, I would be happy to open a class for your children. There is a 10% discount on family members if brothers and sisters would like to enroll together.
Presently, I do take children in private lesson format. Please check the private lessons page for higly reduced lesson rates for children and teens ages 6-18.
This class meets for 90 minutes per week, for the first four weeks a month. We work on one dance per month. Class meets at 7:45 on Wednesdays.
The Bronze Level Intermediate class covers Bronze Levels II and III. Those wishing to enter this class from another studio must see me first.
Ballroom shoes are required for this class.
Intermediate continues to cover Bronze levels II and III in the core 8.
These dances are also added:
Bolero, Night Club Two Step, Salsa, Argentine Tango, Merengue, Samba, West Coast Swing and Hustle
