Buenos Aires Tango Society

It is hard to be objective when it comes to assessing the quality of dance teachers or dance schools, so I’ll try and avoid that pitfall and stick to some of those things that some people call «facts».
This dance school is small. Or more accurately, the dance floor is small. And that is probably the biggest disadvantage of this school. In second place would be the lack of air flow, resulting in it becoming a bit too hot. Many tango schools have a bar but this one is too small for a bar. Having said that, there is a dedicated group of tango students who continue to take lessons here. The aforementioned disadvantages don’t seem to mean much to them. One of the advantages of its size is that many of the students know each other. And the lack of a bar isn’t such an issue when a bottle of wine appears out of nowhere at the end of the evening.
What makes this tango school stand out from others? Lessons are given in blocks of five. (It’s a personal thing, but I find short blocks much better than long ones that might be 10 or 14 weeks long. Fourteen weeks sounds like a punishment!) They have a «tango fitness» class — a cross between a tango lesson and an aerobics class, which I don’t think is available elsewhere. It is the only place I know of that has lessons for show tango or stage tango. When you have gone through the late nights, the early starts, the hours of rehearsals necessary for such a show, your fellow performers take on a much different role than «fellow students». And that might be the secret of the place.