Hello, we’re Bruno, Paula and the full team!
We are Tanguito instructors and we are really excited to share with you our passion for tango! Trust us, we’ll do our utmost to make you shine on the dance floor. If you’re anything like us, you’ll fall in love with tango in no time.
We are happy to meet you and share our passion for tango! Tango is, in our opinion (call us biaised) the most delicate, beautiful, sophisticated and simply mind-blowing dance there is.
Why? Because it’s much more than a dance. It is a music style, it is a profound and fascinated culture, and at the most intrinsic level, it is a connection between two people, who might know each other well, or who might have just met mere minutes ago. It is, as we say, a connection of hearts, as much as it is a language – a wordless language that uses the body to communicate.
The team at Tanguito is managed by Bruno V. Abeele, and consists of Bruno, Paula and the full team of assistants including Asta, Cate, Esra and Will. We are all professionally trained and will do everything in our power for you to learn to dance tango, regardless of prior experience. Are you a beginner? Perfect, we can show you how tango works from the beginning, as we like to focus on technique, our forte – your best ally when learning tango. Are you an experienced dancer? We would love to meet you and help you further improve your dancing, from style to musicality, technique to embrace, we will adapt our teaching to you.
Tanguito instructors have all taught tango for a long time (Bruno, well over a decade), danced it a LOT (20 years+), participated in tango shows, and made tango not only our passion but something we profoundly want to share.
We are looking forward to meeting you and passing to you that amazing south American inner fire that is taking the world by storm.
Tanguito instructors, Bruno, Paula and the team
Tanguito instructors’
tango journey
After his first trip to Buenos Aires, he carried on tango out of addiction: to the music, to the embrace, to the fascinating tango culture, to the beauty of the dance and the emphasis on the ‘here and now’. He then trained in Buenos Aires with truly generous teachers such as the 2008 tango world champions Daniel Nacucchio and Cristina Sosa, Lorena Ermocida, triple champion Fernando Carrasco and old school milongeros like Chiche, amongst others.
Bruno has been teaching tango since 2011, and has taught in the UK, France, Argentina, Japan amongst other places.
Based in London, UK, she is regularly invited to work with national and international Tango communities with different dance partners. She is a resident teacher at Tanguito. She is also touring the UK and abroad on a regular basis.
Innovation is not limited to high tech.
It happens in tango too!
Tanguito began with the idea of bringing new ideas to tango instruction. This is how the team came up with our unique teaching methodology.
The year at Tanguito
Classes are organised around nine Tango Dimensions™. We developed this framework to make concepts easy to understand and help you find your own style of dancing. Tanguito instructors plan each class carefully so that you develop the skills necessary to become a great dancer and enjoy social dancing. Classes follow 3 axis: repertoire of steps, technique and musicality. In class, and on our blog, we also talk a lot about tango culture and history.
Class structure
Long step sequences are hard to use in a milonga – especially if you want to listen to the music and stay in the line of dance. For this reason, we prefer to break sequences into individual steps and to focus on concepts or energies rather than sequences. In our experience, it is easier for students to learn this way and create their own sequences.
Our learning tools
- A class is once a week (more if you’re addicted of course), but it’s easy to forget between one class and the next. This is why we thought about class notes and videos. They make students’ life easier and they’re a good step by step reference.
- Tango movements just do not feel natural at first and they take time to perfect. Also tango is so deep that there’s always something new to learn. For this reason, it can be easy to lose track of what has been achieved. Don’t hesitate to ask your instructor how much you have progressed: it’s always nice to pat oneself on the back!
- Every class is followed by a practica or a milonga – so you can put into practice what you have learnt.
- Continuous effort is always better than one-off attempts, so we incorporated ‘continuous learning’ which really is homework but completely voluntary. If only that had been the case with maths at school!
