Ron Terrazas
Ron has been organizing milongas and DJing in Tucson since 2006 and teaching since 2008. On Mondays he teaches a basic class at Hotel Arizona and once or twice a month hosts a milonga there as well.
“There is nothing more beautiful than basic steps. In Argentina you won’t see people doing a lot of steps. In a dance, three steps are too much.” …Carlos Gavito.
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My class isn’t about steps. It focuses on teaching men how to lead from his chest to hers, from the very first moment. I teach women sensitivity to the chest lead. We de-emphasize choreography in favor of improvization that employs basic tango elements, good weight control, good tango milonguero posture. Some experienced dancers have said that this was their first real exposure to this kind of tango…so the class gets a lot of intermediate dancers at the basic class as well. It is not suited to dancers who don’t like chest to chest embrace….but it is the real tango of Buenos Aires.
What Ron thinks tango is about.
Tango is such a personal experience. But I believe that in the continuum of tango aficionados . . .
There are those who dance something like tango (and sometimes even to tango music!);
There are those who dance tango (some do it very well);
There are those who simply…tango (ahhhh!).
Oh, yes, there is a difference! I strive to simply…tango. If dancing is what you think is important there are other guys in town who perhaps dance better than I do. But for me as a man tango is first and foremost about embracing a woman, heart to heart, feeling her softness against me, experiencing the feel and smell of this feminine creature as a woman first, then, as a dancer second. Then, it’s about protecting her on the dance floor as we move together in the crowd, becoming one entity with four legs, touched (I hope) by the same sentiments coming through in the music and lyrics.
But that’s me…..maybe not you. For you it may be first about…dancing. I think that the more you’ve experienced pain and loss in your life the more you’ll feel tango as I do. The more you have seen of authentic social tango, especially in Buenos Aires, the more you will discern “good tango” from “good dancing.”