Tango Bootcamp for Beginners
No partner needed, no experience needed. For students, postdocs, and their significant others - and others if there is room.
Famous Tango Bootcamp
Robin Thomas' Weekly Beginner Bootcamp is starting January 18th!
To learn more about this, please see our class series page here.
We call all of our first tango classes bootcamps, but really they are the fundamentals of tango. Sometimes we offer weekend bootcamps that cover all of the fundamentals in one weekend over four intensive classes. We always hold bootcamp classes with our weekly Wednesday classes.
WHAT and WHY
The Yale Tango Club meets every Sunday night at GPSCY's to dance tango and socialize. It's a great party with real DJs! Wednesdays we have a class series with famous teachers from New York and some Sundays we also offer classes by famous traveling teachers from all over the US, Canada, Argentina and Europe. We don't compete, we just dance to have fun. To participate in our club, you need to learn the basics of Argentine Tango, so we created the Tango Bootcamp for total beginners. Ask around, everybody on campus has heard about our famous Tango Bootcamp.
The Tango Bootcamp is a short series of intensive basic training to get you ready for our Sunday night social dance floor. We'll teach you walking, rocksteps, the cross, ochos, basic turns, musicality and intro to close embrace tango.
SIGN UP REQUIRED
Bootcamps are usually booked full between 12 and 48 hours after announcement, and sometimes faster for one gender than for the other. We take special care to have perfect gender balance so that everybody always has a partner to dance with.
WHO CAN JOIN
Open to Yale students, postdocs and their Significant Others by priority. Other people may join in the event that there is space left.
WHAT IF YOU MISS A CLASS?
Important: The material in the bootcamp is cumulative so if you miss a class you have to make it up before joining the next class. This is so the whole class isn't slowed down and we can make rapid progress. Email the club to discuss your options, including dropping in during the next bootcamp.
MORE INFO
1. What to bring, what to wear
- Wear comfortable clothes, light shirt or airy top in case it gets hot.
- Bring sturdy, snug-fitting shoes with smooth leather soles if you have some, they are easier to pivot in.
- Ladies, wear shoes with closed toes (for protection) and that fit snugly so you don't step out of them. Again, leather soled shoes are best.
- Shoes that aren't so great for dancing: sneakers (unless for guys if they don't have leather soled shoes), flipflops, clunky platform shoes, open-toed sandals, shoes without heel straps or (better) heel cups. Don't worry too much about looking stylish, dance shoes have to be functional first.
