TangoConnection™ Group Class – Summer 2026
ON SUMMER HIATUS until July 29
for absolute beginners through advanced students
The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80303
$15 per person or five lessons for $60
DEEP DIVE CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Learn the art of dancing with connection by integrating The Tango Magic where Everybody Leads, Everybody Follows, Flowing Downstream in Line of Dance – your passport to Argentine Tango social dancing!!!
Whether you are a BEGINNER or an EXPERIENCED dancer, our goal for you and all our tango students is to facilitate your potential to become the most popular social tango dancer for a thousand miles around! After almost 30 years of travelling the world training, teaching, performing, social dancing and organizing successful tango events across 3 continents, we’re very proud and also humbly grateful to have assisted thousands of students to achieve their tango goals. We’re eager for the opportunity to do the same for YOU – even if you don’t know what your goals are in the beginning, we’ll discover them together.
We look forward to welcoming you to the exciting world of Argentine tango social dancing – all levels welcome in our group and private class schedule! Join us to discover for yourself why brand new through experienced students return week after week, month after month, year after year to train with Dance of the Heart. It’s YOUR turn to enjoy the pleasures and challenges inside our unique dance community of learning and deepening tango skills inherent in our thorough, delightful, effective and popular classes.
RESULTS!
We’re very proud of our students because so many develop into popular and talented Argentine tango social dancers (and even teachers themselves!). After decades of teaching across 3 continents in group and private lesson settings, we’ve taught thousands of people the joys of Argentine tango social dance. We’re confident we can do the same for you!
Students are delighted to discover our class material builds in an engaging, smooth and accessible way, whether you bring a group of friends, a partner or attend our classes solo. Among the many necessary ingredients in our highly successful ‘secret sauce’ TangoConnection™ classes includes an embedded rotating curriculum we deliver in a methodical, structured yet dynamic way so that no two classes are alike. Absolute beginners through highly skilled veteran dancers are attracted to our classes because we simultaneously introduce fresh material while reviewing and reinforcing clean fundamentals. In other words, don’t be surprised to find skilled students who take classes repetitively and don’t be surprised if that includes you one day!
Delivered with professionalism, humor and warm personal attention by our dedicated DoTH team, our classes support each student to pursue the universe of endlessly fascinating Argentine tango material at your individual pace. Our DoTH commitment is to deliver playful yet powerful learning experiences that facilitate individual creativity, confidence and personal style while inviting students to investigate our very diverse tango social dance community.
OUR APPROACH TO LEARNING TANGO:
Before you can fly a plane or sail a boat, you go to “ground school”! Argentine tango dancing is absolutely the same (but MUCH more fun)!
The 7pm class features an introduction to the fundamental tango connection that we call “The Magic”! Unique to our approach, we’ll share with you the simple “secret” to discovering a GREAT tango dance with ANY partner. This has nothing to do with memorizing the “right” steps and much more to do with how you and your partner are experiencing each other’s movements in the moment. You can apply “The Magic” with every partner, including dancers who never studied our approach.
Once you have The Magic, we introduce the “geography” of tango – what we call the “tango river” – so students internalize right from the start, the safest and most secure way to move on the tango dance floor (“flowing downstream” in line of dance). Not only does this allow you to feel confident sharing the floor with more advanced students, it’s the ideal preparation to successfully dance in the “real world” of social tango events.
From there, we guide you through a thorough rotating curriculum packed full with essential, fascinating and delightful tango fundamental “figures” or “steps.” Divided into 5 separate topics, we urge students to take these lessons at YOUR convenience, designing your attendance as best suits your unique schedule and learning style. This can mean attending every week, taking all 5 lessons sequentially. Because these classes also accommodate drop-in students, they can be taken in any order and with whatever level of frequency and/or repetition works best for each individual. Return/rinse/repeat or move on to our Int/Adv classes as your skills develop.
We note most people have more fun and achieve longer-lasting success when offered the freedom to take the classes in any order, frequency and with whatever repetition promotes relaxed learning at YOUR preferred pace. Read on below for complete class descriptions.
We name our five tango classes after popular tango composers to eliminate a specific sequence that must be followed. Start with any of them as your first class, skip a class, take them in any order, re-heat your favorite slice – just like eating a pizza! Who cares which slice you eat first, as long as you eat them all!
“Carlos di Sarli” …to address the elegant fundamental Walk and Ochos
“Juan D’Arienzo” …to study La Cruzada, Corners and Turns
“Francisco Canaro” …to train the irresistible Milonga rhythm
“Pablo Pugliese” …to focus on Musicality and Expression
“Miguel Caló” …to add variations in Turns within the infectious Vals rhythm
Each class has a unique emphasis on connection, musicality and technique to practice material while navigating safely within a specific rhythm. We announce class material in advance of each lesson through our weekly e-newsletter, “Tango Training Notes.” Our free Training Notes are filled with announcements about social dance opportunities, notes about upcoming and past classes, book and video reviews pertinent to your tango explorations and more.
No matter which class you take or how many times you repeat, our signature teaching approach emphasizes The Magic and encourages that:
“Everybody Leads, Everybody Follows, Flowing Downstream in Line of Dance”
No partner needed, just your willingness to explore, discover, enjoy! You’ll be accompanied by marvelous fellow students and gorgeous inspiring music with caring professional teachers dedicated to your progress. Each class builds world class quality social dancers from the ground up – easily, elegantly, playfully, expertly.
START ANY TIME!
In our TangoConnection™ class structure, we look at the basics of tango from five different perspectives and named each lesson after one of five of the most conventionally famous tango orchestras – Di Sarli, D’Arienzo, Pugliese, Calo and Canaro. Students receive a structured presentation of rotating topics that delivers a thorough exposure to the foundations of Argentine tango dancing with the additional layer of ear-training. This approach lures not only brand new beginners who appreciate a supportive and exciting learning environment, but students with years of tango training who return again and again to refine their technique and understanding. We’ve successfully launched THOUSANDS of students into the exciting world of Argentine tango through these classes which prepare students to enter the social dance arena with confidence and pleasure.
No partner is required, but we recommend bringing a sense of humor and adventure! For a complete exposure to learning the basics of tango, take all five classes. It’s typical that individuals enter our series with different schedule constraints and levels of previous preparation from a variety of other experiences and teachers. We recommend rotating through all five of our fundamentals classes at least once. Repetition is also a very popular option and a great method for integrating the basics and laying a strong foundation for more.
For students with the ambition to explore deeply, we offer a glorious constellation of training opportunities to go for your full tango potential! Private Lessons with Brian & Deb will maximize your enjoyment and accelerate your tango potential in our Boulder Dance of the Heart studio.
Use all the above as preparation to register for our TangoIntensivo™ Intermediate/Advanced training sessions in Buenos Aires, Argentina featuring LUCIANA VALLE and our acclaimed TangoIntensivo™ team!
SEE YOU IN CLASS!!!