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May 2024

28m 13s

4 common mistakes when learning tango

About this episode

If you want to succeed in tango, you gotta learn the right stuff. There are plenty of dancers out there who spend years working on their tango and not getting anywhere. Frequently, it has little do with with WHAT they are learning and more with HOW they are learning it.

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