We started dancing in 1987 at the Buda Dance Club, where we also partcipated in founding the Botafogo Dance Ensemble (now very succesful in international latin formation competitions). Besides formation dancing, we competed in interenational ballroom until 1992. We tried several dance styles from flamenco, through afro to tap dancing, then in 1993 we ended up at argentine tango.

As there were no argentine tango teachers in Hungary at the time, in autumn 1995 we travelled to Buenos Aires to study the dance for a year. We have visited many of the milongas and dance classes in Buenos Aires .

The style danced by the common people have been always closer to our hearts than stage tango, so we got most of our knowledge from the people of the street: we have studied the style and moves of older (or younger) gentlemen and ladies. We have taken lessons from dancers like Aurora and Jorge Firpo, Rubén Terbalca, Indio, Graciéla Gonzales, Jorge Rodriguez and canyengue teachers Marta y Luis.

Since then we have returned many times (not as many times as wanted though) to Buenos Aires and the other home of tango, Montevideo, to charge ourselves with tango. András also starred in a documentary movie about tango life in Uruguay titled Domingeando.
We believe the most important aspect of argentine tango is the improvisation and the harmony within the couple.

Tango argentino is an urban folk dance, a living amusement form. András, building on his experiences in Hungarian folk dancing, puts an emphasis on exact leading and light mood, beside the steps, at our tango classes before the milonga (Tango y Alma) at 6.00pm.

We also give private lessons to people who are too shy or ambitious.

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Tel: +36 (1) 3751238
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