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Other Dances

Argentine Tango

Description

Argentine Tango is a social dance originating during the the early 1900's in the barrios of Buenos Aries (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay). The Argentine Tango has since developed active dance communities worldwide.


The Tucson area has an year-round, active Argentine Tango community. In addition, Tucson hosts the annual Tucson Tango Festival (Argentine Tango).



Argentine Tango is a partnered and improvised dance based on variations of walking, turning, and pausing.


The Argentine Tango and American Tango are different. What is the difference?

What is Argentine Tango?

The Dance - Well worth watching, watch to the end, you may be surprised!

An Argentine Tango Dance (dancing a Tango)

Another Argentine Tango Dance (dancing a Tango)

An Argentine Tango Dance (dancing a Vals - an Argentine Tango waltz)


Performance Tango and Stage Tango (Fantasia, choreographed). These are NOT what we teach or dance socially.

Music:

Tango:

  • Franscisco Canaro: El Garron
  • Francisco Canaro: Poema
  • Anibal Troilo: Milongueando En el 40
  • Carlos Di Sarli: Bahia Blanca
  • Color Tango: Gallo Ciego


Vals (Tango Waltz):

  • Juan D'Arienzo: Valsecito de antes


Milonga: (faster music, smaller steps)

  • Edgardo Donato: Ella Es Asi

Tutorials:

Coming Soon

Line Dance

A Line Dance is a choreographed dance in which a group of people dance along to a repeating sequence of steps while arranged in one or more lines or rows. This is done to all genres of music and each dance is usually associated with, and named for, a specific song. Line dancing exercises the brain and the body simultaneously and provides a platform to get involved in a social environment.

Boot Scootin Boogie

 Music:

  • Brooks & Dunn: Music & Lyrics


Tutorials:

  • Boot Scootin Boogie
  • Boot Scootin Boogie with music
  • Another Boot Scootin Boogie with music

Copperhead Road

Music:

  • Steve Earle: Copperhead Road Music and Lyrics


Tutorials:

  • Tutorial - Copperhead Road Line Dance

Cupid Shuffle

Music:

  • Music and Lyrics


Tutorials:

  • Cupid Shuffle Line Dance
  • Cupid Shuffle Line Dance with music 

Electric Slide

Music:

  • Cody Johnson:  - Dance Her Home


Tutorials:

  • Electric Slide Line Dance with music

Fancy Like

Music:

  • Walker Hayes: Fancy Like


Tutorials:

  • Fancy Like
  • Fancy Like with music

Footloose

Music:

  • Kenny Loggins: Footloose with Music Slowed Down for Practice
  • Kenny Loggins: Footloose with Original Music and Lyrics


Tutorials:

  • Fancy Like
  • Fancy Like with Music

Good Time

Music:

  • Allen Jackson: Good Time


Tutorials:

  • Good Time Line Dance
  • Good Time Line Dace with music

Pork Chop Sizzle

Music:

  • Cowboy Troy: Porkchop


Tutorials:

  • Porkchop Sizzle Demo with music

I Love You Arizona

Music:

  • Rex Allen: I Love You Arizona


Tutorials:

  • Demo with music

Slow Dance

These videos provide a quick way to get started dancing and are seldom taught formally in lessons. These dances have many variations but are very simple and enjoyable for slow romantic music. Sometimes at western dances this type of dancing is referred to as “buckle polishers”.

Tutorials:

  • Slow dance: Weddings, Proms, and Parties
  • Slow dance: Tips for absolute Beginners
  • Brett Long: Nightclub Slow Dancing

Square Dance

A Square Dance is a dance for four couples arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square. Square dances contain elements from numerous traditional dances.

Square Dance at Saddlebrooke Ranch:

  • SaddleBrooke Ranch Rancheros Square Dance Club

Polka

Polka music is a form of European dance music. It originated in Bohemia, an area within the Czech Republic. Today, it is a popular dance in Midwest America and is sometimes considered a country/western dance.

Music:

  • Polka’s All Time Greatest Hits  

Tutorials:

  • How to Dance the Polka

Party or Club Dance

This type of dancing has many variations, no formal structure, and allows for individual expression with no partner lead or follow.

Tutorials:

  • 60's Dance Moves
  • 60s Dance Moves by matchless
  • 80s Dance Moves by matchless
  • Over 60 Moves for Guys and Gals

Saddlebrooke Ranch Social Dance Club

...and Dance like no one is watching