Tomas' Workshop Themes

General and Various

- The Tango Pyramid: The 4 pillars for a skillful dance.

- Dance etiquette: Circulation on the dance floor.

- What color is your practica? A class on how to practice skillfully in order to achieve improvement.

- Tango Jewels: A brief collection of short, simple & practical forgotten classics.

- A class on "yeites": the secrets that make the whole difference.

- The subtle milonguero (tomas’s specials).

- Leaders development: involve yourself into a complete tango experience. Understanding your own dance through leading and following skills.

- Follower’s technique: a class based on the leader’s perspective.

- Breaking codes and rules: Playing with our habits.

- Changes of/in Dynamic: shape movement to convey quality.

- Extreme Tango (very advanced).

- The leader's colgada (very advanced).

- The turning point: twirls and turns in close.

- Twirls and turns.

Connection

- A connection trip.

- The Conscious Tango Connection.

- Tango Teasers: offer and share some tango temptations with your partner.

- Expression and meaning in tango: achieving communication skills through understanding significance

Close embrace

- Milonguero who? Social dancing in Buenos Aires.

- Freedom of movement in close embrace.

- One axis in movement: Dancing closer than close.

- Turns in close embrace.

- Twirls in close.

- Open in close: an open embrace in a close position.

- Exploring the inner space (intimacy and contact).

Musicality

- Tango traspie: Playing with rhythm, musicality and connection on the quick beat.

- The musical embrace: the intimate musicality.

- Vals: the romance of rhythm and melody.

- Vals Drills: musicality.

- Vals: drills and thrills.

- Milonga traspie and falsety: an overview on traspie, balanceo and falsety.

- Milonga: drills and thrills.

- Milonga larga, milonga corta.

Technique and Mechanics

 - Structure 1: The walk, space, systems and directions.

 - Structure 2: The crosses, the one step turn.

 - Structure 3: The turning wheel.

 - Structure 4: Changes of direction and rewinds.