Health Benefits Of Dancing

There are many reasons to learn Argentine tango in NYC, but health benefits of dance easily outweigh anything else. Here are some reasons to dance through life:

Forever Young

• Dancing keeps you young by keeping the aging process at bay. It benefits the heart, cardiovascular system and increases lung capacity. The muscle exertion and breathing rates of dancers is equivalent to cyclists, swimmers, and Olympic runners.

Strong Bones, Better Joints

• Dance helps the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis for men and women. For women during post-menopause, there can be a significant drop in estrogen levels which stop calcium from being absorbed into the bones. Dancing can also help joints to prevent arthritis.

Calorie Blaster

• Dance exercises the body improving circulation. It helps burn calories while improving stamina. It is estimated that dance burns anywhere from 5 to 10 calories per minute depending on speed and intensity.

Better Blood

• New research has discovered that it is necessary to measure both good and bad cholesterol levels when determining our health. Dancing raises our good cholesterol and is great for diabetics because it aids in blood sugar control.

Mental Mastery

• Dance improves our memory by making us recall steps, routines and dance patterns making it a great mental exercise for our brains. Increasing mental exercise keeps your mind young, quick, alert and open.

Balance

• Balancing yourself in one position may be easy, but balancing in different types of positions is much more difficult. Dancers have mastered the ability to balance themselves in a number of positions.

With so many great reasons to dance, it is impossible to come up with an excuse to not visit us today.

The Wonderful Benefits Of Tango

Those of you who currently tango know why you tango, but you might like to know some of the extra benefits to this wonderful dance and why it is considered by healthcare professionals to be an ideal exercise to benefit social, mental, and physical well-being across the ages. Here are 6 health advantages to tango:

• Physical Exercise
• Tango is good for cardiovascular health. Intensity can be modified to ensure that it is an endurance exercise. It is excellent exercise for people who had a cardiac incident or a heart attack.
• Increases mobility, balance, stride length and core strength
• Social Satisfaction
• Tango dance involves a partner and is engaging and is self-promoting because of the amount of enjoyment and identification within a group of people with similar interests and goals.
• Spirituality and Mindfulness
• Tango induces a state of flow and spirituality which is a state of mind where the action is so pleasurable that you want to do it again and again.Spirituality is often expressed in terms of tango as a holistic activity.
• Mindfulness is improved. Tango helps individuals focus on the present and the task at hand.
• Cognition
• Cognitive skills may be improved. The ability to do two things at once, such as navigating in space and being in sync with your partner is improved.
• Meaningfulness
• Dancers not only want to learn the steps, but execute them gracefully and to be in sync with their partner. Dancers want to challenge themselves to do something new, they want to have fun and meet new people.
• Emotional and Educational Health
• Tango provides an avenue for learning new skills.
• Emotional responses are facilitated by tango music and dancing.

What Is Tango?

Tango is a vibrant and playful dance between two people. It has the potential for rich expression, improvisation, and connection and is danced in both modern and traditional styles. It is often described as a passionate dance, because of the close connection partners can have, the character of the music, and also relating to some of the dance's history. At the heart of Argentine tango in NYC is the desire to listen to, understand and converse with the person you're dancing with, through this unique language of dance. So tango can be many things for different people. Almost any type of music that can be walked to can be tangoed to, which means just about anyone can do it!

Tango is sharing a moment of intimacy and understanding with another person. In tango, there is a leader and follower. Through the embrace, the leader offers invitations to the follower for where and how to step. The follower decides in what way they will accept the leader's invitations. Both leader and follower try to maintain harmony and connection through the embrace, and with the music, and so the dance is born. Like the symbols of yin and yang, the roles of leader and follower each have a little of the other within them. Tango is a collaborative process, which encourages the development of sensitivity, clarity, trust, and respect. With tango it is like there is no past or future, there is only your partner and the music in constant flow. Come in and Tango with us today!

Argentine Tango: An Overview

Argentine tango in NYC is a world in itself. It combines music, dance, singing, and poetry. Tango’s origins go back to the 19th century, somewhere around the 1870’s. It was developed in working class areas outside of Buenos Aires. Between 1860 and 1925, 70% of the immigration population were men who came to Argentina for a better life.Tango was originally played by one musician on a guitar or accordion. Later trios formed adding guitar, flute, violin,or clarinet. these instruments were chosen because they were easy to transport since musicians would travel to different locations throughout the evening.

At first, tango was prohibited in public places due to its voluptuous nature and working class origins. A long time passed before it was accepted in proper people’s homes of high society. According to Tomas Alberto Garcia, at the beginning of the 20th century, during the era known as "La Belle Epoque," Paris was the center of the world, and Argentine aristocracy looked to Paris as a model for itself. Once tango was accepted in France, the high and middle classes in Argentina accepted it; in fact, they took great pride in this uniquely Argentine art form. From France, tango spread through Europe and the rest of the world. More orchestras were formed, and the tango developed, eventually to reach its splendor in the 1940's.

This decade, known as the "Golden Age" of tango, was the most impressive, and families from all levels of Argentine society started to dance, packing the dance halls and making it possible for even the largest orchestras to survive and prosper. Tango finally reached its maturity and was widely accepted so we can still enjoy it today.

4 Dance Teachers Needed - maybe it's YOU?

Are you a ballroom teacher, salsa teacher, ballet or jazz instructor?

Expand your teaching options by adding Argentine Tango to your resume.

Tango Teachers Training program  (TTT) is offered exclusively in New York. It is a 64 hrs / 16 week training (4 hrs a week).

You can attend the TTT just to work on yourself. Widen your horizons. Improve.

But if you really good, have teaching charisma, want to spread Tango around and share your Tango passion with the newcomers by introducing them to Tango community - we are looking to fill 4 teaching positions.

All dance teacher with any kind of dancing experience are welcome. As long as you can aware of your body and have it under control, we give you the base of knowledge necessary to teach.

New session starts: February 3rd 7:30pm at Adelante Studios, 25 West 31st Street, Fl 2, New York, NY 10001.

Main sessions are scheduled every Tuesday 7:30 -- 10:30pm.

Teacher assisting hour is flexible.

Please note following requirements: completed dance training or minimum of 2 years Tango dancing experience or knowledge of following basics:  8 count basic with ocho forward, Ocho cortado, Walking outsidepartner left and right, Rebound, Double time, back and forward crosses, back and forward ochos and the difference between the two, giros to the left and right from front or back ochos, paradas and barridas, including sandwich and mordida steps. 

Cost of the training is $1600 ($800 due at the moment of enrollment. Remaining balance payable in 2 monthly installments of $400). Although we started this program to fill in teaching positions at Ultimate Tango, please note that completion of the curse does not guarantee employment.

For more information please check: http://www.ultimatetango.com/teachers-training.html

If you ready to sign up - ENROLL HERE