Tango Argentin avec Marianne et Mauricio / Argentine Tango with Marianne et Mauricio

Marianne

Mauricio

Marianne is a professional tango dancer and teacher. She lives in Geneva since 2016 and dances Tango since 2009. Marianne worked for the United Nations in Maputo, Mozambique, where she also held her own dance school for several years. With a background in classical dance and carnival samba, Marianne's pedagogy is playful, gentle, and encouraging. Marianne currently lives in Geneva where she works with Mauricio Borgarello.

Mauricio Borgarello is a professional tango dancer and teacher who grew up in tango culture in Montevideo, Uruguay. After his tango debute in 1999, he followed a professional training with the best teachers of Montevideo and Buenos Aires (among others Pablo Villaraza and Dana Frigoli, Mariano "Chicho" Frumboli, Mauricio Castro, Claudio Gonzales and Melina Brufman, Matias Facio and Kara Wenham, etc.). In 2012, the association "Tango Nuevo" took him to teach in Switzerland.

Marianne est une professeure et danseuse professionnelle de tango. Elle vit à Genève depuis 2016 et danse le tango depuis 2009. Marianne a travaillé pour les Nations-Unies à Maputo au Mozambique où elle a fondé et tenu sa propre école de danse pendant de nombreuses années. Ayant une formation en danse classique et en samba de carnaval, la pédagogie de Marianne est amusante, douce et encourageante. Marianne habite toujours à Genève où elle travaille avec Mauricio Borgarello.

Mauricio Borgarello est un professeur et un danseur professionnel de tango. Il a grandi dans la culture du tango à Montevideo en Uruguay. Après des débuts en 1999, il a suivi une formation professionnelle avec les meilleurs enseignants de Montevideo et de Buenos Aires (avec entre autres : Pablo Villaraza and Dana Frigoli, Mariano "Chicho" Frumboli, Mauricio Castro, Claudio Gonzales and Melina Brufman, Matias Facio and Kara Wenham,...). Depuis 2012, il enseigne en Suisse avec l'association "Tango Nuevo".


    Information for the Lessons / Information sur les cours

There is no need to come in couples / Il n'est pas necessaire de venir en couples

No previous dance experience required to start enjoying tango! / Pas besoin d'experience préalable pour commencer à apprécier le tango.

    Milonga

The Argentine Tango is an evolution of the Milonga, which was quite common in the Rio de la Plata area of Argentina and Uruguay. Its roots can be traced to the African community in Argentina and Uruguay. It was one of the most popular dances in that area in the 1870s.

Milonga music derived from an earlier style of singing known as the payada de contrapunto. The song was set to a lively 2/4 tempo and often included musical improvisation.
Over time, dance steps and other musical influences were added, eventually giving rise to Tango.

Movements in Milonga are normally faster with respect to Tango and there are typically no pauses. It is a kind of rhythmic walking without complicated figures, with a much more "rustic" style than Tango.

There are different styles of Milonga:
> Milonga Lisa (Simple Milonga), in which the dancer steps on every beat of the music;
> Milonga con Traspié, in which the dancer uses Traspiés or contrapasos (changes of weight from one foot to the other and back again in double time or three steps in two beats) to interpret the music.