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Our tango lessons are based on the style of tango which the locals dance at the heart of Buenos Aires dance halls. In this style, the pleasure is more in the embrace or connection between partners and less of complex steps. In place of complicated footwork, interpretation of the music and its rhythms is important. Truly reflecting the social nature of the dance, the figures do not take up much room on the dance floor and there is respect for other dancers every moment of the dance. This is the preferred style in the crowded salons of Buenos Aires.
❤️“Teaching heart-to-heart, practical tango since 1996.” ❤️​
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Tango Milonguero Lessons
with Semiral

January 12 - February 2 (4 Mondays)
SOLD OUT

New Session
March 9 - April 13 (6 Mondays)
​(FEW SPOTS LEFT)

8 PM - 9 PM Lesson
9PM - 10PM Supervised Practice (inc. in the lesson fee)

  • ​Beginners with some experience welcome
  • Intermediate, Advance dancers with or without Milonguero style experience welcome
  • No partner necessary
  • Class size is limited to 24 students (12 leaders and 12 followers - not gender specific)
Sign up now to secure your spot!
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📍 54 East 4th Avenue, Vancouver B.C.

For Private/Semi-Private Lesson please send an email: [email protected]
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What you will learn

Dancing the social Tango of Buenos Aires with your partner in close embrace.

Essential Milonguero skills
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  • Embrace and connection
  • Floor craft and milonga codes
  • Figures based on slow and rhythmic variations of
    • Walking
    • Salida
    • Cross
    • Ochos
    • Change of direction
    • Turns
Any quetions? E-mail me:
[email protected]

Tango is a non-verbal dialogue of music, emotion, connection and movement within the inner universe of the embrace, combined with navigation through the exterior world of the line of dance. ​
Register by payment

Advance Payment
Until March 4:
​Single: $150
Couple: $275


After March 4
​Single: $170
Couple: $310
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  • Includes 1 hour practice time after each lesson
  • No Drop ins
Pay by Interac and save $5
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Send $5 less than the listed price to [email protected]​​
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What Makes These Lessons Unique

These lessons focus on the authentic Close Embrace / Milonguero style (also called Apilado or Club style) — a way of dancing rarely taught in its true form in Vancouver.

Other Tango styles may also be danced in close embrace, but this style is different:
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  • The embrace remains truly close — you start in close embrace and you finish in close embrace.
  • The upper-body connection is continuous, subtle, warm, and alive — not just an appearance of being close.
  • The lead and follow technique is based on shared axis, upper body connection, and micro-movement – not on opening the embrace to execute large or flashy steps.
  • The vocabulary is musical and compact, designed for dancing comfortably in crowded floors and small spaces.
  • Movements are elegant, simple in appearance, and deeply connected — allowing dancers to feel the music together without interruption.
  • The focus is internal: connection, musicality, comfort, clarity — rather than external appearance.
  • Awareness of the other dancers on the floor, and the codes of social dancing are of utmost importance. 
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(6 Week Lesson Summary)

​This is the style danced every night in the traditional, crowded clubs of Buenos Aires and at Encuentros — the style Semiral has been teaching and practicing since 1996.
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If you value real connection, refined technique, and dancing with ease in any milonga — these lessons are for you.
Lesson summary videos