Author: Matteo

We often get requests for tango music from our new students, and we noticed that when you search for “tango” on Spotify, you get playlists that have nothing to do with tango.

That can be quite misleading if you just started and don’t yet know how to recognize authentic tango music.

To be clear, you do find a lot of tango on Spotify and other platforms. However, you can only find it by searching for the names of specific tango orchestras.

Here are the names of those orchestras, along with some of our favorite songs. You can then explore each orchestra further on Spotify. YouTube, or Apple Music.

1. Lucas Gauto and Naima Gerasopoulou

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Tango seems unique in that many newcomers think that following a few lessons, either in a group or privately, is enough to get into social dancing.

The standard approach for beginning tango students is usually to attend classes for an arbitrary period, after which they jump straight into attending milongas.

It is not a surprise, then, that their typical first experience of social tango dancing is frustrating.

The length of such periods varies. Regardless, the result is often the same. Nothing seems to work; students can’t remember what they did in the classes, and nobody wants to dance with them.

This is the incremental syllabus we follow in our classes.

It is based on years of study and experience teaching students of different levels.

It is currently a work in progress, developed through our interactions with students, and remains incomplete and prone to change.

How the program is applied in our classes will be covered by a separate document.