We’ve put together a Solo Argentine Tango dance routine for you, incorporating a selection of basic Argentine Tango steps. Lesson breakdown and timestamps to jump ahead below.

Our apologies also as it appears there were a few connection issues during the lesson so we had to make a couple of cuts, but you don’t miss any of the tuition thankfully. Hopefully it doesn’t affect your ability to enjoy the class but we will be moving to pre-recorded classes for future videos.

Solo Argentine Tango full lesson videos

You can find the full lesson video below as well as a demo of just the routine too:

Full Lesson

Routine Demo

Want to see a demo of the full Solo Argentine Tango routine? You can find our summary video below:

Full Solo Lesson Breakdown

You can find a breakdown for the lesson elements below:

[00:01:09] The routine starts with a Reverse Basic danced as both leader and follower. Before a Left Giro danced as a leader [00:05:50].

[00:08:30] We then introduce some Ganchos to finish off our first section (and we’ll finish the routine with these too).

We repeat the Basics and Left Giro.

[00:13:07] The Right Giro as a follower comes next once we’ve repeated the basics. There was a slight issue with our connection at around 15 minutes but it was restored and we go over the moves again for you so nothing is missed.

[00:18:51] Our final sequence is called the Fan (with a little flourish!).

There will be some tricky moments in the Solo Argentine Tango routine but we hope you’ll enjoy it as much as our students.

[00:25:30] Is our run through of the routine to music.

Argentine Tango Music Playlist

An Argentine Tango music playlist for practicing the individual movements can be found below:

Not looking for Solo Argentine Tango? We also have a Partner Argentine Tango routine as well as a lesson looking at the Sequence Dance Argentine Stroll.

We hope you enjoy this routine and keep an eye on our YouTube channel for all our videos.

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As we type this we currently have a regular corporate group class that includes attendees in Denmark & Japan; wedding couples in Norwich & Scotland; and students taking the odd private lesson online if their schedule means they can’t make their session at the studio!

Plus enquiries for Zoom Dance Lessons are increasing.

Zoom Wedding First Dance Lessons Online

We’re getting a lot of enquiries for our wedding first dance lessons to be provided online at the moment. Thanks to our dedicated Zoom Dance Lessons setup, not living close to our studio is no longer a restriction on your ability to experience our dance lessons.

We are experienced in how to translate our dance moves into easy to follow instructions online. Our First Dance choreography lessons are tailored around your choice of song. We work with you to put together a routine you can enjoy on your wedding day.

Worried about whether you’ll forget the moves in between sessions? We record some of your Zoom First Dance lessons practices. You are then sent a download link and can refer back to the videos to assist your memory when practicing.

The great thing with our Zoom First Dance lessons setup is that we can be available at short notice. A lot of our wedding first dance lessons enquiries are coming in only a few weeks before their wedding. We provide lessons five days a week (including Sundays) but we can be flexible should you struggle to find slots.

With prices starting from £35 we have options to suit all budgets, including a number of First Dance package options. If you’d like to discuss our First Dance lessons get in touch or search our availability now.

Zoom Private Dance Lessons

Not able to make your booked lesson? Maybe you’re still nervous about the Coronavirus levels or live too far away to attend our studio? Don’t worry we can still provide dance lessons online via Zoom.

Whether it’s fun solo dance routines, learning the basics of Ballroom and Latin American, or adapting Sequence dances to your front rooms, we’re experienced in compressing the dances into confined spaces.

Did you know that during the 2021 UK lockdown we even adapted the Waltz as an 18 week online course!

Lessons can be booked as purely Zoom Dance Lessons (just choose the Zoom option when booking). But we are also able to switch an existing in-person session to Zoom if you find yourself unable to make a booked appointment at short notice.

Interested in booking yourself a Zoom Dance Lesson with one of our team? You can search our availability and book online.

Corporate and Team Building Online Events

Whilst we are experienced in providing dance sessions for corporate events and team building days we have seen a rise in enquiries for streamed sessions.

We run weekly sessions for EJEF (a English-Japanese language school in Buckinghamshire) which includes regular attendees from Japan. They also have colleagues that have taken part in the Zoom Dance Lessons from around the globe (including Denmark & Tehran).

Carers Wales enlisted us to provide a fun Saturday Night Fever workshop as part of their ‘Me Time‘ project. The project aims to support un-paid carers with their mental health, especially due to the effects of the pandemic.

The Zoom Dance session was a great hit, with one person even taking part from a houseboat! We loved hearing how well it went:

Just to say a huge thanks from Amber and I – it was the best afternoon at work ever!!…So many smiley faces…Thanks again … it was a real blast !!!

YouTube Dance Lessons

During the first UK lockdown we produced four videos a week to hopefully keep our students busy and entertained. With options for Solo dancers, Partners, Sequence and Kids we tried to make sure there was something for everyone.

Since the reopening of the dance school we have still tried to maintain a weekly online dance lesson on our YouTube channel. In fact our viewership quickly went global and only around 12% of our viewership are actually based in the UK!

You can see some of our most recent uploads below:

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Looking for more personal tuition? We provide both in-person and streamed lessons and classes. Check out learndance.co.uk/online for more information.

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The video lesson will last for around 30 minutes and we’ll start you off with a few basic beginner Salsa dance steps. There will be a range of steps taught and hopefully you’ll be confident in them all by the end of the class.

Throughout the class we’ll also teach you a simple basic Solo Salsa dance routine.

We’ll talk you through how to do the basic Salsa steps as well as a little on improving the technique of the beginner steps.

The Basic Beginner Salsa Lesson Video

Our lesson will go live on our YouTube channel at 11.30am on Sunday 7th March.

You can join us during the live broadcast and the video will be available to re-watch after the lesson has finished.

Whilst you’re waiting check out our Solo Salsa Dance Routine that we released during lockdown 1.0. This also features some of the basic beginner Salsa steps, as well as a few trickier movements thrown in.

It was our first ever online lesson video, so was a learning curve, but we hope you enjoy it!

Don’t forget if you want to be among the first to know about new videos and lessons subscribe for free to our channel. Make sure to click the ‘notification bell’ to be notified as soon as a new video is available or going live.

We’ll also upload a video demonstration of just the Solo Basic Beginner Salsa dance routine as well as a Salsa dance playlist for you to practice to.

About Learn To Dance

Learn To Dance is a Ballroom and Latin American Dance School based in Burnham, Buckinghamshire.

Offering regular live-stream classes, as well as useful dance uploads, subcribe to be kept informed when new videos are going live. Send us your suggestions of what you’d like to see us release and we’ll do our best!

Looking for more personal tuition on your Basic Beginner Salsa? We provide both in-person and streamed lessons and classes. Check out learndance.co.uk/online for more information.

You can check out our website, or follow us online, at:

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This video gives you a taster of what we’re going to be teaching you in our special Valentine’s Day lesson. Antony will demonstrate the entire routine to music, giving audio cues throughout.

The dance starts at a Viennese Waltz pace before slowing down into a Slow Waltz. You may want to focus on the feet first of all, and then when you’re feeling confident look at introducing the arms.

With our live-stream on Sunday Antony will take you through the solo Waltz dance routine step-by-step. Hopefully by the end you’ll then feel confident to practice the routine without our help.

What steps are in the solo Waltz dance routine?

Our solo Waltz incorporates a number of Slow Waltz dance steps:

• Box Steps both forward and backward
• Reverse Turns as a leader
• Natural Turns as a follower
• Change Steps both forward and backward
• Whisk as a leader
• Left Whisk as a leader
• Wing as a follower
• plus a few American Smooth elements

Once the class is finished we’ll also upload a demonstration without any audio cues if you want to test your memory.

We hope you enjoy this video and if you have any questions before our class feel free to drop them in the comments.

Watch the Solo Waltz Dance Routine video

We hope you enjoyed our Solo Waltz dance routine online dance lesson. Don’t forget to share with your friends and family. You can also check out our other online dance lessons.

About Learn To Dance

Learn To Dance is a Ballroom and Latin American Dance School based in Burnham, Buckinghamshire.

Whilst our studio may be closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak, we’re still trying to help people to keep dancing!

You can check out our website, or follow us online, at:

Website: learndance.co.uk
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• planning
• recording
• editing
• subtitling
• uploading
• promoting the online dance videos.

Oh and it just happens to coincide with our house completion scheduled for this week.

As many of our regular students will know, we sold our house in March 2020. We just got it through as lockdown for the UK was being introduced to combat Covid-19. Unfortunately our onward purchase was delayed and couldn’t proceed during lockdown…until now!

We’re going to be taking a couple of weeks break off the lessons. To give us a chance to get our new house ready, and also prepare our dance studio for hopefully re-opening soon. Then we’ll probably come back with a less packed release schedule.

So here’s our little ‘Taking a Break’ fairwell (just for now), plus some more outtakes for you to enjoy.

Oh and hopefully we’ll all have had a haircut before we see you again!

See our ‘Taking A Break’ Video

Just a little message from us to thank you for all the support you’ve shown over the last 3 months.

Feel free to share our Taking a Break video with anyone that may not have seen it.

About Learn To Dance

Learn To Dance is a Ballroom and Latin American Dance School based in Burnham, Buckinghamshire.

Whilst our studio may be closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak, we’re still trying to help all our students to keep dancing!

Don’t forget, if you enjoyed our online dance videos please send them to your family and friends.

We plan to have more from you once we’ve finished taking our break…and decorating!

You can check out our website to keep updated on re-opening plans, or follow us online, at:

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Sequence dancing is where you repeat the same 16 or 32 bar routine throughout a song, dancing around the room, and in sync with everyone else.

Now that’s great when you have the space! What we’re going to show you today is how to practice the basic movements in your front room.

The Dance – Balmoral Blues

The Balmoral Blues is a nice laid-back dance, albeit with a couple of tricky movements within.

To convert this into the full routine you would dance the initial chassé and lock section down line of dance, and back to where you started.

The chassé to shadow hold is danced down the room, ending facing diagonal to the wall.

The walk and points move diagonally towards the wall for the first set, turning on the point to face diagonal centre for the second set of walks.

The turn at the end commences facing diagonal to wall.

The Music

For this Sequence for Small Spaces lesson we have used Tired of Trying by Red Revision:

The Balmoral Blues video

You can see our Sequence for Small Spaces online lesson below:

Don’t forget, if you enjoyed our online Balmoral Blues sequence dance video please send it to your family and friends. Why not also check out our other online dance lessons.

About Learn To Dance

Learn To Dance is a Ballroom and Latin American Dance School based in Burnham, Buckinghamshire.

Whilst our studio may be closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak, we’re still trying to help all our students to keep dancing!

We hope you enjoyed our Balmoral Blues sequence dance lesson.

You can check out our website, or follow us online, at:

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The lesson will be broken down into easy to follow sections to help you learn the steps, and then builds up from there.

We give you plenty of time to practice the routine as we build it up, but if you’re happy with the basics you can always skip ahead.

Learn Samba

The Samba is the Brazilian carnival dance. Whilst you are normally looking to dance through the streets, we’ll be showing you how to keep it compact.

We’ll start you off with the basic whisks and introduce underarm turns to the right and left.

Then we’re going to try the Argentine Crosses and Stationary Samba Walks, bringing in an underarm turn at the end.

Finally we’re going to look at the Maypoles, rotating in both directions. We’ll also try a direct change from one rotation to the other.

Don’t forget you can always pause and rewind to work on any steps and moves you struggle with.

The Music

For this Learn Samba lesson we have used Swing With You by Mica Emory:

See the Learn Samba dance video

You can see our partner dance lesson video below:

Don’t forget, if you enjoyed our online Learn Samba partner dance video please send it to your family and friends. Why not also check out our other online dance lessons.

About Learn To Dance

Learn To Dance is a Ballroom and Latin American Dance School based in Burnham, Buckinghamshire.

Whilst our studio may be closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak, we’re still trying to help all our students to keep dancing!

If you liked our Learn to Dance the Samba video, you can check out our website, or follow us online, at:

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If you want to know more about our ‘offline’ classes click here.

With our Under 8’s Rainbow class we normally start with a gentle warm-up, followed by a selection of party dances and then whatever dances we are currently working on – adapted for younger kids.

The aim is to have a few fun elements that teach basic techniques.

The Dances – Ballroom Party Dances

In this class we’ll be teaching you how to do a selection of some of our Ballroom Party Dances.

We’ll be teaching you the basic steps of:

• The Farmer’s Wife
• Baby Bus Stop (a simplified version of the Saturday Night Fever line dance)
• Heel-Toe Polka; and
• The Elephant Walk.

As well as being a fun way to start our classes they also help our kids to work on identifying left and right, and pick up some of the basic steps of other dances.

We hope you enjoy the class.

The Music

We have used a selection of music for this week’s Ballroom Party Dances class:

• The Farmer’s Wife

• Baby Bus Stop

• Heel-Toe Polka

• The Elephant Walk

See our Ballroom Party Dances for kids video

You can see our kid’s lesson video below:

Don’t forget, if you enjoyed our online Ballroom Party Dances for kids dance video please send it to your family and friends. Why not also check out our other online dance lessons.

About Learn To Dance

Learn To Dance is a Ballroom and Latin American Dance School based in Burnham, Buckinghamshire.

Whilst our studio may be closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak, we’re still trying to help all our students to keep dancing!

You can check out our website, or follow us online, at:

Website: learndance.co.uk
Youtube: youtube.com/learndance
Facebook: facebook.com/learndance
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We’ll ease you in slowly before building up to fast dances like the Jive, and then coming back down to end with a nice slow Rumba.

Apart from a few quick hints and tips we’re not really going to be teaching the routines, so if you want to brush up on the individual routines you can find links to their lessons below:

The Dances – Brush Up On The Routines

• Salsa
  • including Cucaracha, Back Basics, a Chassé, Cross Basic, Basic with Turns, and a Pata Mala
• Samba
  • including Reverse Basics, Whisks, Bota Fogos, Solo Spot Voltas
• Cha Cha
  • including Alternative Basics, Open Basics, Cuban breaks (including split Cuban breaks), New Yorks, Spot Turns and then a Zig-Zag grapevine with a spring and flick
• Quickstep
  • including Quarter Turns to the Right and Progressive Chassés, Charleston, Tipsies to the Right and Left and Lock Steps
• Viennese Waltz
  • including Pendulum Swings/Hesitation Changes, Natural and Reverse Turns, and a spin (Canter Pivot)
• Jive
  • including Swivels, Fallaway Rocks, Mooch, Toe-Heel Swivels, Flick Ball-Changes, ‘Flicks and Kicks’, Chicken Walks and Stalking Walks, Flick and Break
• Charleston
  • including Scissor Kicks, Suzy Q’s, Tick Tocks, Cross Points, The Lock Turn, Charleston Basics with kicks, Flying Charleston, and Spank The Baby.
• Tango
  • including Walks and Progressive Side Steps, Contra Checks and Promenade, Reverse Turn with some Rocks and Swivels, Oversway, the Chase, and a Point-cross-slip, Basic Reverse Turn
• Rumba
  • including Alternative Basics, Open Basics, Rumba Walks, Cuban Rocks, Cucarachas, Open Outs/Hand-To-Hands, Solo Spirals, Grapevines and Advanced Leg Turns

See our Solo Ballroom Dance Fitness Class video

Once you’ve brushed up on the routines you can try our solo dance fitness class video below:

Don’t forget, if you enjoyed our online Dance Fitness Class video please send it to your family and friends. Why not also check out our online dance lessons.

About Learn To Dance

Learn To Dance is a Ballroom and Latin American Dance School based in Burnham, Buckinghamshire.

Whilst our studio may be closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak, we’re still trying to help all our students to keep dancing!

We hope you enjoyed our Solo Ballroom Dance Fitness Class.

You can check out our website, or follow us online, at:

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Sequence dancing is where you repeat the same 16 or 32 bar routine throughout a song, dancing around the room, and in sync with everyone else.

Now that’s great when you have the space! What we’re going to show you today is how to practice the basic movements in your front room.

The Dance – Sindy (Cindy) Swing

The Sindy Swing features a mixture of Charleston, Cha Cha, Waltz and Quickstep steps.

To convert this into the full routine you would do your lock steps and solo spin down the room. Obviously if near a corner you would still curve round to avoid crashing into the wall!

The box step and shoulder-to-shoulder would be done with the leader facing their nearest wall.

The chassés at the end would be danced down the room, but still turning around your partner. You would still end up side-by-side ready to start again after opening out.

The Music

For this Sequence for Small Spaces lesson we have used These Words Don’t Lie by Mike Franklyn:

The Sindy Swing video

You can see our Sequence for Small Spaces online lesson below:

Don’t forget, if you enjoyed our online Sindy Swing sequence dance video please send it to your family and friends. Why not also check out our other online dance lessons.

About Learn To Dance

Learn To Dance is a Ballroom and Latin American Dance School based in Burnham, Buckinghamshire.

Whilst our studio may be closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak, we’re still trying to help all our students to keep dancing!

We hope you enjoyed our Sindy Swing sequence dance lesson.

You can check out our website, or follow us online, at:

Website: learndance.co.uk
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