Tango Workshop

Followers’ Pyramid Workshop – Unlock the Magic of Connection

Followers’ Pyramid is a transformational approach to understanding tango from the follower’s perspective — built on years of exploration into embodied learning, follower psychology, biomechanics, and neuroscience.

Whether you're a complete beginner or an experienced follower looking to go deeper, this workshop offers a clear, empowering system that helps you follow with greater confidence, sensitivity, and creative joy.

I developed this framework not just from personal experience as a tango dancer, but through deep study of how followers actually process movement, emotion, and music in real time. By mapping the inner workings of great following — and the typical challenges we all face — the Followers’ Pyramid helps you grow faster, more consciously, and with far more pleasure.

What you’ll get in this intensive:

• A practical, layered system (the “Pyramid”) for building reliable, expressive following from the ground up
• Tools to enter “The Zone” — a flow state where following feels effortless, connected, and joyful
• The 4-Step Framework of Following:
  → External Observation → Internal Feeling → Interpretation → Execution
• Exercises to train Visual Running Commentary — the secret to moment-to-moment body awareness
• Mental models and memory insights (based on cognitive science!) to help you learn faster and more deeply
• Strategies to navigate typical follower frustrations:
  “I’m always a beat behind.” “I’m guessing the steps.” “I feel disconnected or overwhelmed.”
• The truth about myths like “followers just follow” or “you’re either graceful or not”
• Insight into how adornments, grammar, technique, and musicality fit together

Come along, be part of a super creative community, use technology and tools to save years worth of development as a follower! Please note you can follow up the Intensive Crash Course with our regular Saturday Classes and Milonga if you like too.

Our Intensive Crash Courses run for three hours, typically on a Saturday afternoon. You’ll work with our expert teachers on acquiring and rapidly developing your skills across the breadth of tango. These are the current Crash Courses that we are running:

• Milonga Intensive - Musicality and Sequences
• Vals Intensive - Musicality and Cadenas
• Voleos and Ganchos Intensive - Let the legs fly
• Out of Axis - Colgadas Intensive
• Out of Axis - Volcadas Intensive
• Musicality Intensive - Basics, Syncopations, Triples, Quarters, Pauses
• Giros Intensive - Giros with Sacadas and Enrosques
• Milonguero Style Intensive - Technique and Sequences
• Followers Technique
• Leaders 5x5 Mapping System

Who are the courses for?

Our Intensive Crash Courses are for students who want to progress faster in their journey. They are intensive by design and the student has to be willing to work hard and expect a challenging three hours. The courses will work for you if:

• You are looking to progress faster after having learnt the basics of tango or
• You are an experienced dancer and want to make sure that you have got the foundations right for each one of the topics.

You can sign up on your own, we will change partners throughout the course. Alternatively, you can sign up with a fixed partner and stay with them while the rest of the class rotates their partners.

In the course: On each afternoon you’ll focus on just one of these topics, with seven hours’ worth of teaching compressed into one key class. You’ll cover all the basics of each specialism, building your technique from the ground up, and ultimately covering more challenging and advanced concepts in the last hour, to really help push you in taking your tango to the next level. Our structured way of teaching will focus on key tango grammar points and the precise technique for executing movements smoothly on the dance floor; this is a series of courses designed to fast-track ambitious students who want to progress to higher levels of dance more quickly. The nature of our courses is incredibly successful, and we’re always glad to see how quickly students progress after working with us.

This week’s topic is Followers’ Pyramid. You can bring a leader for FREE to this workshop. If you are a leader who is interested in coming along as a volunteer to help the followers, please contact Silvia Bivolaru.