Syncopated Styling for Milonga - Tango Workshop

Syncopation is an essential part of funky milonga style in Argentine tango for both leaders and followers. Nicolas and Miriam will introduce new ways for you to incorporate syncopated style into your milonga and give you a strong technical basis to your milonga dance. At this intensive tango workshop you will learn how to add syncopation to your milonga styling by contrasting this highly syncopated style with the smoother and more even tango aesthetic. You will also be given you strengthening exercises designed to get the principle assimilated into your muscle memory and make you look more like a tango dancer by enhancing your posture, balance and flexibility.

No need to bring a partner. This is an open-level workshop, all welcome! 

Sunday 18th January 2026 12-2pm, £20

Colchester city centre, parking available.

Text Miriam on 07706746750 to book your place.

The pencil skirt principle is essential for both leaders and followers to achieve that recognisable Argentine tango aesthetic and to give a strong technical basis to your dance. At this intensive tango workshop Miriam Gita will show you how to apply the pencil skirt principle to your styling and technique and give you strengthening exercises designed to get the principle assimilated into your muscle memory and make you look more like a tango dancer by enhancing your posture, balance and flexibility.

No need to bring a partner. This is an open-level workshop, all welcome! 

Sunday 11th January 2026 12-2pm, £10, Colchester city centre, parking available.
Text me on 07706746750 to book your place.

The embrace defines and enables our tango and how you use your arms is an important aspect of the embrace. This workshop will cover the differences between the use of the arms in the different types of tango embrace and how your arms can intensify your connection, express your musicality and even help with your floor craft.

No need to bring a partner. This is an open-level workshop, all welcome! 

Sunday 4th January 2026 12-2pm, £10

Colchester city centre, parking available.

Text me on 07706746750 to book your place.

The pause is one of the most important "moves" in tango both for the expression of your musicality and for intensification of the connection between leader and follower. The magic of Argentine tango is in its mood and aesthetic. In order to achieve this iconic look for yourself you need to pay close attention to your posture, the pose with which you move and the poses you create throughout your dance and especially in those moments of suspension into a soft pause. 

At this intensive Argentine tango workshop Miriam and Nicolas will give you specific technique tips and exercises to increase your beneficial use of suspension in every step you take to make you really look like a tango dancer and help you unlock your potential to improve your tango.

The technical skills vital to achieving this will be taught in great detail and you will be given options to make it attainable and satisfying whether you want an ambitious challenge or a simple introduction to the concept. 

During the workshop Nicolas and Miriam will give you beneficial strengthening exercises to practice at home as well as advice on how to stay with the music in your dance. No need to bring a partner, some tango experience is essential for this workshop. This two-hour workshop is suitable for all with useful simplifications given to beginners as well as advanced challenges on offer for more experienced tangueros. No partner necessary.

Sunday 7th December 12-2pm, £20
Headgate Theatre dance studio, 14 Chapel Street North, Colchester, Essex, CO2 7AT

Experienced professional Argentine tango teachers Nicolas Ignacio Godoy and Miriam Gita bring you a special workshop on the subject of linking and combining sacadas in various and diverse ways using understanding of the technique necessary to lead and follow this exciting and dynamic movement. This intensive workshop will take you to a better understanding of what sacadas involve from a technical point of view and with respect to the music and open up more possibilities for you to enjoy them in your tango. You will be given plenty of time to practice your new moves with different partners to make sure that you can genuinely lead or follow real sacadas rather than just walking through them by rote.

During the workshop Nicolas and Miriam will give you beneficial strengthening exercises to practice at home as well as advice on how to stay with the music in your dance. No need to bring a partner, some tango experience is essential for this workshop.

Sunday 30th November 12-2pm, £20
Headgate Theatre dance studio, 14 Chapel Street North, Colchester, Essex, CO2 7AT

This intensive intermediate Argentine Tango workshop on the use of directionality to focus your tango, with experienced tango teachers Nicolas Ignacio Godoy and Miriam Gita, will give you essential tools to sharpen and bring into focus your tango dancing and enable you to navigate both the music and the social dance floor better and find more opportunities to gracefully and musically integrate into the ronda with flow and elegance. During the workshop Nicolas and Miriam will give you beneficial strengthening exercises to practice at home as well as advice on how to stay with the music in your dance. No need to bring a partner, some tango experience is essential for this workshop.

Sunday 23rd November 12-2pm, £20 Headgate Theatre dance studio, Colchester, CO2 7AT

This intensive improvers Argentine Tango workshop on musicality and dynamism with experienced tango teachers Nicolas Ignacio Godoy and Miriam Gita will challenge the expression of your relationship with the music and help you unlock the passion and dynamism in your musicality. Sunday 9th November 12-2pm, £20, Headgate Theatre dance studio

Join our friendly Colchester tango community and dive into the vibrant world of Argentine tango! 

No need to bring a partner and no dance experience necessary. This is a mixed-level group class always welcoming new beginners who learn quickly with the friendly encouragement of more experienced tango dancers. And for those of you with more tango experience I always have challenges and exercises to get your tango up to the next level. 

Text me on 07706746750 or email thejoyoftango@gmail.com for more details

Colchester city centre, street parking available or at Butt Road or St. Mary's nearest car parks.