Weekly classes · Tuesday and Wednesday

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Four classes, with different material and depths. The weekly status and next dates are calculated in Lausanne time.

Tuesday19:00
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Basics

For beginners—and for intermediate or advanced dancers revisiting the foundations at their own level.

60 min
Tuesday20:00
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non-Basics

Normal Argentine tango material beyond basic vocabulary for intermediate and advanced dancers. Curious teachers are equally welcome.

60 min
Wednesday19:15
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Intermediates

Classical non-basic themes, often revisiting Tuesday material at a higher level of difficulty.

60 min
Wednesday20:15
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Advanced & Intermediates

An exploratory class using less familiar ways to examine rhythm, roles, perception and movement.

60 min

Teaching in movement

Four ways in. One tango.

A lesson is not reduced to a figure to reproduce. Shawn connects several ways of entering movement, according to the people present and the question of the moment.

  1. 01

    The body

    Support, axis, weight, breath, technique and styling: feel how movement becomes possible before trying to display it.

  2. 02

    The relationship

    Communication, connection, roles and autonomy: understand space within the couple, between couples and in the ronda.

  3. 03

    Listening

    Rhythm, phrasing, silence, density and dynamics: hear more than the beat, then choose how to respond.

  4. 04

    Perception

    See a pathway, intention or structure through movement, an image, chalk on the floor or sometimes a dance model.

None of these paths is a level.

A beginner and a highly experienced dancer can enter through the same path without doing the same work. Those who teach can also renew their dancing, perception and pedagogical ideas.

Artwork of a wooden dance floor covered with chalk circles, spirals, axes and pathways

See · trace · understand

Sometimes the floor becomes a blackboard.

Shawn regularly uses chalk to make an idea visible: a direction, a spiral, an axis, a relationship of distance or the path of a movement. Not everything passes through words. A mark on the floor can let the body understand differently.

Artwork created by Shawn for an earlier campaign — it evokes a real practice in his teaching.

The physical nature of movement

Weight. Wind. Water.

For Shawn, dynamics is not simply about “dancing musically”. It concerns how force begins, travels, meets resistance, changes direction, becomes suspended and then dissipates through two bodies.

The images exaggerate like metaphors. The class brings those forces back to the floor, the partner and choices that can genuinely be felt.

Two in one evening

Continuity—with one box.

The second lesson builds on the first and uses one box on the Tango Card rather than two.

Under 16

Young dancers are welcome.

Come with a legal adult who remains in the room—free when watching, or at the normal price when joining the class.

Already attending as a class pair

Your pair remains yours. Your circle can grow.

You may remain together throughout: rotation is never imposed. If it is useful to you both, the first week of the month is also a chance to meet other dancers. Those connections may broaden your circle of possible class partners for a future evening when your usual partner is away—when the wish to work together again is mutual.

Looking between classes

Keep the conversation open.

The partner WhatsApp group lets dancers introduce themselves before the next open week. It is a place to make contact, not a matching service.

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Good to know

May I attend without a partner?

Yes, during the first week of the month for your chosen class. For the later weeks that month, return as a pair. If no class partnership has taken shape yet, the next solo entry point is during the first week of the following month.

Will I definitely find a partner?

No. The evening lets people meet and try dancing together; it guarantees neither availability, compatibility nor a continuation. Any class partnership is freely decided by the people concerned.

What if I already attend with a regular partner?

Stay together if you wish. Meeting or dancing with anyone else is entirely optional. The evening may simply broaden your circle for future classes, with everyone’s agreement.

May I watch first?

Yes. You may watch any group class free of charge and take notes. Photography and filming are reserved for participating students, among themselves and with everyone’s agreement.

Ready to begin—or begin your tango again?

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