Joaquín Amenábar plays Bandoneón as a soloist as well as with his tango orchestra "Orquesta Típica de la Guardia Vieja". He dances tango since 1994. He has combined both disciplines and created an absolutely unique and practical method for teaching tango music to dancers without musical education.

His method doesn't use any technical musical language at all. It allows the dancers to learn and incorporate to their dance all the different rhythmic units of tango music, from the simplest to the most complicated ones using a simple dancer's vocabulary.

Throughout the different courses, dancers of all levels can improve their musicality while dancing tango, being the first level course the best first tango class a dancer could take before starting to learn steps and figures.

No steps are taught in these classes. The workshops are not theoretical and the dancers are moving in the dance floor working on the different exercises all throughout the class. In these workshops no difficult steps or figures are used, even though in the higher musical levels of difficulty.

 

Testimonials

“Joaquín Amenabar has been coming to New Zealand for over 15 years. I have been lucky enough to host him on his first two… Read more

Mathew Civil – Auckland, New Zealand

“Joaquin’s information underpins my musicality. The material he presents is really very good. He has thought carefully about how to present his information to… Read more

Martyn Atack – Auckland, New Zealand

Amazing class …. packed with information…great chances to apply concepts and principles that were introduced. The tools used to introduce and build on the… Read more

Rebekah Halpern – San Pedro, Los Angeles, USA

“Joaquin Amenabar has spent years perfecting the teaching of musicality to tango dancers. Over that time, he has developed a systematic and applied way… Read more

Grant Fromont – Auckland, New Zealand

“I’d been playing music professionally for many decades but was a beginner / improver level tango dancer when I attended a series of Joaquin… Read more

Stu Johnstone – Auckland, New Zealand

Joaquin’s workshop was strictly about musicality and understanding the music and it has proven itself priceless. If you get a chance to take one… Read more

Jess Martinez – California, USA

Ancora Grazie Joaquin Amenabar per altro weekend di tanta saggezza, come ha detto una,allieva ILLUMINANTE, conoscere il tuo metodo unico nel mondo non solo… Read more

Mara Mansur – Bari, IT

“I highly recommend going to Joaquin’s workshops, it’s rare to have such expertise and high level of detail from his experience here in NZ.” Read more

Alex White – Wellington, New Zealand