Los Tangringos

We have a
Tango Dance Party
with
Free Instruction
on the first and third Saturdays of every month



For locations, times and other information, contact
Walter & MariLynne Kane , or HUDSON VALLEY TANGO .

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Learn to dance
ARGENTINE TANGO

with us at our Orange County and Westchester County locations



• Tuesdays, El Rincón de Los Tangringos, Harriman, NY
845-783-6002

Thursdays, Westchester Ballroom Studio, Pleasantville, NY
914-602-6194

Fridays, La Montiel Studio, Warwick, NY
845-610-3444

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For details, directions, or to schedule private lessons, contact the studios or e-mail us at tangringo@yahoo.com


Our Tango

The tango that we dance and teach is faithful to its origins in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
It is a social, couples’ dance that grew out of the culture of that region, largely over the first half of the last century,
and whose unique character has engendered world-wide appeal.
It is inseparable from tango music,
which has its own history and ties to the cultural development of Buenos Aires.

Unlike the tango typically seen on stage or television,
the authentic dance is enjoyed by ordinary people who can learn to express the music as they move extemporaneously on the dance floor.

Dancing tango involves use of the natural mechanics of body motion that we employ in our everyday activities: walking, standing, turning.
To dance tango, we extend the use of these natural actions so that we can do them as a couple,
responding fluidly to each other’s movements, allowing the two of us to move as one.

To quote an apt description, "One mind, one heart, four legs."





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About us, Los Tangringos

Walter and MariLynne first met each other on the dance floor as teenagers,
and have been dancing together ever since. When they crossed paths with
Argentine Tango in 1997, it was love at first step. Since then, they
have concentrated on that form, studying with Argentine masters here
and in Buenos Aires, and practicing daily for their own
pleasure and to hone their techniques.

In 1999 they were instrumental in forming Hudson Valley Tango, dedicated to
fostering the growth and expansion of tango in a multi-county region
of New York State, holding regular dance events, sponsoring workshops
and performing demonstrations throughout the area to present tango to a
public that had never experienced it before.

In January 2000, they opened their studio, El Rincón de Los Tangringos, in
Harriman, NY, where they have conducted group and private classes on
a continuing, weekly schedule, and have run milongas regularly at
multiple locations to provide social dance venues for their students to
populate. As the community has matured, some of their former students
have gone on to become teachers themselves and other organizers have
taken on the task of sponsoring social dances and other tango events,
augmenting the choices open to the growing number of tangueros.

More recently, Walter & MariLynne have expanded their range,
having joined the faculties of two dance studios in
Westchester and Orange counties, New York, and have been engaged peridically
as ship-board dance instructors for Norwegian Cruise Lines and Royal Caribbean International.

In addition to having studied extensively with master teachers, notably Danel & Maria Bastone,
Facundo & Kely Posadas, Alberto Paz & Valorie Hart, Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne,
they acquired much of their education in the dance and in the culture
during their annual stays in Buenos Aires, living and dancing among the Porteños,
learning from their example and earning their friendship and respect.
Walter & MariLynne are known for their elegance and clean execution.
Their dancing is extemporaneous, classical and subtle,
that of the traditional milongas of Buenos Aires.

These “lessons of the milongas” have helped define their instructional
qualities as well. They teach the tango of the Buenos Aires milongas;
the tango that is danced in milongas across North America and Europe as
well as in Argentina; the tango that carries the sentimiento, the
emotional connection between the partners and with the music.

Their teaching abilities, grounded on an understanding of the dynamics of
natural movement of the body, have a proven record of bringing new
dancers into the world of tango, and of helping experienced tangueros
expand and refine their techniques.