In Bulgaria I found that tango is about improvisation, a deep connection with your partner, minimal signals and a sophisticated musical style. Here I came across different groups which not only dance together but also chat, drink and go out.
In Argentina tango was for me a dance for elderly people. While here in Varna tango is a social activity, a never ending learning process and a moment where I relax and enjoy the connection with my dance partner and the music.
While there is a vibrant tango community in Varna with many events weekly, it is difficult to find out what is going on outside small groups in Facebook. Because of this, I promote all free, non-commercial and commercial tango events with this website, Facebook and on @socialtangovarna on Instagram and TikTok.
If you are eager to try tango, drop me a line and I hope we meet in one of the coming events.
Enjoying learning tango since September 2022…
Antonio Robirosa
My goal
To promote an open social tango community based in Varna, Bulgaria.
Breaking it down:
- Open: we want to be open to everyone, inclusive and tolerant of different cultures, religions, social backgrounds, and personalities. Everyone, with or without experience in tango, is welcome!
- Social: we want to spend time together, create a “family” feeling of belonging, build friendships and have fun together, even outside tango
- Tango: we want to dance social tango to develop our personal skills and have fun
- Community: we are a community, we socialize together outside of tango, we encourage experimentation, we learn from each other. We help people to organize workshops and courses, form small tango groups either for one-off projects or more permanently
“Tango” and “Social” equal. Remove the tango and our community becomes just another boring social group that doesn’t do anything for your personal development. Remove the social and our community becomes just another group for improving your dancing skills and loses its magic, the “family” feeling.
Our values
- Passion: We are committed in heart and mind about dancing tango to connect with other people and improve our life
- Inclusiveness: We respect all cultures, religions, political ideas, social backgrounds, sexual orientations, and kinks. We celebrate the diversity of the whole of humankind. We know that people with different ideas, strengths, interests, and cultural backgrounds enrich our practices, workshops and other events
- Openness: Beginners and travellers are welcome. On our events, they get support from our experienced dancers
- Collaboration: We leverage our collective genius helping each other on the dancing floor and outside it. We moderate workshops, organize special training, trips to tango festivals together as a self-organizing community. Furthermore, we train new moderators and share our different views on tango
- Courage: We are ready to push ourselves outside our comfort zone to learn new dancing skills
- Playfulness: As adults, we have fun in a healthy way though dancing tango
Why is Tango our passion?
Social tango is different from any other hobby because:
- failure is allowed. You aren’t at the university and you don’t get a bad grade if you make a mistake
- you need to think positive and accept what your partner proposes
- you need to cooperate
- you have to develop a deep connection with your partner and feel all nuances in her/his body where they want to move next