The Tango Workbook 2nd Edition
A Companion to Your Beginner’s Argentine Tango Dance Class
A workbook created to support your beginner Argentine tango classes: to deepen your understanding and to accompany your growth as a social dancer.
Support Your Learning Beyond the Classroom
Learning Argentine tango is a layered process.
We learn most things through:
seeing
doing
listening
reflecting
practicing
experiencing
The 120 page workbook was created to support this.
Designed to accompany Daniela’s beginner tango classes (or any beginner Argentine tango class), it offers space to engage more fully with the movement, concepts, culture, and lived experience of learning tango.
This Workbook Supports Your Development
It is designed to help beginners organize, reflect on, and deepen their learning experience.
From the first pages, you’ll find opportunities to:
retain and organize what you learn in class
understand foundational movement concepts more clearly
develop awareness through guided reflection
track your progress over time
engage more deeply with tango as both a dance, a culture, and musical form
What’s Inside?
Chapters that follow Daniela’s beginner tango curriculum
Guided prompts to deepen understanding and discussion
Space for class notes, questions, and personal observations
Foundational tango concepts and movement principles
Posture and movement guidance from a biomechanical perspective
Introduction to milonga etiquette and social dance customs
A short history of Argentine tango and the political climate from which it emerged
Curated tango playlist accessible via Spotify
Embodiment-based exercises connecting movement, awareness, and experience
Dedication - to you
to every brave student who has crossed my path - this workbook is dedicated to you.
This book is dedicated to your bravery in beginning.
To showing up when it’s uncomfortable,
to not knowing—and doing it anyway,
to forging through the awkwardness and discovery,
and to staying curious enough to keep going.
To your patience with the learning process,
and to your willingness to listen —
to your body, your partner, and the music.
May these pages accompany you as you find your way inside the magic of this dance.
Daniela Borgialli
Is this Workbook for you?
It is written for:
Beginner Argentine tango students
Students currently taking Daniela’s classes
Those interested in learning to lead and/or follow
Those who like to doodle in the margins
Dancers who value reflective learning
Those interested in both the movement and cultural aspects of tango
Anyone wanting a more supported and intentional learning experience
What People Are Saying
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“Show and tell, tell and show, now try it with the music" is the gist of most Tango lessons. While some students learn by seeing, hearing, or doing, I learn best by scribbling notes after class. With carefully chosen words, photographs, and sketches, The Tango Workbook is a useful adjunct for anyone who studies or teaches Tango. Borgialli describes more than just basic technique; her chapters portray the musical energy that travels through the embrace and soul to emerge as dance. Her insights into passion and partner communication are fresh. The Tango Workbook is an excellent resource for dancers in their perpetual quest to understand this elegant art. One can read and imagine repeatedly and, to my delight, the sturdy pages provide ample space for notes.
John Lynn, Colorado Springs
Get Your Copy
The Tango Workbook (2nd Edition)
A Companion to Your Beginner’s Argentine Tango Dance Class
Created as a long-term companion to your beginner tango studies.
$35 (+ shipping in the US only)
Bring it to class.
Write in it.
Return to it often.
May it support your journey in Argentine tango.