The 8th Style School of Tango

I really disliked the approach that was taken by 8^th Style. Moving immediately into close embrace for a total beginner tango dancer is silly — it requires far more than a beginner is capable of. An incremental approach is better — getting some success on the basic patterns, etc. I much prefer the other Beginning class I had — from Tony and Illana
I gave two rather than one stars because the teachers were decent people — they genuinely cared and were very good dancers. The issue is with the curriculum.
BTW — I had fairly significant swing dance background — but tango is quite a different beast — and that did little to help except give me the understanding that starting easy and building on success is better than being totally lost and having no idea of how the process is working.
More later…

The 8^th style is the best and only option (in my opinion) for starting the study of tango. I have found that Tango is not only fun but a serious study and an art and as such it has a basic pallete from which to create.
I mean, that’s what I got and that’s why I keep going back for review (it helps that there is a returning student price break, yeah!!). I did not start with «The 8^th» and for me that was a problem. I could not bring order and meaning to what I was doing in the dance
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«The 8^th» class structure is like a typical college course which includes a syllabus so you know exactly what you are going to learn and where it is going to lead you.
The instructors are the coolest too. Jason and Sarah just made those beggining steps, for me, so clear and understandable that (as long as I put in the practice on my own too) I could really make progress. All the instructors were really great for me. Bill Juziak, Carol Smith, Juliet McMains, Greg Constantino, Rachel, Boris, Kim, Liz. I can’t say enough good things about the instructors and the quality of instruction I got and continue to get from them.