Teaching Tango (Deliverables E)

Objective

A preliminary look at the Teacher’s training accreditation proposal, what a prospective participant may want to know. You will prepare for the next 12 months.

Participants

  • People interested in getting teacher’s accreditation (for professional work)
  • People who wants to measure their true skill levels (personal achievement goals)
  • People who likes to study the subject of tango intellectually (ideas)

Activities

  • both Lead and Follow skills
  • demonstrate knowledge of common tango Lexicons
  • focus on growing tango participations
  • able to choreograph simple routine
  • able to DJ simple

Questions

  • What is the pathway for tango development for professionals? (like Judo white/green/black belts)
  • What skills needed of a tango teacher beyond ability to dance
  • How do the world tango teachers interact? Where do they get help, news, tools
  • How to make tango easier to teach?
  • Unusual applications of Tango in enabling Autism, Parkinson, blinds, etc
  • What is a good structure for class, course, special topics, practica, recital
  • Proper warm up and exercises
  • What is the goal of learning tango? How can teachers help
  • The teacher as a Role Model
  • Tango as a modern culture vs frozen history
  • Ideas for community building and good relationship
  • Process of teacher accreditation
  • Knowledge of Lexicons
  • Knowledge of history codigos and music
  • Knowledge of world of tango festivals events and Mundials
  • Teaching tools? resources?
  • UNESCO what it means for world