El Encuentro
 

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Off course you can dance tango. Everyone can do. And you could share your dance with anyone, anywhere in the world !! Learning tango is very easy. Everyone dances it in the way they like it.

Do not even think of it. If we can dance you can dance, too. All you need is to want to dance.

You do not need to spend much time. Classes are once in a week and lasts 1,5 hours. Plus, they are after the working hours. You can manage this. But remember; If you want to do more, you could join to our regular Sunday practice hours, or more, you could join us on every Friday in the dance nights (mlongas). For every subject you learn the more you spend time for tango the quicker you learn...

No problem at all; Since there are many coming without partners. You could join to one of them. We even encourage to change partners during the classes. Result; you could dance with everyone, which is the main target of our education...

We do not expect you to do so. you will not memorize anything. Our training is not based on memorizing the steps. Otherwise, you would not remember what you memorized in time, Our purpose is to enable you dance in your lifetime...

After the second class !! Is it early ? No you will. all you need to is to be loyal to the dance codes that are very few and easy.

Totally depends on you. There is no limit to learn since tango evolves continously. After you get the fundamentals you will have soo many components in your vocabulary that you could easily create your own moves for your leisure...

Be as comfortable as you can in the classes. Dance nights are not so fancy, not so sport, but a little bit careful, painstaking in order to contribute to the beauty of the night. We will have couple of recommendations for the shoes.

We talk about these in the first class. No worry. Everyone could survive...

That is quite usual. There are many who came since the partner has wanted, but then became more insistive than the partners.

There is nothing wrong in it to try to company to your partner at least to see it....

Who is ? Not a problem. Standing still with the music is also dancing in Tango. We expect you to have fun, not show-up. You are not expected to throw your partners high up and hold them like acrobatics.

We train you to dance how you feel in your own style.

 

Yener Altıparmakoğulları Elif Ömüriş Ali Alper Özdemir Hande Ömürlü Aydoğan Arkış Şule Arkış Utku Küley Engin Işıltan Aslıhan Işıltan Setenay Ersoy Encuentro means meeting, encountering, coming together in Spanish.

El Encuentro's vision is to keep its leading tango role in the society by contributing to the dance, social life and the personal development of its participants through the worlwide known organizations and training programmes without jeopardizing the social and ethical values of the society and keeping the fun of tango at the ultimate goal.

Our mission is to encounter with the tango fans all over the world through the provision of the quality tango services in lovely Istanbul, where the civilaztions dance since thousands of years.

El Encuentro, with its 10 qualified instructor team, provides weekly regular tango classes, milonga nights and annually international events all enriched by its experience since 1998. Sİnce then El Encuentro, enables the development of social dancers, competitors, tango trainers and tango DJs. El Encuentro feels itself responsible from the development of the Tango society in Turkey.

History of El Encuentro

El Encuentro or Tango and Dance Sport Club has a history of back to 1998. The founders Şule and Aydoğan Arkış first established their tango school.El Encuentro.

El Encuentro, since 1998 developed hundreds of tango dancers, brought many worldwide Argentinian stars to Turkey and organized worldwide known events.

In 2007 El Encuentro established their sport club, Tango and Dance Sport Club. Aydoğan Arkış, had the role of Organization Sub-Committee President and then had the role of Technical Sub-Committee President in Turkish Dance Sport Federation (TDSF).

El Encuentro, believes that the international tango potential should meet in Turkey, as well. With this in the goal, we organize International Istanbul Tango Festivals since 2004. The last festival had hosted participants from 45 countries.

Tango and Dance Sport Club instructors have their certifications from TDSF.

Official organization

El Encuentro is officialy a sport club and it's name is as Tango and Dance Sport club. It is officially recognized by TDSF.

Tango and Dance Sport Club instructors have their certifications from TDSF.

What we did for tango tango community ?

El Encuentro has many activities done to built Tango Community in Turkey. The followings are some highlights;;

A compliation study on The History of Tango in Turkey
International Istanbul Tango Festival since 2004
International Tango Nuevo Week since 2007
Sponsoring Cyprus Tango Community build-up
Sponsoring 2 tango orchestras
E-mail list and web site for Turkish Tango Community and Information
Tango programme in Acik Radyo for 3 seasons
Sponsoring and scholorships to the talented young tango dancers


From us...

Workshop - Aydoğan - Şule Arkış

1 November Sunday; Systems in Tango and Improvisations. Do not forget to register through the form below.

New season

New season classroom registrations are open now. For classes in Europe and Anatolian sides, please fill in the registration form below.

Utku Küley - Setenay Ersoy in International TangoMagia Festival

El Encuentro teachers, Utku and Setenay will be showing at XII International TangoMagia Festival in Amsterdam, 26-30 December.

The library

Definetly visit. Our pictures and videos are there. You could read History of Tango in Turkey, too. Even you could download them.


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