About Los Tangringos
Walter and MariLynne first met each other on the dance floor as teenagers, and have been dancing together ever since. When they crossed paths with Argentine Tango in 1997, it was love at first step. Since then, they have concentrated on that form, studying with Argentine masters here and in Buenos Aires, Argentina and practicing daily for their own pleasure and to hone their techniques.
In 1999 they were instrumental in forming Hudson Valley Tango, dedicated to fostering the growth and expansion of tango in a multi-county region of New York State, holding regular dance events, sponsoring workshops and performing demonstrations throughout the area to present tango to a public that had never experienced it before.
In January 2000, they opened their studio, El Rincón de Los Tangringos, in Harriman, NY, where they have conducted group and private classes on a continuing, weekly schedule, and have run milongas regularly at multiple locations to provide social dance venues for their students to populate. As the community has matured, some of their former students have gone on to become teachers themselves and other organizers have taken on the task of sponsoring social dances and other tango events, augmenting the choices open to the growing number of tangueros.
More recently, Walter & MariLynne have expanded their range, teaching at community colleges and commercial dance studios in Westchester and Orange counties, New York. They have been engaged periodically as ship-board dance instructors for Norwegian Cruise Lines and Royal Caribbean International.
In addition to having studied extensively with master teachers, Danel & Maria Bastone, Facundo & Kely Posadas, Alberto Paz & Valorie Hart, Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne, they acquired much of their primary education in the dance and in the culture during their annual stays in Buenos Aires, living and dancing among the Porteños, learning from their example and earning their friendship and respect. Their dancing is extemporaneous, classical and subtle, that of the traditional milongas of Buenos Aires. Walter & MariLynne are known for their elegance and clean execution.
These “lessons of the milongas” have helped define their instructional qualities as well. They teach the tango of the Buenos Aires milongas; the tango that is danced socially across North America and Europe as well as in Argentina; the tango that carries the sentimiento, the emotional connection between the partners and with the music.
Their teaching abilities, grounded on an understanding of the dynamics of natural movement of the body, have a proven record of bringing new dancers into the world of tango, and of helping experienced tangueros expand and refine their techniques.
