Our teaching experience Steve is a life-long musician and creative artist. Before tango, Steve developed his teaching skills as an IT trainer for a national charity and as a horse-riding instructor. Both roles helped him to evolve a pedagogical interaction with people and an  understanding that effective teaching requires a development of a student's mind, body and spirit.  Steve and Debbie have been teaching Argentine Tango for more than a decade and run a dance studio that specialises in the art of Argentine tango in Bramshaw in the New Forest (picture below). The 124 sqm dance studio at Bramshaw within easy reach of Southampton, Salisbury and Bournemouth, 5 minutes from junction 1 on the M27 MAP They also organise regular social events and teaching weekends with visiting teachers from around the world.

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Where can I learn to dance with Steve and Debbie Morrall?

We teach group workshops, weekly classes, private lessons at our dance studio in Bramshaw,
New Forest only 5 minutes from junction 1 on the M27. Directions

If you are a beginner, you can learn to dance with us on week nights. The course will teach you how to dance salon style tango, 'walking in an embrace to music'. This takes place from 8pm - 9.30pm followed by a 1 hour practice session (see below for the next start date, cost and course content). BOOK ONLINE

If you can't make week night evenings, we also offer one day intensive starter courses called Tango Toolkits at the weekend. MORE

When you graduate from the first level 'walking in an embrace to music' class, we offer an second level class which focuses on developing the language of the dance based on the five moves, and rotating in an embrace to music.

This also takes place in the dance studio at 8pm - 9.30pm also followed by a 'practica' (practice session). When you graduate from this class, we guide you towards our Thursday night advanced musicality class, private lessons and week-end workshops, advising each dancer on the format that best suits their needs. Occasionally, we lead workshops and teach at festivals and other tango events around the country which we publish on our events page and via our 'opt-in' email newsletter (a sample of which can be seen on the right). We manage our circulation list carefully and promise not to pass your details on to anybody else. Our teaching method Steve is a natural and intuitive teacher who draws on strengths that Myers-Briggs (MBIT) would categorise as eNFJ (extravert, iNtuitive, Feeling, Judging) a rare mix of qualities only found in 2-3% people.  Steve is an advocate of the possible, someone who will say 'half full' rather than 'half empty', a teacher who instinctively looks to and expects the best in people. He inspires confidence and self-belief because he is enthusiastically confident and believes in himself. As a teacher, he encourages with positive feedback, celebrating the smallest improvement. In mixed level workshops, Steve can spontaneously and effortlessly adapt activities and imagery that will help students of all levels improve their dance skills. He teaches tango as a process of engaging mind, body and spirit and will draw on all his life skills of theatre, music, dance, clowning and art to help people bring out their inner potential.

Steve and Debbie do not to teach tango as choreography

Choreography traps dancers in sequences and makes them slaves to their memory. Tango is about the music and dancing from the heart. In a recent class, Steve and Debbie were working on breaking the dance down into taking one considered step at a time. In the class, Steve said "....think of tango as non-verbal communication. A conversation with a stranger will start simply and grow in depth and complexity as we learn how they respond, what they are interested in, what moves them and what they don't like." To illustrate this, he showed the dancers an exercise to apply this concept in the way mind and body could understand. 

"Start every dance simply - even with a partner you know well. They can have off days too and need to refocus on you and your dance. Don't hurry steps, savour moments of simply walking together in an embrace. Ask yourself - can you feel her heart beat? Can you feel tension? Are you tense? Don't forget to breathe. A deep, slowly exhaled breath in an embrace will encourage your partner to relax."

Read other articles by Steve on argentine tango in Pink Papers.