Tango From The Heart
Sexy Step Intensive for Intermediates :
Testimonials from Past Students
Tito Padilla and Barbara Bell, Denver, Colorado: "We took Teo and Marsha's Two-day Sexy Steps Workshop in Gainesville, Florida and we were very pleased with the material presented. It was challenging, engaging and fun. Teo and Marsha were very gracious and helped us through difficult passages in the dance with key information and patience. The pace varied, but was appropriate to the various levels of expertise in the class. We found that the highlight of their teaching approach was their willingness to extend individual attention to each and every student, taking time to instruct and demonstrate until we split the tango atom.
We wholeheartedly endorse and recommend Teo and Marsha's tango workshop to anyone interested. You are sure to get a serious workout and feel the tango burn."
Susan and David Bryant, Nashville, Tennessee: "This is our second Tango Intensive with Teo and Marsha. We would highly recommend the experience. They have given us a great foundation of tango principles and have aught us many wonderful steps full of fun and feeling. The teaching pace is excellent, covering a lot material, but with lots of review and practice to solidify the knowledge. Teo and Marsh are very warm and welcoming, and have an encouraging style of teaching."
Ken Grauer, Gainesville, Florida: "Hi Teo/Marsha. Just wanted to thank you two on behalf of me & Cathy for the MOST WONDERFUL weekend workshop... you two do an absolutely SUPER job, as well as making it all a LOT of fun! Cathy and I would love to attend additional workshops with you...
I'll do my best to remember ... the wonderful feeling
we both had while working through all you showed us.
Here is my testimonial:
" Teo and Marsha were wonderful. That they have lived tango for the past decade is obvious from the joy and passion they put into this workshop. Their repertoire of sensual, fun and leadable steps is endless, and they happily went at the optimal speed of instruction for their participants, with lots of one-on-one attention. It's a fun and tremendously helpful workshop that I would gladly take again."
Dubravko Kakarigi, Tallahassee, Florida: "Through their enthusiastic, loving, and skillful teaching I slowly gained confidence and understanding of the basic principles of tango dancing milonga style.
They taught about the embrace, about the posture, balance, attitude, about the relationship between the dancing partners. ... but the most important thing they achieved with us was that they helped us believe that we too can dance and enjoy dancing tango.
I was amazed to see the teachers in Buenos Aires teaching exactly the same and using the same approach as did Marsha and Teo in Tallahassee, Florida. That made me immediately feel relaxed and sped up my further advancement... I look forward to further guidance by Marsha and Teo. There is so much more to learn from them."Sabine de Canisy, Portland, Oregon: Teo and Marsha Bartek are superb dancers and excellent teachers. In the classes I took with them in Portland, Oregon, March 4 and 5th elegant and sensuous figures were presented in slow and fast motion, with precision and care, striving for harmony and beauty of lines.
Teo and Marsha were never tried of showing, checking, correcting, repeating, always positive and encouraging. Adjustment was made to the student's level, always staring from well-known steps to new combinations, adding and advancing at a comfortable pace.
The small workshop (4-6 couples) allowed them to dance with each participant as often as wanted. Workmanship and attention to details, elegance and gracefulness were required and often (!) achieved. In my three years of Argentine tango this is one of the best workshops I attended."
Gary Scalise, Tampa, Florida:"Teo and Marsha weekend- intense weekend at our own pace in a casual atmosphere. One on one attention , close embrace emphasis at its best. Learning steps is not the emphasis, but to feel the music."
Barb and Lance Harris, Gainesville, Florida: We made huge strides this weekend! Teo and Marsha are patient and thorough in their teaching, and inspirational in their dancing. The Intensive is intensive, but we walked away ready to dance!
Jessi Larsen, Washington, DC: Teo and Marsha are great dancers and great teachers They help you tap into the transformative power of movement that is nowhere more eloquently expressed than in Tango.
Veronica Emhart, Santiago, Chile: really enjoyed the heart to heart connection. I think both of you do an extraordinary job in transferring the beauty, sensitivity, sensuality, and fun that Tango can provide to all of us.
Keith Dekle, Tampa, FL: "The "Sexy Steps Weekend" was a tango rush, a tango blitz! Their were so many fun steps learned that it will expand and enhance our dancing for months to come as we master these exciting steps! Teo and Marsha were so wonderfully patient in teaching us the new steps, that it helped all of us students enjoy the whole weekend."
Alice Green, Gainesville, FL: "The Sexy Step Workshop was fun and challenging. Teo and Marsha are very patient and will explain steps and technique every possible way until understood. Thanks for everything."
Edwin Riley, PhD: "What separates Teo and Marsha Bartek from other tango instructors and puts them in a category of pure mastery is the way they relate to one another during class. Almost subliminally and without challenge, one will effortlessly step in and shift the flow at the precise moment when needed.
I was profoundly impressed by this interactive teaching style, patience, and ability to make complex moves simple. Not only were they in sync with one another, but also with each individual in the class. My experience, echoed by others in attendance, was the sense of receiving private instruction while interconnecting as a group.
Conveying how to connect with the heart and consciousness of one's dancing partner through physical close embrace is a rare teaching technique that can only originate in the soul. Teo and Marsha share this kind of passion and art form."
Joy Braverman, West Palm Beach, FL "I attended the Sexy Step Seminar 3/25 & 26 in Gainesville... The outside temperature was chilly to cold but inside - in the class with Teo and Marsha in the lead and in the know - a warm to 'HOT' 'n wonderful reception. The students were enthusiastic, expecting the best and receiving even more - beyond our expectations - the lessons were fun and s-e-x-y... The information was marvelous; the company was great. What an experience to be amongst like-minded folks, all willing to become enlightened, learn new things and share the experience. I'll be back for more! "
Kathryn Johns and the Charleston Tango Society: Teo and Marsha have an amazing understanding of the deeper aspects of Argentine Tango, coupled with the talent to work with dancers at several levels at once, providing personal attention! This has been the most amazing workshop experience we've had!
Cliff and Glynda Newton, Jacksonville, Florida: Teo and Marsha's concept and method of teaching involves the spiritual connection between dancers as well as the same spiritual connection between the teachers and their student dancers. The Sexy Steps has given us some great new steps that we can do now. We love you guys! Learning to love the tango is more than memorizing steps, the how and why of the "feeling" of tango is your forte
Andrew Weitzen, Gainesville, Florida: loved your lessons enjoyable yet challenging encouraging me demanding, gently [that I learn] correct foot placement, weight distribution, body posture, and tension and pressure in the lead.
C.G. Scheu - founder, Argentine Tango Society of Tallahassee: You have a passion for dancing Tango that is simply contagious. You teach the ability to connect with people on a higher level.
Kathleen Johnson, Dance Instructor: dynamic To see them dance Tango is a heart-stirring experience. You can feel the pure love between them. They are excellent teachers, coaches and are certainly our Ambassadors of Tango in Central Florida.