✨ One-Day Tango Workshops ✨
with Ruth Hernandez & Muna Swairjo
Take your dancing to the next level
📅 Saturday, April 18
Workshop 1
🕐 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
“The World of Calesitas: Circular Dynamics & Creative Variations”
Description:
Discover the rich possibilities of calesitas in social tango. This workshop focuses on direction, control, connection, and musicality—helping you create smooth, dynamic circular movements while learning how to adapt them creatively on the dance floor.
Workshop 2
🕝 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM
“Ocho Cortado Reimagined: From Tradition to Endless Possibilities”
Description:
Explore the ocho cortado as a core element of tango. We’ll play with timing, structure, and dynamics to transform this traditional step into a versatile and expressive tool for your social dancing.
💲 Pricing
- Single Workshop: $35
- Both Workshops: $60
- Milonga Only: $25
- Full Saturday Experience: $80
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💃 Evening Milonga
🕗 8:00 PM – 1:00 AM
DJ: Muna Swairjo
Ruth Hernandez , is an award-winning Argentine tango dancer, teacher, and choreographer, renowned for her mastery of the traditional tango salón style—also known as tango de pista. With over 22 years of experience, she specializes in social tango, rooted in improvisation, musicality, and deep human connection.
In 2025, Ruth reached a historic milestone by winning the U.S. National Tango Championship, earning first place in all three categories: tango de pista, milonga, and vals, together with her dance partner Carlos Urrego. Earlier that same year, she also won first place in tango de pista and milonga at the prestigious SoCal Tango Championship.
Ruth’s tango journey began at the age of 21 in Santiago, Chile, where she immersed herself in the vibrant local milonga scene. Just two years later, she moved to Los Ángeles (Chile), a city with no tango community at the time. There, she began teaching and organizing events, building a tango scene from the ground up.
She has performed at milongas, festivals, and marathons across Chile, Argentina, and the United States, sharing the stage with some of the most celebrated tango artists in the world. In 2015, she was honored as Outstanding Tango Dancer at the National Tango Championship in Chile. She also founded EMISUR, Chile’s most significant tango gathering, and created a pioneering tango ballet with older adults, which toured several cities in Chile and Argentina.
In the United States, Ruth is a key figure in the tango community. She is the only tango organizer in northern Westchester County, NY, and works actively in Stamford and New Haven, Connecticut—bringing tango to new audiences through her classes, milongas, and performances. Her events are strictly traditional, and she carefully curates every detail—from the music to the atmosphere—to preserve the soul of tango.
An engineer and former university professor, Ruth brings clarity, structure, and deep empathy to her teaching. Her classes empower students to dance socially anywhere in the world while fostering creativity, confidence, and joy.
Through every class, performance, and event, Ruth Hernández continues to inspire dancers of all levels, celebrating tango as a living and deeply human art form.
Muna Swairjo ,
Muna Swairjo, Dancer, DJ, teacher. founder of The Garage Dance Studio & coffee lounge. Her fascination of the body movement and understanding of its tango dance potential as a physical therapist, carved her passion not only to dance tango but to create possibilities for others to learn it.
Her dance instruction methods increases awareness of the body movement, senses and brain communication, using neuromuscular facilitation, to unfold the body potential to accept challenge with ease.
Her passion for rhythm based tango had led her to study the structure of music and dance figures for the past 10 years with many influential tango teachers around the world. She finds the language of tango to be spoken with body, mind and soul. She makes her student work and think hard in tango until they have explored and gained a full insight of their dance and its connection.
What you will learn? How our bodies are wired. How to decode the external stimulation of tango movements and music to give rise to all possibilities of two bodies rhythmic motion. How to free your mind from memorized patterns and habitual movements, and How to exercise your elegance with the poetry of tango.