Piloting tango workshops during 2019’s Year in Movement

With a goal to enrich our arts curricula by celebrating the art of tango and freedom of expression in older adults, Arts for the Aging and the Embassy of Argentina launched a series of tango workshops at one of the dozens of communities we serve in the Greater Washington D.C. region. The series was co-created by mentoring teaching artists from Arts for the Aging, and performing artists from ROMEZ3arts, Tango Brillante DC and Tango Mercurio. Over six weeks we came together at Downtown Clusters Geriatric Day Care Center in Washington, D.C. — artists, seniors, care givers, intergenerational volunteers — for weekly workshops specially designed to spark socialization and self-expression in vulnerable older adult and care partner populations. Click here and here for photos and video from the culminating workshop, Milonga at Downtown Clusters, and from our weekly community-based tango workshop series August 1 – September 5, 2019.