With a network of facilities all over the world, TAMARA DI TELLA-Pilates & Tangolates (Tango Pilates) offers a contemporary approach to Pilates exercises that incorporates cardio work into the traditional Pilates exercise repertoire.
From Texas to Buenos Aires, the TAMARA DI TELLA METHOD (Tangolates - Tango Pilates), has an important impact on the Pilates community with its new and revolutionary apparatus and method that can be purchased through a License of Tamara Di Tella.
Some of the celebrities who perform it are: Sting, Bryan Adams, and American Ballet Company’s idol, Julio Bocca.
The Tamara Di Tella® Method (Tangolates® - Tango Pilates), is one of the few truly inspired innovations to Pilates. It combines the coordination and core stability that is inherent to Pilates, with the cardio or aerobic element inherent to Tango music. It is performed on a functional Apparatus called the T-DITELLA ®
What is it? The Tamara Di Tella® Method (Tangolates® – Tango Pilates) is a more cardio version of classical Pilates.. Its origins It started in Buenos Aires (the birthplace of Tango), and is now growing in the United States, Asia and Europe... How does it differ from Pilates? Tangolates is performed on a different Apparatus. It is called the T-DITELLA ® that is made for two clients... What are the similarities with Pilates? So far, the differences. Now, what are the similarities between tango an pilates? How is It performed? Tamara Di Tella Tangolates consists of up to sixty different routines and more than a thousand moves... The Science behind it It all started in the year 2004”, says Tamara, “when my company donated a rehabilitation ward to the largest public hospital in Buenos Aires... How I created it “This is going to be a challenge for you, Tamara”, I said to myself when the Director of the Parkinson Program... The benefits of Tangolates
What it is?
The Tamara Di Tella® Method (Tangolates® – Tango Pilates) is a more cardio version of classical Pilates. It is a unique, distinctive and different method that incorporates a new philosophy to traditional Pilates as we know. This new philosophy states that, no matter how great it is, to be complete, any physical activity must have an aerobic element built into it.
In fact, the three elements that are indispensable for any kind of physical activity to be complete are: Strength, Flexibility and Aerobic. If any of these three elements is missing, then the exercise is not complete.
We, at The Tamara Di Tella Schools (Pilates – Tangolates - Tango Pilates) are a model against which other schools compare to. We have got science, as our School is located in a hospital and our instructors-to-be have the possibility to do hands-on practice with patients with dysfunctions of the motor system. Actually, it is precisely at the hospital and with patients that the Tamara Di Tella® Method (Tangolates) was born. As pioneers, we establish new patterns and continue to innovate constantly. This is our commitment and this is our responsibility.
Thus, our continuous and ongoing research has resulted in new methods, new techniques, new apparatuses and equipment, and new exercises. We are proud to lead the way for others to follow.
The Tamara Di Tella Method (Tangolates – Tango Pilates) is a truly innovative technique that shares the same concepts of core control and concentration, but adds more cardio to traditional Pilates. It is performed on the T-DITELLA®, a specially designed apparatus made for two, that allows over one thousand core-control, coordinated partner movements, with the extra bonus of a sensational music!
So, to sum up: The Tamara Di Tella® Method is called Tangolates® (Tango Pilates), and it is innovative, it is more cardio, it is for two, and it is performed on a specially designed apparatus called the T-DITELLA®!!
Welcome to The Tamara Di Tella® Method (Tangolates® – Tango Pilates), an everyday growing experience!!
The celebrities who have already enjoyed its benefits are: Sting, and his wife, Trudy; Bryan Adams, and The American Ballet Company Idol, Julio Bocca.
Whether you call it Tangolates, Tango Pilates Tango-for- Pilates, or Pilates-for-Tango, the fact is that Pilates exercises combined with Tango lessons is a new wave to exercise.
It started in Buenos Aires (the birthplace of Tango), and is now growing in the United States, Asia and Europe. It has been created by Tamara Di Tella, the Guru of the Pilates Franchised System, in the year 2004.
Tangolates and Pilates have common roots in human movement and expression. One, Tango, older and established, the other, Pilates, more recently acquired by the general public. They share certain basic concepts. Yet, they are two very different manifestations of human movement.
Both are systems of excises but the differences are obvious: one is performed with music, the other one is silent. One is performed by two people (it takes two to Tango), while the other is performed singly or individually. One, Tangolates, is concentrated plus aerobic workout; the other, Pilates, is concentrated but not very aerobic. One saw its origins at the port of Buenos Aires; the other, Pilates, had its origins almost a century later, with wounded soldiers during the first world war. More about Tangolates: It is performed on a special apparatus called the T-DITELLA, while the other, Pilates, is performed on an entirely different machine called The Reformer.
Tangolates develops core abdominal strength, keeps the skeleton supported and the spine protected, lets the movement flow and focuses on the energy that comes first from the core (and then flows outward).
Another way, and a fun one, to keep the body in a good shape.
The differences between Tangolates and traditional Pilates are:
- Tangolates is performed on a different Apparatus. It is called the T-DITELLA ® that is made for two clients
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Tangolates incorporates a cardio or aerobic element.
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Tangolates is performed with music.
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Tangolates is partner work, (the exercises are designed for two.
Tamara Di Tella Tangolates consists of up to sixty different routines and more than a thousand moves. Each class lasts approximately 50-60 minutes. Each 1- hour routine has 5 to 6 different exercises, most of which are performed with a partner. The ideal situation is for a client to work with an instructor in a mirror-like manner, although Tangolates can also be performed by two clients. The music is of utmost importance for both the rythm and the coordination. Tangolates can be done both on mat and reformer. Tamara Di Tella has also designed a Tangolates apparatus (patent pending), a portable do-it yourself small machine that can be assembled and then put away after class. The Tangolates machine has been especially designed for vertical partner routines to be performed in an upright position and with another person.
“It all started in the year 2004”, says Tamara, “when my company donated a rehabilitation ward to the largest public hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina for the free of charge attendance of low-income patients with severe dysfunctions of the nervous system”.
Today, Tangolates has grown into a highly demanded new and revolutionary system of partner exercises choreographed to the music of tango. And clients love it!
“This is going to be a challenge for you, Tamara”, I said to myself when the Director of the Parkinson Program at the largest public hospital of Buenos Aires in Argentina came to see me. And he was not kidding. Parkinson patients alternate between involuntary movement (tremors) and not being able to move at all. “They may freeze on you and this may last quite some time”, he added, as he left the rehab ward where my instructors and I had gone to receive the last instructions. One thing he said had struck me as absolutely compelling and that was the notion that Parkinson patients do not necessarily lose their capacity to move, but rather the capacity to imagine movement. See, the absence of dopamine works in strange ways, one of them being that the patient knows he has to go from here to there, only that he has forgotten how to do it. Actually, it is more complicated than that, but this is, in a nutshell, what they told me time and again.
O.K., I said to my instructors. They may not be able to start moving, but they probably can copy somebody else´s movement. “All we have to do is to put ourselves right next to the patient and move together is if we were one.” Let´s try. Each of you will choose a patient to do the exercise with, and pretend you are his mirror. It worked. Next, we tried music. Not any music, mind you, but a strong, and well marked beat rythm, like tango.
That did it! When I saw the patients doing partner exercises to the rythm of tango, I remembered the saying: “it takes two to tango”, and knew I had something going.
That´is how my Tamara Di Tella Tangolates™ started.
Tamara Di Tella Tangolates has three main advantages: in the first place, and as far as coordination is concerned, Tangolates helps coordinate; in the second place, it helps elongation much better when the stretching is assisted by a partner, than when they are stretching by themselves; and, finally, Tangolates helps them work their own resistance, for two are always stronger than one. It addition, it adds the cardio element, a most important factor in exercise.
Tangoates is excellent for posture, to tone, to strengthen, for flexibility and, finally, to spend calories and lose weight.
