Welcome

Welcome to Trenner'sTangoArchive.com Early Access,

A community subscription support campaign!

Meet Daniel Trenner and learn about his Bridge to the Tango Archive.

My name is Daniel Trenner...

Starting in 1997, I spent more than 12 years regularly visiting Buenos Aires. During that time, I studied with just about every teacher I could find and led 1500+ dancers on the first Tango tours while producing instructional videos with Milongueros.

While on tour, we filmed interviews, Milongas, workshops, special private lessons, and parties. Today I have thousands of hours of footage from this period, mostly on VHS and Hi8 tapes. Since 2010, I've been slowly working to preserve this library by digitizing and cataloging this aging material.

Read Daniel's Full Story

I am excited to announce that the first big wave of this footage, over 20 years in the making, is now available on TrennersTangoArchive.com Early Access. There is a lot here with much more to come, but completing the project will require help from the Tango community. I invite you to become an early supporter of this project.

Daniel Trenner

Modern Tango Revival Instructor &
Bridge to the Tango Archive Founder

Features

Here's what you'll get with your
Early Access Subscription:

Access to 200+ hours of instructional and historical video content

Reduced Early Access subscription price

Access to all future published materials as the archive grows

Keep Early Access price after full launch with continued subscription

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Crowd Funding Campaign

Our Early Access launch is a Community dependent crowd funding campaign. We have decided to raise money in small amounts from many tango people!

We need to raise about $100,000 to reach our goals. At the Early Access subscription rate, that means we'll need about 1,000 tango subscribers for one year.

Early Access is a fully functional video player and search engine, which will allow you to browse the now digitized first wave of the Bridge to the Tango Archive. Help us by first subscribing, and then passing on the link to other dancers you know will be interested.

What We Need

We’ve gone as far as a can without you.
Here's what your support will help us achieve.

Analog to Digital

Analog video degrades over time and needs to be captured for preservation ASAP. Only about half of the collection is translated and accessible in digital form.

Editing Suite

Our video editing suite is over 15 years old and needs to be upgraded! Enhanced editing capabilities equals more frequent content uploads for subscribers.

File Storage

Our extensive video library, spanning over 25 years of work, will require more cloud and physical storage as the archive grows.

Platform Development

Playlists, comments, and forums are just a few features we'd like to bring to our platform. This requires further programming development and investment.

Transcription & Translation

These services may require professional staff on salary if the above wiki is either too hard to build and administer, or if not enough volunteer energy is available.

Other

We need your support for additional features and infrastructure that will inevitably emerge but which we are not aware of yet!

See where we're going

Learn more about our project goals and what we'll need to get there.

Our Needs (Continued)

Archival Videos

The Archival material, music and dance, is plentiful and includes some very rare footage garnered from Argentine movies, TV performances, tango-related movies, and private collections of 16 mm film.

Explore Archival Videos

Instructional Video

The Bridge to the Tango Instructional Video series includes more than 70 volumes of an hour duration or longer. This collection features more than 50 artists who represent a cross section of the milongueros and young dancers who made up the tango’s revival in the 1980s and 1990s.

Explore Instructional Videos

Tour Classes & Interviews from Buenos Aires

Meet the Milongueros of Tango’s Revival in the 1990s. These invaluable Master Classes and Interviews never been released before now! Watch and listen as instructors demonstrate dozens of different styles and transmit their unique ideas in their own voices with simultaneous translation into English.

Explore Classes & Interviews

Visit the Milongas

Browse footage shot during Tour visits in the 1990s. Look beyond the dancers in the camera's focus and into the crowds to witness the wide variety of elders dancing in the 1990s before the flood of tourists changed the tango community.

Explore catalog

Performances

Many impromptu performances at dancehalls, classes, and clubs happened to end up on video. In addition to these recorded performances, this collection includes clips from "Best of Tango," a video series Daniel co-produced with the Tango TV station, SoloTango.

Visit the Archive

Join us in beautiful Massachusetts for Intensive Study, a combination of lessons with Daniel and self-guided research into the extensive on-site video and print Archives of Bridge to the Tango. There are now more than 350 video clips to browse, as well as a library of hard-to-find tango movies and instructional videos.

Come for a day, or for much longer. You can pay by the hour, or create your own program of study. You can come only to learn to dance, or you can come to deepen your knowledge of the form, gain supporting skills in teaching movement, and help with developing your own approach to Tango pedagogy.

​​Become an early supporter of Trenner's Tango Archive