Adam

Adam Cornett has been dancing tango since 2000. He was the 2016 US Champion and has partnered with a couple world champions (Ines Bogado and Jesica Arfenoni). Adam has traveled throughout the US and Asia teaching tango He studies every year in Argentina with his main teachers of tango history Gabriel Angio and Natalia Games as well as Horacio Godoy and many others. Adam has recently moved back from Beijing to his hometown of Portland Oregon to take care of his mother after a huge surgery.

Interview with Adam

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Joe Yang has a tango podcast where he intervews different influential people in Tango. He interviewed me in 2019 for his 74th podcast. We had a great conversation about tango, travel, teaching and more. You can listen to it here on Soundcloud

A Guide to Good Tango Posture

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6 Best Tango Posture Points: Our posture is something that has been argued about a lot. In my 20+ years of tango I have learned many different tango postures, arm positions, hand holds, etc. The best tango posture I have found did not come from a tango teacher, but a teacher of posture, Esther Gokhale. … Read more

The Infamous Hand Crank

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The Infamous Tango Hand Crank For a long time I have had a serious pet peeve and I have not come forward to speak about it unless you have taken privates or classes from me. The thing is, almost no matter where I go I see the same thing among most leaders. If I’m in … Read more

Adam’s Note to Tango Leaders

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Adam’s Note to Tango Leaders Every week one of my students comes to our private lesson with “feedback.” The feedback she tells me about is the feedback that numerous tango leaders in the community have been giving her.  For many weeks I just answered her questions regarding the feedback (often times I was telling her … Read more