3. Communicating with other dancers on the dance floor – No matter how big the dance floor is, if the male dancers don’t know how to communicate with each other, it will soon become a battlefield. Food for thought from Tango Mentor
From Tango Chamuyo on what happens at milongas. Those who chatter away don’t appreciate what the milonga offers them. They don’t know what they’re missing. Thoughts?
Food for thought from Kim Benitez. In my first few years of studying tango, I often felt that the role of the follower was overlooked in many of the group classes I took. The emphasis of the class was very much what the leader should do, with perhaps the occasional nod towards the follower. […]
Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to the paradise of that achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration. There are daily small deaths.” – Martha Graham
dancing tango is what’s keeping me sane – San Francisco Loves Tango
This is a really good post by Kim Benitiz. She visited us at our Cork Tango Festival and I was lucky enough to dance with her. I knew I feel the same way. But I hated that so much watching back on a performance. You can check it out here. I particularly like: No one […]
Everyone makes a mistake once in a while. Here are 8 of them dealt with by Tango Space. I particularly like: Leaders do this by making eye contact with the leader of the couple arriving towards us. Once their eye have met yours (mirada), you can do a head-sign (cabeceo) towards the dance floor, so […]
Students must obligate their teachers to continue learning – the teachers must continue to learn. – Dana Frigoli and Pablo Villarraza
Dancing with the feet is one thing but dancing with the heart is another. – Anon
The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence. This is essential to learn in tango dance, the real dance, that of the silence, of following the melody. – Carlos Gavito