Nerds are the Gods of Tango Dancing

February 28, 2012

What?  How is it that the people who typically have the least social skills are the ones who are most popular at a Milonga? Well as it turns out persevering is also necessary in any business endeavor and that is precisely why we find so many engineers and mathematicians at Milongas. I’ve known it from […]

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Bad Dance Posture is Like an Old Suit

February 28, 2012

Want to be a better dancer?  Forget your fancy dance shoes, start with your everyday posture; when your body is well aligned you are more likely to have more control of your own axis.   Bad posture is like an old suit that we put on everyday. Bad posture is something that we build slowly […]

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Beware the tango addiction!

February 24, 2012

Somewhere along the way in our tango journey we come to a fork in the road where we either accept that we will never be proficient and settle for so-so dancing or we surrender to our addiction. For me that fork was when I realized that once a week lessons with a few locals was […]

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Learn how to Tango – Communication is the Key

February 23, 2012

How does a woman know where a man will lead her in Argentine Tango? She allows him to communicate his “intention” via the connection they share at the point where their bodies connect in the embrace.  This is wide open for interpretation since he is touching her with an arm, a hand and in most […]

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Tango Music Supports Artists and Dancers

February 23, 2012

Do you love tango music? I’ve heard people compare the asynchronous rhythms to a funeral march and it just rakes my nerves! When I first saw a live tango performance there was a 3 piece orchestra playing in an indoor/outdoor restaurant in a 17th century building in old colonial Mexico.  The combination of the beauty […]

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White Tango Dance Shoes

February 16, 2012

Dance shoes are always a hot topic in tango but I have to admit that when I read about Arttu Artkoski and his white tango shoes I felt a little squeamish because when you think about it, white dance shoes and erotic and sensuous don’t exactly seem to fit into the same sentence. My curiosity […]

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Argentine Tango – Classes, Lectures, Events

February 2, 2012

Argentine Tango… To learn Argentine Tango, it’s helpful to visit classes, lectures, events & concerts to really understand this multi-layered phenonmenon.  I recommend especially that dancers attend as many milonga (formal tango dances) as possible. Sometimes new dancers will feel inhibited from attending a milonga because they don’t feel that they are as skilled as […]

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Learn to Dance Argentine Tango

February 2, 2012

How do you learn to dance Argentine Tango? Have you seen amazing Tango and wondered how in the world they ever learned to perform those intricate moves so flawlessly? Have you ever wanted to learn how to dance tango but were too embarrassed to ask the “good dancers” where they learned? You are not alone, […]

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Free Tango Lessons on Kindle

January 31, 2012

Did you get your free Tango book? It’s amazing what kind of treasures you can find on Kindle and Amazon. For instance today I downloaded a free tango dance instructional right to my iphone, so now anytime I’m stuck waiting in line at the bank or grocer I can bone up on my tango technique~ […]

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The Tango Lesson

January 31, 2012

First you think “I’m going to the tango lesson” as if it is a one time event, where you learn how to flick your legs around and look fabulous. The reality sets in and no matter how adept you are at everything else in your life, you feel like an absolute clod.  What an ego […]

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