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The whispering room
Before you start… just a quick note. This is the third post in a longer seriesThe arguments unfold over time and are interconnected.Subscribing by email lets you follow it as intended. Subscirbe here A dream come true Have you ever thought you could have a tango event with perfect role balance and a ratio between…
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The ladder
The comment section of my last post taught me something I hadn’t fully seen when I was writing it. Several female leaders pushed back. Not on the conclusion, but on the framing. They pointed out that the advantages I described… the existing network, the lower intimidation threshold, the familiarity with the follower’s experience… don’t tell…
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Learned Helplessness
Veronica Tumanova wrote about this recently in her first essay since the pandemic, and as usual, she is spot on. She makes the case that more women leading is good for everyone: for the followers who gain agency, for the economy of tango schools and festivals, and crucially, for the male leaders who will now…
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The perfect tanda was never the point
What if we could remove friction altogether? From our dance… or even from our lives? Why do we need it in the first place?
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The gift of the wrong partner
In a world that counts everything through performance… likes… followers… output… Tango pushes us to develop something else. Something that doesn’t really fit into metrics. Presence. So if presence doesn’t “pay”… why develop it at all? What is the value of it?
