When you hug a person for a few seconds it’s mostly natural. We all do this more or less with friends and relatives especially when you meet after a long time… right? Have you ever hugged somebody for more than 5 to 6 seconds? When was it? What happened after? I remember for example hugging…
“We survived” she said, now that we managed to meet and dance again after almost 18 months. Survival… yes… we managed to survive so far in a very strange period and I can’t help thinking of the parallels with the era when tango really thrived. It is a strange coincidence… Tango really thrived in the…
Now that Corona seems to leave us and we return to some kind of normal we return also to dancing. Of course, some restrictions still apply and in many places, open-air practicas, milongas, and similar gatherings are organized in all kinds of locations. I was discussing the other day in one such open-air gathering with…
It was a long time since I read one of William Gibson’s books, a writer that I follow for a long time and one of the most visionaries in the cyberpunk genre. I just finished yesterday one of his latest books with the title “The peripheral”. In this book, he is writing about a reality,…
WOW! What a year! If there is one thing that you do every year around this time is to look back on what happened in your life in the year that is ending and dream about the new one that comes. Well, I think that for most of us, the dreams for 2020 were quite…
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Is the tango vocabulary really a vocabulary? Wha tis the key difference with a normal language vocabulary?Goodnight Tango: What can Pugliese’s music teach you about life
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In the case of the dialog and fight communities, the dialog communities have found the tool to find the way out of it. They discovered their “god from the machine” but they did not let …goodnighttango.com
The relationship between technique and expressing emotion in tango dancing and why these two concepts often seem contradictory and not complementary.Professional hobbyist (snob?) teachers
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What happens when hobbyist Tango dancer decides to make it a profession? Is it possible that the hobby stops being a hobby and you find it difficult to have fun? A post about teacher who hade a profes…advice cabeceo communities connection conversation cool kids covid cultural background dialog embrace emotions empathy events evolution expressiveness fear funny greece history improvisation language leader learning level life lyrics magic milonga music musicality observations opinion performance personal problem pugliese roles social story story telling surprise tanda teachers teaching together