Tag: language
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Metaphorically dancing…
I have never really thought about the connection that metaphors can have with dancing. You can actually dance a melody literally or metaphorically. It dawned on me the other day. I was on a musicality workshop about counter melodies with Horacio Godoy and at some point he told the phrase… “you can do something metaphorical”…
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The tango vocabulary illusion
On all this analysis I was struggling to figure out, how on earth can you get away with a limited vocabulary and still manage to have interesting if not mind and soul-blowing conversations. I mean… I manage to have dances that blow my mind and my soul without the knowledge of the whole vocabulary. Is…
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The limited vocabulary problem
Linguists support that a person needs about 800 words for a basic conversation and 8000 in order to reach a native speaker level. In addition, Albert Mechrabian who was a psychologist at the University of California in Los Angeles suggested in his research that around 7% of our communication happens based on the actual language…
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How do you tell a story?
What can we learn from TTS software, ebook reading apps, and so many other communication experiences? If the voice has its tools to communicate emotions what are the equivalent tools in our dance?
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Are there mistakes in Tango?
So this is why Al Pacino’s phrase actually makes sense. It is a matter of perspective. Once you change it, you realize how different can your and your partner’s experience become.
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Do the organizers play a role when you choose which event to participate?![]()
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How the skin in the game principle can help you pick the right event for you.
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Is knowing a lot of tango vocabulary important for your Tango? ![]()
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Is the tango vocabulary really a vocabulary? Wha tis the key difference with a normal language vocabulary?
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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 …
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Technique and emotions are often viewed as opposite… are they?![]()
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The relationship between technique and expressing emotion in tango dancing and why these two concepts often seem contradictory and not complementary.
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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…Explore
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