Tag: performance
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Is social tango good for shows?
So given this contradiction, I was asking myself if social tango is good enough for performances. I mean how much would people be interested in looking at couples dancing with simple steps, without big colgadas, back sacadas, complex ganchos, and all kinds of fancy moves?
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Tango porn
Tango performances are in many cases designed to impress, much like porn videos. They are both shows. The partners even when they improvise, have a considerable amount of training between them to know very well each other to be able to perform complex moves.
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The most powerful Tango step
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…
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Why do more?
Similarly, another great song is Mensaje. The story has it that the song was written roughly by Enrique Discépolo who shortly after died. Cátulo Castillo who took the composition from Discépolo’s wife, Tania, forgot about it. Until a night when, as he says, Discépolo visited him in his sleep and dictated to him the lyrics.…
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5 in 1
In my previous post, I wrote how some tango songs seem to strike a perfect macaroon-like balance between different elements in their music and how this makes them irresistible! Extending this line of thought one could think the same about dancing. If a perfect song makes you want to listen to it again and again…
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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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