Tag: roles
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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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Old and new shadows
In this post, I want to discuss… Shadows. Not the ones created by light hitting an object, but the ones we keep inside us. But before we go there, let’s start with a short quiz: What if a person is aggressive? Would you say aggressiveness is a good or a bad trait? Think about it…
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Causation, Correlation, and the Dance Between Them
In the first part of this little rabbit hole, we looked at how Tango has (thankfully) moved on from the days when your gender automatically decided your role. Back then, it was simple: man = leader, woman = follower. No questions asked. Today, that rulebook is gone, and we get to choose. And yet… the…
