Tag: story
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Selfdriven followers
When I was in Greece I had to drive myself every morning to the office and this drove me crazy. I always dreamed of having a fully autonomous car that would just get me to wherever I wanted while I could be sleeping, reading, etc. What does this have to do with trust and musicality?…
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Finding your own Tango
Dancers who really stay memorable when you dance with them, do so because they manage to express and evoke emotions. The easy part is to be happy, express joy, love, and affection. But is this our whole self? The hard part is to be able to express pain, hurt, sadness, despair, anger, and all those…
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Professional hobbyist (snob?) teachers
It is very rewarding and a bliss to make work on something that started as a hobby. However from the time your hobby becomes your full time job, you get paid for it and you make a living it is getting harder and harder to see it again as a hobby. Therefore it is harder…
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Teachers with skin in the game
A few weeks ago I was writing about event organizers who have skin in the game. Organizers who organize events with the main goal for them to have fun in the first place. They organize events where they can dance their asses off in the first place. Like chefs who eat the meals they cook.…
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Opening sequence
The common pattern in all the previous stories is that the mood and emotion of the tanda is set right from the first moments of it. If the Mirada is a teaser trailer of a movie then the first few seconds of the embrace, the way it is formed, the time it takes, the shape…
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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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Drama exists, but the exit matters.![]()
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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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