Tag: teachers
The easiest kind of teacher on earth!
I spent 10 years of my life teaching in various settings. I learned a lot about the skill of teaching and honestly, that is why I don’t aspire to become a Tango teacher. Recently I discovered how much easier it can be to be a tango teacher. I had an exchange with a teacher and…
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Stagnation
“When you started the blog… Did you know that you will have so many things to write about?” she asked me between songs. “No!” I answered and actually, I told her that there was once a period (when I was still posting these texts only to Facebook) when I decided to stop posting. I posted…
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Perpetual beginners and useless teachers
In one of my previous posts about the lost beginners, a reader of the blog shared it with a phrase he remembers his teacher telling him. “This is a perpetual beginner…” he said. The discussion that followed was a very interesting and enlightening one and it went in the direction of whose fault and responsibility…
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Self taught Tango toddlers
How about you? Do you have more practicas or classes in your community? Have you ever encountered a teacher that managed to excite your imagination and curiosity? Do you think that practicas are as important (or even more so) than classes or not? Let me know in a comment or with a personal message (email…
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Tango advertising
A couple of posts ago I was writing about the definition of Tango professionals and how it is difficult to rate professionals and more specifically teachers in Tango since the customers in the market don’t have clear and common expectations. Although, as it was pointed out in some comments, rating teachers who are also artists…
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