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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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Easy assumptions
In one comment I received in a previous post one of the double role advocates was writing about all the different reasons why one should learn and dance both roles. In the end, she ended up saying that people who don’t want to dance with same-gender people must have some insecurity about their sexuality. Strike…
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The quality-quantity paradox
Last week I asked the blog readers community if they focus on having quantity or quality of tandas in their milonga experience. After gathering some answers a pattern started to emerge. People tend to focus on quantity in their first years and then on quality. To me, this makes perfect sense. Have a look at…
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Self exploration
Men, sex and Tango
A common misconception as already mentioned is that people who dance Tango, do so because they are trying to find a love partner. Even worse some men might think it’s a nice opportunity to hook up with lots of women and spice up their sex life. I already wrote that these misconceptions often lead to…
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Fear of honesty
Let’s play a game here. Let’s say you dance a super nice tanda with partner A and at the end of it she hugs you almost reluctantly and says thank you. Now let’s say you have partner B and you dance an equally super nice tanda. In the end, they stay in the embrace and…
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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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