Social
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…
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Causation, correlation and the thing between your legs.
Whenever I post something that even remotely touches on gender and roles, there will always be at least one comment about how we should get rid of gender stereotypes in Tango and how it would be better if dance roles were not linked to gender at all. One of the most popular arguments is: “You…
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When bias is an advantage
When I wrote about how Tango could be advertised more effectively to men, some people commented that I was being “unbalanced” and that the real solution was for me to learn to follow and to propose teaching both roles from the start.
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Self exploration
Are you a diamond or a bottle of water?
Imagine that someone offers to give you for free a diamond or a bottle of water. Which one would you choose? I guess that most people reading this question would answer… “The diamond”. If you compare the prices of the two goods, there is no doubt that diamonds cost more. That is why you would…
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A Tanda away
Let’s do an exercise. Think about some of the strongest memories in your life so far. Just pick a few that come to mind. Done?… Now answer the following questions. Do these moments involve another person or were they moments that you were alone? Is there an emotion attached to those moments?
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Why am I doing this?
“Thank you for doing this for the community” he told me referring to my blog posts. To be honest I didn’t know how to react. All this started like a joke. I started by posting small texts on Facebook for my friends and as the discussions led to new texts and the new texts led…
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Musicality
Silence is golden
Sometimes, people are dancing on a role and never even realized that they can do what the opposite role does. I was always baffled by this. I still am… but a bit less than before. How could my partner talk to me?
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Is musicality female?
Somehow there is a common misconception that the woman needs to just be good at understanding and executing the “commands” of the man. Musicality seems to come a bit later as an interest for ladies/followers. That maybe explains the phenomenon but then… isn’t this maybe the mirror of the leaders’ trap of wanting to learn…
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The butterfly effect
So here you go… the same song… the same melody… and just a tiny detail of a few milliseconds and you get a totally different piece altogether. A few milliseconds on your step and an enormous amount of satisfaction and joy when you make it plus a whole new sensation from the song.
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