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"The dancers body is simply the luminous manifestation of their soul. This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of self and out of something greater than all selves"

Isadora Duncan

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Tango Pink Papers
Observations and commentary on teaching Argentine Tango.

The following extracts are taken from articles written by Steve Morrall and other authors about the process of learning tango.

Notes to a student
"When I first started to dance tango, a step was simply a step. I took a step and my partner had to move with me. It had no connection, no finesse, no inner conversation, no prologue, no texture. I danced alone in an embrace." Read the full article

Tango Physics
Two tanguera particles have charges of the same polarity and are therefore likely to repel each other, especially if wearing similar shoes or dress. More

Other tango commentary:

100 years of tango

Poem by Eduardo Bozzo

Cry of the bandoneon

Visiting Buenos Aires

The need for neotango

Loving classic tango

Sensory Tango

A DJ's Tango Juke Box
A dancer's hip op

Somewhere between head and feet
Sometimes I can drift off to another place, somewhere between head and feet, lost in the music and conscious of the need to invite my partner into the next safe, empty space.
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The Roller Coaster Ride of Tango Emotions
I wonder how many of you reading this have experienced the roller-coaster ride of tango emotions? I can go from a euphoric high to the pit of a low in the space of a few dances.
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Dancing with the right side of the brain
When I learnt to dance tango, I was taught in a very process-based way using the 'basic eight', a logical way of teaching dance as a sequence of eight steps which my left brain processed. Read the full article

Encouraging Men to Dance Tango Argentino
...ego is inextricably linked to all the above Cs, and the addition of female company in the dance only sharpens the knife edge on which the novice dancer is precariously balanced. Read more

Walk like a dancer....
Perhaps for the first time since learning to walk as a young child, we need to consciously control the way in which we move from foot to foot. Read more

Tango is not a dance.
Because Tango is not a dance it is not about steps. Because it is not about steps I do not want to dance with those who focus merely on steps. Steps are not really important. Read more