Last month when I wrote the “My mission” page I wanted to explain to my readers why I am working on Tango Mentor, what is the purpose of all these articles and pictures? I didn’t expected that I will have to explain it this directly… and even more I didn’t expected some people to become so emotional about it. Since many of them took time to write long comments to my article about close embrace, for sure they deserve answer – please consider this article as the answer. The styles and the dogma When Canadian Steve Collins entered the world…

There’s no real tango if there’s no real embrace. Yes, I am one of those hard core huggers: if there is no real embrace I prefer not dancing at all. Let me start this with the question what is the origin of the embrace? Why is it the way it is? Well, there are many stories about this and not real evidence for any of them, so you can pick and choose. Me own choice is the story that Osvaldo Natucci told to Monica Paz’s “Practimilonguero”: that the embrace was created so close and so intimate because tango was created…

No matter if you are just one of many beginners or have somewhat experience, you should not neglect what is important in your dancing. Getting back to the basics is always a good idea. In this article I will try to summarize the four most important things you should focus on – they are derived from my own experience and from the experience of other experienced dancers. “It was you who get me continue dancing. Without your help I could never get where I am now.”, she said after our last dance, which surprised me. I didn’t do anything special……

There is a difference between men and women. That is true for life and that should be true for tango as well. There are some who try to blur the line and to mix up the roles, but this will fail, as the nuevo tango project failed. In the best case, those people will create something new, some new dance or cultural expression, but it will for sure not be tango. Yes, I know, many will disagree with me and that is their right. I decided to write this post just to show some of the arguments I have for…

Do you dance with your heart? The question might be simple, but the answer is more complicated than you think. My mission with Tango Mentor is to get more people feel what dancing with your heart means. I mean, real dancing with your heart. Metaphorically and physically. I am not talking here about feeling the music and entering in the state of flow – it is physically dancing with your heart. Not long ago, one of my most dedicated students wrote me an interesting message where he shared his observation about the tango learning process. “Why is there no structure?…