Why Ladies Learn Better by Dancing More?
photo by Sergio Scandiuzzi © Going to classes and practicing at home is very useful, but there is nothing as good as dancing more. I wrote my post “Practice less, dance more” for the guys, but this is even more applicable for the ladies. In fact, I learned that dancing more and dancing with good dancers is more than 50% of the learning process for female tango dancers. Read this article to find out how dancing more will benefit you, especially if you are a female dancer. Please have in mind that I do not use…
Dance more, practice less
photo by Sergio Scandiuzzi © Practice less – there is a much easier and much joyful way to improve your dancing. This post is written primarily for the male dancers, but I am sure ladies can benefit from it as well. In order to learn more, while practicing less, you will have to dance a lot. I mean a lot! The more the better. If you have milongas in your community every day, and you have time, be there. Dance! Tango dancers are like airplane pilots – in their license it is not written how many…
Four Ways to Lead Better
photo by Sergio Scandiuzzi © You should lead better. Well, easier said than done. Many male dancers put a lot of effort in practicing and learning, but their visits to milongas turn out to be frustrating experiences again and again. It is like there is a big secret that stays out of reach for them, no matter how hard they try. Would you believe me if I say that it is not hard to lead better if you pay attention to just four things? I know, it sounds like magic cure, but trust me – it…
How to Create a Perfect Tanda
photo by Sergio Scandiuzzi © It is easy to create a perfect tanda… of course, if you know what your end goal is. Good DJs do not think in terms of individual songs – they think in tandas. Preparing perfect tandas and playing them in the right moment is all it takes for a DJ to create a great mood in their milongas. Of course, there are different approaches and different styles of playing music – but what I found that works best are the four points I am going to explain in this post. -…
The most important thing is your partner
What’s the most important thing in tango? If I have just few seconds to teach you about the core of the tango, the advice I am going to give you here will be it. Let me begin this with a short story that happened when I was in preparation stage of the Tango Mentor project. “I have few ideas about the name, I already checked the domains and they are available”, I said to her. She was my tango student, but there was topic where she was my mentor – work. “Tell me”, she said. “Well, the two that I…