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. -…

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…

photo by Oirad Aguls © Many times I hear comments that it is harder for the male tango dancer or that women have more complicated journey; in fact the tango dancer’s development is not a straight line and both of those viewpoints are right and wrong in the same time. Male or female dancers, have their difficulties along the way and most of them depend on their individual talents and abilities. Yet, experienced teacher can notice some general regularities. In this post I am going to talk about some very interesting observations I made over the…

(This article first appeared in ‘Gancho’, december 2016 – this is just a reprint for the readers of Tango Mentor) As we say goodbye to the old year our eyes look towards the next one and we try to figure out what tango events should we put on our calendar. I mean, we all wish to travel more if we just had enough money and time. Since most of us are not that lucky to have limitless resources, little wisdom when we make choice would help a lot. My intention behind this article is to help tango travelers to plan…

photo by Oirad Aguls © The mathematics of the dance is a way to understand how do you use your dancing repertoire and what is the value of the steps in your vocabulary. Have you ever tough about how much steps you learned since you started dancing tango? Did you calculated how much of that knowledge you actually use when you dance? I do not know if someone actually made that study, but I believe that the experienced tango dancers use just a small percentage of what they actually know. I think that male dancers usually…