DJ-ing on international tango event is very responsible and demanding task, and if you are not careful enough you might finish up with empty dance floor and disappointed organizer. This is why I decided to write an article about the five most common mistakes that DJs make on international tango events. It was first published on my tango blog Pocas Palabras and than it went viral – it has been accepted and shared by DJs and organizers on social media, the Slovakian editors of the tango magazine “Gancho” asked me to include it in one of their issues and many…

Good tango has balls! Yes, I don’t care if you’re a man or a woman; if you’re feminist, anarchist, woke, QAnon member or a conservative… Grow a pair! If you want to become good tango dancer you need “nerve, character and strength” as D’Arienzo said; you need to be grounded and deep. That is what it means when I say tango and, based on what I have read about old masters, that’s what tango meant for many of them as well. Tango is not playful jumping and kicking around, tango is deep, emotional and painful. Or, as Pugliese once said…