Learning tango online is considered a substitution for real workshops this year, but does it work? What is it good for and what are the drawbacks of learning online? What is online learning good for and where it fails to deliver? For years, I’ve been working online with dozens of students and most of the time it worked well, but I’ve always guided my online students that learning online doesn’t work if you don’t have option to dance with someone who knows how it’s done. Pros Online is a great way to learn the milonguero mindsetWatching gives you ideas about…

Watching videos of demo dances and performances can and should be part of the learning process, but we should always be aware that it influences our dancing. It influences us even if we don’t want to: our mirror neurons are helping our brain to sometimes learn just by watching… and they make no difference between good or bad – their job is to just imitate. 11 ways watching videos changes your dancing Changes your choice of stepsInfluences your techniqueYou get ideas on how to interpret the musicIt changes your tasteYou try unnatural postureGets you ideas about your dress codeYou tend…

Past few months I went from disappointment to enthusiasm about tango. Social distancing is mortal enemy to social dancing and that brings up the question: will we ever dance tango again? How will it look like after all this ends? Asking myself these (and similar) questions made me do a little research. This was not the first pandemic humanity faced after all. We had much deadlier viruses attacking people and somehow life continued. People still danced and society didn’t ended. Humans are social beings: they crave real connection with real human beings. We’re not lonely islands. Looking back I turned…

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. I imagine tango people around the world – dancers, teachers, school owners and events organizers scratching their heads with these burning questions… Will tango survive? Should I focus on something else? How would tango world look like after Covid-19? How to make it work again? Last week when I wrote this to my subscribers I had questions and almost no answers. I was frozen. Now there are still no definite answers, but there are at least some flags. After the survey we made with Alex, I have some data from the reality,…

It’s not that bad: the self-isolation might be even beneficial to developing some of the tango skills. We have a lots of time at hand; our bodies need some physical activity and our addicted mind crave anything connected to our favorite dance. This article is all about that – what can you do to use this COVID-19 to actually benefit your tango dancing journey. “I don’t understand”, she was telling me directly after almost every single one of my sentences. It was frustrating. I tried harder and harder. I used more words, describing with analogies – but it seemed with…