Encouragement from the past
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…
Will we dance again?
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,…
Tango skills you can develop in isolation
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…
Tango and self-isolation
The tango pandemic around the world was unfortunately stopped by another – deadlier pandemic. With tango, people lose their old life – with the corona virus some of us unfortunately lose life literally. Who knows how the world will look like after the end of this situation? One thing I am sure about – we, the tango people, will be among the first who will rush the dance floors and dance out what we have missed all these months. [Tweet “Nothing beats human interaction – Simon Sinek”] Many of us miss tango so much that they invent all kinds of…
Tango códigos simplified
Q&A article In all these years of my tango journey I’ve never seen more controversial topic than tango codigos. Some people don’t know them, others know them, but choose to ignore them. But all of us have opinion about codigos. Well, who am I to tell them how to behave? All I can do is to help those who think that codigos are useful and who reach out to find out more about them. In this Q&A article I will answer a request I often get from the subscribers on my list. I decided to use some of the answers…