Ummm, okay not really. However, the more I practice Argentine tango, the more I realize that the less force one uses the better of one’s dancing becomes. This is probably true with a lot of dance forms, but it is an entirely different way of dancing for me. Most of my ballet training I spent [...]

Tonight I spent the majority of the time trying to talk about technique. After ditching my attempt to write on the subject, I started reading other tango related blogs and interviews. I ran across this interview with Pablo Inza and Nazarena Colombo. This one single quote hit me on a very deep level.
Nazarena: Year [...]

I’ve been working on Argentine Tango for a little over a month now. It is challenging, but in an entirely different way than other forms of dance I’ve studied. I will talk about the challenging aspects of the dance in another post. This post is more geared to learning in general.
One thing that seems to [...]

When I was a child taking ballet and “being a dancer,” my teachers and parents coddled my difficulties with math always claiming that my brain wasn’t wired for it. Though it was easy to accept this excuse then, as I grew older this really bothered me. I always knew I didn’t understand some concepts because [...]

I recently came across the Tango Principles blog. These things keep me grounded with a solid perspective on the dance. I have underlined statements that really mean something to me.

Spontaneity. Improvised, unpremeditated dancing, when neither of the partners knows or plans what happens next, yet dancing that is not arbitrary, but spontaneously appropriate to the [...]