My Year in Tango: Part One
At Dance with Joy Studios a couple pairs up to take a lesson. This story begins in earnest with The Urban Planner (my first partner), the Dance with Joy Studios (the first lesson), and the wrong shoes...
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The walk should be natural, beautiful, smooth. The time has come, the Tanguera said, to talk of many things, of shoes, and slips, and varnished floors… … and walking. Not just any walking, either....
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The Close Embrace: it’s close, and it’s an act of faith and confidence. So, I promised to tell you about the many things of tango. I am attempting to do just that, but it is a long and winding road,...
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The leader’s primary position is to lead the dance—to show, to indicate, to gently persuade. By now you must realize that a fair amount of time has passed in my Tango Year. Since we got past the sticky...
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The essence of tango resides in the connection. From “The One,” the leader, the tanguera receives the movement, musicality, and groove. And maybe then she finds that elusive tango essence, the...
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The tango aficionado tends to be a fascinating individual—well-read, interested in challenging music, aware of arts and culture issues and a good quiet conversationalist, capable of filling the long...
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Every tango student reaches the moment when she realizes that you really cannot claim to “dance tango” until you have been to a Milonga. As a fledging tanguera, I needed to experience the Milonga on a...
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Tango….take me away. What began for me as a casual interest grew into a pleasure I hope to engage in for the rest of my physically able life. I get that my interest in tango will come and go, but, it...
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I am wondering if you are inspired to try tango, or exhausted from the sheer thought of it? It is our last chapter together. I am wondering if you are inspired to try tango, or exhausted from the sheer...
View ArticleTBA:13: Belaza and Ouizguen meet resistance with dance
One of the fulfilling pleasures of PICA’s TBA:13 were the “TBA Conversations,” opportunities to steal away for a noontime hour or so, and listen as some of the festivals most engaging artists and...
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