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"The dancers body is simply the luminous manifestation of their soul. This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of self and out of something greater than all selves"

Isadora Duncan

Tango Pink Papers
A series of short studies and observations on argentine tango.

The following extracts are taken from articles written by Steve Morrall and other authors about the process of learning tango.

The longest journey starts with a single dance step
A perspective of the learning process from both sides of the embrace. More

Giving a nod
Is the cabeceo a valid and effective invitation to dance in the 21st century? More

Laughter and tears in a black and yellow cab
A dancer travels to Buenos Aires only to discover he has a dance threatening disease. More

Be aware of the need to balance mind,
body and spirit
Your axis is your power and your beauty, don't let your dance partner steal it through ignorance, belligerence or ego. More

It is very easy to learn how to cheat tango
A note of caution to anyone who is learning the art of Argentine Tango. You may already have experienced a phenomenon I can only describe as deconstructing and rebuilding your dance after a lesson with a maestro. Read the full article

Other tango commentary:

100 years of tango

Poem by Eduardo Bozzo

Cry of the bandoneon

Visiting Buenos Aires

The need for neotango

Loving classic tango

Sensory Tango

A DJ's Tango Juke Box
A dancer's hip op

More topics can be found in our facebook group GO

A humble approach
to learning
A dear friend and music maestro once told me "people seem to have forgotten how to humble themselves to a learning process". I have been reminded of his comments...
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Notes to a student
"When I first started to dance tango, a step was simply a step. I took a step and my partner had to move with me. It had no connection, no finesse, no inner conversation, no prologue, no texture. I danced alone in an embrace." Read the full article

Tango Physics
Two tanguera particles have charges of the same polarity and are therefore likely to repel each other, especially if wearing similar shoes or dress. More

Somewhere between head and feet
Sometimes I can drift off to another place, somewhere between head and feet, lost in the music and conscious of the need to invite my partner into the next safe, empty space.
Read the full article

The Roller Coaster Ride of Tango Emotions
I wonder how many of you reading this have experienced the roller-coaster ride of tango emotions? I can go from a euphoric high to the pit of a low in the space of a few dances.
Read the full article

Dancing with the right side of the brain
When I learnt to dance tango, I was taught in a very process-based way using the 'basic eight', a logical way of teaching dance as a sequence of eight steps which my left brain processed. Read the full article

Encouraging Men to Dance Tango Argentino
...ego is inextricably linked to all the above Cs, and the addition of female company in the dance only sharpens the knife edge on which the novice dancer is precariously balanced. Read more

Walk like a dancer....
Perhaps for the first time since learning to walk as a young child, we need to consciously control the way in which we move from foot to foot. Read more

Proprioception is...
...an awareness of existence through information coming from senses in the body telling us where it is and what it is doing. How do we use this in tango? Read more