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| A place to embrace, a place to walk and be soothed deep in one's soul. |
Try to describe tango in a single word.
That's hard. Maybe a hyphenated word, like "soul-soothing"?
But the "walking-embrace," is my often-used noun and my best description. The walking-embrace is more than soul-soothing. It is the way that we can let our souls go out and play, like children who too long have been sitting in a classroom or inside because of bad weather. Tango is the soul-play dance while walking embraced.
That's it.
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/archivalproject/5472070619/
Also see:
http://tangocorazon.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/tango-whats-your-adjective/
It certainly can be soul-soothing, but it can also be soul-exciting!
ReplyDeleteWords cannot describe the tango, whether it's one or one hundred. It has to be felt, danced, experienced. No es cierto?
Cherie -- you are exactly right. How could I say "soothing" when it can be so incredibly soul-exciting!? But perhaps after all the excitement we go into this deep sense of feeling "soothed." So that is not too much from the truth, but it's now a matter of just when. :-)
ReplyDeleteI can't explain tango, but I can say how it affects me. I feel better, happier, more whole, more optimistic since I began dancing tango eight months ago.
ReplyDeleteQuerida Anónima: Isn't that amazing? I think I know who you are by the amount of time you mention you have been dancing, but wasn't that all of us at one time -- amazed by the before-and-after tango effect, by the power of the walking-embrace?
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