tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.comments2024-03-18T23:47:59.116-04:00Tango TherapistTango Therapisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12548118004604256736noreply@blogger.comBlogger1091125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-26833121843358840112023-05-25T15:06:26.069-04:002023-05-25T15:06:26.069-04:00Hi Greg. You can begin to influence organizers to...Hi Greg. You can begin to influence organizers to have earlier milongas. Put the following link into your browser, and you can see several other posts I wrote on this important subject. Austin once had late milongas, but tried out early milongas and they were an absolute success. Here's the link: https://tango-therapist.blogspot.com/search?q=early+milonga Tango Therapisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12548118004604256736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-64403650439862883362023-05-23T00:23:38.769-04:002023-05-23T00:23:38.769-04:00Great idea about earlier milongas. My SO/partner ...Great idea about earlier milongas. My SO/partner and I are in our mid-60's (look and act younger), she works pretty hard and is on her feet during the week in her medical practice, so at the end of the week she's pretty tired. Sometimes she's still dealing with the exhaustion on Saturday's when most of our local milongas are held. The first thing to go is her feet, then the exhaustion sets in.<br /><br />We know of other great, talented couples (and single dancers) around our age, and even younger, who are the same way; they aren't as enthusiastic about staying for those late-night into the early-morning hours milongas either.<br /><br />While most of them start at 9 PM and end at around 1 AM (and my partner and I have usually cut-out at around 11 PM), but another instructor/tanguera holds her milongas on Saturdays from 3 PM to about 7 PM, which we are now attending on a semi-regular basis, something the other local milongas in our community should do.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16430929641772112115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-33595112436566619822023-03-25T09:21:54.912-04:002023-03-25T09:21:54.912-04:00There is a difference between irony and sarcasm. ...There is a difference between irony and sarcasm. Read the Modest Proposal from Johnathan Swift. He wasn't being sarcastic.Tango Therapisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12548118004604256736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-26476658637249181062022-12-10T08:05:36.818-05:002022-12-10T08:05:36.818-05:00Anna, please message me at mark.word1@gmail.com or...Anna, please message me at mark.word1@gmail.com or on Facebook messenger via https://www.facebook.com/MarcosPalabraTango Therapisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12548118004604256736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-84873634759155982982022-12-04T07:35:12.536-05:002022-12-04T07:35:12.536-05:00It would be SO easy in the world of Google searche...It would be SO easy in the world of Google searches to check the facts here. The Dominican Republic (island of Hispañola) is famous for their la bachata, not merengue. Tango Therapisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12548118004604256736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-66482317175356218362022-12-01T02:41:24.591-05:002022-12-01T02:41:24.591-05:00You’re wrong the author clearly credits merengue t...You’re wrong the author clearly credits merengue to the Dominican Republic Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-42822909283533890492022-11-28T15:33:01.401-05:002022-11-28T15:33:01.401-05:00Excellent article. Active management by organizers...Excellent article. Active management by organizers during the Milonga is essential. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-5937226227760591422022-11-13T05:00:03.133-05:002022-11-13T05:00:03.133-05:00Yes. And yet, for no particularly good reason, thi...Yes. And yet, for no particularly good reason, this reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut - quoted from memory, perhaps the sequence of the first two lines is the other way round:<br />To do is to be<br />to be is to do<br />do be do be doAnna (another Anna than 2014 above)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-33256483525460821922022-11-12T13:46:55.539-05:002022-11-12T13:46:55.539-05:00Lovely. Thank you.Lovely. Thank you.Annanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-32755205105075931852022-11-10T22:43:35.612-05:002022-11-10T22:43:35.612-05:00Thank you Mark!Thank you Mark!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-39931271674557432122022-11-05T09:14:48.476-04:002022-11-05T09:14:48.476-04:00Thank you for this quote. It sure raises the addic...Thank you for this quote. It sure raises the addiction question again, since there are so many worse ways of filling holes. That said, I tend to agree with the Tango Therapist: if the opposite of addiction is not sobriety but connection, then perhaps tango is what best embodies the opposite of addiction!Annanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-78218763961507180552022-11-05T08:42:29.073-04:002022-11-05T08:42:29.073-04:00That is a subjective value judgment masquerading a...That is a subjective value judgment masquerading as a statement of fact. How severe, how gloomy, how forbidding! (Admittedly, another subjective value judgment.) Personally, I love it when tango dancers smile, and find it a fitting and logical expression of Tango Rapture. Here's hoping you experience it sonetimes, even if you never express it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-75558633632053957862022-11-03T12:05:28.177-04:002022-11-03T12:05:28.177-04:00"This video is private": pity, I'd h..."This video is private": pity, I'd have loved to see it. I recently rediscovered tango dancing because the kid is almost grown, and I've been reading all your blog posts, starting from the beginning - neat that there are more to come. Thank you!Annanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-12783396663400438242022-10-02T16:30:39.806-04:002022-10-02T16:30:39.806-04:00I always enjoy reading about your tango ideas, Mar...I always enjoy reading about your tango ideas, Mark. And I just love that photo of you and Sybille dancing! Carry on!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-75331751728469899532022-10-02T07:32:26.366-04:002022-10-02T07:32:26.366-04:00I agree that intercourse and dialogue and many oth...I agree that intercourse and dialogue and many other analogies can be helpful. :-)Tango Therapisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12548118004604256736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-42838775215010629982022-10-02T07:28:46.212-04:002022-10-02T07:28:46.212-04:00Oh my. Thanks for providing an example of the &qu...Oh my. Thanks for providing an example of the "dance as a conversation" analogy at work.Tango Therapisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12548118004604256736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-45940751352195446562022-10-02T07:27:11.639-04:002022-10-02T07:27:11.639-04:00I think that was Mr. Anonymous who said that!
I think that was Mr. Anonymous who said that!<br />Tango Therapisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12548118004604256736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-20017739834289625902022-10-01T06:46:34.690-04:002022-10-01T06:46:34.690-04:00PS A must-see demonstration of Tango Dance Convers...PS A must-see demonstration of Tango Dance Conversation at TEDx UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iavquY2OFo . Music not required, note. Quite... remarkable! :)Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08546555586986008873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-45715083198905904092022-08-01T08:13:57.380-04:002022-08-01T08:13:57.380-04:00Well said Mark.
And on the music. "I do not ...Well said Mark.<br /><br />And on the music. "I do not dance the music. The music dances me." said ... someone.<br />Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08546555586986008873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-61752032193187982752022-07-31T15:50:49.252-04:002022-07-31T15:50:49.252-04:00Dear Anonymous: we are both aging. Aging and wis...Dear Anonymous: we are both aging. Aging and wisdom are don't always go together evidently. ;-)Tango Therapisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12548118004604256736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-55319890759049488262022-07-27T14:51:12.784-04:002022-07-27T14:51:12.784-04:00Fully agree. I think part of the confusion is the ...Fully agree. I think part of the confusion is the otherwise helpful comparison of tango or dancing in general with language. I remember well, in my first year of learning tango, I came to understand that first I learned "sentences" ( the figures!), later realised that it's rather "words" I could combine by myself; today, I think of the tango steps of "syllables". When improvising as a leader I produce new "sentences", some of which I "spoke" before, even often, some are completely new. However, a real language is much, much richer, as you would have thousands of syllables to combine and can express almost everything. What I want to contribute to Mark's above thoughts is, finally, that even if we call tango a language with followers "responding", the possibilities are so restricted that it would be a very boring conversation indeed. But that's no tanguero/a's experience. It is not boring at all! And the simple reason is that it is so much more than a language and a very simple conversation, see Mark's remarks above.Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-43418679520080735552022-06-27T18:17:11.288-04:002022-06-27T18:17:11.288-04:00Sounds like you’re getting old, tango therapist!Sounds like you’re getting old, tango therapist!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-35925488372241211682021-09-11T06:22:59.529-04:002021-09-11T06:22:59.529-04:00I, too, find this fascinating. A hypothesis: tango...I, too, find this fascinating. A hypothesis: tango is a natural home to people with avoidant attachment, because it provides intimacy (which everybody needs) with no threat of engulfment (which avoidant people dread.) Sex, whether in or outside marriage, is more dangerous.Anca Gheaushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02657793134499052720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-13283959380179410242021-06-17T15:23:16.982-04:002021-06-17T15:23:16.982-04:00I agree! There's definitely too much emphasis ...I agree! There's definitely too much emphasis on Yang energy in the US (I'm a US-based dancer); it's a shame too, because one can learn a lot from Yin qualities like gentleness and receptiveness. <br /><br />That's really interesting how you feel secure when following, especially as a man. I definitely need to follow in your footsteps and learn to feel more comfortable with expressing Yin energy.Alicia Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15108158278800029905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035244062520832583.post-3714054214383660172021-06-14T12:25:03.584-04:002021-06-14T12:25:03.584-04:00Hi Alicia… Hmmm. I never feel like I am betraying ...Hi Alicia… Hmmm. I never feel like I am betraying my masculinity by being lead and closing my eyes. My personal belief is that both men and women in the US are far to aligned to Yang energies. To be « professional » for a woman in the US means to « act like a man » too often. A man or a woman has no true power until Yin and Yang are internally balanced. That’s my take. Tango Therapisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12548118004604256736noreply@blogger.com