Tango Therapist

Translation in German Being present . That is what tango gives us more than anything else, perhaps. Being present in our bodies is ...

Milongas can be a long dive for me here in Germany; so last summer sometimes I would go down the street to dance salsa instead.  One eveni...

My 19-year old son told me I had to listen to this TED Talk.  "It's about dance, Dad," he said in order lure me into watching...

Plato is setting up a tango studio in your town.  Everyone is talking about Plato teaching tango.  His classes are full of students, eager...

Steel Engraving of Walt Whitman by Samuel Hollyer (1854) W alt Whitman  (1819-1892) was not a tanguero. He was an iconoclast poet. ...

I just watch at the milonga -- hardly dance anymore. My cigarettes slowly bring me to my end. Her absence is a cold replay of a closin...

Milonga at the Ponderosa Ranch in Nevada? H ere is a picture of an elegant milonga in Mannheim, Germany -- well, the ladies are elegan...

What?      Moderate Christian tango and vampires?   I am not positive about this but I think both Vampire Milongas and Moderate Chri...

Reaching new heights in tango. (Or was this martial arts night?) P erhaps every tango community has a Sue.  Some people don't know ...

=== Fiction by Mark Word === Once long ago, but in a time very much like our own... M y therapist told me I should write down my feelin...

Listening In Therapists listen to diagnose. Parents listen to guide. Friends listen to be present. Lovers listen to be close. But a sou...

N ot (just) tango therapy! Get therapy from different sources.  Tango can look like an addiction if a person is depressed and relies too...

I can close my eyes. Tangueras in Buenos Aires. Close, warm, melting Into my embrace. But when my eyes close, Where are you? Our min...

H ave you ever known a person who becomes a " connoisseur " of wine?  Often that person seems unhappy with most of the wine he or ...

Our human minds were wired to dance and sing.  That is what makes us human. Try this recipe: (a) Round up some children. (b) Play som...

Tango Jockeys put the dancer, not themselves, in the limelight. How a DJ becomes a TJ Over the years, I have learned what makes a di...