Tango Therapist

O ver-thinking in dance can ruin the spontaneity and artfulness of tango.  However, too many dancers go off in a different direction o...

 The child within me holds you in the street, I fell down and your embrace takes away my pain. The friend within me holds you at the...

Many say that the Gold Age ( Época de Oro ) for tango was around 1938 to 1948.  It wasn't!  We are NOW in the Golden Age of Tango--bu...

Cabeceo: The goal is hers as much as yours in tango but only to score in soccer El  hace  un  cabeceo ...  y ... ¡Goooooooool! ...

T his is not a drug. This is Vitamin T that you savor on your tongue, like no other vitamin. Vitamin T is a complex vitamin, like ...

VonBraun's Rocket Science Tango Studios: Planning the first Volcada to put a woman on the Moon P lease tango teachers!   Will you pl...

Birth of a male tango baby: Will he die soon, like so many before him? Male tango babies are not born with two left feet . Just on...

Click here for the English version .  To avoid confusion, all posts in German are now found at Tango Therapeut Bitte hier klicken:...

On the left:  Envy and Gossip.   On the right: Her regular self.  I prefer her days that Envy does not visit.    B eauty fades bu...

Mata Amritanandamayi, known as Amma has hugged more people than anyone in human history.  She knows something about the embrace that ev...

We are the only tribe on this enchanted, "wild" life refuge. Is what we are doing sustainable? I love tango.  Don't you?...

Passive-Aggressive Behavior is not to confront the rogue dancer assertively. T he tango community and the joy of dance belong to ever...

W atch very carefully for a child who briefly appears in the below video. Did you see the child?  It was the grey-haired kid who threw...

Warning:  This explanation of "The Joy of (Tango) Traffic" is NOT for beginners. Because of floorcraft hand-outs that actually...

"Stork theories" of how tango babies are made will not help tango survive. Conception begins in human need. W hen were you c...

A continued discussion on leading and following . . . A rchetypal leaders are unique. In the Jungian sense, the archet...

English version link     Siento nuestros pechos, que se llenan del aire Como si fuera el aliento vivo, un dúo de Bandoneones....

Don't neuter my tango! Warning:   This post is rated " VS " for " very sarcastic " and with elements of bizar...

The leader speaks.  You listen. " J ust for a change, shut up and listen, okay?!" "This is not a conversation.  It ...

A continuing dialogue on the concept of leading and following . . . If you are a "follower" you may be wasting your money on ...

S ocial tango is kind tango . . . . . . not a kind of tango . More than a few people I have known have left the tango community or...

Link to the English version: Sacred Silence at the Milonga This was my first blog post in German (below).  Articles, like this one, will ...

On my way to my first  OCLC disorder meeting I had a dream...   I went to a meeting for Obsessive Compulsive Lane-changing disorder ...

Y es. Is there even a question here?  Isn't it obvious? Human need through normal sexual desire brings children into the world thr...

A continued series on the question of who is leading whom                                 en español T he bandoneonista plays with s...

Ficciones en las Noticias Lady Justice hears the facts, blind to opinion. Tango lost in the court of common sense. (The Unassociated ...

A continuing dialogue about leading and following...                           Romanian  translation T he eyes   are more powerful ...

I s tango just a little too depressive?  Too blue?   I have heard people say this, but I do not think so at all.  It's best to be...

Since we had little feet we have known the essential steps of tango Artist:   Diana Lee L eft and R ight. Try it out this weekend...

                        Link to  German Translation I magine an evening of tango without any talking?  I do not have to imagine it anym...

The man on the left weights 100 kilos. The man on the right weighs 70 kilos, This is a gender-balance teeter-totter.  P resently I a...

ALREADY SITTING TOO LONG? "Oh, please.  Three teachers with three songs each? I could have stayed in bed or have gone to a Zumba clas...

The tanda is your life on fast-forward. The tanda (a set of four songs at a milonga) poetically represents stages of your entire adul...

     The Church Social is a Members-Only Club Sound like Tango at times? There's a difference between  social tango, in which everyone i...

Chi is my partner; she dances me. Describing the world of Tai Chi and Qigong in the martial arts,  Garri Garripoli says in his book: ...

When one of the greatest cellists of all time, Pablo Casals, was asked why he continued to practice the cello three hours a day, he replied,...

The vintage embrace comes from being not doing: Being there over time. T he tango embrace is the first step we learn in tango, but usua...

The one who believes she'll live forever, takes the biggest risks. The Body Tango is us.  I'll call her, Señorita Tango, bu...

The Now is when we have good eye contact with the Universe I f tango is just a dance , a sport, a diversion, even a way to feel aliv...

H ow does a tanguero or tanguera define basic survival and beyond?                       Only if Abraham Maslow had known tangueras!    ...

The closet of you inner child has to be sound proof not to dance B y accident, I came across a man's sincere question on "Yaho...

Music's Essential Elements:  Melody, Harmony and Rhythm.   I f tango dancers really wish to dance musically, they must at least sens...

A Century in the Pause of Time I want to be early this time to the milonga. Seems that I fight time in this world. Silent time is my ene...

The Innovator: Starting, not "starting over." I am trying to earn my white belt in tango.  Please join me and many others...

A super man asks for a dance non-verbally with a nod or wink. It's called a "cabeceo." Struggling with Spanish and English...

  When I was a boy When I was a boy, I was told not to cry. So I stopped. When I was a youth, I was told not to sing. S...

Picasso Ceramic:  Dancing to the flute T hrough tango I have discovered that the most primal musical instrument on earth is the human bo...