Tango Therapist

T he torment of a musician is that he strums out his heart so all can hear his soul. The torment of an artist is that no one knows the...

As in life, so in tango  every man should know about what women want . Woman would be glad if the roles were reversed: That there w...

T an go culture  at its center and at its best is a community of harmonizing elements: The whole dance floor is synchronized in movements ...

Literally "manipulation" is skillfully working with one's hand, just as a sculptor manipulates clay. What you learn from...

The Milonga Dialogues:                                                        German translation at this link Don't touch that l...

Tango Therapist's 5th Birthday Today  my blog is five years old.  Also this week I will have posted 300 little pieces of my passio...

P erhaps you have heard this often quoted phrase that portrays dance as powerless to explain complex things.   Martin Mull 's quote h...

T he  A nswer  for  N ot  G rowing  O ld  (T.A.N.G.O)  T ango has demonstrated clear indications of  helping people decrease symptoms o...

Encuentros, perhaps better called " Tango Socials" have some excellent elements.  A friend of mine in Austria, says that Encu...

Do not fret, dear Angel.  There's hope. W ell, if you can believe the consensus of theologians, then there's no sex in heave...

T ango can play with your mind--a mind that has the tendency to erroneously perceive that time is going faster and faster as one becomes ...

"Obligation" has become a dirty word to some in the tango world--something to be avoided. In reality, "obligation" is...

Today's focus on musicality starts with a visual.  The video clip below is produced by Leandro Díaz and Mauro Mauceri, musicians who t...

I once noticed  some turquoise shoes and a suitcase as I danced on the last evening of a tango festival. She had obviously gone up to he...

In this post, I am going to suggest a way of musicality praxis that will grow and grow the way that suits you.  I am convinced that tryin...

I n the last post , I suggested an "equation" for better musicality for dancers:   E=MC2 .  In today's post, I will suggest...

We dancers too often lose focus on the "E" which is central to musical dancing.  And the "M" and the "C squared...

T ango and dance in general gives us a chance to maintain the most precious organ in the body: The Brain. The onset of dementia slowly...

I t all started with an email from a friend and milonga organizer from another country who was coming to a milonga very near to where I li...

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...