Tango Therapist

From the most humble    person in a nation to the president:   We are all ambassadors.  That is why I prefer the name " em...

  T he thinking animal needs music and dance to survive.  Darwin hushed the music. He thought, at first, that music and dance were not...

Most of us start out as children with no fear of dancing--that is, with no " chorophobia ."  Psychological blocks sometimes come ...

The wise tango dancer is fluent in five languages D o you know your two primary "tango-love languages"?  Gary Chapman's ...

Tango is her sin?  Her addiction? A re you a tango addict?  A tango sinner?  Do you shamefully bear the "T" upon your fore...

I cannot be Zorro, my favorite TV character as a child.  I am too white . . . . . . but sometimes I get away with it in a dimly lighte...

T he Path of Pleasure can be a spiritual path, unlike what many religions teach. It's certainly heavenly to dance tango. Somethin...

Dancers breaking the prohibition of dance at the US Capital's Monuments W hy do people forget how to dance? Blocks.   Psychologi...

N o one can teach you what you already know.   Others can help you develop and uncover and nurture what you already know, but I believe t...

An interview with a ballerina . . . J enny has a remarkable business--a type of missionary business--dedicated to dance.  Most of her ...

I n the field of mental health, a new way of thinking about "intelligence" has emerged to be more accepted:   Emotional Intell...

Your body was born to dance.  Our bodies are sometimes like  square-pegs , not fitting into the roundness of the music.  But if we let t...

Cupid cries over a bag of gold; a man pines over his tragic loss.                                                                      ...

I cannot compete with the best dancer. He embodies the music better than I, His embrace fits more nicely to my partner. His movement...

Tangueros are not from Mars, nor tangueras from Venus. Both are from Earth. Y our milonga is on Earth. Earth is a great middle-point ...

The Three M's: Starting with eMbrace, then Movement and Music.    If the Three M's were celestial bodies in a solar system, the...

S ara is my closest friend.  No one can replace the kind of friendship we have.  She's a breathing, living being.  Sara is my bandon...

Genesis 3: Adam says to God, "I hid from you because I was naked.                         auf deutsch  God said, 'Who told you...

R ecently a comment of not listening to the music while  improvisationally  dancing tango surprised me.  An advanced, German dancer a...

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...

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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...