Tango Therapist

My New Year's tango resolutions are simple as a-b-c. Dance simply. . . ...but not too much. Nurture my dance relationship with m...

If you you want to visit Tango Cloud Nine more often, then pay attention to how well a person hears and responds to the music.   So...

I really wanted my mother to have that dress she couldn't afford:   A tango Christmas Story.  The bandoneón case would smile at m...

It was a strange coincidence. I just had been putting a lot of reflection on the cultural belief that dance is a "sin,...

I hope this post will tickle your ears with a new way to listen to a vals*  you probably know well.   The  marimba   makes a tasty cameo a...

F or me listening to the music, the true leader in tango, and actively guiding a woman at a milonga is one of the most enjoyable things I ...

As I write this post, years ago at this time, on November 11, 1918 at 11:11 am,  the Armistice of the " End of the War of all Wars ...

A cabeceo from Mars, being accepted by a humble tanguera's  mirada Why dance with Mars , the God of War, when you can dance in the ...

O nly with dance is the artist and that which is created unified without boundaries. Now, what happens when the dancer and the dance-...

K nowing which instruments are playing will not make you a better dancer.  However, instrument recognition will make you a better list...

 ". . . of dance shoes." A  fight is going on in the streets outside of the milonga.   And you might as well join in bec...

I walk into a group tango class  in a city where I have never danced. The teacher tells us: " I cannot teach you to dance. ...

Photo by George A. Kounis W hat do advanced dancers, veteran hobby pilots and Army Majors all have in common?   Answer:   They t...

The Tango Pirate needs a Wench Tradition of a mistranslation I am sure that some would find "beauty and deep meaning" if th...

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...