Tango Therapist

This is part II on the four distinct ways of saying "I love you" in Ancient Greek. I f the poet  Elizabeth Barrett Browning ha...

D o you have enough Éros in your tango? How about á gápē ,   philía , and   storgē -love? The Ancient Greeks,  who had more distinct way...

Do you want to maintain your love of dance?  Then, I recommend that you dance for survival.  Dance to create the inner happy hormones, ...

Dance Papi , a blog about dance , published this article on tango therapy on April 5, 2016. By Maria Ore (used with permission)     Tang...

Relationships are harmed when one person wants to dance and the other refuses to. What is behind the refusal? There are many possi...

Does it feel like you are part of a choir when you dance? What intrigues many dancers is why people dance tango throughout their lives, ...

W hat makes tango therapeutic?  If you know the answer to this question, then you will dance throughout your life. A ll therapeutic inte...

Imagine --if you will--a time when Archetypes roamed the earth.  I see two parents taking their newly adopted small children to the park. ...

W hy forge your tango teacher's signature?   Movement signatures are being scientifically measured for each person's unique "...

Rejection, unlike fear, sadness and anger look like physical pain in brain scans Translations:   Romanian / German [pending] A ltho...

I t takes one person to tango --at least to tango well.

M y most pleasant marathon was not 26.2 miles of running.  It was a tango "marathon."  I have finished around a dozen marathons ...

This is Part III in a series on the Eight Elements of Movement . . . See the links at the bottom of this post for part I & II ...

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."  Leonardo da Vinci  D ancers often lament having to start all over with a new t...

  Being in awe of beauty seems to be uniquely human .  Animals are often better than we are for being in the present...

A resiliency walk on a sacred labyrinth, a holy path or in a tango embrace leads to the same place:  Psychological well-being. D ancers...

T he end-times are certain.  Theologians and astrophysicists agree on this point.  We got a sense of the End-of-the-World Milonga here ...

So why are you drawn to dance?  There is a good chance that you have realized that you  need  music and dance in your life.  Perhaps yo...

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...