Category: Truism

Mirada: Asking A Man To Dance

“How do you ask a Man to dance in Tango ?”. Or as you learn why can’t you ? (we’ll deal with that one later in the article). In Ballroom, Swing, or Salsa, you just ask, and no one would ever think of saying “NO” to your polite request. Tango,

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Cabeceo: Asking A Woman To Dance

She walks into the room, kisses and hugs her friends on her way to putting down her shoe bag, and then finding her seat to put on her shoes. It seems like she’s kissing and hugging everyone in the room for cryin’ out loud. Finally, she finds half a chair

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Your Trip to BsAs

The fact is that for a lot of you, 2 weeks in Buenos Aires is all you can really manage. You’ll go, spend scads of money on airfare, apartment, shoes, clothes, privates with X and Y, and then spend every waking moment taking class after class after class in those

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8 Tips To Desirable Tango

So how do you get to the effortlessness of the dancers above ? Below are 8 tips towards that goal. It is not the only pathway, and this by no means is an exhaustive list of what has to happen, but it is a good starting point. When reading through

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Humble: Teacher vs. Maestro

The word ‘maestro’ in spanish tends towards meaning a ‘master teacher’. In english we tend towards removing the word ‘master’ from that definition and end up with ‘teacher’. Nothing could be further from a bastardization than that.

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Picking Your Teacher

Dancing and teaching are not the same things. Choosing a teacher based on whether or not they dance well as the sole criteria for whether or not the can teach you to dance is not a good idea. These are two very different skills. Far too often people make the

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