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As sharp as his suit and as elegant as her dress.

“The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.” – Carlos Gavito

Tango is the language you sing in along to the music.

Total Abandon Never Grows Old

Tango is sensory overload. Be it through multiplicity of steps or depth of embrace.

Tango is not ganchos.

Physical contact

…danced for an audience of one.

While watching the Insurance episode of Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money it struck me how much there is an element of risk in dancing tango. You have no idea of your partners qualities or abilities, what steps they do … Continue reading →