Archive for the ‘Tango is’ Category

Tango is…

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

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

Tango is

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Tango is not ganchos.

Tango is

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Physical contact

Tango is

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

…danced for an audience of one.

Risk

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

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 or do not know, where the music will take you or what steps you will do.

It is, in essence, the gamblers perfect dance.