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I think there is a more subtle dimension here besides the ‘cute’. I think because the dance is a bit more serious and more technically demanding it works as a filter. The milongas being formal gives people an excuse to dress up in a more casual daily environment. There is a bit more...

My swing dancer housemate would tell me that if she had a Time Machine she wouldn’t even be able to go back to the places where swing was first danced because she isn’t black. The idea that swing is not a culture is super strange. I think there are super neat modern workarounds to the class to...

In the post she suggests that there were still a lot of people doing tango based on momentum from the mid-2000s to around 2014.

Tango popularity made a lot of teachers. But they didn’t seek out new beginner students out in the world. So now that tango is not as popular they all fight for the same ones and destroy shared community. Before some events had a higher bar of levels, but organizers lower them, which then makes...

Depending on mobility a wearable chair might also work if you can handle short bursts of walking. Feels much less intrusive.

There is a series called tango stride which is around seated movement - TangoStride Seated Movement Sessions by Gabriela Condrea . In regards to the tango embrace, adaptive programs like the one at Emory ( for Parkinson and mobility challenges ) use a more open one for stability.

There was an interesting post called 'Is Tango Dying?" Daniele Donzello . A part of it was around this: I have a lot of friends in other dance scenes that tried tango and then gave it up. The main reason was that they just didn't feel welcome in the dance compared to others. Feelings of...

The word is a shortcut for emotion. The intention is not dance a word in every song. But rather that you can have a different interpretation of the song, which you would have obviously in reality. It was one of the few classes I have had where it was exploring bringing in an emotion based on...

One of the musicality exercises we did once was to listen to a minute of the song. Then, think of a word and dance to that word for the rest of the song without revealing it to the partner. At the end of the dance we then told each other what the word was. It was interesting to see what people...

When you say something to say, are you expressing an emotion, how the song makes you feel? Or is it something different than that. Can you give an example of what you would say in one song of the tanda vs another one and the same tanda?

I don’t associate mugre with bad dancing. More with making choices in the dance that affect the emotion conveyed. In a similar way that you’d dance a milonga differently than a vals than a tango. Things like changing muscle tone, density, size of steps, maybe more sacadas, etc to convey what is...

I’m fascinated by this idea of the dirt or filth in the dance. Tango Mugre – Leo y Flor Tango The notion that on top of the technical bits there can also be this drive to be gritty and emotional and more “street”. I don’t hear a lot of the instructors mention or work with the emotional...

Brazilian Jujitsu ( now that more women are getting into it ), contact acrobatics, assisted/partner yoga, tandem skydiving.

I would also like to see how this works in group dances like Casino rueda where the interactions are not just one to one but many people doing the same moves based on a lead’s calls.

That idea of a device that beeps when you’re not in sync sounds amazingly dystopian. You get 5 beeps per tanda and you’re out!

Is there a compromise here? Feels like either you have the modern traditionalist like Cachivache or Tango Bardo or bands that try new stuff but their music feels too simplistic for traditional dancers like Bajofondo or Tanghetto. Are there tracks that exist that feed the neotango desire for...

Thought experiment: if you are a DJ and wanted to have people not dance - let’s say to prop up the alcohol sale at the venue or because your past lover is there and you want to spite them - what would you do? You have to still stick to the tanda system, can’t be obvious about it, but your goal...

Didn't get a sense that folks that dance other dances are comfortable dancing extensively at the cortinas, specially at events like Valentango. I see a lot of tango dancers at West Coast Swing / Fusion / Salsa events in Portland, but what I've seen is that folks mostly stick to tango at places...

I used to live in a super lead heavy city. It was always interesting that the instructors didn’t care about the imbalance. Oh, you have to stand for half of the class without a follow, whatever, suck it up. Now there are a lot of classes where they can’t find enough leads and it’s super...

The lead is doing exactly what the follow desires. It’s telepathy bro