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Does anyone have experience or tips for dancing tango while seated on a chair? (for handicapped people like me)

I've been on DF for over ten years, but only this year has the site become frequently unavailable. And according to Cloudflare, it's the server's fault, not my computer or the internet connection. What has changed this year? Less traffic, smaller hardware, more frequent attacks, more advertisement?

I rarely dance anymore, and if, I mostly dsnce with followers I've known and valued for a long time. Nevertheless, yesterday I asked a woman I didn't know to dance. Her spontaneous response after three bars: "Oh, you're a dynamic dancer!" But what does that actually mean? I never move...

I found this photo by Theodore Lux Feininger on the internet. Three couples dancing on the roof of the Bauhaus Art Academy in Dessau (Germany). The photo is dated around 1929. We definitely don't see a standard frame. What do you think they're dancing? It could be Balboa or Argentine tango.

Has a book ever been written about your local dance community? Did you recognize anyone? And were you also featured in this book?

Who knows this situation: You show up at the milonga, and as you watch the ronda, you're overcome by a feeling of strangeness, distance, alienation, and almost disgust. That's what happened to me, right now. I didn't put on my dancing shoes, but turned on my heel and went back home.

Does the perfect tango embrace exist? This is a spin-off.. I'm sure, the perfect embrace (dance floor) does exist, but it's a fleeting experience when it comes to a (life) partner. Since converting to tango, I've found all my life partners in the community. But somehow you can't have both a...

Watch the sacada at 1:12 !

During my years of tango training, I tried out many teachers, many styles, and many didactical approaches. Among them was a franchise called "Tango Discovery". The owner, Mauricio Castro, studied with Gustavo Naveira, radicalized his system, and incorporated Naveira's approach into several books...

Argentine tango makes me shudder. What power, what dynamism, what a feeling. (Rubén is the only one who ever played a white bando with golden knops).

The discussion about syncopation in the swing section reminded me of a blog post by TangoTherapist, whom I got to know when he was stationed in Germany some time ago. https://tango-therapist.blogspot.com/2011/11/music-workshop-thinking-in-six.html?

Inspired by DanceMentor's post, I did a search for AT in the US. Seems, the interest already was stationary before the pandemic.

In my opinion, the exaggerated lordosis in the lower back does not suit the tango.

Recently found this performance. But I'm not convinced.

Found this on the internet...

For me it was exactly this way. Tango pursued me until I gave in. At first the tango was still reserved, but then it became more and more intrusive. It all started when I was zapping through the tv channels late on one evening in the last century. I got stuck on “The Tango Lesson.” I found the...

I'm interested in the question of whether the tango represents the end of your dance journey for you. I know, technically we can dedicate ourselves to tango the whole life. There is always something to improve, to deepen, and perfect. But does that also satisfy a tango dancer? Maybe more variety...

Your post reminded me of this vid...

I'll take PnP's aptly put account to explore this special side of tango. Firstly, the accredited ballroom studios are currently not just limiting themselves to the ten classic dances, but are increasingly offering everything that is successful in the wild, such as Argentine tango. The teachers...