Archives for mayo 2014

mayo 28, 2014 Juan Miguel Expósito Leave a Comment

Effortless tango or lazy tango?

So, this is a follow-up on my previous post on technique. I’ve received some absolutely lovely feedback these past few days, and I wanted to take a moment before I start to thank all of you for reaching out, it means more than you can imagine.

One of the comments I read was about working from a more instinctive place and if this could actually just be attributed to laziness, since the mainstream, more «intellectual» approach seems too hard at times. And I think that’s a great question to explore, there’s so many things to unravel!

First translation of the site

Hi there!

I’ve been working a lot these past few days in having the first English version of the site. Luckily, I had already set up all the infrastructure «behind the scenes» as to make this an easy process, and I had already taken care of the more structural aspects of the translation, so from now on it’s pretty simple to just integrate new content in new languages. Of course you are reading the English version, which has its own homepage or you can click on the language menu that’s on the top bar, sidebar, footer, or on the link inside each post that has a translation, just before the comment area. The rest of the site will be ready in a few days, expect some more tweaks all around…

mayo 27, 2014 Juan Miguel Expósito Leave a Comment

Primera traducción del sitio

Hola, ¿qué tal?

Entre ayer y hoy estuve trabajando mucho en tener una primera versión del sitio en inglés. Afortunadamente había ido preparando toda la infraestructura «detrás de escena» para que esto fuera sencillo, y ya me había encargado de los aspectos más estructurales, así que a partir de ahora es bastante sencillo ir integrando las versiones en otros idiomas. Podés visitar la homepage en inglés o cliquear en los menúes de idioma en la barra superior, lateral, inferior, o en el enlace dentro de cada post que tiene traducción, justo antes del área para comentarios. El resto del sitio estará listo en unos días…

mayo 26, 2014 Juan Miguel Expósito 10 Comments

Tango, connection, roles and the illusion of control

These days I’m working on revising, correcting and translating my book (in case you didn’t know, yes, I’ve written a book and I’m hoping to publish the Spanish edition soon, the English edition is a little behind). In the middle of that I found a video that’s not about tango, but since I was «on topic» I thought it was a great excuse to talk about tango and its complexities. Stick around to watch the video and to find out how it can help you in your tango dancing.

Why you should NOT study tango technique

[UPDATE] There’s a follow-up over here, inspired by one of your comments on social networks about this article.

Today we’ll talk a litlle about why the traditional way of explaining tango technique is broken, and how we can fix it. In order to do that, we’ll review how technique is studied in a traditional context, what premises it’s based on, and what other alternatives there can be. Lastly, we’ll discuss a series of advantages that come with rethinking technique a bit. This does not mean that it’s impossible to dance properly following the classic ideas, it’s just much harder than it should.

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