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.