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!

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[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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