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Mystical Movement

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Mutuality is, for me, what makes tango so alluring. It is this element, even more than the music or the intricate movements, that keeps me wading through the limitless learning (and accompanying humiliation).

The Potter’s Wheel

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Because of its preciousness and rarity, my heart is forever grateful to those who bring to the dance floor their vulnerability, sensitivity and openness to the moment, who in the shared movements of gentleness and trust shape the dance in elegance and beauty.

Thinking On Your Feet: Dancing Wards Off Neurodegenerative Disease By Rewiring The Brain

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Guest blog Apr 6, 2016 01:21 PM By Lizette Borreli @lizcelinebWe get up on the dance floor and try to synchronize our bodies to the rhythm of the music. The toe taps, wrist flicks, and questionable twerking are transformed into a graceful physical performance. The brain is able to orchestrate these movements, signaling our joints when … Read more

What Yoga does for Tango Dancing – Sharna Fabiano

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Guest blog from Oxygen TangoIn my own exploration of tango, I have found the practice of yoga to be a mindful form of “cross-training” that enhances and supports my dancing. A regular practice on the sticky mat might help fill in the gaps in your tango education when questions about posture, balance, and alignment come … Read more

Health benefits of tango.

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improves coordination, balance, and posture increases muscle tone and flexibility reduces stress and anxiety improves cardiac health lowers blood pressure improves memory, focus, and multi-tasking enables creative and emotional expression builds greater ease in social situations imparts that dancer’s aura: standing tall, radiating confidence is increasingly used as therapy in a wide variety of applications: … Read more

“Feeling safe” – guest post with Lucinda Hayden

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Tango is a metaphor for life and a great vehicle for practicing many life lessons and relationship skills, such as learning how to carry your own weight without depending on another – while at the same time, staying connected. It is about staying centered and present in your own self, listening with your whole body to another’s whole body, and then moving together in harmonious partnership.

Tango affirmations – guest blog

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This reflection fits very well as a primer to my upcoming “TRANSFORMINGTHRUTANGO” workshop, Apr 22, 23. Check out the link below. Mitra’s Positive Tango Affirmations  (P.S. Oxygen Tango is a great on-line site to check-out)

Ladies in Red.

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The RedDress exhibit on Alberta Ave, Edmonton, is a community project constructed in honour of the over 1200 missing or murdered First Nations women. It is a mandala walk with a denuded teepee positioned in the centre. Spiralling out around the teepee are a few dozen red skirts, tenaciously tethered to skeletons of delimbed Christmas trees. Nailed to the lifeless stumps are poems written by family members and friends in remembrance of their loved ones lost to violence and racism. A perfect place to test the spirit of dance.