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Bill Plake on Practice

My underlinings from You’ll Never “Waste” Time Practicing As Long As You Are Doing This, October 14, 2018 by Bill Plake. [Substitute “Dance” for “Instrument”

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Just dance

A good friend (to everyone) and fine tanguero, Gary Horton, Jr. wrote a question on Facebook. JUST.DANCE. Certainly well-intended advice, as I’ve heard it often

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Careful, Conscious Practice

Guest article by Iona Italia8 October 2018Translator / Editor / WriterFacebook The key to improving your tango, we’re often told, is practice. But what precisely

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Be a body detective

“Oh, heck! I’ll never get.” “I’m not built right for this.” “I’ve always been too tight.” Versus, “Hm, I wonder why that happened?” “How come

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The Tango Keypad

This is a derivation of the Tango Lexicon developed by David Lampson and Mitra Martin of Oxygen Tango in Los Angeles. I feel grateful for

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Record album cover for ANTICIPATION with Carly Simon standing, legs astride, arms out wide holding onto large gate leaves.

Anticipa-a-tion

Summary — After presenting the problem we give two exercises to help both leaders and followers discover how to wait in quiet anticipation. “Anticipation” by

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Rollerbag walking

(We’ve talked about imagery and games/exercises for teaching. This post deals with props. Actually, this prop is more like a test instrument…) Every tango school

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