Tango Tips By the Maestros
What if you could get the advice of 40+ tango maestros in one single book?
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Maestros
Alejandra Mantiñan
Carolina Bonaventura
Lorena Ermocida & Pancho Martinez Pey
Sebastián Acosta & Laura D’Anna
Juliano Andrade & Paula Emerick
Carlos Paredes
Carlos Santos David & Mirella Santos David
Julio César Calderón & Sophia Luisa Paul
Bruna Estellita & Julián Sanchez
Leandro Gomez
Ludmila Srnková & Pablo Fernández Gómez
Vaggelis Hatzopoulos & Marianna Koutandou
Carolina Paredes Lopez
Chloe Theodoropoulou & Dionisis Theodoropoulos
Melina Sedó & Detlef Engel
Nacho Mora & Celia Rodríguez
Edwin Olarte & Vittoria Franchina
Veronica Toumanova
Helaine Treitman
Yelizaveta Nersesova
Marina Kenny
Evelina Sarantopoulou
Lucas Paez
Sabrina Amuchástegui & Ramiro Izurieta
Ieva Kelpsaite
Inés Torres Cappiello
Juan Stefanides
Laia Barrera & Diogo de Carvalho
Verónica Rue
Carla Dominguez & Julio Seffino
Chrisa Assis
Ivica Anteski
Mariano Laplume
…and guest chapters by
DJ La Sonia (DJ-ing for dancers),
Alejandro Gée (Learning with the left and right brain),
Dr. Inessa Zaleski (The tango mindset),
Marie (Tango Travels blog – A tango journey),
Dimitris Bronowski (Tango Thoughts blog – On using tango to understand ourselves)
Topics
The difference between a good and a great dancer
From tense arms to a warm embrace
The hidden role of flexo-extension in dancing with musicality
A shortcut to dancing with more changes of dynamics
One thing most followers don’t get about the embrace
How to immediately adjust your dance when the music’s mood changes
What half the dancers don’t get about the giro: your problem might not be your technique
How do you build trust fast with the person you are dancing with?
How to anticipate the instruments to dance with more musicality
How to reduce the rhythmical stress in milongas, valses or fast tangos
How to create a better embrace by focusing on Arm Spirals
How to eliminate unnecessary space during giros and discover the right axis of rotation
The third dimension and how it can help followers suggest pauses and time duration
Why some students develop their technique faster than others and how to choose your teachers based on that
The secrets of balance
The true role of the embrace and why most people are using it wrong
How to make new or complicated moves feel a lot easier
The three points that stabilize your axis
The ultimate shortcut to accelerating your learning in tango and how to try it
How your body shows you an effortless and efficient way of dancing
The key to versatility and adaptability
Creating more clarity and balance
Creating the conditions for pleasant moments and adornos
How uneven energy distribution creates the conditions for a pleasant dance
Bend or stretch, point or heel, open or close, etc.: a simple tool to answering those questions
A great problem solver: turning gravity into a friend
How to use contradictions to increase your understanding of tango and progress faster
How to use music to improve the couple’s connection
How to achieve better control of your body
If you sometimes feel you are not well connected with a partner while walking, change this
How to create clarity in your dance using this simple and timed rhythmical structure
The dialog of tango: what our partner’s body can teach us about the dance we are creating
Three ways to dance more
How to dance more comfortably in a crowded milonga
The art of using contrasts to enhance your dance
How can someone practice being more grounded when dancing?
Dancing with more elegance
The three rules that make practice productive and joyful
You are dancing with your bones, not your muscles
Creating an embrace of trust and connection
How to develop the ability to receive information from your partner during the dance?
…and 70+ other topics
in the biggest collection of tango advice ever created in the history of tango,
given directly by the maestros to you.
What are you waiting for?
A invaluable source of information! I have no words to describe how good this work is…
It opened my eyes to a new source of possibilities which I never thought I could find out by myself. I deeply believe this is finally something different to give to tango lovers and enthusiasts not only because of the amount of info and advice respecting the dance but also because of the variety and different point of views which this amazing material offers to connect and help you develop your dance!!!
-Reynaldo
Tango tips by the maestros
This book brought together for the first time in the tango history icons of tango, judges of the World Tango Championship (Mundial de Tango), world champions, and experienced teachers from around the world, and asked them one question:
If you could give a few pieces of advice that you consider extremely valuable to a few tens of thousands tangueros and tangueras, what would you say?
The maestros covered topics from musicality to elegance, from connection to balance, from embrace to trust, from body awareness to the difference between good and great dancers.
Together, they tackled questions such as developing a personal style, reducing tension, creating warmth, dancing more, learning faster, breaking through the plateau that keeps some people’s tango the same (hint: your technique is rarely the issue).
The purpose of the book is one: to help you, the eager tanguero and tanguera, enjoy tango more and discover actionable, clear, and simple advice to develop further the necessary skills of this beautiful dance.
Special gift:
Although the book is already a complete resource, we went one step further, to help you on your tango journey. If you are a reader of the book and subscriber of the Tango Argentino Festivals’ newsletter, you can request -free- access to the Reader’s Online Environment. This is a members-only environment that is updated every week where you can find
-additional advice,
-practice videos,
-self-assessments,
-online guidance,
-guided exercises,
-exclusive interviews,
-up to 100% discounts to tango events and clothing,
-additional exclusive resources,
and many more surprises that the authors of each chapter have provided to help you explore deeper the advice that they share in the book, or that we have created to empower your tango journey.
Disclaimer:
This book is not intended for readers who haven’t had any tango classes. It is intended as a powerful supplement for those who are already learning and dancing argentine tango.
A project by Tango Argentino Festivals.