About Argentine Tango From The Heart (contd…)

Many dances are enjoyable, but Argentine tango goes beyond mere enjoyment. The embrace and the connection can be very deep, not at all like any other dance. 

But this deep enjoyment and deep connection requires that you keep your heart open.  With an open heart the two partners can experience the authentic joy of being merged so closely with another person.  In that moment of dancing we feel connected to the other person, the music and to everyone in the room.   It is a very delicate connection and out of it comes some very beautiful movement and a great release of energy!

Keeping your heart open is a term that is not easily understood in our culture.  In the Argentine culture it is inbred from infancy.  South Americans, Italians and most Latin cultures do this automatically without thinking about it.  They don’t understand that other cultures don’t open their hearts when they dance.

It is often difficult for Americans and northern Europeans to open their hearts. We were not raised to readily open our hearts to one another.  As we were growing up everyone around us stayed in the intellect and lived from the intellect.  So we naturally lived from the intellect too.  It is a closed protected state that is dry and mechanical, not fluid, free flowing and emotional!

Then Argentine tango comes along and the music pulls at our heart-- especially the music with great singers, sensual rhythms and yearning melodies.  We see South American people dancing from their hearts with grace and emotion and we want to dance that way too. Continue >

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