Tango

What is tango?

Tango is sensual and passionate, enabling one to communicate to another through dance and music. For the vast majority of dancers it is not competitive and there are no levels to attain. It's danced not to an audience, but for oneself and the partner. Anyone, of any age, can learn the posture, the musicality, the steps - but the combination of these is completely improvised, so that no two dances are ever the same.

Tango can be learnt quickly, but takes a lifetime to master.

The addiction

Tango is more than exceptionally enjoyable – it is addictive:

Every dance is a new experience, a new connection, a new encounter, with rediscovered magic
The music that is danced to is simply sublime
The challenge and motivation to become a great dancer is eternal
It provides a ready-made social life, every day of the week, any city in the world
It is a hobby that is exciting and exhilarating

This video describes tango - anywhere, anytime - so well, that adding it to the site was irresistible.

September 2010 tango quote of the month: “I'm working in a hospital in Buenos Aires. Everytime there is a ward round we go to the intensive care unit to check how our patients are doing. On the way out, in a bay almost hidden by a corridor I always listen to fuzzy sounds of tango. The other day I ventured to see who was there. I saw a man, in his 70s, intubated and sound asleep, a small radio tuned into 92.5FM pouring tango and nothing else. I asked the nurse who this man was. She told me that he had been in coma for some time now and that his family had brought him the little radio so that he would be listening tango while he was sleeping. They said that if he was listening to tango, he would probably be dancing all the time in his dreams.” - Bailado por koolricky