Tango is one of the most beautiful, elegant, and sensual dance of modern times. I hope they are relevant to you whether you dance or not. Tango is more than a dance. It can also teach us a lot about how to grow as people, individually and in relationship. There's a reason that I, an author who writes about singleness and relationships, became captivated with tango almost three years ago and uprooted my life to live in the mecca of tango, Buenos Aires, for 8 months.
I want to share with you what I have learned from dancing tango and how those lessons can help you grow as a person and in a relationship. Tango is deep. I fell in love with tango at first sight when I was traveling in Colombia in I moved to Buenos Aires in October to soak up tango culture at the source. Although many people dance tango at a high level in San Francisco, the dance culture in the Bay Area does not have the same feeling, passion, or musicality. I felt called to come here.
I've been blessed to meet other people who view tango as a personal, mystical quest, often filled with more questions than answers. Of course that's what makes it so great, infinite and endless. Many people travel the world to live in Buenos Aires to dance tango and they dance four or five nights in a week. More is going on than just the pleasure of the dance, which is in of itself immense. Tango sweeps you up and helps you get more intimate with yourself and relationships with others.
It's a personal quest, whether the person recognizes that or not. Alejandro Gee is a tango teacher who did his graduate thesis in psychology on the effects of tango dance on mood. The way we connect or the way we lead or follow are also a perfect reflection of our social, emotional and mental status. Usually 10 minutes into the class you can tell more about a person's character or the relationship within a couple than you could after talking. This is why tango has the capacity to heal issues that we are or not aware of.
By fixing the physical, the mind and emotions will follow. Or we will want to heal the mind and the emotions in order to be able to improve our dancing. I want to share the deeper resonances of tango as they relate being single and being in a relationship. Specifically, about being quirkytogether, how to be solid and powerfully rooted in yourself, while being passionate connected to another. The search for balance and stability within yourself One of the most powerful searches in tango is the search for being in axis, or eje, as they say in Spanish.
