There is no better day to write about Tango then Valentine’s Day. What is Tango? What is Love? What is this special fusion which makes Tango Love happening every minute, every hour, every day, night, week and finally all trough the life? Tango is life and embodies everything in it: passion, sensuality, sadness, happiness, challenges, disappointments, jealousy, betrayals, the will to fight for pleasure, adoptability, domination, sensitivity, lightness of being, relaxation, lost and finally sharing, loving and carrying. Tango can be all this and more. Different every minute, changing with time. Coming up and down. Showing its beautiful face one night to turn back in an eye blink.
If there is a love and this love is directed to Tango it will be there forever. I believe that once we love something or somebody these loves will always walk with us, in us. When we manage to awaken our hearts and feel, this is unstoppable process of discovering and growing more and more love. The feeling does not stay forever but once it appeared the memory is there to remain how it was and how it can be.
Last weekend I went to Misterio Tango Festival. It is such a coincidence especially that I cannot find anything more mysterious in life then Love and Tango. This is my main challenge and purpose of my being: to love and to tango. Did I discover Tango mystery? If I did that would be my last post.
After four days of workshops with the Masters I have much more to explore but I feel again. The format of the workshops was great as they were seminars with two teaching couples each day. I love the idea of Masters working in fusion. That adds an extra value to each meeting with them. I can choose if I want to valtz, tango, or milonga trough life or create a perfect choreography for each day. It is only up to me. I have a freedom of choice and there is always somebody to share the same will with me. Sometimes I can sit the music down. Wait. Pause or stop. Close my eyes, listen to what is happening around for to move once again. I can always find a mirror of myself in my partner. I can mirror him or her for a change too. But what is the main purpose of dancing Tango? Is it not to FEEL? How to feel?All workshops at Misterio were focused on feeling. This is why Tango came to the scene. People wanted to feel and express their feelings, share them with many or only the one. Tango allows us to do it.
Mariana Dragone said just live it: the music, your partner, the moment. You have only this in Tango: the note, the song, the tanda. Embrace it fully and open yourself completely. Javier Rodriguez could not stress any more how important it is to feel. This is Tango, to feel yourself and then to feel together. He explained that technique is there to help perform the movement but it does not make us dance. The dance lies in the ribcage. Your heart gives it an impulse. Your heart pumps the energy to all the other cells. That is where the step begins. The core must be strong to balance two opposite energies. One which goes down: gravity-reality that keeps us grounded and stable and the other which goes up: freedom and lightness to be able to embrace the one who is there and music per se. Moira Castellano thought us how to become a balloon in the upper body. That helps to pomp the air into the ribcage and become light up but still strong down. That is one of the secrets for perfect connection. It feels amazing. Perfect relaxation nearly Tango zen.
Now as I am thinking about Tango Love I go trough so many embraces which I will never be able to forget, so many intimate moments of union and freedom in the same time. I can hear the music which made me ecstatic at times and so much into moment that I felt timeless. These moments are not happening every night and usually come as a result of hard work beforehand. Working on technique, tango philosophy, understanding the codes and body awareness has to be paired up with developing deep emotions.
When your favorite embrace will tell you I don’t want to dance with you anymore your heart may break into thousand pieces and it can feel unbearable at first but do not give up on feeling. This is your only way to dance. Take every broken piece of heart from the pista, put it on the chair and go to dance again. Give yourself a space to breathe, to create something new; to open again and build your new tango story in another embrace and your previously favorite embrace may come back one night...
Sometimes there is a need to wait and stay alone for not to share emptiness. From my experience it is always better to come out from the comfort zone and get to the place where Tango is played to confront the fears and meet surprise at times. Tango is a space which allows me to dance my heart out. I am sure I am not the only tanguera which wants to open, lift, and share her heart with her partners. Tango like any other dance allows me to feel every heart bit and breath the same melody with the man. This is a magical experience and I can not imagine any better way to love. The mystery of Tango lies in each of us therefore we have a heart to discover and share it. It is a love relationship with its beauty and challenges. Even if I want to escape I will stay. I may go away at times but I will come back. Tango embrace is magnetic and I can not resist nor reject this energy. Love it without fear, make mistakes, learn how to feel deeper and Tango will become you one day the same way Love can be you not only hidden somewhere secretly.
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