dance more.
dance better.
enjoy your tango to the fullest.
a beautiful guide into the heart of Argentine tango
I will return to this book many more times, it’s one to keep close and revisit often
truly precious and deeply helpful
I highly recommend it to anyone who wishes to add new and deeper dimensions to their tango experience
offers a wealth of ideas to explore and experiment with in your tango
looking forward to implementing so many of these ideas you have given me!
I am maybe 30 pages in and WOW so many AHA moments!
You guide your readers very well through the essential concepts and methods
expansive, deep, and detailed
Bliss - a practical guide to tango euphoria
Bliss offers ideas, perspectives, and exercises to help you dance more, dance better, and enjoy your tango to the fullest. It’s written for both leaders and followers who are learning or dancing Argentine tango socially—whether you’ve been dancing for five days or five years.
The book touches on tango technique, focusing particularly on stability and axis. I highlight the concept of spirals, which manifests in many subtle ways throughout the dance. Understanding and applying these principles can help you improve the technical aspects of your tango.
Perhaps even more importantly, Bliss suggests that the path to truly enjoying your experiences—whether in dance or in life—leads through healing. Social tango can be a powerful catalyst on your healing journey, revealing precisely what you need to work on. My goal is to offer perspectives and insights that enrich both your dance and your personal life.
There are countless paths to euphoria in social tango, and Bliss explores many of them in depth. But no matter which roads you take, reaching tango bliss requires a specific combination of psychological and physiological skills. By unpacking and studying each one—and by providing practical exercises to help you improve—I invite you to identify your blind spots and discover precisely what to work on, in order to begin experiencing tango bliss systematically.
Here is my take on the potential elements. It’s a pyramid: at the top is the most ethereal and elusive, and at the bottom is the most fundamental and essential.
In order to experience euphoria when dancing, none of these have to be perfect—even if such a thing were possible. Here I simply want to rank the importance of these ideas and provide you with the opportunity to assess your blind spots. Since you have chosen Argentine tango—a comparatively challenging pastime with a steep learning curve—I’m confident that self-improvement is your thing, and that you will achieve your goals in no time at all.
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Table of Contents
delving deep into a lot of different aspects of what constitutes bliss in general and bliss in tango in particular
The great thing about this book is that everyone will find something of practical use in it, wherever you are in your tango journey
blends technique and self-discovery, showing how stability, spirals, breath and mindful movement can transform the way we connect on the dance floor
leaves the audience with questions, a desire to dig deeper, and a sense of inspiration
offers a heartfelt, technical and psychologically sophisticated exploration of tango as a path to self-awareness and dialogue
If you want to explore and understand the subtleties of Tango, and pave your way to a higher level of dancing, then this book is for you
I found the topics and guidance presented to be extremely helpful, and I look forward to incorporating them into my practice and dancing
Photo by Fernando Leal, book cover photos by Iris Rogozhyna