dance more.
dance better.
enjoy your tango to the fullest.
A practical Argentine tango book for social dancers who want to improve technique, connection, musicality, and experience tango bliss.
The book is touching and profound; it's honest and also looks at the darker sides of our souls
I started breathing the way you suggest, and my tango has already improved!
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
This book is 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!
Bliss - A Practical Guide to Tango Euphoria
Bliss is a practical Argentine tango book designed for social dancers who want to improve both their technique and their experience on the dance floor. It offers ideas, perspectives, and exercises to help you dance more, dance better, and enjoy your tango to the fullest.
Who this book is for
This book is 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.
Technical Foundations
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.
Argentine Tango as a Path to Personal Growth
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.
The Elements of Tango Euphoria
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.
The Pyramid of Tango Priorities
This framework helps you identify your blind spots and focus on what matters most in your tango development.
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.
Start Your Journey to Tango Bliss
Get the full guide and begin transforming your tango today.
Tango Insights & Interviews
Conversations with tango dancers and teachers from around the world on technique, experience, and growth.
Table of Contents
Start Your Journey to Tango Bliss
Get the full guide and begin transforming your tango today.
What Tango Dancers are Saying
your book has already helped me so much! Such good reminders that happiness in tango is rooted in our freedom, and such a good time for me to read these right now! I want to thank you for writing this book, and for writing it in such an empathetic tone — it's such a nice touch to all the helpful exercises as well. I hope more and more people will have a chance to read it.
It's truly remarkable how you uncover the unspoken feelings that exist in tango, the psychological reasons for so much we encounter in tango.
I have already put to test some of the suggestions and the quality of my tango experience has increased tenfold.
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
Photo by Fernando Leal, book cover photos by Iris Rogozhyna