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Posts from the ‘Learning’ Category

28
Sep

Learning habits

Have not really been able to reconcile the changes in my Tango after my recent trips to Berlin and Taipei. And I guess it must have been just nagging away at the back of my mind without my knowing. A recent conversation provided the breakthrough I needed, and then everything fell into place.

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9
Sep

Workshop and styles

New concepts again.

Time to take stock of what I have been taught over the past two days in the workshop with Ricardo and Gladys. I am using the passive sense here because, for me at any rate, I don’t believe that I can walk away from any Tango workshop and then be able to immediately say that I have learnt such-and-such. The material will always take some time to sink in, to be digested and then, hopefully, become part of me.

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6
Sep

Tango evolution

Conversations with friends after last night’s milonga prompted these thoughts.

For me, a natural progression in developing Tango awareness consists of the following sequential stages:

  1. Steps and memorisation;
  2. Acrobatic excursions;
  3. Understanding and appreciation of music;
  4. Free-form exploration and sky’s the limit!

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26
May

Back to basics

It seems I have not commented on Tango for a while now. Not as an excuse, but I have been rather inactive for the past month and a half in order to concentrate on my studies (the ACCA course on Financial Management). Actually, for the people in the know, this is just another sign of ill-preparation up to this point!

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