Tango Essays

Dear friends, let me introduce to you the Veronica Toumanova essays. After reading this book I literally fell in love with it. Only a human who understood the deepest nature of tango is capable to write about such intrinsic hidden things in such clear and simple words. I have found there the answers to many my questions, even the unborn yet. I want to share with you the happiness of discovering the new senses, so I publish the essays here in available languages. I want also to thank all the people who helped me to translate it into Czech language. I wish you the pleasant reading.

Why years of tango will not make you an advanced dancer and what will

Why we marvel at steps but yearn for embraces

Why technique in tango really matters and why often it really doesn't

Why your tango teacher desperately wants you to dance but keeps teaching you steps

Why the most important thing in tango is not a tango thing

Why we suffer when learning tango and how is that a good thing

Why most advice you get about your dancing is wrong

Why we are often confused about what it means to be "social"

Why we sometimes fly and sometimes crawl

Why there is often so little dance in people dancing tango

Why musicality is hard to teach, but not impossible

Why in tango we are not that social

Why all tango teachers tell you different things

Why love and tango do not always go well together

Why tango changes your life

Why we fight when practicing, especially with people we love

Why tango is tough on women and what to do about it

Why your dance does not look good despite all the practicing

Why we always go back to basics