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I want to learn to lead, but I think I need to focus on following first.

TangoForge encourages dancers to learn both leading and following. There are several reasons for this.

It’s nice to have compassion for the challenges of the other role.
If a teacher is working directly with you and wants to show you something, you need to be able to change roles to learn experientially.
Some people may find themselves surprised to enjoy a different role than the one they expected to do.

At first I thought learning to follow would mean twice as much work. Then I realized that it makes learning to lead easier, because I understand the whole movement, not just half of it. Instead of being mystified by the outcome of my lead, I understand how it works.

Nick Young

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Power is the courage, confidence, and competence to make things happen. I want to create in a way that’s incomparable and define my own compensation package. You too?

Syntax of Power is a raw, potent, and spare revelation of how I got to where I am and how I take on the struggle every day.

This book is not about tango, it’s about everything else.

It’s about stepping into the darkness of change, learning how to take care of yourself, and making things happen.

Syntax of Power

Dyv stands for Duro y Vio. We were inspired by a 2007 conference at Harvard University about tango as a transnational culture. Also we wanted to create something that would help people to imagine a queerer tango. We forbid ourselves to use the word ‘passion’ and instead tried to articulate the experience more precisely.

Argentine Tango is more than an elaborate and difficult dance, it is an international culture of intimacy, desire, and dignity. No mere romance or memoir, the intricately woven stories evoke tango’s true mysteries … the elation, the frustration, the compulsion…

We published the book in 2009. Dancers asked “how did you know what I was feeling?”

Aleph Bravo Tango

Silences in history. Silences by code. Silences of fear. You already know that Tango’s silences can be sublime and they can be devastating.

What I do in my blog is use myself as a lens – sometimes a microscope, sometimes a telescope. I try to be as honest with myself and you as words concede. Then I try to find a deeper meaning and imagine a pathway for us.

A blog post can be a fragment, a wisp of inspiration, an outline for thinking. A book must complete and reconcile it all. Now I drag the social scientist to the scene to enumerate the facts of the case, the mystery which brought both stardom and tragedy to my life.

Until Forever

We didn’t start online education in March of 2020. We started in 2014. Learn more about our Digital School

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Do you want to be a better dancer

but don’t feel you are getting what you need from your teachers?

Or do you get contradictory advice from different partners?

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