Embracing Tango

Embracing Tango
Author: Gustavo Benzecry Sabá
Publisher:
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2007
Genre: Tango (Dance)
ISBN: 9783939871033

Passionate Embrace

Passionate Embrace
Author: Sandra Vander Schaaf
Publisher: Clements Publishing Group Inc.
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2013-11-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1926798333

"Passionate Embrace: Faith, Flesh, Tango " is a story of desire, intimacy, and transformation, set in the sumptuous world of Argentine Tango. Sandra Vander Schaaf shares the provocative tale of an unexpected love affair with the world's most sensual dance, and an equally unexpected experience of spiritual renewal on the dance floor. This is a vivid, eloquent, honest glimpse of Christian faith and doubt and the exquisite relationship between body and soul. "Captivating, credible, totally without cliches." - Eugene Peterson, author of "The Message and Telling It Slant" "Vander Schaaf daringly compares learning to dance tango with learning to pray; each is a movement of faith. That this venture into physical intimacy was the means of grace that led her to greater spiritual intimacy with God is the refreshing surprise of this striking and moving account of renewal." - Luci Shaw, author of "Breath for the Bones" and "Adventure of Ascent" “Refreshingly different . . . A very honest and brave book . . . . . . intoxicating.” – Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun

Dancing Tango

Dancing Tango
Author: Kathy Davis
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2015-01-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0814760716

Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Through interviews and ethnographical research in Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, Kathy Davis shows why a dance from another era and another place appeals to men and women from different parts of the world and how they become caught up in the tango salon culture.

Understanding the Mystery of the Embrace Part 2

Understanding the Mystery of the Embrace Part 2
Author: Oliver Kent
Publisher:
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2018-05-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781980981480

"That was magical!" The Embrace can transport your dancing to new levels. Yet it's often fraught with contradictions. Which way is the "right" way to hold your hand, place your feet and so on? With clear illustrated instructions, this book show you step by step how to: Accelerate your learning Avoid the danger of being Not Even Wrong Find the invisible Frame within your Embrace Understand why focussing on steps can stop you seeing what's happening with the Embrace Dance with more "forceful" partners Personalise your embrace Why there's so many apparent contradictions in the way Tango is taught and performed and more! Written for dancers of all ages and experience, Understanding the Mystery of the Embrace Part 2 will help you take your understanding of the embrace to a new level and avoid the pitfalls along the way.

Essay about the art of embracing people

Essay about the art of embracing people
Author: Adrian Luna
Publisher: Adrian Luna
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2018-09-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9874295333

• Are you looking for an Argentine Tango teacher? • Do you want to learn to dance tango? • Are you looking for a private tango lesson? • How to know who a good tango teacher is? • Do you want to become a tango teacher? Then you can read this book! NOTIFICATION: This is not a tango book, nor about how to learn the steps to dance tango in Buenos Aires. This is a book about people, human beings who embrace and relate in a very particular way in an "environment" with their own rules. In the Coach, I find a professional and appropriate figure to accompany us in learning this "language." I consider it appropriate to compare him with a gardener who knows about the weather, the seasons and irrigation techniques, among many other things. It is taken with seriousness and professionalism to prepare the ground to offer the seed the conditions that satisfy and accompany its development. He is a great observer and takes into account even the smallest details. However, he has confidence and believes in the potential that exists within the seed. He doesn't need to see what it has inside or check how much fruit it's going to produce... This mystery seems wonderful to me and is revealed little by little during the process of germination and growth. This essay is, on the one hand, for those who are "gardeners" by vocation, with whom I wish to seriously develop this activity. On the other hand, it's for those people who want to learn to dance the tango and have no idea where or who to start with. Through this path we can end up getting to know ourselves a little more. Be attentive! WARNING: By knowing the tango you are in serious risk of falling in love with the activity, its music and its people.

Understanding the Mystery of the Embrace Part 1

Understanding the Mystery of the Embrace Part 1
Author: Oliver Kent
Publisher: Filling in the Blanks of Argen
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2017-10-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781973157298

"Tango is the embrace." Do you dream of finally having a good tango embrace? Imagine if you too could have the kind that magical dances are made from? Most likely you've only been given scattered pieces of information and left to figure it out yourself. But it seems to be taking a lot longer than you expected! Using clear illustrated instructions, this book takes you step by step through the process: The two most important elements of the embrace Shoes!!!!!!!!!! How to adjust and fine-tune your embrace when dancing socially The Secrets of the Hinge and Double Hinge Written for dancers of all ages and experience, Understanding the Mystery of the Embrace Part 1 will give you the confidence and joy that come from having a good embrace.

Tango

Tango
Author: Jo Baim
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2007-07-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253027756

In Tango: Creation of a Cultural Icon Jo Baim dispels common stereotypes of the tango and tells the real story behind this rich and complex dance. Despite its exoticism, the tango of this time period is a very accessible dance, especially as European and North American dancers adapted it. Modern ballroom dancers can enjoy a "step" back in time with the descriptions included in this book. Almost as interesting as the history of the tango is the cultural response to it: cities banned it, army officers were threatened with demotion if caught dancing it, clergy and politicians wrote diatribes against it. Newspaper headlines warned that people died from dancing the tango and that it would be the downfall of civilization. The vehemence of these anti-tango outbursts confirms one thing: the tango was a cultural force to be reckoned with!

Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home

Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home
Author: Maria Finn
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1565125177

The author describes how, after she divorced her cheating husband, tango lessons taught her about love and loss; how to follow and how to lead; and how to live with style and flair, take risks and sort out what you really want, in a book that also explores the culture, history, music, moves and beauty of the Argentine tango. Original.

Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 325
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 0544980700

The Tango in the United States

The Tango in the United States
Author: Carlos G. Groppa
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2018-01-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780786426867

In the earliest years of the 20th century, North American ballroom dancers favored the waltz or the polka. But then a new dance, the tango, broke onto the scene when Vernon and Irene Castle performed it in a Broadway musical. Rudolph Valentino, Arthur Murray, and Xavier Cugat popularized it in the 1920s and 1930s, and thousands of people crowded onto dance floors around the country to hear the music and dance the tango. This work chronicles the history of the tango in the United States, from its antecedents in Argentina, Paris and London to the present day. It covers the dancers, musicians, and composers, and the tango's influence on American music.