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Recent Articles
- Corrective feedback and experiential aesthetics
- Getting dances: the practice milonga, distance invite and musical chairs
- The One Tango Philosophy: can Tango Milonguero co-exist with “Argentine Tango”?
- Why inefficiency and obsolescence is not a bug but a feature of “Argentine Tango” teaching
- The Great 78 Project: listen to ÉdO records as they originally sounded
- Rules for organising a traditional milonga
- Why tango is not an Afro dance stolen by evil whites
- Cultural Marxist destruction of Argentine Tango: why I’m getting out
- The MP3: an impoverished musical experience
- Salon Canning vs. the tango organiser (aka Fakebook Tango): why there are no good tango DJs
ContactMilongueroTV
- Edward Dutton on why feminism destroys everything
- Why leave Fakebook: Leftist aesthetics, cognitive dissonance, emotional capital and evolved practices
- Welcome to Contact Milonguero: Why I no longer do “Argentine Tango”
- Fakebook tango and aesthetic truth: A historical journey
- Tango idiocracy: tango forums, dynamic range, soul food, consumer democracy, bad education, Latino teachers and Marxist women
- Giving weight: The basic concept of Tango Milonguero
- Motivation in social dancing: goals, novelty and sexual marketplace dynamics
- The importance of not seeing in learning Tango Milonguero (or anything)
- Tango Milonguero embrace: Cultural plasticity and anatomical universals
- Alternative strategies for Tango Milonguero education
- The relationship between training and performance
- What are the goals of Tango Milonguero education?
CONTENTS
I. Music
- Tango music in historical context
- Tracing the origins of tango music to contradanza and habaneira
- Authenticity: Why dance only to Golden Era music
- Beauty and interpretation: Canonical tango recordings
- Feeling: Understanding music as movement and expression
- Salon Canning vs the tango organiser (aka Fakebook Tango): Why there are no good tango DJs
- The MP3: An impoverished musical experience
- The Great 78 Project: Listen to EdO records as they originally sounded
II. Movement Technique
Foundational practice: Focused Connected Tango Movement
- The importance of slow focused practice
- Focused Connected Tango Movement
- The ABCD Method
- Video: ABCD Method foundational practice
- Mental imagery and partnering technique: Push-pull vs long spine
- Video analysis of inefficient and efficient movement in Tango Milonguero
Basic position: posture, alignment & embrace
- Posture and the head-neck relation
- Alignment: The Bow practice
- Alignment: Floating Elbows practice
- Embrace: The essence of tango
Basic movement: walking and turning
- Walking: The basic movement
- Feet: economy, function and aesthetics
- Walking and the principle of reversibility
- Turning without swivelling
Movement technique: culture, aesthetics and efficiency
- Technique and culture
- What is essential in tango: Connection
- Improvisation: Freedom or constraint
- Choreography vs emergent movement
- Aesthetics and efficiency of movement
- Naturalness in dancing
- Adornments and women’s technique: Why they are a really bad idea
III. Teaching Method
Teaching system
Teaching strategies
- Systems vs goals
- Teaching skills
- Culture and learning: Acculturation vs enculturation
- Mental imagery in movement learning
- Tango as conversation
- Motivation
- Micro-skill stack
- Base: True and false beginners
- Videos: how to use them
Milonga
- The BIG small: Courtesy
- Minding the red flags: The setup for milonga success
- A fundamental problem of global tango: too much floor space
- Rules for organising a traditional milonga
IV. Politics and Criticism
Introduction to politics and criticism
Styles
- One dance or many: The styles of tango
- Tradition and evolution: The influence of Street Latin
- Conservatism and progressivism in tango: real and faux
- Proposal for an alternative tango nomenclature: Tango Dramático, Tango Romántico and Tango Expresivo
Criticism and postmodernism
- Postmodernism and consumerism
- Tango as culture: anthropology vs criticism
- Beauty or kitsch: making aesthetic judgements about tango dancing
- Sacred and profane values in the postmodern world
- Postmodernism: the hollowing out effect of ironic word salad in tango discourse
Tango in the crosshairs of the Culture War
- Sex roles: Is tango compatible with women’s empowerment
- The dystopian future: Hipster tango
- Female hypergamy and its effect on the milonga scene
- The pandemic: Left totalitarianism and acceleration
- Why leftism is an illiberal winner takes all system
- Cultural Marxist destruction of Argentine Tango: Why I’m getting out
- Why AT is not an Afro dance stolen by evil whites