The Curious Tanguero - A Tango podcast for Tangueros

The first part of the interview with Antonella Terrazas. In this part of the interview we’ll start by exploring her early years and then cover what elements of other disciplines can help you in your tango, and what it means to adjust to your partner but not in a submissive way. We’ll also discuss the benefits of working without a fixed partner. I particularly enjoyed her answers when it comes to dancing or practising with someone that is not such a good fit. 

Antonella on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/antonella.terrazas.3

The Curious Tanguero newsletter: https://thecurioustanguero.com/

Books:

Tangofulness: https://tangofulness.com/

Tango Tips by the Maestros: https://tangotipsbythemaestros.com/

When the Embrace Whispers: https://whentheembracewhispers.com/

How to dance more in milongas - for followers: https://thecurioustanguero.com/howtodancemoreinmilongas/

The third part of the interview with Oa Metzner. In this part of the interview we’ll cover resistance, density, lightness and heaviness in argentine tango. We’ll also cover how Oa would start again if she was starting today from zero, and we dived deeper into the role of processed emotional baggage in our dance. Finally, we closed by touching a bit on the importance of alignment and feet articulation and the difference between leading and following from the outskirts of the body vs leading from the core. 

If you haven’t heard the previous episodes, I invite you to listen to them too, before or after this episode. They were eye-opening for me, and I hope they can do the same for you.

Οa Metzner on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oa.metzner

Oa´s Website: https://www.flowandthedane.com/

The Curious Tanguero newsletter: https://thecurioustanguero.com/

Books:

Tangofulness: https://tangofulness.com/

Tango Tips by the Maestros: https://tangotipsbythemaestros.com/

When the Embrace Whispers: https://whentheembracewhispers.com/

How to dance more in milongas - for followers: https://thecurioustanguero.com/howtodancemoreinmilongas/

The second part of the interview with Oa Metzner. In this part of the interview we discussed how the approach to teaching and learning tango has changed the last years, ways to improve your tango, which muscles can help you dance better, and finally we discussed how to reduce pain during your dance. 

Οa Metzner on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oa.metzner

Oa´s Website: https://www.flowandthedane.com/

The Curious Tanguero newsletter: https://thecurioustanguero.com/

Argentine Tango Books:

Tangofulness: https://tangofulness.com/

Tango Tips by the Maestros: https://tangotipsbythemaestros.com/

When the Embrace Whispers: https://whentheembracewhispers.com/

How to dance more in milongas - for followers: https://thecurioustanguero.com/howtodancemoreinmilongas/

Part 1, interview with Oa Metzner: In this part of the interview we discussed what the term ‘social tango’ actually means for social dancers like me and you, what helps tango dancers improve, and then we dived into biomechanics. Finally, and this was a wonderful eye-opening part of the interview for me, we discussed the basis of connection.

Οa Metzner on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oa.metzner

Oa´s Website: https://www.flowandthedane.com/

The Curious Tanguero newsletter: https://thecurioustanguero.com/

Books:

Tangofulness: https://tangofulness.com/

Tango Tips by the Maestros: https://tangotipsbythemaestros.com/

When the Embrace Whispers: https://whentheembracewhispers.com/

How to dance more in milongas - for followers: https://thecurioustanguero.com/howtodancemoreinmilongas/

I went to the most transformative tango intensive I’ve ever attented, and I wanted to share with you my experience. I’ll discuss what happened there, some main tango tips that I received that gave me a deep insight into my tango and showed me how to continue improving and creating better dances for me and my partners. I hope this can do the same for you.

The Curious Tanguero Newsletter: thecurioustanguero.com

Tango Novel When the Embrace Whispers: whentheembracewhispers.com

The Intensive: https://tangoretreats.com/saraivanimmersion/

Sara Grdan: https://www.facebook.com/curichak

Ivan Terrazas: https://www.facebook.com/feraltango

Today we’ll discuss the order of learning things in tango. Let me be clear: I am not saying there is ONE correct way to learn tango and all the others are wrong. All I am saying is this: This way did miracles for me. It worked for me. So listen to it, take it with a pinch of salt, and forget about it if you think it’s not for you.

When the Embrace Whispers: https://whentheembracewhispers.com/

The Curious Tanguero newsletter: https://thecurioustanguero.com/

Today we’ll discuss my tango life. Why would you care to listen about it, I have no idea. But I’ll do it either way.

Tango Tips by the Maestros: https://tangotipsbythemaestros.com/

Tangofulness: https://tangofulness.com/

The Curious Tanguero newsletter: https://thecurioustanguero.com/

Tango Partner app: https://tangopartner.com/

How to dance more in milongas: https://thecurioustanguero.com/howtodancemoreinmilongas/

When the Embrace Whispers: https://whentheembracewhispers.com/

Today we’ll discuss the position of your hips in tango. I didn’t really become aware of my hips position till last year, and I still have much to learn and embody. Today, I’ll share with you a little funny event that let me understand my hips better.

When the Embrace Whispers: https://whentheembracewhispers.com/

The Curious Tanguero newsletter: https://thecurioustanguero.com/

Today I’ll share with you the third part of the interview I did with Sara Grdan and Ivan Terrazas, two wonderful tango teachers that I wish I had met earlier. If you haven’t heard the first two parts yet, I recommend looking for them in the list of episodes. In this third part of the interview we talked about how we, the students, as spectators, develop an ‘educated taste’ based on the performances we watch. We discussed the magical function of the thumb - spoiler alert: There is no magical function - and why do people leave tango? We also talked about one very important thing you need to observe about your teachers when they are in a milonga.

Sara Grdan: https://www.facebook.com/curichak

Ivan Terrazas: https://www.facebook.com/feraltango

When the Embrace Whispers: https://whentheembracewhispers.com/

The Curious Tanguero newsletter: https://thecurioustanguero.com/