Mystery of Tango Legs. Argentine Tango

By Elena Pankey

This book serves as an excellent guide on how to dance an amazing dance - tango. Author of this book is a tango master. She is sharing her own experiences and tells how to improve the technique and flexibility of the dance. Readers will go through some stories from the lives of amazing dancers. You will read about love, failure, passion and success. You will learn how tango influences and shapes the lives of those who study and dance it. In addition, this book will give you a deep understanding of the psychology and history of the dance, as well as those strange dark forces that revolve around this dance of life. Tango is a reflection of life itself in all its manifestations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elena Pankey
• Release date: Apr 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310043789

Elena Pankey

The Author has more than 40 years of job experience in different areas of art education, literature, music, dance, theater. She traveled the world, worked as an assistant producer, sound assistant on some of movie productions, radio journalist, newspaper correspondent, museum guide, owned her businesses.Elena wrote many wonderful books on different subjects, including fun children's books. Her books about the art of dancing, philosophy and psychology of Argentine Tango is very useful for all dancers. After fifteen years of teaching Argentine Tango in her own ballroom school in California, Elena designed original tango courses which help people to improve the quality of lives and marriages.

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Argentine Tango. Secrets of Tango Legs

Argentine Tango.

Secrets Of Tango Legs

By Elena Pankey

ISBN: 9781310043789

AllRightsReserved@2017Elena Pankey

Table of Contents

About Book

Keep Looking into My Eyes

Dark Energy of Tango

Magic of Dance

Communication of Embrace

History of Authentic Tango

First Dancers

Women’s Dream Dance

Psychology of Elegance

Followers Rules

Moving meditation

Leader

Rules For Leaders

Key Body Position

Improving Techniques

Tango Principles

Stage of Learning

Milonga Codigos

Exercises for Improvement

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Benefits of Dancing

Support Art

Terminology

Epilogue

About

Authentico TANGO Argentino is a dance based on two basic roles: the leader, the role usually assigned to the man, and the follower, the role assigned to the woman. It has a lot of great exercises for improving connection between partners. Excelling at the art of tango involves not only mastering the leading and the following techniques, but also exchanging these roles during the dance.

Elena Pankey, experienced dancer and teacher, introduces us into the methods and tricks of the leading and following techniques. She offers us great insight into the key body positions, basic steps and patterns in leading tango, but also into the etiquette, traditions, and correct communication between partners during the Milonga, the famous tango party. It is an essential book for men and women, beginners and advanced dancers.

This book teaches people how to be in control of their own dance and life, while influencing and empowering your partner. In this book you will find out everything about the leading and following technique, its principles, methods and tricks. You will learn how to be more focused, how to relax and dance the tensions away.

You will discover how to better listen to your partner and improve your relationships. You will learn new tango combinations and methods for experimentation and improvisation, while expanding your creativity and spiritual self. When you dance it well, tango brings you joy and countless rewards on different levels of your life and spirit. Read this book to learn essential techniques that will transform you in a powerful leader or follower on the dance floor, as well as in your life. You will discover many new tips on how to enhance your posture and strength, how to use your creativity, energy and concentration. Learn Tango while improving your dance style, and becoming a stronger leader or a beautiful follower.

You will explore the most sensual and intimate dance through Elena’s stories and memoirs. You will discover people’s obsession with the passion of tango. You will read about love, failure, success, while go through many twists and turns of amazing life stories. You will learn how Tango influences, shapes, and impacts the lives and relationships of those who dance it. Furthermore, this book will give you a great insight into the psychology and history of tango, as well as on the communication and forces that revolve around this living dance. A great guide for beginners and advanced dancers alike, the book will help you improve your Tango dancing and take it to the next level. "This essential book is for men and women, beginners and advanced dancers. It teaches you how to be in control of your own dance and life, while influencing and empowering your partner.’-.Oana Tarce.

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Tango is a special culture, melting pot of people and traditions. It has amusing way to entertain and make your life more enjoyable. It portrays passion, hate, romance and every other human emotion. Tango is a unique improvisational dance based on communication and spiritual enjoyment. It is the most appealing and addictive dance to learn. Tango dancing is both theatrical and eccentric, and depends on the physical and mental cooperation between a man and a woman. Tango was born in the shadowy dance halls and brothels of Buenos Aires in the middle of 19 century, and it still seduces all who listen and watch it. Tango was born as a dance of singles that were looking for partners to release sexual tension. Tango still remains a dance through which people find romance, and couples get motivated for a better and more exciting life. Tango is magic. It is passionate, sultry and provocative.

The Argentinean Tango, a ritual of pleasure and sensuality, holds a unique place in couple dancing. The body is closer, more intimate than in any other dance form. And yet the legs move faster and with more deadly accuracy than in any other comparable dance. It is this combination of sensual, meditative, relaxed contact in the upper body and swift, almost martial arts-like repartee in the lower body that gives the tango its unique identity. Tango is not only a fulfilling experience, but it is also an authentic form of therapy. When you dance it well, tango brings you joy and countless rewards on different levels of life and spirit. In tango, people use several forms of movement, such as balancing, turning, moving at a variety of speeds and walking backwards, that are especially favorable to physical and psychological health.

Tango is largely based on the subtle communication between two people. It expands the emotional intelligence, develop abilities to be more present, self-conscious, to be more empathetic, and communicate better with people. Featured as a sensual dance in many popular films, tango allows dancers to improvise as soon as they learn the basic elements. It depends on the synchronized physical and mental cooperation of a man and a woman, and requires togetherness.

It was borrowed from many nations and dance elements of different countries. Immigrants from Europe and Africa streamed into the outskirts of Buenos Aires during the 1880's. They looked desperately for a distraction to ease their sense of rootlessness and disenfranchisement as strangers in a strange land. Lonely immigrants and societal outcasts sought to escape from their feelings, but instead they developed music and dance that epitomized them. Tango speaks of frustrated love, fatalism, and of destinies engulfed in pain. For some, it is a dance of a sorrow. Those first people, who danced tango in 19 century, had a huge competition, and who fought mostly for the respect. They had nothing in common except the perception of the tango music, and they devised a method of selection: Dance Tango. Tango still gives us an escape from an everyday routine, since most of us who learn it are refugees from life. It also discloses the seclusion of some people, and the necessity for the relationship. Learning the tango philosophy would provide a window into the soul of that special world. The psychology of the Tango is in the poetry of its lyrics, in the music, in the hopes and frustrations, in the illusions and dreams. The most valuable, universal meaning of this book some readers might find in the chapter about the really dark side of Tango. The book also describes how the dark energy

Reviews for Mystery of Tango Legs. Argentine Tango

[Cris Puscas · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Loved the book. I've been dancing for 4 years (and started teaching, too, in the past year) and it only made me fall in love even more with tango.