Argentine Tango music deeply talks from heart to heart about different sides of life and love. It is constantly
changing; and like in real life, it has difficulties. My parents did not stay for a long time together, and my mother
did not live a long life.
Tango later came to me in several different periods of my life. Only now, looking back, I can connect all these
small separate pieces for the whole picture and see why and how I came to Tango or why Tango chose me.
First, we had a bandaneon at home. My grandfather brought this strange (accordion like) musical instrument
from Germany after World War II, even tried to teach me to play it.
- You need to open it widely and take the air. When you close the sides, it can plays the music, if you know which
bottoms to push...
Later I learned how to play the real and big accordion ...
Then when I was ten years old, I attended a Young Pioneers summer camp.
In the evenings on the dance floor people gathered for dance and talk, and on some days children were allowed to
come. Tango was very fashionable at that time.
One night the crowd was especially tight and noisy, reacting very strongly to what was happening on the dance
floor. I also tried to come closer, but saw just crazy and strange leg movements, which were doing different
tricks under the exciting and passionate music.
Finally, I could look up and was shocked by the intimate
and very close positions of a man and a woman.
This couple looked disgustingly sexy. They awoke my interest.
Their heads were slightly turned to the side like they were
watching someone inside their embrace.
Someone was between them, someone whom they tried to impress,
compete with, or seduce.
At the end of the dance a man put a woman on his leg and
a little down and posed...
And at this last moment with the last chord of music,
he suddenly looked directly in her eyes.
They posed and posed. Silence, dream and love mesmerized everybody.
Then the whole crowd exploded and yelled.
A man and a woman walked, faded away and disappeared.
Next evening the orchestra started the Tango. I was invited by a boy and forgot about the whole world. He gave
me his hand and Tango came to my soul for the first time...However, I did not danced Tango again for a long time.
My second tango sensation I experienced in CA, while watching a performance one well-known professional
tango company from Argentina (Tango Passion). In the intermission, we found an invitation for some lessons in a
local dance studio. It was the beginning of my new and strong Tango passion.
Later I tried to watch every show they would bring to CA, and learned from them. For several years, I was
persistently trained with some great Tango Masters of the world. For a while, it felt like I found everything that I
did not have in my real life, in the most exciting and complicated music of authentic tango. In the movements of
this dance lies all feelings, all twists and plots of real life. My mother's first love lived forever there.
Tango is about love. My husband's love and his generosity brought finally tango to my real life while we were
cruising to Alaska. One evening we enjoyed a show by "Los Pampas Devils" on the Celebrity "Mercury."
Next day we asked Pablo Juan Vino and Hugo Daniel to give us some private lessons.
Then we fallowed this professional tango-gauchos group for many cruises, and I performed with them on some
ships. Later, in San Diego once again, destiny intervened, and my search brought me back to Tango...
changing; and like in real life, it has difficulties. My parents did not stay for a long time together, and my mother
did not live a long life.
Tango later came to me in several different periods of my life. Only now, looking back, I can connect all these
small separate pieces for the whole picture and see why and how I came to Tango or why Tango chose me.
First, we had a bandaneon at home. My grandfather brought this strange (accordion like) musical instrument
from Germany after World War II, even tried to teach me to play it.
- You need to open it widely and take the air. When you close the sides, it can plays the music, if you know which
bottoms to push...
Later I learned how to play the real and big accordion ...
Then when I was ten years old, I attended a Young Pioneers summer camp.
In the evenings on the dance floor people gathered for dance and talk, and on some days children were allowed to
come. Tango was very fashionable at that time.
One night the crowd was especially tight and noisy, reacting very strongly to what was happening on the dance
floor. I also tried to come closer, but saw just crazy and strange leg movements, which were doing different
tricks under the exciting and passionate music.
Finally, I could look up and was shocked by the intimate
and very close positions of a man and a woman.
This couple looked disgustingly sexy. They awoke my interest.
Their heads were slightly turned to the side like they were
watching someone inside their embrace.
Someone was between them, someone whom they tried to impress,
compete with, or seduce.
At the end of the dance a man put a woman on his leg and
a little down and posed...
And at this last moment with the last chord of music,
he suddenly looked directly in her eyes.
They posed and posed. Silence, dream and love mesmerized everybody.
Then the whole crowd exploded and yelled.
A man and a woman walked, faded away and disappeared.
Next evening the orchestra started the Tango. I was invited by a boy and forgot about the whole world. He gave
me his hand and Tango came to my soul for the first time...However, I did not danced Tango again for a long time.
My second tango sensation I experienced in CA, while watching a performance one well-known professional
tango company from Argentina (Tango Passion). In the intermission, we found an invitation for some lessons in a
local dance studio. It was the beginning of my new and strong Tango passion.
Later I tried to watch every show they would bring to CA, and learned from them. For several years, I was
persistently trained with some great Tango Masters of the world. For a while, it felt like I found everything that I
did not have in my real life, in the most exciting and complicated music of authentic tango. In the movements of
this dance lies all feelings, all twists and plots of real life. My mother's first love lived forever there.
Tango is about love. My husband's love and his generosity brought finally tango to my real life while we were
cruising to Alaska. One evening we enjoyed a show by "Los Pampas Devils" on the Celebrity "Mercury."
Next day we asked Pablo Juan Vino and Hugo Daniel to give us some private lessons.
Then we fallowed this professional tango-gauchos group for many cruises, and I performed with them on some
ships. Later, in San Diego once again, destiny intervened, and my search brought me back to Tango...
All who love Tango have their own Tango story. Some of them
are beautiful, but some are very sad. I think, I came into this world
because of Tango. My mother met her only love (a Greek man) on
the dance floor of a small town on the Black Sea, South of Russia.
My parents liked to dance Tango. Tango gave them love passion
and love, and it gave the life to me.
are beautiful, but some are very sad. I think, I came into this world
because of Tango. My mother met her only love (a Greek man) on
the dance floor of a small town on the Black Sea, South of Russia.
My parents liked to dance Tango. Tango gave them love passion
and love, and it gave the life to me.
Tango is just a walk
with love in your heart.
with love in your heart.
What goes around, comes around. Life made its circle again.
In 2004 we were invited to give a Tango Lesson before the show Tango Passion at Escondido Center of the Arts.
And one year later, I finally got a chance to learn and dance with Monica and Omar (Los Ocampo), whose big
influence I got from their earlier performances.
In 2004 we were invited to give a Tango Lesson before the show Tango Passion at Escondido Center of the Arts.
And one year later, I finally got a chance to learn and dance with Monica and Omar (Los Ocampo), whose big
influence I got from their earlier performances.
After registering our own TANGO CAMINITO SCHOOL, we began to teach Communications, Energy and
Connections in the Embrace of Tango. During our lessons we use some metaphors that precisely talk about the
hidden sense of steps. For some special students we try to open a very special, mysterious world of tango.
Connections in the Embrace of Tango. During our lessons we use some metaphors that precisely talk about the
hidden sense of steps. For some special students we try to open a very special, mysterious world of tango.
Published by Walter Menesses in
2001-02 in La Sonrisa Latina,,
Dance Notes (04), La Vida Tango.
2001-02 in La Sonrisa Latina,,
Dance Notes (04), La Vida Tango.
For some tango is a dance with the invisible third person, who is inside our frame, and whom we are constantly
looking at...
How many new discoveries tango hides?
Come to learn and dance Tango with me NOW
looking at...
How many new discoveries tango hides?
Come to learn and dance Tango with me NOW