One dance. Same passion. Different views.

On insights and walking like a cat. How one new habit changed my dance.

Energy, image, body. On the external display of the inner dance.

Multicolored Tango. On the diversity of types, people and moods.

Attention! Attention! On spatial orientation, the sixth sense and trust in oneself.

Body. Emotion. Idea.

Daria Ermolaeva

Predators in tango: on gender roles and abuse.

Theatre Secrets and Musicality. On theater, details, associations, mood and truth of the image.

On expressing emotions and freedom in tango. Сontinuation of the articles 'On dance, feelings and choice' and 'On expectations, rejections and fears'

On traditions, rules and preconception (#weinvitedaswecould)

On expectations, rejections and fears. Continuation of the article 'On dance, feelings and choice'.

Mistakes. Why do we have to make mistakes and why is it good for us.

On dance, feelings and choice

The Nightmare of the Japanese Schoolgirl, or The Breath of Fear

Body. Emotion. Idea.

Daria Ermolaeva

Elena Sergienko

Inspirational Reading

"One well-known scientist says that if you try to describe your feelings, you will get a story about physical action. I will add that the closer the action to the physical, the less is your risk to rape the feeling."

We often talk about how making body act strict is less effective than giving it an internal task and letting it find it's own way. Not to just "hold the embrace", but understand why is it necessary at the first place. Then many details become obvious; the ones we haven't noticed while we constructing the form instead of taking care of the content.

For those who are interested in the inner action, the motion logic and the body freedom, I recommend the books of Konstantin Stanislavsky (www.stanislavskiy.info/in_english/34.html?f...). First of all, "An Actor Prepares" in which many psycho trainings and images for the "inner truth" are described.

Enjoy your reading and dancing!

Breath and Improvisation. On tango, breathing, energy and musicality.

Conscious Body. Remarks on how we decrease the dance by its very essence

Bumpers. On the benefits and harms of some tango stereotypes - from personal experience

Elena Sergienko

The Real Reason for Brains

A fascinating story by a famous neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert "The Real Reason for Brains". About brain processes during the movement, the importance of practice and the low effectiveness of the "power approach" in the matter of motor development.

"We have a brain for one reason and one reason only, and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements. There is no other reason to have a brain."

"So I am a movement chauvinist. I believe movement is the most important function of the brain — don't let anyone tell you that it's not true."

"Tasks are symbolic — I want to drink, I want to dance — but the movement system has to contract 600 muscles in a particular sequence. And there's a big gap between the task and the movement system. So it could be bridged in infinitely many different ways. So think about just a point to point movement. I could choose these two paths out of an infinite number of paths. Having chosen a particular path, I can hold my hand on that path as infinitely many different joint configurations. And I can hold my arm in a particular joint configuration either very stiff or very relaxed. So I have a huge amount of choice to make."

The Talk. About cabeceo, trance and emotional intelligence.

Heels, lungs... The most important is to breath! In the rhythm of your own body.

Body. Emotion. Idea.

Daria Ermolaeva

Magic of the first glance. How a man makes a choice