Opening Up
“Opening up” is opening to an exchange of energy, of qualities between ourselves and our dance partner, our friend, our work partner, our parent or child, our life partner… this is all a dance.
You give and you receive… and each person becomes richer for it, there is an incredibly positive, exciting exchange of energy that happens on the dance floor – whether it’s at a milonga, or another place in our life… each person learns something from the other, perhaps just opening up what they already knew within themselves through the other.
This is what it really means to “connect” - to connect with another in a true way means to connect with yourself in a true way, a deeper way… to get to know yourself more, on a new level. So your partner – in anything- is your mirror to your own relationship with yourself – it is you.
Movement & Change
Often times we are naturally ready to move on, and to experience another, new level of ourselves, to grow and develop further as a dancer, as a person…
And often times this means connecting with a new dance partner, friend, group, place, etc... It marks a new stage in our life, it is our growth, a natural part of who we are, our evolution as a person.
Often times these changes take us to a new level, where we can experience a deeper and more rewarding connection with others and within ourselves through the dance.
Two to Tango
In the process of our growth, just as on the dance floor, we come together and move apart.
There are moments when we feel the exhilaration of being so close with our partner that we’re walking on air...
And there are moments when we feel a distance...and we need to take a moment, create some space, and reflect on what we feel.
No matter what we think at those times, our partnership is always a mutual benefit for all involved – it is the nature of the dance of our lives.
Hold Me
Our guest from "Magic of Tango" told us this story:
"In Buenos Aires, I took private lessons with a gentlemen who kept repeating 'hold me...hold me...'. He just kept repeating those two words. Eventually I started to feel what he was talking about. And what he was saying was 'embrace me, connect with me'… Sometimes in our day to day world we are next to people, we talk to people, but we don’t really connect to them. And even in dancing you can go into an automatic mode where you just stepping, but if you actually grab hold of someone and you hold them and you let them to feel like you feel – all of a sudden they relax and they breathe in with you – and then you feel that you move together and you breathe together – that's when you're dancing together, and not just stepping…You are with someone in a moment…The expression is '4 legs one heart' The more you open your heart, the more you receive in return."
