24 Reasons to Dance Tango
Ever heard about Argentinian Tango? The following 24 reasons to dance tango should convince you to try it. Let me let you in on a secret: it makes life a lot better 🙂
1. Hug
Did you know that a hug for more than 20 seconds produces feel-good hormones? Now imagine how many positive emotions can be generated within one evening!
2. Improvisation
The beauty of tango lies in its absolute freedom. It’s like a conversation – you can create something wonderful every time. Together.
3. Milongas
Isn’t it nice to escape everyday routine by dressing up nicely and going dancing? Milonga (aka tango evening) is the perfect place for that!
4. New Friends
Tango creates a great opportunity to meet people from different countries and with various backgrounds. Wherever you go, you can find a local tango community!
5. Connection
There is this invisible thread that connects us with our partner, the floor, and music. You can’t see it, but you can feel it!
6. Communication
Like in a conversation, it’s not about knowing the words, but about how to connect them and deliver them in the sentence. It’s an active dialogue between Two!
7. Therapy
Tango can be therapeutic! Research shows a positive correlation between dementia and social dancing.
8. To Learn to Listen
Some would think that applies to followers only. Wrong! Both roles need to learn how to listen to the partner to enjoy the dance.
9. To Remember
Like in the Eagles song: “Hotel California”: “Some dance to remember, and some dance…
10. …to Forget!
11. Dress up
Whenever you are in a dead-end situation – dress up to feel yourself better, stand up and go dancing!
12. Travel
Once you are hooked – you start traveling for tango marathons, festivals, and encuentros to dance with new people and meet old friends.
13. Love
You never know when you meet your second half! So many couples were formed on the dance floor.
14. To Get Drunk
without alcohol during the dance, а cocktail of hormones is produced. The Head gets dizzy. Pain in legs vanishes. Careful, a relapse is coming!
15. Music
Tango music is pure poetry in art. Rich in flavor as an expensive bottle of whiskey and addictive as caffeine.
16. Hobby
It starts as a hobby. Then becomes an addiction. One day you’ll find yourself in the Club of Anonymous Tangoholics saying: ‘My name is Kami and I’m a tango junkie’.
17. Different Reality
Milongas are like an entrance to the parallel world with their unique atmosphere, tango music, and elegant dancers.
18. Always Room for Improvement
There is no sky in tango meaning that you will never get bored!
19. Develop
It’s really easy to develop new hobbies thanks to tango. Mostly in order to improve the dance. Like Pilates. Or Yoga.
20. Learn about Argentinian Culture
Eventually tango dancers end up drinking mate, learning Argentinian folklore, and going to Buenos Aires – the Mecca of tango. Don’t get surprised when you witness vegetarians eating Argentinian steaks one day.
21. Ice Breaker
Tango is a great conversational ‘ice breaker’ as you can guide people through interesting facts and tango terms. There is only one danger: a high chance you’ll get carried away with the topic and will end up talking for 3 hours non-stop.
22. Balance
Learn how to stand on the ground and keep your balance. Sometimes it’s a hide and sick game with the axis: you lose it and then you find it.
23. Posture
Dancing helps to develop a good posture. The development of the sedentary lifestyle has made it necessary for us to exercise and move more often for the sake of both our minds and bodies.
24. Learn to Relax
Since mastering tango takes a lifetime, let’s relax and enjoy the dance!
About the author:
Kamila Mustafina is a Munich-based tango dancer and enthusiast. Participant in the very first Tango Young Munich Project.
In December 2022 she updated daily her Instagram Stories with Advent Calendar – 24 reasons to dance tango. We loved it and asked if she’d like to share it with Tango Flow. Thank you, Kami!
