January 2005 - Interview: Hsueh-tze Lee is The Woman Who Leads

November 2004 - Interview with Korey Ireland: Ideas about Dancing Tango from a Musician's Point of View

October 2004 - Interview with Clay Nelson (Organizer of Portland's TangoFests): How to Organize a Successful Festival

2002 - Robin's Essay on Floorcraft

2002 - Robin's Essay on Tandas

Exercises for Strong Feet

Signs You're a Tango Junkie

Related Articles

Tango has much in common with other partner dances. If you read salsa websites or swing articles, you will find that dancers of other genres talk about the same sorts of things and complain about the same sort of things that we tango addicts do. Here are some Salsa articles that I found particularly relevant and amusing as a tango dancer. They were written by Steve 'Salsadoc' Wasserman.

Can Salsa turn you into a Zombie?
For all those Tango Junkies out there, this article may sound frighteningly familiar:
Me: It's not just happiness, it's more a kind of euphoria.
Susan: Weightlessness, a soaring, oceanic sense of oneness with anyone who'll spin or swivel you.
Me: A headlong rush towards vertigo, self-loss, giddiness, rejuvenation. Like infants in a big amniotic paddling pool of salsa-lava.
Susan: It's all about flow. Shifts in time, perceptual zigzags, touched by the ineffable. Dance as divine knowledge.
Me: The ultimate power groove. Everything that was once separate, now merging. And then separating again at the end of the song.
Susan: Yeah.
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Shoe Blues
No Matter what you dance, the search for the perfect shoe can be a frustrating quest:
I decided to try Blochs: the ultra-snazzy, dance-trainer with a split sole that gives one's foot the not entirely unappealing look of a calf's hoof. With my Blochs, I was convinced that I would become the Muhammad Ali of the salsa world: float like a butterfly, spin like a whirligig beetle.
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10 Reasons Why I'm Getting Excited About Going To The Congress
For those considering going to one of the major tango festivals, here is some incentive from the Salsadoc:
Admit it, you're the office weirdo. When everyone else is sending their mates internet smut, or surreptitiously playing with their Game Boys under their desks, you're checking out the new moves on YASS, or the latest gossip on salsafix.com. Your colleagues were at first amused, even faintly excited by your sexy "Latin pastime", but now they just consider you a salsa-bore. Your non-salsa friends have stopped sending you Christmas cards. Your parents think you've joined a cult.
But there is still a place to go where no-one will question your fanatical need to practice shines in front of the photocopier. A place where there are hundreds of other fools just like you who go around singing misheard Spanish lyrics mixed with loud percussion-like noises erupting from their lips at any given moment; a place where the weird becomes the norm. A bit like the Seminary School's trip to the Vatican, just with less sleep, more hip shaking, and a lot more sabor.
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