What gives away an experienced follower?

Sometimes dancers live so sincerely in music that you can listen empathically with your eyes, get impressed by the emotions photographers spend hours to capture. They are often seeking in a wrong place.

The novice follower dances as if she consists solely of a dress. Over time, shoes appear under it, later – the body. To appear, the body needs to absorb lots of tango music and interaction with a partner, recognition and admiration of the audience. Over time, the body begins to express music.

It’s hard to describe, but when you see it, you know – here it is. The follower has acquired a butt. The face of the couple.

The female muggle’s butt either doesn’t exist or prevails over the rest of the body, sometimes – over the landscape. It can be sexual, sad, depressing, timid, overwhelming, total. A friend of mine earns money with her butt. it looks like a beautiful ripe cracked globe, She dances Latina and sells special clothes. It turns out great, but it’s not the same.

Tangera’s butt confidently presents itself to the world. With restrained energy, strict elegance, with self-esteem. It has a “rhythm, nerve, strength and character” of tango. It is convincingly present, it “follows ahead” of a couple. What matters is not size, not shape, not posture, but the gravitational-aesthetic tension that it creates in the field of dancing.

Tango-butt has a little to do with technique. It requires a special relationship with your self, with your body in contact with her partner and music. It’s hard to be captured in statics, it needs movement. Perhaps it should not be photographed or even filmed, but painted or sculpted.

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Igor Zabuta, izabuta.com; 
Emma Kologrivova, kologrivova.com;
dancing psychotherapists

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