If you thought tango is only about passion, oomph and attitude then think again!
“Have feet, will dance” is choreographer and dance educationist Shiamak Davar’s mantra as he asserts that it doesn’t matter if you have two left feet, you can still dance! Well, now doctors will only second that in order to heal diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, various phobias, depression and marital breakdowns! Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine, have reported that balance of patients suffering Parkinson’s improved considerably when they took tango lessons.
Tango was a dance form that originated in the lower class districts of Buenos Aires, sprouting from the black African cultures, as slaves from Africa were brought into Argentina. Tango then was associated with a meeting place where working as well as freed slaves came together to dance. Later in the 19th century, people from poor backgrounds who had left their families and moved to Argentina in order to earn more, would usually do tango. In fact, the passion and sexual overtones exhibited in tango today is a spin-off of the moves that suggested the separation of the slaves from their partners.
For a long time, tango was looked down upon and considered ‘vulgar and distasteful’ due to its long lost connection with poor dance venues, bars and brothels. Well, if the same notions were to be held true today, many diseases would have remained uncured. Stina Almroth, who has been teaching Argentine Tango for many years, or rather is “a tango dancer looking for other people to dance with,” says that “tango requires you to focus and concentrate, and so you develop that ability. It also helps you to balance; you tend to multi-task and do more than one thing at the same time.
Even though tango can look like it is more about steps, but more than anything it is about presence and communication. You have to be really present because socially it is all improvised, which means if you are leading, you have to be able to communicate your lead.
“Have feet, will dance” is choreographer and dance educationist Shiamak Davar’s mantra as he asserts that it doesn’t matter if you have two left feet, you can still dance! Well, now doctors will only second that in order to heal diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, various phobias, depression and marital breakdowns! Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine, have reported that balance of patients suffering Parkinson’s improved considerably when they took tango lessons.
Tango was a dance form that originated in the lower class districts of Buenos Aires, sprouting from the black African cultures, as slaves from Africa were brought into Argentina. Tango then was associated with a meeting place where working as well as freed slaves came together to dance. Later in the 19th century, people from poor backgrounds who had left their families and moved to Argentina in order to earn more, would usually do tango. In fact, the passion and sexual overtones exhibited in tango today is a spin-off of the moves that suggested the separation of the slaves from their partners.
For a long time, tango was looked down upon and considered ‘vulgar and distasteful’ due to its long lost connection with poor dance venues, bars and brothels. Well, if the same notions were to be held true today, many diseases would have remained uncured. Stina Almroth, who has been teaching Argentine Tango for many years, or rather is “a tango dancer looking for other people to dance with,” says that “tango requires you to focus and concentrate, and so you develop that ability. It also helps you to balance; you tend to multi-task and do more than one thing at the same time.
Even though tango can look like it is more about steps, but more than anything it is about presence and communication. You have to be really present because socially it is all improvised, which means if you are leading, you have to be able to communicate your lead.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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