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Insight Newsletter Post

Why you dance?

Since I moved to Totnes, a couple of months ago, I’ve been attending weekly dance events and workshops focused on…

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Insight Newsletter Post

The medicine of tango

Because we bring to the embrace exactly who we are, if we are not entirely ourselves, then, who is the…

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Insight

The dance of welcome

I moved recently to a new town in the UK, Totnes, where I wanted to live and explore for a…

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On stillness

What to do if you are lost? The advice I get is to walk as slowly as I can, putting…

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“Life is already gorgeous”

I wanted this post to be a mosaic of voices saying thank you for what is already precious in our…

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What moves you?

By Jesus Acosta When I was learning my first steps in tango, there was this persistent question in my head:…

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Searching for a rhythm

People were sitting in a circle, with cushions and candles and a sense of ease and quietness in the space.…

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Poetry

“In darkness and certain”

Even in darkness, light resides in a concealed nook of myself, a 16th-century Carmelite friar teaches me today

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Events Video

Fear and tango, a conversation with Yelizaveta Nersesova

In a recent Dance in Conversation event, tango teacher and podcaster Yelizaveta Nersesova shared her tango journey and how she…

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Events Video

What worries or fears do we bring into tango?

Dancing with men and showing kindness to them on the dance floor might create a wrong impression, and that’s a fear that Ieva Kelpsaite shares in this video, inviting us to reflect on our own fears and how to overcome them.