Photo by  Laura Peligrino Earth and Heaven When a tanguera is taken from our arms We know she will be at home in heaven. Tango friends know more than most What heaven on earth feels like   in our blood,   in our sinew,   in our feet. The music declares order and meaning in the universe. The embrace speaks heart to heart for those who listen. The movement creates the musica humana. When her family assembles to mourn her, They will embrace each other more that day. They will do what we do all the time. Those who loved and honored her most Will feel the power of t ..read more

[Note:  A cheesy poem for a cheesy subject.] I left my smart-phone gladly at home. Without a phone, I am free to roam. It was the smart-thing gladly to do. But now tangueras tonight are few. The cortina plays, her face is alight With a new text from a friend tonight: "I wish I were dancing like you!" Absent now are techos two. As both are in their smart-phone dance. I just stand here with no chance. Tango etiquette may change over time, but as it now stands, not only in Buenos Aires but also in all the world, it is considered poor manners to be on a phone or texting at a milonga ..read more

Please be so kind, and go to www.tango-therapist.blogspot.com. All blog posts from Tango-Beat in the past are there along with all my new posts starting from February 2012 forwards. If you are looking for a certain post, you will find it by using the search machine at the top left of Tango-Therpist                             Thanks! Mark Word mark.word1@gmail.com ..read more

   Link to Tango-Therapist (new location of this blog)                            English version    Siento nuestros pechos, que se llenan del aire Como si fuera el aliento vivo, un dúo de Bandoneones. La Música Dirije, Seis Tocan  El bandoneonista toca con tanta pasión, Me pregunto si en el éxtasis o el dolor.  Él y el guitarrista,      la violinista,         el pianista            ..read more

Because the former name "TangoBeat" belongs to a New York City firm, I am redirecting you to my blog's new name.  Please read the two-step instructions: 1.  Click on the new name here -->  "Tango-Therapist."   2.  When you are at the new web address, in order to find the exact article for which you were searching, put in the title or key words into the search engine space above left.  (Here is a picture of the search engine you will see, top left of every page on this blog): Now, put in key words in the upper left box for the article you wish to read ..read more

Update:  8 July 2014 My new address is www.tango-therapist.blogspot.com. An owner of a now-defunct NYC company threatened lawsuits if I continued using the name we were both using at first.   I write without commercials, without selling classes or my service.  You may no longer be able to find this NYC company.  If you were looking for TangoBeat from NYC, please visit them if you can find them. They are at TangoBeat(TM). However, if you are searching for the tango blog that focuses on musicality and the psychology of tango, my blog now has a new name with all ..read more

My new blog address is: Tango-Therapist.blogspot.com  Please visit me there.  All the content from Tango-Beat is still there, but in deference to a company with a similar name (Tangobeat.com), I have changed the name of my blog.  Please visit them too -- a great resource but with a very different mission. --  Thanks ..read more

Tango-Beat, my blog, has a new name. Since 2009 I have been writing a blog, which I thought would be more about music and especially rhythms of tango. Sure, I have written on this, but rarely. It is time for a change, especially because a company called Tango Beat has full rights to that name. The new name of my blog is:  www.tango-therapist.blogspot.com. I have a new entry there already, called the Essence of Tango, because as I was moving over my blog to the new name, it was a draft I accidentally published. PS.  If you read the comments, my blog was nearly named "Tango Iconoc ..read more

My Milonga Lisa* The music is fast. I don't push her to take the next step. The music drives her to do that! The music leads -- No, it drives us a la vez. But she stops when my body signals The music's moment of pause. A new phrase takes us back to tempo. At end we stop and laugh Like children who've jumped From a swing to roll on the lawn. We smile as we lie on the grass. The music starts; no time to talk! We run back to swing yet again To the divine voice of La Música. My milonguera sits in the Louvre of my mind, The coy woman who has returned my nod. She is my Milonga Lisa. *F ..read more

Navi went with me to every milonga in the Washington, DC.  She told me how to get there, and she never got upset with me if I missed the turn she told me to take.  Sure, she would just roll her eyes and say, “rerouting,” and she’d come up with a route that would fix my mistake.  Sometimes she would say, “At the first possible moment, make a legal U-turn.”  She was delighted when I made a “creative” U-turn because we were back on track.  Then in December, I asked her to close her eyes, and as a surprise I sent her off on a cruise to Germany.  She was totally surp ..read more