Modern Tango World N° 10 (Athens, Greece) | Page 10

Teaching Tango in Athens
Theodore Georgedakis
When you share something that you love with the world, it is like sharing a piece of yourself. That is how
I feel every time I go to class. This is the reason why I began teaching, It is my need to convey what makes
me love tango.
Tango is a gift from god. It would be unfair for me to
keep it to myself. No step, and no technical analysis is
adequate if first of all the teacher is not ready to share
their love. Surely, the biggest reward for the students
from developing their love, in their own way, towards
tango. Every embrace needs to be filled with love. This
is the tango.
This has been my goal in every one of my lessons. Ana-
lyze, explain, improve, correct, but above all transfer my
love, talk about it and tango.
During the years that I have been dancing, there have
been several times that tango saved me, consoled me,
made me happy, unhappy, tortured, through a hug, har-
mony, and coexistence. All these emotions are the ba-
sic content of my teaching, mak-
ing my students feel alive. The
experience, they share is likely
to become the motivation and
inspiration for them to learn to
dance. This is my lesson.
The steps, the technique, the
entire logical frame of the tango
movement are things that the
student learns to be able to do.
But, it is the expression of emo-
tions that is the essence of the
interpretation of the dance,
Every move must have charac-
ter and be the projection of our
inner world of emotions that
we want to share in our em-
brace. Even if we just want to
hide in a hug.
For me, the difference between
a beginner and an advanced
dancer is the degree to which
they are ready to let their bod-
ies express what they feel.
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