What is Tango Sensodinamia^®?

It is a shared movement technique worked out through tango dance and complemented with concepts from different approaches to bodily movement disciplines. The most important ones are those taken from Moshe Feldenkrais, Gerda Alexander and Susana Mildderman.

This technique works with exercises inspired in Awareness Through Movement by Feldenkrais for dancers to experiment subtle differences of movement circulation through muscle and skeletal systems. As a result of acquiring this movement skill, dancers are able to be in contact with their own organic dancing needs, controlling their bodily impulses voluntarily. This technique, then, avoids working with pre-patterned movements based on established social models.

By adding concepts from Eutonia by Gerda Alexander, we go deeper in the movement expression enriching dance partners' tie among themselves and with their environment. The possibility of both perceive and modify the muscular tone and the energetic configuration of the body as a whole allows dancers to work with emotions, perceiving at the same time audience and partner’s emotions.

It also works Rhythmic Expressive Gym by Susana Milderman, through concepts that consider music as the main source of movement and emotions.

Since tango is a dace in which all body's energy centers are involved, the relationship in couples optimizes consciousness. The shared movement is a very powerful tool to improve both internal sensitivity (auto-consciousness) and external sensitivity (consciousness of the feedback with the environment).

Tango sensodinamia^®’s aim is the learning and optimizing of tension/relaxation balance in bodies following the dynamics proposed by music. It works toning up and harmonizing the whole body.

What is the technique that allows us to reach this feeling of relaxation and self acceptance in our bodies?

Tango sensodinamia^® is based on:

/Perceiving active and passive instances in the movement in order to optimize the effort of both our body and our partner’s.

 

/Constant consciousness of the balance axis and the dynamics with our partner to loose our body’s tensions, being able to sustain the tie with our partner.

 

/The help of natural forces to produce movement, considering all the time active principles of gravity, anti-gravity forces and inertia.

 

/Active perception of the movement’s haul through the muscle-joint system, considering our partner as part of our own structure.

 

/The most important aspect is that this proposal women should be actively conscious of their role, collaborating with the active-passive flow of movement; and men should learn to focus their own passive moves within their dance to allow movement to haul the couple-unit without tensions.

Who can practice TS?

Everybody can practice it, because this dance intends to focus on truth and naturalness of movement and emotions through music. Its aim is to expand sensitivity to be practiced by scene professionals who want to widen their expressiveness, and by all those who want to enlarge and improve vital conditions.

Practicing TS contributes to improve our self-image, as well as our communication with others from a comprehensive perspective. It gives us bodily and emotional flexibility. It enlarges our range of possible reactions in life.

I developed this dance searching a harmonic balance, both individual and with our environment, for that reason TS's ideal is a human being centered in self-perception and, at the same time, in the relationship with the rest of the leaving creatures.

Natacha Iglesias
info@tangosensodinamia.com.ar