Hi, My name is Pei Pei, Associate Registrar at UCLA Law, and I'm a Tango Dancer

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interview with Holly Darling

Pei Pei Tan is the new Member Relations Specialist at Oxygen Tango and a recent Tango Challenge graduate. She is incredibly passionate about everything Tango, caring about people and community- building, and newly addicted to asymmetrical clothing and stilettos. After just six months of dancing Tango, she can attest to the transformative power and spiritual dimension of Tango, as well as her surprising love for greeting people.

What drew you to Tango initially, and how did you discover Oxygen?

That’s a really good question. All my life I really loved social dancing, ballroom dancing. I had zero dance experience, never took ballet as a child, no dance experience, but I loved the costumes. My favorite movie was Strictly Ballroom. I was so miserable in law school; I wanted to drop out of law school and become a professional ballroom dancer; that’s how delusional I was. My ballroom experience had only been about a half dozen group classes at various community colleges over the years.

 

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How To Give Feedback To Another Student

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by Brigitta Winkler, Oxygen Guest Faculty

To give feedback is difficult. And, good feedback is one of the best sources for successful learning.

Student-to-student feedback does not judge right or wrong. Nor do we deal with guilt. Poorly or badly given feedback can not only slow down but sometimes it shuts down a learning process all together...or leads into other scenes. Feedback should be never forced on a person who is not open for it.

Feedback is simply a message that informs you how your behavior is received by others. In movement and dance this means usually: "how does it feel?" In partner dance, we use feedback to improve the experience in the given relationship -- because, it can be completely different with someone else.

Here are helpful questions to explore with your partner as a door-way into feedback:

• What helps to achieve what we want ?

• Is it comfortable ?

• What do I miss ?

• Where am I surprised ?

• What do I need, to feel better ?

Update

on 2014-01-16 20:17 by Oxygen Tango

For three decades, Brigitta Winkler has galvanized the Tango Renaissance. Her work with legendary  Virulazo, Copes, Todaro, Avellaneda, Naveira, and Arquimbau, combined with her oceanic knowledge of the human mind and body through Body Mind Centering, make her a unique and extraordinarily profound teacher who is able to access each unique individual's specal gifts. Brigitta’s influence has profoundly penetrated the current generation of young teachers we are all fans of. A strong, expressive and authentic dancer, Brigitta commands the respect of the leaders and followers all over the world.

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Brigitta Winkler

For three decades, Brigitta Winkler has galvanized the Tango Renaissance. Her work with legendary Virulazo, Copes, Todaro, Avellaneda, Naveira, and Arquimbau, combined with her oceanic knowledge of the human mind and body through Body Mind Centering, make her a unique and extraordinarily profound teacher who is able to access each unique individual's special gifts. Brigitta’s influence has profoundly penetrated the current generation of young teachers we are all fans of. A strong, expressive and authentic dancer, Brigitta commands the respect of the leaders and followers all over the world.

Tango Nicknames of Bygone Days: Celebrating Dancers' Uniqueness and Individuality

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by Lauren Kendrick

José María Baña "El Pibe Palermo" (kid from Palermo) and Carmen CalderónThe history of tango is studded with tangueros and tangueras with alter egos, creating a tradition of nicknames which continues into the present.  A person's tango persona is often separate from their everyday life.  For dancers in the past, tango was a merit-driven escape from their social and economic class and so some did not want to be known by their true names and professions.  In other cases nicknames arose merely because other

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How To Fix Your Practice Partner...In Seconds !

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Problem Partner ? Try...Oxygen Tango Practice Partner Fix-It Spray !

100% Pure Organic Fresh-Farmed OXYGEN (air), sustainably harvested locally by the Oxygen Tango School of LA

Spray liberally all over your partner for immediate repair of: technical problems; internal stress; frowning; negative Tango self-image; sullen Tango mood; verbal barbs; desperate hopelessness; rhythmic malaise; fear and wanting. 90% effective in eradicating allergic syncopation. #1 Tango Doctor Recommended way to treat the  common cold connection.

Active Ingredient: Quiet hilarity, .017%. No CFCs. Brand New Pump Bottle. 1/3 more FREE !

Handy imaginary pump bottle deisgned by Partner Fixing Specialist Yukiko Sato.

In rare case of malfunction, try this.

What happens when you embrace someone in Tango?

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Did you know that when you embrace someone in Tango, you leave colorful five dimensional light-trails all over their bodies that keep them happy all day long ? Check it out, we got these t-shirts made out of special-order five-dimensional filament film in order to see the REAL truth of the abrazo. Herewith, our results: NOTE, this happened after one heady west coast supertanda including Tanturi-Campos, followed by valses, then Troilo Instrumentals, and of course Laurenz-Podestá. Cross-dimensional light transfer achieved by Yukiko Sato.

Want to bring some of that light-happiness into your life? Well, try tango for goodness sakes!