Movement

兩年前我令我感受至深的是這幾句﹣There is no hiding in Tango, there’s no going around. There’s no leaving.
探戈裡你我無處可閃躲，沒有別的逃徑。
所以我永遠明白不能及不想跳探戈的人。人生裡我們都有太多想逃避及需要逃避的時候吧。

今天令我動容的是﹣Tango is about not sitting down, staying on your feet, thinking on your feet. Tango is about never stopping. Never quitting. It’s about never wanting to leave.
生命不是就坐在這裡，固步，自封，站在原地想想想。生命是不止息的。一息尚存也不放棄。生命是關於呀永不永不想離開。
這令我想起Nancy教我那種作為女子的態度，請跟我來吧，但你不要來。生命力如舞蹈的力量是在前進和留戀之間的張力。

其實我們說感動，意思就是feel the movement，是touching，反轉翻譯回來就是接觸，一直感覺和保持接觸。
探戈就是touching，一直感覺和保持接觸。

About Tango
Clear Love

Tango is not about what you think it is about. Nor is tango about what it looks like its about.
Tango is not about dancing; it’s about walking. Tango is about coming into your walking life. About walking differently through your life, just as Jacob walked differently through his life after wrestling with one of God’s angels.

Tango is about wrestling with that angel.

Tango is not about being beautiful and elegant – though often it is beautiful and elegant. Tango is about touch, about being-in-touch. Tango is about empathy of a profoundly physical sort.

Tango is not about leading and following – though learning how to lead and how to follow are essential. Tango is about attunement, about oneness. Tango is every bit as rigorous, spiritual, and austere as Zen Buddhism could ever be.

Tango is not about being graceful – though it often appears graceful. Tango is about what you can’t do in your life, because everything you can’t do in your life, you can’t do anywhere in your life. And anything and everything you can’t do in your life is going to show up immediately as soon as you start to dance. And your partner is going to feel it, and see it, and know it instantly.

There is no hiding in Tango, there’s no going around. There’s no leaving. There is only going through what you have to go through to learn what you have to learn.

Tango is not about sex and seduction – though sex and seduction play their parts. Tango, in essence, is not sexual. Tango is human.

Human. Because tango is mostly about listening, about sticking with someone for as long as you can, and as best you can, until the song ends.

Tango is about not sitting down, staying on your feet, thinking on your feet. Tango is about never stopping. Never quitting. It’s about never wanting to leave.

Stately succinctly, Tango is about commitment, about committing.

Tango is not about what you think it is about, except for one thing. Tango is about love. Not romantic, mushy, sentimental love. Tango is about unromantic love, about clear love. Tango is the unsentimental practice of love.

Yes, Tango is about love. But, as it turns out, love is something other than we were led to believe. Tango leads those who can follow to the truth. Tango is the dance of truth.

from Taking Refuge In The Beauty- Field Notes from a Beginning Tango Dancer – by Bruce Fertman