This one is the hardest forms of one-ness tango. I’ve only been able to experience this a few times. This is the most common form of tango as demonstrated by expert tango teachers. I’m not qualified to teach it. This is more of an invitation to others to explore.

This form of tango has the two dancers doing quite different things, and yet there is a unity. This is of course true for all tango, where the two partners are doing different things, however there is enough of a union that the difference is ‘contained’. With this Parallel (or Split) Tango, there is distinct separation. As a result, it is probably the first form of tango that most people learn. The emphasis on most teaching in tango is on the individual, on the individual learning various skills, the names of various moves etc. There are tricks and techniques to perform a choreography such that the move is conducted smoothly. However, explored from the mutual union of oneness, this Parallel Tango is tricky to stabilise without it collapsing to a mutually choreographed move. That is, to be purely improvised out of the movement of bodies, the feelings of the dancers, and the music, on this dancefloor on this day. To maintain a unity with such a wide orbit of movement and individual agency. Tricky.

I might expect an experienced tango dancer to find this space easily, however it is a challenge for it to emerge from the union.

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