I think my experience has been slightly different. I’ve had only a few tangasm experiences in four years, in Moscow more precisely. I’ve had many occasions of tango bliss. While in my earlier years, I’d experienced tango trance, now I am more actively seeking meditation state in the dance. I will write about them when I come back from this trip. I am looking for something, and I think i am about to find it.

Whether it’s active meditation, tango “bliss”, a “tangasm”, or a tango “trance”, I think we’re all talking about and experiencing the same thing – sometimes more spiritual, sometimes less.

I always go back to Dan Boccia’s definition of the tango trance:

“The state of being so completely immersed in the music, and so profoundly connected with your partner, that movement flows from within the partnership uninhibited by conscious thought.”

These experiences are rare for me here in Austin, partly because I’m not dancing so much, mostly because there’s not a lot of “profound” level close embrace here. But I did experience them rather frequently in Aspen and Denver.

The key, which may or may not be obvious to other readers, is that this can only occur whilst dancing close embrace – and not any other tango variant.

Of this, I remain convinced.

I know you will have a great time in BA! Looking forward to hearing all about your trip.

Later,

Alex